2006-02-26, 09:22 PM
Hi!
I've been using gbpvr now for a couple of months and so far im pretty impressed. up til now my general problems have been fairly easily resolved using this forum but now ive taken the time to start investigating my larger concerns.
so, the first problem i have is actually solved, although im not sure if the solution will mess up something else. what happens is that when i watch live tv or recordings of live tv a bunch of pixels, say 20 or so, is missing on the right hand side. as far as i can make out, this problem does not occur with avi or dvds.
playback in wmp is fine and if i select vmr7 instead of vmr9 the problem dissappears. in one other post sub has dismissed this problem but what might cause it? i have tried with both wmp9 from a clean xp sp2 install and then with wmp10 with no luck.
also, since i have now changed to vmr7, what changes in functionality etc. should i be expecting?
Now, for real problems. First of all, the thing that has been bugging me ever since i noticed it. If i play back some avi file (i guess the problem is the same with any media except possibly dvd) and i press pause, when i press resume the video skips like half a second, this can be really irritating if you want to pause in the middle of a sentence for some reason and then miss half of it. any ideas? ive been thinking about some kind of buffer of something but i cannot seem to find any setting for it.
This problem persisted when i changed to vmr7.
Next problem, recording. Actually, recording from the tv guide works like a charm. just perfect. Only thing i noticed there was that i by mistake pressed Cancel instead of Exit when i had just started a recording and was looking for a way to watch it. Wont make that mistake again.
My problem with recording is when i press the record button on my remote. in the previous version i tried it would just start recording and then crash (although the recording service would still record). in the latest version it actually starts recording and then plays back the file. a huge step in the right direction. problem is, when i try to stop, it crashes. if i press stop or if i press back, it just hangs (pause works though). however, the recording service will still run and the only way to get everything working again is to shut gbpvr down with task manager and then restart the recording service.
also, when im on it, i would terribly like a setting that lets me change the quick record quality, just because i dont have the time to go all the way through the tv guide it doesnt mean i dont want perfect quality.
my last question is regarding hardware decoding. i have a pvr350 and in the latest version it does recognize it if i select pvr 350 in the hardware decoding list. a good step in the right direction as the previous version i tried would just tell me it couldnt find the card. however, when i start any playback it tells me its trying to send everything down the tv out and after a few seconds it goes back to the menu. performance isnt really a problem but my cpu does go frightingly high sometimes and im trying to do everything i can to avoid problems with playback or recording, thus, i would really like to take advantage of the mpeg decoder that the pvr350 has, is there any way of making that work with the graphics card rather than tv out?
Cheers
I've been using gbpvr now for a couple of months and so far im pretty impressed. up til now my general problems have been fairly easily resolved using this forum but now ive taken the time to start investigating my larger concerns.
so, the first problem i have is actually solved, although im not sure if the solution will mess up something else. what happens is that when i watch live tv or recordings of live tv a bunch of pixels, say 20 or so, is missing on the right hand side. as far as i can make out, this problem does not occur with avi or dvds.
playback in wmp is fine and if i select vmr7 instead of vmr9 the problem dissappears. in one other post sub has dismissed this problem but what might cause it? i have tried with both wmp9 from a clean xp sp2 install and then with wmp10 with no luck.
also, since i have now changed to vmr7, what changes in functionality etc. should i be expecting?
Now, for real problems. First of all, the thing that has been bugging me ever since i noticed it. If i play back some avi file (i guess the problem is the same with any media except possibly dvd) and i press pause, when i press resume the video skips like half a second, this can be really irritating if you want to pause in the middle of a sentence for some reason and then miss half of it. any ideas? ive been thinking about some kind of buffer of something but i cannot seem to find any setting for it.
This problem persisted when i changed to vmr7.
Next problem, recording. Actually, recording from the tv guide works like a charm. just perfect. Only thing i noticed there was that i by mistake pressed Cancel instead of Exit when i had just started a recording and was looking for a way to watch it. Wont make that mistake again.
My problem with recording is when i press the record button on my remote. in the previous version i tried it would just start recording and then crash (although the recording service would still record). in the latest version it actually starts recording and then plays back the file. a huge step in the right direction. problem is, when i try to stop, it crashes. if i press stop or if i press back, it just hangs (pause works though). however, the recording service will still run and the only way to get everything working again is to shut gbpvr down with task manager and then restart the recording service.
also, when im on it, i would terribly like a setting that lets me change the quick record quality, just because i dont have the time to go all the way through the tv guide it doesnt mean i dont want perfect quality.
my last question is regarding hardware decoding. i have a pvr350 and in the latest version it does recognize it if i select pvr 350 in the hardware decoding list. a good step in the right direction as the previous version i tried would just tell me it couldnt find the card. however, when i start any playback it tells me its trying to send everything down the tv out and after a few seconds it goes back to the menu. performance isnt really a problem but my cpu does go frightingly high sometimes and im trying to do everything i can to avoid problems with playback or recording, thus, i would really like to take advantage of the mpeg decoder that the pvr350 has, is there any way of making that work with the graphics card rather than tv out?
Cheers
