2006-01-02, 07:54 AM
Hi all. I've been running GB-PVR for about 8 months now. I began using it when I upgraded from an ATI All-In-Wonder to a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 wasn't supported in NZ at the time (Though I tried to give it a go) and GB-PVR was the only PVR software I could find that I could manually specify the channel frequencies.
I've recently upgraded the motherboard, CPU and RAM of my PVR. Since rebuilding the machine, I've been having grief with GB-PVR. I was running v0.94.13 and then tried v0.95.16. In a nutshell I'm having the "No audio in Live TV" problem that so may others seem to have. And the "LastVolume" key in the registry doesn't exist. The kicker is, I'll have audio for a while, and then it will disappear. And a (Temporary) fix when the audio goes it to re-install GB-PVR. And sound comes back right away each time after a re-install, so I don't want to hear anything about muxes or what not. Needless to day, the audio problem will appear around the time my wife wants to watch something, so she's breaking my balls here...
In addition to the audio issue, we were away over Christmas and left the PVR running to record some programs. Two of the six programs failed to record. The files were created but they had zero size. Two of the shows that did record had a stuttery "click-click-click" sound the whole way through them. And Finally, since the upgrade I've had intermittent issues being able to watch Live TV while recording. GB-PVR states "No tuner is available". Yet both tuners are configured correctly. When surfing through the channels, there is the pause between the channel range on one tuner and the next. And it has worked flawlessly in the past. So we tried watching the recording program while it was taping, and the "click-click-click" was there the hole time.
I'm not complaining mind you. GV-PVR is "free" so one can't complain. It's just frustrating. I'm going to give Media Center another go now that R2 is out for NZ. I just hope it autoscans the UHF range so it can find all the channels. Then I'll be sorting through all the Media Center issues that drive me to GB-PVR...
Machine specs just for the record (All drivers and service packs are current):
Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz
1 GB DDR333 RAM
40 GB Hitachi HDD
10 GB Seagate HDD (Swap file)
Samsung CDRW/DVD-R
LiteOn CDRW/DVD+-R DL
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE PCI
Leadtek GeForce 5200 128MB PCI
Creative Soundblaster Live 24 PCI
Windows XP Pro SP1
Tried with current Cyberlink and Nvidia DVD decoders with VMR9/7 and Overlay Manager (What ever those are) and they haven't made any difference.
Cheers,
Peter
Auckland, NZ
I've recently upgraded the motherboard, CPU and RAM of my PVR. Since rebuilding the machine, I've been having grief with GB-PVR. I was running v0.94.13 and then tried v0.95.16. In a nutshell I'm having the "No audio in Live TV" problem that so may others seem to have. And the "LastVolume" key in the registry doesn't exist. The kicker is, I'll have audio for a while, and then it will disappear. And a (Temporary) fix when the audio goes it to re-install GB-PVR. And sound comes back right away each time after a re-install, so I don't want to hear anything about muxes or what not. Needless to day, the audio problem will appear around the time my wife wants to watch something, so she's breaking my balls here...
In addition to the audio issue, we were away over Christmas and left the PVR running to record some programs. Two of the six programs failed to record. The files were created but they had zero size. Two of the shows that did record had a stuttery "click-click-click" sound the whole way through them. And Finally, since the upgrade I've had intermittent issues being able to watch Live TV while recording. GB-PVR states "No tuner is available". Yet both tuners are configured correctly. When surfing through the channels, there is the pause between the channel range on one tuner and the next. And it has worked flawlessly in the past. So we tried watching the recording program while it was taping, and the "click-click-click" was there the hole time.
I'm not complaining mind you. GV-PVR is "free" so one can't complain. It's just frustrating. I'm going to give Media Center another go now that R2 is out for NZ. I just hope it autoscans the UHF range so it can find all the channels. Then I'll be sorting through all the Media Center issues that drive me to GB-PVR...
Machine specs just for the record (All drivers and service packs are current):
Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz
1 GB DDR333 RAM
40 GB Hitachi HDD
10 GB Seagate HDD (Swap file)
Samsung CDRW/DVD-R
LiteOn CDRW/DVD+-R DL
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE PCI
Leadtek GeForce 5200 128MB PCI
Creative Soundblaster Live 24 PCI
Windows XP Pro SP1
Tried with current Cyberlink and Nvidia DVD decoders with VMR9/7 and Overlay Manager (What ever those are) and they haven't made any difference.
Cheers,
Peter
Auckland, NZ