Another Geforce video problem with 1.0.16

[markcha]

I am a new user of GB-PVR and I am running into problems with video. Specifically, I don't see any video of Live TV or Recorded media when using PVRX2 or any of the VMR9 settings in GBPVR. This matches the known issue with GeForce video cards.

However, I have a GeForce 4 420 Go in a laptop. NVidia says that for this card, I must contact Toshiba for a driver update (as the drivers have specific changes to other software on the laptop). Toshiba has not updated this driver since 2003, and I really doubt that they are going to ever do so again. I did try to download and install the latest NVidia drivers anyway, but the installation program said that no compatible hardware was found.

Next issue is that I am going to be shuffling hardware/software around soon so that this troublesome laptop is a client of another machine instead of using its own tuner. This other machine will have real hardware in it and support running PVRX2 (or else).

Questions:
1) Any chance of PVRX2 working on the laptop?
2) Can I mix both PVRX2 and GBPVR as client/servers?
3) How long until GBPVR is no longer updated/supported?

Thanks
Mark

[stustunz]

you could try older drivers from nvidia (as not the latest but still newer)
have you had gbpvr.exe running on the laptop (video playback)
i am thinking that maybe the laptop is a bit past it as far as direct3d goes though but give it go

2 the download at present comes with both gbpvr and pvrx2 and yes you can run gbpvr.exe on the client with 10016

3 sub will have to answer that for you

[sub]

3) No new features have been added to GBPVR.exe since February. I'll probably continue to include it with the distribution for the next release, but remove it from all future release.

[markcha]

Yes, gbpvr.exe does work with the VMR7 and Ovleray Manager settings. The laptop does support Direct3d, but I know what you mean by being a little past its prime.

What I am going to do is to use gbpvr.exe on the laptop, pvrx2 on the other machine and try to keep this going for as long as possible.

Mark

[stustunz]

if it were me i would try drivers for an nvidia card from toshiba but for a later model that uses similar card if you get what i mean
do you have directx9 installed?