Pretty good, but still some problems and questions

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Hello Folks!

It seems that after a long and painfull MediaPortal experience i finaly found a software that (almost) fullfill my needs and, i am sure you wouldn`t guess it, that is GBPVR

my client with the hauppauge 150 plays smooth and the recordings via the s-video input are also of very good quality. so nothing to complain.

BUT

1.) for some reason i can`t control the sound volume (the OSD volume bar is changing but the soundlevel stays the same)
2.) i am not able to play DVDs. just plain black screen

3.) i can`t get the technisat Skystar 2 operational on my server. the technotrend 3200 is working fine, but the skystar can`t be found when i try to start a channel scan.

i already installed the newest technisat BDA driver for that card and i can select it in the config (show only installed devices is checked). in the devicemanager it shows the technisat skystar 2 PCI (BDA).

4.) is there a way to change the settings of the transcoding? i currently have set it to XviD, but i can`t set any quality levels.

5.) i installed the weather plugin on my client and i was able to configure it but when i started GBPVR it wasn`t able to get the information out of the internet (was my fault). when i checked the plugins again, the weather plugin was gone. deinstallation and reinstallation didn`t do the job. so no weather for me.



that`s it for now. after all i am very satisfied with GBPVR and i wish the developer all the best for the upcoming versions of this great program.



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1.) for some reason i can`t control the sound volume (the OSD volume bar is changing but the soundlevel stays the same)

Are you using the master volume control or local? There is a setting in the config app? Also, it might matter what your audio renderer option is set to.

2.) i am not able to play DVDs. just plain black screen

This will come down to the set of audio/video decoders you're using for DVD playback. Experiment with different options in the DVD tab of the config app.

3.) i can`t get the technisat Skystar 2 operational on my server. the technotrend 3200 is working fine, but the skystar can`t be found when i try to start a channel scan.

i already installed the newest technisat BDA driver for that card and i can select it in the config (show only installed devices is checked). in the devicemanager it shows the technisat skystar 2 PCI (BDA).

Can you run the filtercheck utility in the gbpvr directory, then zip and attach the filtercheck.log it produces?

4.) is there a way to change the settings of the transcoding? i currently have set it to XviD, but i can`t set any quality levels.

GB-PVR uses ffmpeg for these transcodes. You can tweak the settings in the config.xml's <CustomFFmpegConversions> section.

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ok. after having survived my surprise of getting answer to a current problem in a HTPC forum (don`t want to tell which one i mean) i will do as i have been told.

1.) i changed to local an vòila, it works now

2.) i had the PDVD7 navigator enabled instead of the standard one. now it works

4.) found the mentioned entries. can i modify the file with a plain text editor (notepad) ?

3.) attached the servers filter.log


thanks in advance for this incredibly fast response (and response of the MASTER himself!!)


i congratulate for your software. havn`t seen a better (working) one yet and i tried them all (mythtv, GAM, MP, myHTPC, DVBViewer, SageTV, and so on).
others have lots of promises that never work but here is a nice piece of software that does what it is inteded for.

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but the chance for another question

can´t find any HD channel on the channel list of my TT 3200 S2 card ....

what i am doing wrong this time?


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4.) found the mentioned entries. can i modify the file with a plain text editor (notepad) ?

Yes, notepad is fine.

3.) i can`t get the technisat Skystar 2 operational on my server. the technotrend 3200 is working fine, but the skystar can`t be found when i try to start a channel scan.

I've reviewed your filtercheck.log and it looks correct. Can you try to do the scan again, then zip and attach your config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log files?

can´t find any HD channel on the channel list of my TT 3200 S2 card

I'm not sure which channels you mean exactly, but as a guess are these DVB-S2 channels? If so, then unfortunately GB-PVR only supports DVB-S not DVB-S2, so any channels on DVB-S2 transponders will not be found.

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errormsg when i try to rescan:

GB-PVR was unable to start the BDA device you have configured. Check the device is configured properly, and not arleady in use. (Reason: Failed to locate configured BDA capture device)

i also attached the config.exe.log (i hope you can use the rar file)

the issue with the HD channels is a bad thing. i will have to find a solution for that.

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i also attached the config.exe.log (i hope you can use the rar file)

Sorry, it has to be a zip file or it wont attach. Try again.

the issue with the HD channels is a bad thing. i will have to find a solution for that.

Was it DVB-S2 that was the issue as I suggested above?

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new try. this time i used ZIP.

and yes. i have to find a way to add a HD channel to the list. maybe manually add a transponder and let it scan?

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As I mentioned above, I need both the config.exe.log and config.exe-native.log files. You zip only contained one of these.

and yes. i have to find a way to add a HD channel to the list. maybe manually add a transponder and let it scan?

Sorry, you wont be able to use DVB-S2 with GB-PVR. There more code that would need to be written to support this, and unfortunately we dont have DVB-S2 in my part of the world, so it may not happen in a hurry.

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ups. my fault. i apologize. i hope i got the right ones in this try.


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