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[jim_warren]

New to GBPVR but so far here’s where I’m at.

Installed v1.2.9 on an older P4 2.8 Ghz, 512meg XP SP2 system using my old Hauppauge PVR2 USB. Set it up as a server. Got I-xmltv running pulling in the extras for my EPG from SchedulesDirect. Added the Weather plug-in to PVRX2 and loaded up the web interface for management and streaming then installed VLC on my workstation/client. Thought to myself, “This is really pretty neat. On to the next step.”

Purchased a Hauppauge MVP, an HVR-1600, and a DB8. The MVP was pretty much a plug-it-in and go … sweet. HVR took a bit of fiddling, primarily mapping channels from the ATSC side of the card. (end-user issues) I’ve got the DB8 sitting atop an eight foot 2x2 leaned up against the corner of the house. (wife tells me I can’t leave it there, altho she thought the MVP was pretty cool too )

So … the XP2 system hosting GBPVR currently has a NVIDIA GeForce MX 440 and PVRX2 doesn’t display an image when trying watch live or a recording. No problems, I really intend for that system to be the GBPVR server. My primary workstation/client has a Matrox Parhelia in it and PVRX2 won’t even run, the old GBPVR UI will but w/ the web interface I pretty much just stream whatever I want to watch so again, no problems.

The DB8 is probably not in the best location (or so the wife thinks) and I’ve got it ‘aimed’ off towards my ATSC stations about 30 miles away. I will probably end up putting it up in the attic at some point. I haven’t watched any HD recordings yet but when streaming live to my client, they are jerky and pixilated<sp>. The MVP will just display a black screen on the tv and then usually the MVP reboots. While streaming HD the CPU on the XP2 server is running 75-80%. Live streams from the cable side of the HVR work quite well on both the client and MVP.

My next step is probably going to be re-building the ‘server’. I think XP will be a pretty good platform to build on. I see many of you have your system spec in your sigs so I’ll use those as ideas and guidelines.

Thanks a bunch for a fun and functional program.

Jim

[Deusxmachina]

Yeah, the antenna being up in an attic will likely be better than it being eight feet off the ground. Or maybe not depending what the siding is made out of or insulation. If you have a window in your attic you can put it in front of, that can help a lot.

No one on here can stream live HDTV ATSC to an MPV. I have a strong computer, can stream basically any other type of recorded file to the MVP without doing anything special at all, but still can't do live TV for more than five or so seconds, so I don't think it's really a computer power problem but some other inherent incompatibility. I haven't tried it with the new version of GBPVR, though. Maybe it will magically work now, but doubt it.

Can definitely watch recorded ATSC on the MPV, though.

[flyswatta]

Yep, the MVP will not play ATSC. Some people have tried recording it as an .mpg (I believe with the Cyberlink mux) but I haven't had much luck with that - I finally gave up, way too jerky on playback on my server which can playback ATSC just fine.
You might be able to convert the ATSC recording to an avi or regular .mpg file then play it back on the MVP.