2008-08-26, 11:19 PM
Hello everyone
First i would like to clarify that i have been using MCE 2005 for almost a year, I have tried Media portal for a few months as well, so im not a total noob as far as HTPCs go.
I had seen GBpvr for quite some time and finally yesterday decided to give it a try, specially since im tired of MCE and media portal.
After installing and setting up GBpvr i had these issues (hopefully you guys can help me understand why i had them and help me find a way to fix them, or at least explain why they happened).
1.- Constant Freezing, the app itself froze up at least half the times i used it when navigating the root menu (tv, music, videos, pictures, settings, exit). i had to ctrl-alt-del to close and fire up again.
2.- Couldnt enter the settings menu, whenever i clicked on it , it would enter then quickly exit and leave me back at the root menu (most, if not all the crashes mentioned in "1" happened while doing this). all the other menu options worked though.
3.- Pause live TV is not instant. Whenever i hit the pause button on my remote the screen would go black for like 2 or 3 seconds, then the image would reappear paused. This is very annoying coz i basically lose those 2 to 3 seconds when it blacks out. for example, if the i was watching the apollo 13 movie on tv and click the pause button on the "7" in the launch countdown, i would get a blackout for 2 to 3 seconds then get the image paused at the "5" seconds mark in the countdown. so the time between 7 and 5 was missed during that blackout. its very annoying. In MCE 2005 pause is instant.
4.- Poor analog cable channel image. on live tv everything looks fine for most of the channels that are over channel #25+ or so, but for the channels that are below 25 most of them look horrible, with a lot of static and many of them cant even show a picture at all, all i see is static.
Now, i know for a fact that my cable signal is fine and that these channels look ok when i hook the same cable on a TV, and just for testing purposes i tried to grab the channels using the "winTV" application from Hauppauge (i have the pvr-150 card) and these channels look great.
For example tuning in to analog channel #5 on GVPVR gives me only static, and on WinTV i get a clear picture. Im guessing that it might have something to do with the channel frequencies
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Now i really want to get these issues out of the way, because i really like what im seeing so far, i was able to get my epg working the way i want (not so succesful at this on MCE and MP), i like the plugin support a lot also.
So basically my question is: Are these issues common?, can they be fixed?
make me a believer, help!
The post came out a little longer than i intended, but i think i adressed all my concerns.
thanks for your time
First i would like to clarify that i have been using MCE 2005 for almost a year, I have tried Media portal for a few months as well, so im not a total noob as far as HTPCs go.
I had seen GBpvr for quite some time and finally yesterday decided to give it a try, specially since im tired of MCE and media portal.
After installing and setting up GBpvr i had these issues (hopefully you guys can help me understand why i had them and help me find a way to fix them, or at least explain why they happened).
1.- Constant Freezing, the app itself froze up at least half the times i used it when navigating the root menu (tv, music, videos, pictures, settings, exit). i had to ctrl-alt-del to close and fire up again.
2.- Couldnt enter the settings menu, whenever i clicked on it , it would enter then quickly exit and leave me back at the root menu (most, if not all the crashes mentioned in "1" happened while doing this). all the other menu options worked though.
3.- Pause live TV is not instant. Whenever i hit the pause button on my remote the screen would go black for like 2 or 3 seconds, then the image would reappear paused. This is very annoying coz i basically lose those 2 to 3 seconds when it blacks out. for example, if the i was watching the apollo 13 movie on tv and click the pause button on the "7" in the launch countdown, i would get a blackout for 2 to 3 seconds then get the image paused at the "5" seconds mark in the countdown. so the time between 7 and 5 was missed during that blackout. its very annoying. In MCE 2005 pause is instant.
4.- Poor analog cable channel image. on live tv everything looks fine for most of the channels that are over channel #25+ or so, but for the channels that are below 25 most of them look horrible, with a lot of static and many of them cant even show a picture at all, all i see is static.
Now, i know for a fact that my cable signal is fine and that these channels look ok when i hook the same cable on a TV, and just for testing purposes i tried to grab the channels using the "winTV" application from Hauppauge (i have the pvr-150 card) and these channels look great.
For example tuning in to analog channel #5 on GVPVR gives me only static, and on WinTV i get a clear picture. Im guessing that it might have something to do with the channel frequencies
---------
Now i really want to get these issues out of the way, because i really like what im seeing so far, i was able to get my epg working the way i want (not so succesful at this on MCE and MP), i like the plugin support a lot also.
So basically my question is: Are these issues common?, can they be fixed?
make me a believer, help!
The post came out a little longer than i intended, but i think i adressed all my concerns.
thanks for your time