Initial Setup - Recording & DVD Playback woes.

[megashub]

Hello,

This is my first time installing/configuring gbpvr. I must say, to this point, setup has been fantastically easy to understand and follow.

I have everything installed, even added some plugins successfully etc. I can watch live tv clearly without a problem and get proper sound. (although I noticed I don't get a channel info bar at the bottom when switching channels).

I only really have two major problems:

1) I can't seem to record live or scheduled television. It says it's recording and does save a file, but when I try to play it, just sits there. The screen doesn't shift, change, flickers etc. The File details box with the option to Play goes away and I'm brought back to the main file list. Subsequent attempts yield identical results.

1a) If I try to play the recording while it's actively recording, the screen blanks and I get audio only (choppy at that). Going back to gbpvr and stopping the recording and trying to play the file afterwards yields the same result as mentioned above.

2) DVD Playback. Screen blanks, no audio, no video. Hitting back on the remote a few times brings me back to gbpvr.

2a) To confirm operation outside of gbpvr, I installed VLC Media Player and successfully navigated and played a DVD that way.


I'm also having small problems with button mappings on my remote, but I'll save those for later as it's not nearly as important.

Thanks for any help, and sorry for the GBPVR ignorance. I've only really dealt with MSMCE2005 bloatware previously.

Bob

[megashub]

An update:

If I quit gbpvr and use VLC to play the mpg file manually, it plays fine. Video and audio are crisp and clean. It just won't play from within the app.

B

[reven]

2) it could be a region issues, my system for some reason changed regions on me without my knowledge, try playing the dvd in the dvddecoder app (eg if you are using powerdvd to decode in gbpvr, try playing it in the powerdvd app itself), or you could try a different decoder.

[sub]

It sounds like you dont have an MPEG2 decoder installed on your machine. VLC has it's own one built in, so it doesnt need one.

If you need to play DVD's then you also need an application like WinDVD or PowerDVD installed. GB-PVR reuses some of its components.