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Old 17th May 2006, 00:37   #1  |  Link
Ridderen
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Guide - Recording TV with GBRecord

I've written this little tutorial as there seemed to be an interest on the subject in my original own question-post.

I hope everyone who has problems, or some knowledge to add will do so

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After I got my new Hauppauge PVR USB2 TV tuner I realized that my favourite recording software, WinTVCap, didn’t support my new tuner. WinTVCap’s is a very powerful piece of software, because it’s only command line and doesn’t show a screen or anything else you don’t need while recording. After I’d Googled around a bit I came up with GBRecord which is very similar to WinTVCap, but as many other have noticed it’s a very poor documented application. Therefore I’ll try to do my best to describe GBRecord, I’ve not developed it but after 15 hour long night I now a thing or two that maybe could be useful for other readers

Before we start you should download the following programs:
GBRecord: http://www.gbpvr.com/GBRecord92.zip
Tuning Assistant: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/U...uningAssistant

1. Setup
Extract GBRecord to somewhere where you want it, I chose “C:\Program Files\GBRecord”. Now we need to configure GBRecord, I’ll use my configurations as examples. Go to the folder where you extracted it double click “run-this-once-after-install.bat “ and open direct.ini.

Find the string “DefaultDeviceType=” and let it know which device type you’ve.
Code:
Example: DefaultDeviceType=Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB
This is actually Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 but for some reason they’ve misplaced the 2.

Device Type list:
Hauppauge PVR150
Hauppauge PVR150MCE
Hauppauge PVR500
Hauppauge PVR250
Hauppauge PVR250 with FM radio
Hauppauge PVR350
Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB
ATI Theater 550 Pro
ATI TV Wonder Elite
Adaptec VideOh
Adaptec VideOh (PCI)
ProVideo PV258T/PV259
Conexant BlackBird
Hauppauge Roslyn
AverMedia M150
ATI eHome Wonder
AverMedia M179
Python 2
PlayTV@P7000 BlackBird
Leadtek WinFast PVR2000
Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe (NTSC)
Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe (PAL)

As you can see it’s very well supported
Now find the string “DefaultProfile” and change it to “My Profile” – if you want to use my guided profile.
Code:
Example: DefaultProfile=My Profile
Just above the [PROFILE-Hight Quality] section add your new profile; My Profile. To do this write [PROFILE-My Profile].

Now we need to set some configurations in your newly created profile. Just add the headlines below [PROFILE-My Profile] I’ll try to explain, don’t add the explanations:

VideoResolution= 2
This tells GBRecord what aspect ratio you want your TV to be recorded in:
0: 720×480(576)
1: 480×480(576)
2: 352×480(576)MPEG2/352×240(288)MPEG1-VCD
3: 320×240(288)

OutputType=14
This will let GBRecord what format your recordings should be saved as. I don’t know what number 14 is, but GBRecord use it in High Quality profile and seems to be a fine output type for me too:
0: Program
1: Transport
2: MPEG1
10: DVD
11: VCD
12: SVCD

BitRate=3000
Which video bit rate GBRecord should try to use.

BitRatePeak=4000
The maximum video bit rate GBRecord is allowed to peak.

AudioSampleRate=1
Which frequents you’ll save your audio in:
0: 44.1kHz
1: 48kHz
2: 32Khz

AudioCompression=11
The bit rate your audio will saved in:
4: 64Kbit
6: 96kbit
7: 112kbit
8: 128Kbit
9: 160Kbit
10: 192Kbit
11: 224Kbit
12: 256Kbit
13: 320Kbit
14: 384Kbit

AudioOutput=0
The audio channels you’ll save your audio in:
0: Stereo
1: JointStereo
2: DualChannel
3: Mono

AudioBitrate=11
I don’t know about this I think it’s the same as AudioCompression. High Quality profile says 11

EncodingMode=1
Again I don’t know about this, but also again High Quality profile says 1.

My configuration is now:
Code:
[PROFILE-My Profile]
VideoResolution=2
OutputType=14
BitRate=3000
BitRatePeak=4000
AudioSampleRate=1
AudioBitrate=11
AudioOutput=0
AudioCompression=11
EncodingMode=1
This configuration gives a pretty good result, if you don’t want to use too much disk space.

2. Usage
To record a show you’ll first need to know what channel number your channel has. Let me make it clear, it has nothing to do with WinTV2000 or any other Hauppauge program. You can use Tuning Assistant to track channel numbers. The syntax for recording a program is:

Start Windows command line utility:
Start -> Run -> Write: cmd

Go to your application directory (i.e: c:\progam files\gbrecord):
Write: cd c:\program files\gbrecord

Start recording by writing:
gbrecord -seconds:10 -channel:72 -startr:”c:\my_test_record.mpg”

A little about the 3 commands I gave to the program:
-seconds or -minutes tells how many seconds or minutes you want to record.
-channel is the channel number you found with Tuning Assistant.
-startr is the location where your recording should be saved.
Remember to have ” around save path and a : between the command and the value.

3. Scheduled recording
The last thing I’ll tell you about now is a little trick how you can make a scheduled recording using Windows.

Go to: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> (Switch to classic) -> Scheduled Tasks -> Double click “Add Scheduled Task”
Press Next -> Browse for GBRecord.exe, located in the directory where you extracted it all -> “One time only” or whatever you want -> Set start time and date -> Fill the administrator informations -> Tick “Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish”.
In the Run text box add your commands after the path, like: -seconds:10 -channel:72 -startr:”c:\my_test_record.mpg”

That’s it!

4. Known issues
I’d scheduled a record in 2 hours, but for some reason it stopped after 35 minutes. I don’t know why it did, I’ve succesfully recorded other programs in more than 35 minutes.

If you’ve anything to add or questions feel free to do so.

I hope this will help you :-)


Hints:
If you have a Hauppauge card you can use Hauppauge Tweaker to blur the image, which will allow you to record in lower compression: http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/t...ge_tweaker.zip - Just set Sharpness to 2 or something

Last edited by Ridderen; 17th May 2006 at 01:56.
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Old 23rd May 2006, 10:06   #2  |  Link
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Update
I finally solved the problem with recordings that stopped before I wanted to. If you've Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 like me, you simply need to update your drivers from www.hauppauge.com. You must also change the filter names a bit (in direct.ini in the PVR USB2 section), rename them to PVR2 USB2 instead of PVR USB2.

I hope someone could use all this, as no one has replied yet
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Old 16th June 2006, 17:51   #3  |  Link
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Me me me

I'm planning to get me a Pinnacle card here (don't know the model number) to record the FIFA World Cup matches

I'm clueless about most things in life, particularly video capture since I've never done any of it. So, I'm hoping I can give feedback here from a completely useless newbie's perspective
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