WatchHDTV Version 1.8 - Page 2

Any chance of being able to set a max TV-on-demand buffer space, i.e., 30 minutes? Just so you could watch it like Tivo but wouldn't have to worry about running out of HD space?

Just an idea.. It's really great as it is..

Timed record worked. Batting 100 so far.

Aloke

I get the following error when I try to run WatchHDTV:

WatchHDTV MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvience.

I'm running MCE 2005 with a Fusion 5 Lite. Any prerequistes needed to get Watch HDTV running?

I've loved WatchHDTV, and still do. I've used it since version 1.5
Its great watching HDTV without having HDD space taken up just to watch tv.
Just tried 1.8, hoping for a smaller application to watch and record HDTV.
It plays TV fine, switches TV stations fine. It can even record TV fine.
However, everytime I click the "Sched" or "setup" from within 1.8 I get a crash.

(As such, I have to use my channel list from 1.6, but it works fine)

Version 1.5 and 1.6 both work fine, as does ATI's DTV program.

I set up a graph in graphedit per the readme, and I can watch TV.
However, I cannot change channels, or get into the options under Microsoft ATSC Network Provider.

The error from within WatchHDTV is "WatchHDTV MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
The error pops up and I have to hit "close" on three popups that say the same thing.

I also ran regmon and filemon, but I can't tell exactly what caused the error.

(Win XP SP2, P4 3.0 GHz, 1.5 GB Ram, ATI Radeon 9600, Driver version "6.14.10.6553", ATI MMC version 9.06)

Can still watch the TV, though.
Oh, and great app! Thanks for all your work!

I'll have to check that out. Thanks!


I don't understand this statement. Is there an adjustment setting someplace? My setting is at 8G/hr.

Hey guys, just doing a quick search of the web to see how to work with these dvr-ms files, I came across this site...

http://www.thegreenbutton.com/downloads.aspx

I tried the DVR 2 WMV and it seems to work pretty well (even on a non-Media Center PC) I haven't tried the others yet though.

As for my playback problem, it gets weirder. The playback still gets choppy after a couple of minutes even with the ATi decoders installed. As a little test, while the playback was choppy, I put it in TIMESHIFT mode. All of the sudden everything was great. But as soon as I went back to LIVE mode, everything became very choppy again. Strange.

Oh well, I still give this program a solid 10 out of 10. Thanks again Al.

I recorded a 2 hr program. It is in a .dvr-ms file 2,230,968 bytes in size.

The quality is very good.

Aloke

Weird. I recorded Lost last night and it was just under 8 gigs. Yet, I can see no settings to vary this.

Great Program - Set up a donation button on your site - It is working good for me so far with my fusion 5 gold.

Mine was recording fine earlier but now when I hit the REC button I get the following error and then it GPF's. Version 1.81

Can't setstreamsink

I just realized that the program was not broadcast in 1080i resolution. Today, I recorded (in a time-shift mode) true 1080i program from a different DTV channel. This one was 3 GB for 45 min (4 GB/hr).

All functions work great on my system (XP Pro, Radeon 9800 Pro AIW, Cat 5.5, MMC 9.08).

Could you please please please add the capability for NTSC tuners (like AIW)? Is there a technical reason not to add such tuners to WatchHDTV (and change the name of the program :-)

WatchHDTV and my Fusion 3 have been playing together quite nicely as of late. Timeshifting / scheduled recording all seem to work great. I'd love to see a lipsync feature for those pesky broadcasts that can never seem to get this right (ABC, I'm looking at you). Keyboard shortcuts for jumping directly to particular channels would also be nice (how about numpad 1-9 jumps to channels 1-9, sorta like speed dial).

Great program hdtval!!

Where are codecs disabled?

I have covered this subject a few times but the best way to get codec's "filters" under control is with GSPOT.

No need to remove filters that are causing problems.

The trick is to set the filter merit, if a filter is marked as perfered then that is what will be used by the application unless the application is specific about the filter of choice.

A good example is Microsoft Media Player #10 on my system is using the CyberLink video filter and for audio the AC3Filter both of which have the highest merit for the media type selected.

Search here on AVS for my name and the keywork GSPOT for more information.
Be sure to select "advanced search / show posts"

Or you can look here:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...0&postcount=23

Greg

Just found this thread and it made my day. The only reason I haven't tried WatchHDTV before is because it didn't do record/timeshift. Looks like I will be downloading this tonight.

Thanks hdtval21!

I get the same issue. Just Downloaded and tired to run it. I have the Fusion 5 lite too. Anyone have this working with this card?

Its great! It took me a while to figure out how to convert dvr-ms files to mpeg but all is good now. Thank You

Memikee, what did you use to convert to mpeg. I have looked all over but can't seem to get anything to work. It seems like everything out there is for MCE and not just plain Windows XP Pro SP2.

Thanks,
Frank.

I am using it with the a180 and tieshifting worked for a day, but have since stoped working, weird.

Nice program!

I have a request/suggestion:

Is it possible to implement support for ffdshow and live viewing?

I was just thinking it would be real nice, actually freaking awesome to be able to filter and scale analog broadcasts or even enhance HDTV on the fly with ffdshow like we do now with DVD and recorded video in certain programs.

My favorite new feature is the decoders.txt file. I have the HDTV Wonder and I was never able to get SPDIF with 5.1 passthru working with any of the recent releases. Now with the decoders.txt file I can specifiy an audio decoder and get SPDIF output with all 5.1 channels!

I have been using AC3Filter and Nvidia Audio Decoder with success!

Ok - I ran into my first trouble tonight - I am using a fusion5 gold card and when I started up WatchHDTVplay and choose my prerecorded file - I get the error that it failed to load ATI audio filter.

I think this could be fixed by putting in the decoders.txt file only I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to do this. I run Graphedit on the file and it shows AC3filter and Mpeg2Dec which I don't think the fusion uses.

Would anyone who is knowledgeable post me a decoders.txt file (or the txt in it is all I need) for the Fusion5?

Is it possible to build a graph to show closed captioning in WatchHDTV? I've been reading up on it for a while tonight, but all the examples I found were for the analog tuner.

Thanks!

VideoRedo Plus converts dvr-ms. Open the file and use the save as option to mpeg or vob. I had to set a +600 ms delay on the audio to get in synch but it converts quite fast.

Just tried version 1.8, so far so good on my old IBM PL300 upgraded with powerleap 1.4gh celeron.

I have the ati allinwonder 7500 and never got HD wonder to work with ati's software.

The only thing I can't get is the Second subchannel of pbs 43.

All the other channels and sub channels work. I have the WinHD in the same system can record HD off of that, but that tuner can't get the signals as well.

I know you don't want to be bothered by new features.

But what I would like is to to do, is write 4.482 megs to my DVD RW on G: and write the rest of the video to hard drive or another DVD RW.

I use Roxio to start format my DVD's, then I am able to write HDTV directly to my 8x DVD recorder on the fly.

However, I can only record a half hour before the disk fills up. I would use the duel lawyer, but those disk are too expensive.

Would be nice to write 4.482 megs to DVD RW on G:\\ 4.482 megs to my DVD RW on H:\\ and another 4.482 megs to my DVD RW on I:\\ Then I could record a whole HD movie on the fly to DVD on three disk.

Tim

This is no biggie but for some reason I get this error when exiting the scheduler window.

WatchHDTVSched MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

AppName: watchhdtvsched.exe AppVer: 1.2.0.1 ModName: watchhdtvsched.exe
ModVer: 1.2.0.1 Offset: 0000ad98