Having put too many items into what is becoming a messy thread (sorry) I thought I had better separate them.

This one is a request to default the Aspect Ratio to "Auto" or "Last Selected" when playing videos from the Videos List screen.

At the moment I need to reselect Auto everytime I play a video from the video screen. I am using a 4:3 TV with 4:3 selected in the Settings.

Please let me know if I have missed a setting or made an error or if this is a genuine issue others are seeing too.

I have been specifying 15 minute post padding when submitting recordings using NEWA but the system appears to ignore the post padding setting. Has anyone else seen an issue with post padding ? Please let me know if I there is any debug I should try or data I should capture.

Hi

I have just added a second sound card to my PC so that I can get GBPVR to output to my TV while having normal sound on my PC. I am using the ffdshow Audio Decoder and have changed the Audio Renderer from "Default DirectSound Device" to "DirectSound: Speakers...".

This works for everything except recordings, they are using the .TS format and always play the audio on the default audio output.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks
Roger

This is probably best answered by sub:
I am planning on moving up to a DVB-S2 card, either PCI or PCIe. I have the following cards available here: Hauppauge HD-S2, HVR 4400, Technotrend S2-3200, Technisat HD-S2, Terratec Cinergy S2 . The latter two seem to be rebranded Twinhan Mantis devices.

For which of these cards do you have DVB-S2 scanning AND diseqc implemented at this stage?

Thanks
Guido

I am trying to change the location and size of a field using my own placement but I can't recall how, I was able to populate the tvguide before but I've lost the test code

I have in the skin location="@locX,@locY" size="@sizeX,@sizeY"

I've tried with

args["@locX"] = "0.0m";
args["@locX"] = 0.0m;

and d and f and capitals etc and I'm forgetting something.

Martin

I am building my first HTPC and have chosen to go with the gb-pvr platform. I am in great need of advice and links to the best plugins for netflix, internet radio, channel guides, music playlists, etc. I am trying to take in as much as I can but my head is starting to swim and getting everything mixed up. I would like to just get this project rolling so I can learn along the way. Everyone here seems very help full and looks like a great place to learn!!

Thanks in advance!!!

Hello,

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS, brilliant forum!!!
I've already done some things that I found here to have GB-PVR up and running.

As I'm really new in this kind of environment, I hope that I'm not doing a stupid question

GB-PVR runs properly to see movies, pictures and so on... Now I'm trying to setup my brand new TVcard (wintv-nova-td-500 hd) and I got blocked...

I've installed the software that comes with the card (which is really bad) and it runs properly, I can see the TV. Then I tried to setup the card in GB-PVR using the "config" tool and during the scanning (chanel 20/57) when the very first channel is found, the system gets totally blocked, no blue screen, no error message, just blocked. The only option is to turn it off.

As the card doesn't appear in the combo box, I created the following lines in the bda.ini (from another thread):
[Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD-500 DVB-T #1]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="Hauppauge WinTV MOD7700 DVB-T Tuner (Dev1 Path0) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="Hauppauge WinTV MOD7700 DVB-T Capture (Dev1 Path0)"
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

[Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD-500 DVB-T #2]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER="Hauppauge WinTV MOD7700 DVB-T Tuner (Dev1 Path1) "
FILTER_CAPTURE="Hauppauge WinTV MOD7700 DVB-T Capture (Dev1 Path1)"
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

But it happens the same...
I'm in Barcelona (Spain), when selecting the country, it doesn't appear so I left "All Countries"... Is it correct?

Ah! The OS is Win XP SP3.

If someone could help me I will really appreciate it.
And sorry for my English, it's not so good

Thanks in advance

Just a note, I get on gbpvr kicks in spurts, so I don't always come here to report a problem when I have one. Hence, I'm gonna talk about an issue I've had for a while but never posted about. Very, very sorry about this. I'm horrible, I know.

Anyway, I've had this same issue every time I've tried to use ML2/ML3, either one. I just recently blew away all the old ML2 and ML3 stuff and did a fresh install of the last ML3 release. It still never finds all my music.

I keep all of my music on a server the whole house can access. I map a drive letter in my XP GB PVR box to the music directory on the server. In the past, I've tried to just add that drive to the system paths, but it wouldn't find all the music files. There are several directories on my server under music, like 'kids' and 'christmas' and 'mystuff' and 'mywifes', etc. This time I added each of those directories as a separate system path, nuked the db and then did a scan. Once again, it still only found a really random sampling of the music I showed it under the system paths.

I know its not tag related, because very recently (this summer) we redid every single tag to get everything right for a load onto an mp3 player for a long road trip we took. Let me tell you, that was a chore ;- )

Anyway, any ideas? Its really, really random what shows up in the lists. I'd get two country artists, and a couple of my stuff, and a bunch of the stuff from my wife's directory, and a christmas album here and there, and then some of the albums are incomplete, etc.

For a long while now I haven't been using GB PVR for anything but providing a web TV Guide on my network. I came back yesterday to look for advice about my Pinnacle PCTV 80e, and found that everything seems to have changed.

I downloaded this new NPVR program, and installed it on my Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit machine that didn't have GB PVR on it, but I can't figure out how to configure it, as there doesn't seem to be a config program.

During the install, three message boxes appeared:

1) DataDirectory registry setting does not appear to be set correctly

2) DataDirectory=C:\Users\Public\NPVR\

3) InstallDirectory=C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\

I looked around a little on this board, but I don't see a guide for this new program.

Specs on install machine:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Operating System Major Version: 6
Operating System Minor Version: 1
Operating System Build Number: 7600
Service Pack: none
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz
8gigs RAM
C:\ (System Drive)
File System Type: NTFS
Volume Size: 961,969,909,760 bytes (895.90 GB)
Free Space: 555,241,549,824 bytes (517.11 GB)
D:\
File System Type: NTFS
Volume Size: 1,000,202,039,296 bytes (931.51 GB)
Free Space: 594,891,087,872 bytes (554.04 GB)
PCTV 80e QAM
Verizon FIOS

Logs attached

Has anyone been succesful with creating a mvpmc share on Windows 7 64 bit that can be mounted with the guest account? I've created the share with the NMTInstall program, but I can't get it mounted using the guest account on my NMT (I've also tried "root" which worked on Vista). I can mount it using another account and password, but that's not how I like it. The guest account is active. Any ideas?

Chris