1.3.11, fresh install, xp sp2, intel chipset in a shuttle box. (GBPVR running on another box to record with various tuners using Cyberlinks .mpg mux.)

Playback of recorded tv, access through 'Videos', starts normally but video freezes after some minutes (5-15) normal viewing. Sound continues for some time but eventually that stops too.

PVXR2 remains responsive and returning to main menu and starting over allows to start playing the video and FF'ing through to where it stopped before and continuing until it stops again.

I've tried:

Playing from local drive instead of remote share.

Changing PVXR2's renderer to all the available options. (EVR returns error)

Running as a standalone install instead of a client.

Downgrading to previous gbpvr version.

Upgrading Windows Media Player to v.11.

Removing all power saving settings on the pc.

Notes:
Mediaportal, VLC and MPC all play the files through from start to finish without issue, suggesting not an underlying codec or hardware problem.

I prefer gbpvr and would like to use it on this set top box purely for playing tv recorded by another machine across the lan as I've done successfully before. Any ideas?

GB-PVR is a very nice application but for me, but mapping DVB-S based channels is very troublesome.

The main reason, is because in the channelscan result screen I only see the channel name and with channels consisting of (almost) the same name mistakes are easy to make. Based upon channel-order I'm able to guess which channel is linked to my subscription card.

However, I do make mistakes (human and stuff ) and I frequently select the wrong channel and I use the config tool to select the right one. But with 4 sats it's kinda troublesome and time consuming.

To make my (and perhaps other DVB-S users) live easier, it would be great if we can have the Providername, Transponder and perhaps FTA status in the channelscan result screen. This will allow us to make proper and faster selections and as a result, a better configured channel-list.

Hi,

I've just uploaded v2.8 of the TV Listings plugin at the wiki. Changes include:

Quote:- fixed an issue where the confirmation popup got no focus
- added ‘Resume’ playback button for recordings
- added option to forcibly hide the resume prompt when starting playback of partly watched recordings
- added option to wrap around from the last to the first item and vice-versa in the recordings lists
- implemented faster termination of worker threads when the application closes
- fixed a bug when showing the inset rectangle before the ui was initialised
- fixed an issue where the selection of the just pressed button in the confirmation popup changes during the popup-close animation

I'm sure I remember you could popup the signal strength/quality when watching live TV by pressing ctrl-O. It doesn't seem to work anymore on my new install. Has this feature been dropped?

I was wondering if it's possible for the installation process to load a file, like the currenttheme.xml, during installation and load the relevant graphics and formatting into the skin folder from the plugin resource folder.

Given than we now have the skin and plugin in the same package there is quite a bit of file duplication and if it was possible to do the above then we could remove all those duplicated files from the skin folder and reduce the overall package from approx 11mb to 5/6mb, (and it would come in even more useful for the Hi-Def version, going from approx 30mb to 15/18mb)

I thought I'd start a new thread to put forward a suggestion for text handling by the plugin.

How about if we identify and group the text to be altered under a heading and allow the user to increase or decrease the text size proportionately. For example with the baseskin.xml, group the 3 text sizings (small, standard and large) and let the plugin increase or decrease these by the same amount, like:

• -4
  
• -3
  
• -2
  
• -1
  
• 0
  
• +1
  
• +2
  
• +3
  
• +4
  

I have 3 tuners. All receiving the same channels and I am using broadcast EPG. Do I need to set all tuners to Broadcast EPG, or can I just set one of them and set the others to No EPG?

I did some searches, but did not find anything specific to Broadcast EPG.

It's been twelve months and one day since the last update was posted here. With the release of 1.3.11 and the new shutting down event, I finally got around to doing a little more work on this plugin.

Also over the last twelve plus months, cybrmage has done significant work on this plugin for MediaPortal, including a substaintial rewrite of some sections and renamed it 'minidisplay', including better integration with the iMON software and spectrum analyser displays.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to implement the Spectrum Analyser/VU Meter display the way I would like to, despite some researching. There are plenty of examples to get sound samples of a microphone input/line in, but I've not found any C# examples to grab samples of 'what you hear'. I've found some C++ examples that seem interesting to explore and pursue, but they use MFC, and Visual Studio Express doesn't include these files, and the Open Source OFC hasn't helped me either. So I've parked this problem for now and thought I just release what I have.

There may not be any significant changes in this version that would cause users to choose to updrade, however, the more significant changes include:

• shutdown should be improved with the new 'shutting down' event. Please not that release is note compatible with pre 1.3.11 as a result.
  
• the LCDHype driver has been revised, and provides greater functionity with LCDHype drivers. I have not included the drivers here, in case there are licencing issues, but you can get them from other sources and put the driver into the externaldisplay\lcddrivers folder. I hope that this new driver remains compatible with the drivers users may currently be using.
  
• font editors and icon editors in iMON
  
• improved integration with the iMON remote control. Some users have reported difficulties in getting the iMON remote control working correctly in the past. Since my Hauppauge remote is intermittment (I put into a dehumdifying dry cabinet for a day of so, and it works again for a day or so!), I was forced to use the iMON remote, so this part of the code I know works for me. I had to add some additional code not included in MiniDisplay to get this working. (The original MediaPortal code wouldn't work for my system if iMON was already running, so if it is running and some initialisation fails, iMON is shut down, initialisation continues and then iMON is restarted so that the remote control works)
  
• improved integration with iMON Frontview (it can be set to reload upon PVRX2 exit).
  
• the intergration with Soundgraph hardware extends to searching for the drivers actually used by the iMON software based on the information in the registry.
  
• better integrated support for all other SoundGraph devices - Antec, 3R systems
  
• MatrixMX and MatrixGX Drivers are included
  

1. download the new version below
   
2. make a backup of the xml configuration file in the plugins\ExternalDisplay folder if you have customised your message, and backup your LCDHype driver.
   
3. uninstall the old ExternalDisplay via the uninstaller
   
4. install the new version
   
5. reinstall your backup xml file and LCDHype Driver.
   
6. run the ExternalDisplay configuration
   

• Debug Form – internal volume monitor now working
  
• RestartFrontView was always run, irrespective of options setting
  

• Fixed the installer to re-include CommonGBPVRUtilities.dll
  
• Recording in progress/pending message broke in the Feb 09 version
  
• iMon display type LCD2 wasn’t handled correctly (shutdown errors and no icons displayed)
  
• Stray music icon when watching movies removed
  
• Cancel button in setup form cancels
  

• #currentmodule set to the EventText when
  
• EventType=”PluginActivated”. Message will ‘flash’ for five seconds
  

First, great program and have been using for 10 months or so with almost no issues.

I have just updated to 1.3.11 hoping that a very minor problem might have been fixed. A while back I had a crash and decided to remove GB-PVR and then re-install. Now parts of the config that I am editing don't seem to update when I run PVRX2.

Took screen dumps of the config settings that I had been using so that I could easily reupdate. I uninstalled using the windows uninstall. Thought that I had deleted everything but possibly not. Then ran the .msi for 1.2.13 which I had previously donwloaded.

I updated the config to what it had been before (1.2.13) and started using PVRX2 again. Noticed that the 'standard' Plugins that I had unselected in congif seemed to still display as options in the main menu of PVRX2. Also noticed today that when I changed a skin in 1.3.11, the skins do not seem to change when mod'd in config.

I open both programs through Start/all programs/GB-PVR folder in Vista Home Premium.

When I go back into config, it has not 'saved' the changes that I made.

Couldn't find anything specific on the forums so thought I should join and ask.

Thanks in advance.

I am having an issue with video library. I always add my recording directoy under the video library directorys option in the config. This means from video library I can access any recordings which is really great. I have noticed recently (can't tell if its only the latest version) that selecting the recordings directory throws me back to the main menu.
The logs are attached but I can tell you the directory is there and is working fine through other apps that can access that directory.

Cheers