I was showing off my GBPVR box to a Direct TV user. She was impressed. However, in discussions, she asked if it could do a few things, both seem like good ideas:
1. Allow several (named) "favorites" lists in the TV guide. This is important with DirectTV, since so many channels. Hubby and wife have different favorite channels, so named lists would be nice. The favorites list would simply limit the available channels to those selected fromt eh full list, based on user name or selecting sub-list from a list of favorite lists.
2. Search guide based on genre or theme or style or some such. For example, "Old Movies", "Football", etc. Currently a search exists for alphabetic only.
Both sound like nice features, second may be difficult unless there are pre-defined genre's somewhere.
I've been using moviewiz for a while. I like many things about it. Just recently my wife wanted to go thru it to lookup what the descriptions for movies that I have were. I know what all the movies are about, but she didn't. When she went to look, the only description was the "tagline" that I could see. However, the tagline is useless, the description are too generic. For example, star wars is like " Boy looks to become man in space" or something equally useless (lol).
Anyhow, am I doing something wrong, is the source for this data useless, or is there something more to be done?
I have a question. I've been getting my EPG updates from Yahoo via yapixml, it seems to have stopped working. What is another recommendation for a US updater (free please)? Or is the yapi/yahoo problem temporary?
sub, I know you've put out a patch in the config app, so I'll ask for this while you still hopefully have the source up...
Can you, in the map digital channels dialog, add the frequency number to the channel name in the scanned channel list? And maybe some other unique identifier as well?? sometimes when scanning there are duplicates and normally only one of them actually works.
Well, it looks like I waited too long to sign up for NetFlix. I finally did so today, and I've been forced into Silverlight. I wasn't asked anything, but when I go into watch instantly (on a regular PC, I'm not talking about GB-PVR for the moment) and select something it prompts me to install the Silverlight player.
I'm curious, has everyone been moved to silverlight, or are older accounts still on the old player? Is there any way to get back to the old method?
I know from my other thread asking about this that the plugin will still work with silverlight, but clearly it doesn't work as well. Movies can't be downloaded for later viewing either, so I'll be dependant on streaming which is mostly fine until my son starts downloading some huge game or patch on his computer.
I suppose I'm stuck with silverlight then, I may as well get over it.
When I ran out of disk space, I switched to dynamic disks, unaware that this creates a backup problem. My backup program, Acronis, which is so handy for creating images of the system partition, won't have anything to do with a dynamic disk.
It would be handy to have multiple recording directories, handled internally by GB-PVR, so that storage expansion could be easily accomplished without dynamic disks.
Having failed previously to get my PCH A100 working via a usb drive using manual means, I've now tried again using the installer. I really want to get this working now I see WOL is a possibility.
The install seemed to go fine, but when I select GBPVR via USB I get the dreaded "request cannot be processed error". All still works fine over my network to the server - although I always have to navigate down the tree to the relevant share, even tho' I've added it as a source.
We have several music channels that transmit in clear qam. When you go to one of these channels on a cable company box it gives a black screen and the program info which is usually the song and artist. The program info leaves and there's a black screen and then every so often they send down a graphic, usually a picture of the group or artist, maybe a bit of trivia about them, and the logo for the channel is on the graphic.
These are clear qam so I pick them up with my HVR-1600, but if I go to them from a clear qam with video programming then it just freezes the last scene on the screen until they send down the next graphic. Going from analog to one of these channels gives a black screen until the graphic comes down, but going to one from a video qam channel gives the left over video scene.
Not a big deal, but if there was a way to clear the buffer between channel changes it would be nice - it would just make it look a bit more "polished" (which makes this a very low priority as stability is much more important).
It may not even be a GBPVR issue - maybe it's my card. Does this happen to others with different cards?
