so... in my looking into the community skin I found a couple things that I think could make it more versatile.

I think that the size of the package could be cut down, as well as increasing the number of choices for buttons, if we were able to provide a single image for the mask of the button (high/low lights) and then use another for the color. this would make it really easy for people to make their own button colors. we could use a staged directory structure, so a directory would contain the mask, then a subdirectory would contain colors, ensuring that colors are only used with their matching mask.

The same thing could be done with backgrounds, but it would be a bit trickier with the masks (man do I wish those only contained transparency information)

Also, it is kinda cumbersome to navigate through so many button choices only by pressing left and right, it would be nice if there were an easier way to do that.

Is there any way that we could add an overlay image to the icon view (I just want to make it look like sassari )

so...

I am going to try to improve the sassari theme for the community skin.
I have started with creating higher quality buttons, in different colors
I also created the list buttons that better represent sassari's lists (with separators between each item).
I created red and blue backgrounds, both 4x3 and 16x9 (different location for tribal logo)

I plan on fixing the list backgrounds, such that they don't look all stretchy. Same goes for the popups.

Does anyone have requests for button colors? backgrounds? anything else?

I live in a suburb of Chicago, if that matters. I’ve been using GBPVR 1.2.9 and a Pinnacle PCTV HD Card with OTA successfully since its release. I haven’t had a major problem at all. Recently, I have gotten a cable feed from Comcast and have also experimented successfully with QAM tuning. Everything appeared to be working fine, but for some reason I decided it was time to upgrade to 1.2.13. At first everything seemed to be working well, but since the new fall season hadn’t yet started, I also wasn’t recording anything to verify the upgrade was working ok.
Last night I record CSI Miami off CBS 2.1 and it recorded beautifully….except the audio was all in Spanish. How could that have been??? I check the channel mappings and there’s only one 2.1 CBS channel available to map to…AND IT”S IN ENGLISH. I re-do a 5 minute test recording and it records in Spanish!
Then I remember that our local CBS station just did a huge transition to an all new studio with the latest bells & whistles, blah, blah, blah. Maybe they’re broadcasting SAP now. All I need to do is rescan the channels. The scan crashes. Simple fix, I apply the patch. Rescan and there’s no crash. Sweet, victory is mine. There are well over 138 channels/sub channels found. Only problem is that not one of them displays a single thing.
Has anybody else experienced this? To reiterate, my problem isn’t the channel scan crashing. It’s that the channels found don’t display ANYTHING. QAM channels do work in the Pinnacle TV software. I am work right now and can attach logs later if required. I know I can revert to 1.2.9 if needed but I spent a lot of time tinkering with the upgrade and would like to use it if possible.
Thanks for any input.
Mattman

After my old PC died taking my long-time GBPVR setup with it, I installed 1.2.13 on my Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 box.

I left most of the settings at their defaults except for the EPG. I've been trying to get a recording, but every recording leaves a zero-length MPG file although they're recorded in the database as good recordings.

I've tried it with and without comskip. I've tried a couple of different mux-es (not that I know what a mux actually DOES), all to no avail.

I looked at the recording log and saw nothing obvious, but I don't really know what to look for or if I should be looking elsewhere.

The attached file is the, "GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log".

Help Mr. Wizard! I simply can't go on without my GBPVR! Thanks.

I am sure this has been covered several times, but I have been going over it for a couple weeks now and I am getting nowhere. I originally had a PVR-150 card and that has been running great for a couple years. The system has been stable with no real problems other than what I caused. I added a HVR-1600 and now nothing seems to be working right.

Most of my analog channels in the guide from channel 1-180 show "No Show details". Before I only had channel 1-99. 181-257 show all of my listings, but they are way out of order. Most of the channels work, but a good number of them all go to the same station (i.e. speed channel goes to history channel, tmc and comedy central also go to the history channel).

My digital channels... I found close to 75 working channels, but they are all listed as unknown channels with the exception of a few ABC, NBC CBS channels.

When I go through the mapping of channels, I can see the picture with sound, however, for most of the digital channels, when I go to look at them in live TV via the guide, it is just a black screen with no sound.

I have schedules direct setup with 2 different lineups, one for analog and one for digital. I have been looking for any special setup for configuring 2 different sources, but I haven't come up with anything yet.

I have cable (QAM-256 according to comcast) going into all 3 ports on the cards. It is split several ways, but I have a very strong signal.

I am not real sure where to go from here. I know that both cards are working as I had 2 shows scheduled to record at the same time and they both did. Any pointers to other successful forum post or somewhere on the wiki that I have missed. I am thinking I need a custom qam.ini file or to edit mine maybe, but I am not sure.

My system specs:
Intel P4 2.66 GHZ
2.0 GB Ram
Cheap ECS motherboard
NVidia 5950 ultra video card (This could be part of the problem, but it seems to play 1080i and 720p video without any problems in other programs)
M$ Windows XP SP2
GBPVR 1.2.13 (with scanning patch applied)

Thanks

I've applied all the advice I've found but am still desperate for help.

I have not found a video decoder that will both (1) properly display deinterlaced 1080i OTA signal and (2) display video while in timeshift mode or recorded video. The MainConcept decoder that installed with the HVR-950 tuner will properly deinterlace and display a live 1080i signal, but will not display recorded video or video while in timeshift mode. The HCW decoder that installed with the HVR-950 tuner does the opposite---there's terrible tearing of the 1080i signal, but the signal will display (albient with tearing)during timeshift mode. During all of this, my CPU is at about 45%.

I recently discovered that, even though the 1080i signal suffered from tearing while I recorded it in GB-PVR, if I play it back through my recently-installed PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra, the video is perfect (and the CPU is at a mere 4%!). On the configuration page for PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra, I checked the option to use Avivo hardware decoding and Auto Select deinterlacing.

So I configured GB-PVR to use that the PowerDVD7 decoder, but alas it behaved exactly like the HCW decoder--terrible tearing, but displays the video during timeshift mode. Although GB-PVR allows me to configure the PowerDVD7 decoder, far fewer options are available to configure than are available through the PowerDVD configuration page. Hardware encoding is among the missing options.

After more research, I had high hopes for the solution presented here -- http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=18 -- but even with the suggested registry tweaks, the result is the same. Tearing.

Is there a way to get the PowerDVD7 decoder to behave in GB-PVR as well as it behaves in PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra? Is there a better decoder that I should be using?

BTW, I'm using Catalyst 8.8. And my logs are attached. Thanks so much for the guidance.

This is what is going on. I have been having problems with EPG updates. It looks like the EPG is getting updated, but the updates are not showing up in the web admin or the tv guide (gbpvr 1.29).

I was using yapi2xml and thought something might be going wrong with it so I switched to mc2xml a couple of days ago. I looked at the web admin yesterday and it said I have 12 days of programming. Today it says I have 11 days. I manually ran the UpdateEPG.bat file and the xml file shows it was updated today, but it still says I only have programming for 11 days. When I look i the tv guide the programing goes out to the 2nd of Oct. When I look at the xml file it has shows in it through the 5th of Oct.

When I run the update epg through gbpvr it does appear to update the xml file, but the updates don't reflect in the tv guide or number of days of programming left. Restarting the pc has o effect.

Help.

I'm fairly puzzled. I have been trying to clean up my recurring recordings because I had a number of duplicates (either me forgetting or my wife adding some too). I did delete several duplicates.

I have several sit-coms schedule every evening (That 70's Show, Friends, and Scrubs) and I have all three set to "record season". There are two of each show back-to-back, and all three form a 3 hour block of recordings. However, recently I noticed missing recordings. The TV Guide only shows the 2nd episode of each show will be recorded (highlighted in red). I can go in manually and do a "quick record" on the 1st episode each night (and it shows red and does record), so it's not a lack of resources.

I went in and deleted all of the recurring recording entries for all three of these shows, then added them back (once) with "record season". It didn't make any difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Brad

Everything seems to work except streaming.

I have the latest VLC installed and have set it up correctly in the web access config.

When I click "Stream Now", the mpeg is created on the server end but then trying to view that stream through port 7648 gives errors as if nothing is being served. For example, I get the error "VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://localhost:7648'" when attempting to view the stream through VLC on the machine gb-pvr is installed. It is the same from any machine though.

Stopping the stream deletes the files as expected.

The log from the statistics tab shows this for a failed streaming session.
The other logs included.

Sub,

I've followed the instructions in the forum and I believe I've set this device up and mapped some clear QAM channels. However, when I try to watch a live digital channel I get a popup that tells me there are no tuners available. No recordings are in progress at the time, so I'm a little stumped.

I've attached the logs that were updated just before the error occurred.

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Any suggestions are appreciated.

toboR