I thought the title might get your attention

Anyway, I am an idiot as you can read below, but the warning is for everyone to be aware of a rather dangerous operation you can do in PVRx2: deleting whole folders.

Here's the story:

I had just watched a recording that I transcoded in the video library. So I wanted to remove the original mpg as it was now replaced by an avi. I went to the left menu and selected the remove operation, clicked enter on the remote and another enter to confirm. So far, so good.

The cursor in the file list (right menu) was now on my "movies" folder, but the real cursor was still on the remove operation (left menu). I meant to go back to the main menu, by pressing the esc button, but accidentally pressed the enter button again. The confirmation screen came up, and you can guess by now what I did - hurried idiot that I am - I pressed the enter button again.

The result: the whole movies folder and all twentysomething movie files in it were deleted. I immediately realised what I'd done, exited PVRx2 and tried to rescue the files with the excellent "Undelete-Plus" program, but the damage was already done: I could only salvage four of the files .

Now for the strange thing: the drive is an NTFS drive and the folders are all read-only. Still this did not prevent disaster. In addition, there is no Security tab in the File properties, even though it is an XP Pro installation. I'll have to look into this, because I'm sure you can turn that on and I definitely want to prevent this from ever happening again.

To all: let my stupidity be a lesson to never click away a dialog without reading it and be aware of this functionality and protect your folders.

To sub: do you think it is a good idea to change PVRx2 in such a way that it refuses to delete a non-empty folder; you can always do so in the windows explorer. Or maybe change the video library menu so that it is similar to the recording menu?

PS: I would also like it when the selection color for the left menu becomes the bright green (or red?) that is also used for the right menu, rather than the current blue. Can I change this using the skin files?

PS2: Sorry for the longish post...

Last night I used Seagate DiskWizard to image my HDD that I had Windows XP & GBPVR installed on and copied the image over to a new larger HDD. Everything remained intact and Windows started as normal as if nothing happened, but when GBPVR was started, it asked for the original MSI file because it needed to re-install itself. I found this quite strange since, like I said, everything else didn't even "notice" I switched to a new drive. Is GBPVR too smart and even knows that it secretly got moved to a different HDD? After downloading the install file and letting it do it's thing everything was fine, I'm just asking out of curiosity.

Hi ,
I seem to be having a problem with my HVR 1600.
When I try to set it up, uner recording source, when I choose BDA Recording plugin, the 1600 does not show up as a valid device ...even when I use "only show devices detected).
Hence I am unable to tune any channels.
If I use direct recording plugin , the hvr1600 show up, but as an analog device ..no atsc.
I am using driver 1.62.25129.0 from the 40cd (same one as the 3.41c)

I have a HVR950 on this computer which worked fine with GBPVR until recently wouldnt work anymore ( Did still work in WintV). Not sure if there is any link.

Any help is appreciated

I have a Twinhan DVB-C CI (AD-CP300 / 2033) that I'd like to use in GBpvr (obviously ), but I haven't yet been able to actually get a video from it...

I'm using what I believe is the latest BDA drivers for it, 1.1.0.300 from 14th December 2007.

My cabel provider, YouSee (yes, that's what they thought would be a good name...), use Viaccess encoding, and though I do have a subscription card from them, I haven't got the phoenix/smartmouse card reader for it yet. But there are some (3) FTA channels that they carry unencoded.

GBpvr finds the card fine, and I got it to find the FTA channels once (though I didn't get to see them in the preview window). So they're now listed in the config app, and I've mapped them to the EPG:



When I try to record something I just get a very small dvr-ms file, like this Hun så et mord_20080213_17251815.dvr-ms (6KB).

If I try to edit the source and click "Map digital channels to EPG channels" it starts scanning and then hangs at this point:



Looking in the logs I get this response in config.exe-native.log:

Hey everyone,

I've been evaluating GB-PVR for a bit now, and it looks mostly great, but I have a couple niggling issues that I just can't seem to find a direct answer for when I search the forums or the wiki. I apologize if I missed it, but some simple answers to these basic issues would really help me out.

1. My first gripe is the Live TV viewer. gbpvr found a lot of channels, but I am only getting the "KUTV" type label, not the channel number, signal strength, resolution, or anything else. And none of the channels look HD to me. (I am using a TV Wonder 650 PCI, btw). I also can't tell how to modify channel info, remove channels I don't want, etc.

2. Another TV issue--the HUGE crap all over the screen when watching the channels, with symbols I don't understand. When I watch a channel, I want it to look as close to a regular TV image as possible (e.g. full screen, with no Windows Start bar, no gbpvr title bar along the top, etc), and when I change channels, I want a SMALL control bar to slide up from the bottom with info, controls, etc, and then slide away after a few seconds. Not a huge monstrosity that blocks 2/3 of the screen and stays there for almost forever...

3. I have my pictures, videos, music, and DVDs on a NAS, and I want gbpvr to point to those locations by default when I select those options. But I can't find any way to change the default from the local "My Documents" folder. Is there?

Thanks.

Hi

I've noticed this for a while - If I accidently double click instead of single click then PVRX2 freezes and I have to kill it with task manager.
Specifically if I double click Music Library main menu item - I am doing this when it is the bottom of the 5 menu items shown.

cheers

Keith

I just installed purevideo last night and it didn't really do much for me. However, upon reading around some more I found out that I should turn off hardware support or something. The only thing is I can't find this option anywhere. I went to the install directory and found something called nstantmedia.exe but it doesn't run when I click it.

Does anyone know how to work this codec? I want to try it out to its fullist potential before I give up on it.

When I view the photo library in Firefox, the files in the box are cut off (see attached picture).

It works fine in IE 7.

I am using Build 72.

3 capture sources and doesn't matter where i move them to, they always revert back to an order i don't want!!

running 1.1.5 on xp pro sp2 (just finished my rebuild from vista too!!!)

i've tried removing one and re-adding, same problem - they seem to be in the order i added them in and refuse to change...

any ideas before i remove and add them in the right order?

Hey sub,

Just wondering: (and observing)

I have two tuner cards in the GBPVR computer, and scheduling two shows to record on two different channels uses the same tuner, thus missing out on a bit of the end of the first show.

For example:

Show 1 - Channel 7, 8:30 - 9:30
Show 2 - Channel 10, 9:30-10:30

Show 1 gets truncated when Show 2 starts recording at 9:26 (4 minute pre padding) when it should continue to record until 9:40 (10 minute post padding, aus stations are horrible at ending on time)

Why doesn't GBPVR notice that having two tuners means they can be recorded side-by-side?

Thanks