I'm looking for a list of threads that will be good reading for getting into writing a plugin. I have downloaded some of the example source like hello.zip and dvdripper.zip but I cant get the example to compile as it's looking for other files.

Is there a rollup of files I need to download seperately?

I'm a newbie to windows C++ programming but have done it on the Unix land for decades. so if there are any tips to getting started that would be great.


I'm using VS2005 Professional as my IDE under Windows XP. All I have installed is GBPVR latest version.

Thanks.

I wonder if other folks on the forum have seen this...

On some GB-PVR recordings (over-the-air ATSC), the audio stream's codec is not identified correctly when I try to post-process the file in some way: transcode it to another format, or write it to a DVD. The codec should be identified as ac3, but instead is identified as "0x0000." This seems to be related to the ffmpeg program, and to utilities that use ffmpeg as a backend. When I submit such files to ffmpeg, I see the "unknown audio codec" error. If I let ffmpeg proceed with processing, the result will be a correctly transcoded video stream coupled with a silent audio stream.

Mencoder (at least the special version modified by Babgvant) does not seem to have this behavior and will identify the ac3 codec in cases where ffmpeg will not.

This situation is an annoyance because I can not simplydrag a bunch of dvr-ms files into ConvertXtoDVD and expect all of them to work. Some may have silent audio tracks after conversion to DVD, and others will be correct. One particular broadcast channel in my area seems to be uniquely suceptible to this problem. I don't recall seeing it occur on the dvr-ms recordings of other channels.

This isn't really a comment on GB-PVR, but rather on some difficulties in working with the program's dvr-ms output. I've seen some anecdotes on the web related to the 0x0000 audio codec id, so I believe I'm not the only one. Anybody on the forum seen this, and have a work-around?

I have a PVR-150 MCE card and I noticed it has composite RCA in and stereo in. I was wondering, is there anyway to schedule or get gbpvr to record from these inputs instead of the antenna? The preferrable thing would be to schedule it on a timer, but doing it manually would be fine too.

HI, I just downloaded GBPVR and from what i've seen it looks awesome!

I have a problem though. When i went to add a capture source, I couldnt find my TV tuner in the list, and when i followed the procedure in the wiki for adding a card to the .ini files, it pretty much just doesnt work.

I have a WinTV USB2 tv tuner - NOT a WinTV PVR USB2 - just the plain old analoge USB2 tuner.

I noticed all the cards being listed as supported in the wiki are all "PVR" type cards - will the WinTV USB2 TV tuner work with GBPVR? If so, how?

There are a ton of cheap DVB-T USB sticks around based on the Afatech AF9015 chipset. There are many different brands but you can tell if yours is this chipset by looking in the device manager for a "AF9015 BDA" device.

So for the past year I've been trying to get one of these devices to work with GBPVR. I finally found out how to do it. It seems that GBPVR detects the AF9015 device but whenever I tried to tune it gave a NullPointer exception. I think the reason is due to a registry indirection problem?

Hunting around the web I found this post...

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/af9015...l?p=226181

I followed the steps outlined and tweaked my registry entries and all of a sudden GBPVR can tune channels with the AF9015 BDA filter.

FYI the supplied HDTV player works fine with this chipset and so too does WebScheduler. So I don't know if this is a logical inconsistency in the GBPVR implementation (Media Portla also looks to have the same issue) or a bad BDA driver?

Anyway, I hope that link helps anyone else with the same type of card.

Hello,

Does anyone know of any freeware solutions to using a webcam as a CCTV camera.

I'd be interested in having it capture 1 frame every (say) 5 seconds, and record video on motion detection.

Thanks for any advice

I am wondering if the list of items that you (sub) are working on or bugs that you have logged with their currect status (fixes workarounds etc) is available for all to see.

This may help users determine if their problem is a bug / config issue / or has a known workaround. I am sure it would save you some time replying to common questions and users can then do any workarounds before the problems arise.

Cheers

Keith

Are there any known problems with the OSD? On my setup the volume is drawn strange and the time labels on the timeline are out of alignment. I can get a screenshot tonight if one is needed.

BTW, I really like the new look, a good selling point for the CS idea!

now that I have 5 capture sources using 3 channel lists, I have duplicate channels in the guide.
I can arrange them to put them together in the display, but I seem to do alot of multiple recordings of the same program.

for instance--
NBC
on one capture source it is channel 12
on another capture source it is channel 2
they ALWAYS have the same thing on.
it often records the same show on both sources.

is there a way to tell GBPVR that they are really the same thing??

It did this before EWA and after:

Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.
HTTP Error 404 - Not Found.
Version Information: Cassini Web Server 1.0.2870.25789

Any ideas?