just in the past couple of days I've had two instances of a recordied show still showing as recording in the tray icon after the show has been scheduled to end. At the time the show ends the recording service also jumps to 99% cpu use and effectively hangs the PC. logs attached - latest instance was the show "hubble space telescop" set to record 19:30 to 29:30 on BBC4
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Live preview mode seems really nice and gives rapid channel changes on DVB-T.
When I was testing pausing in Live Preview mode, it took a good 5-10 seconds for the stream to start recording and going into pause mode. I realise this may be to do with the multiplexer settings but I thought up what could be a good feature to add to GB-PVR.
When in Live Preview mode and watching a channel: if there is another free tuner available, would it be possible to tune this to the same channel as the Live preview tuner and start buffering it in the background? (I'd suggest only doing this when tuned to the channel for more than X seconds to not hold up channel surfing) Upon pressing pause, you could then switch to showing the Non-Live preview tuner which is recording the same stream and the pause would be a little more responsive.
This could be a bit difficult to program though as there would need to be some logic in the "detect a free tuner" processing. I don't know, it might be majorly difficult to switch the tuners on screen without the delay that is already there.
This is just a thought that went through my head and may be a stupid one!
I currently have a nova-t card for freeview but my signal is a bit dodgy so I'm looking to get a nova-s and use my existing dish.
Noticed that the new nova card supports HD. Does anyone have any experience of recording HD via GBPVR? What do I need extra to playback HD? Any comments would be appreciated.
GBPVR rocks!
As title, or more specifically can the ATI mux make a recorded file bigger than the cyberlink (1307) one?
I record a kids porgram on Saturday mornings as a relative is in it and lat week it was around 2.5Gb for about an hour and a half. Yesterday it was over 5Gb. During the week I had changed from the cyberlink to ATI mux's to as part of my testing for timeline/skipping problems.
I've deleted the overlarge file already, but I had a look with gspot and all the frame rate and sizes seemed the same between the two files.
I'm about to start on a project to create a state of the art HTPC to complement the rest of my home network. I read up on OS and PVR options and am interested in GB-PVR because of it's claims on extensibility and compatibility. I'm a professional software architect so this sounds like a good option for me.
I'd be interested to hear other's opinions on the following:
I know sub has only just got the Net Radio plugin operational again and it's great having it back. Just though I'd add my two cents on the "user experience" of it.
I was wondering if on the next update would it be possible to have:
a) The "favourites" list comes up first rather than the Shoutcast genres. (maybe the behaviour should depend on if there are any favourite stations defined).
b) Could there be information somewhere on the screen (maybe under the menu buttons) to let me know what the net radio player is doing (i.e. "connecting", "buffering", "playing 32kbps", etc). Sometimes I'm not sure if it has responded to my pressing the remote control buttons.
I was wondering could some further aspect ratio options be made available. For some stupid reason the BBC broadcast 4:3 shows in pillarbox format in a 16:9 frame on DVB-T (strangely on DVB-S they simply broadcast a 4:3 frame).
I've attached an image suggesting the additional aspect ratios. They are:
a) crop the black bars at the left and right (shown as stripy in the picture). Stretch the remaining picture to fit the full 16:9 frame (effectively outputing a 4:3 frame. Many widescreen TVs offer their own 4:3 corrections).
b) crop the black bars at the left and right. Crop a little bit from the top and bottom of the remaining frame and stretch to 16:9 (effectively giving a 14:9 image).
c) [not pictured] same as b) but have a non-linear stretch to keep the aspect ratio in the middle 80% of the screen okay and stretch the outside 20% more. (my Philips TV does this, it's actually really effective, but could be difficult to achieve in GB-PVR, dunno ).
From reading the forums, it seems obvious that an EPG is essential for using GBPVR as a PVR. Since I'm finding the setup of GBPVR to be such a humbling experience, I thought I might try things a step at a time. With that said, can I set up live TV through GBPVR without an EPG or is this a requirement even if I'm not trying to record anything?
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