Most of my TV use of GBPVR for the last few years has been with MVP. SInce it won't handle my dvr-ms AC3 recordings, I took the plunge and got an LCD TV. I planned to have my computer hooked up to the TV to use GBPVR with the remote. I was hoping to get just the PVRX2 application to show on the TV (connected via HDMI video card to VGA port on TV), but the TV is just showing the entire PC display.

My only previous direct to TV experience was with an old PVR350 and for that one, the output of the PVR350 nicely just displayed the GBPVR app on the TV.

I was playing with it till 2am last night and did not get a chance to try setting up another 15-inch lcd as the main PC display and seeing if the HDMI output might then get used for just PVRX2.

Is it possible to get behavior similar to the PVR350 (i.e. one screen showing the full computer desktop, and another with just GBPVR that I can control via a remote)?

I normally just access the main computer desktop via VNC from another computer anyway. I was hoping I could just have it near the TV and work similar to the MVP where my wife and kids could just use the remote to control GBPVR and not even see the PC desktop at all.

My video card has VGA, DVI and component video output options.

Before I start tearing it apart again, I was hoping to know if it is even possible, and what combination of output options might work. I've got to go buy some cables today anyway, and depending on what combination I may need to get some more.

My ideal setup would be to put a 15in LCD on the VGA port (or no screen at all if possible to just use VNC for accessing the desktop), use the DVI to go to the LCD TV and use the component video to go to my LCD projector.

Besides that, I can't seem to get any sound out of that PC, so I have to try to figure out that issue too. If the video stuff is not designed to work the way I was hoping, then I don't need to figure out the audio issue either if I'm gonna just put this PC hidden away back in the corner of the basement again.

Thanks,
Steve Tyrakowski

For whoever is still developing the weather plugin. I think you scrape the msn page right now but what if there was a really reliable source for weather data, the same source that is used for forecast fox.

Accuweather has a free RSS feed available and I'm pretty sure they have international listings: http://www.accuweather.com/rss-center.asp

I'm using version 1.0.16 on Microsoft Vista Business. It was working fine for the first few days, but now it wont start at all. I try to start the service, and nothing happens. I also tried to start the PVRX2, and that wont start. The config seems to be the only thing that starts up.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

(btw, I'm using an HVR 1600 ATSC card, and have 1.5 gigs of ram)

I've decided to sell my Avermedia Combo PCI-e TV tuner card. It is the M780 model. I thought that maybe I was going to go HD soon, but I'm not sure now when I will. So no sense in me keeping a digital card I can't use.

The specs on that card are here.

I originally bought the kit that came with the MCE remote and the receiver, but I need the remote and receiver, so I am keeping those items.

Will ship to US only. Pricing it at a lower than I see on Pricegrabber for an OEM version, $75 shipped.

PM me if interested...

Since Yahoo seems to have cut off their feed for Yapi2Xml, I'm playing with the I-xmltv utility for SD. It works well, but I'm noticing a few issues:

1. Some of the shows have an " *" appended to the title. So I've got "Heroes" airing on Sept 18, 2007 and "Heroes *" airing on September 25, 2007. My guess is the "*" indicates it's a new show. Does this mean I need to change my reoccuring schedule for "Heroes" to look for "Heroes *"?

2. I have some shows in the TV Guide with a title of "Zap2It" and a sub-title of "No messages from Zap2It today". Is that an SD issue?

Sorry to be a newbie but I am using the latest version and was wondering how you change the order of the options in PVRX2? I tried to do it in the plugins folder in the config utility but that doesnt seem to do anything.

Thanks!

I am still getting the error that says my epg source does not seem to be configured correctly. I paid for schedules direct and have an account but it still won't let me set it up. Please help new seasons are about to begin.

BETA testers - post all your comments on this thread, easy to manage then.

Note that this is invite only. PM me if you want to get invloved.

So. I've decided to spend some quality time with JavaWiz's 1.0 Toolkit and make me a plugin. Which is to say, I've decided to spend untold hours creating a plugin to do what I presently do with a pencil and paper in 15 seconds.

But that's so low-tech.

I figured on using SQL Lite as a datastore, since that's what sub is using, and I want to stay consistent.

But - what's the right procedure here? Should I create my own .db3 file for whatever evil needs I have, or should I add new tables to the existing gbpvr3.db3 file?

I'm leaning towards the former, since the plugin does not interact with anything in the main database, but suppose there might be reasons to use the existing file.

Thoughts?

When starting GBPVR, a windows error "send report? don't send report?" box comes up. GBPVR looks fine and seems to work fine. All the windows error box seems to do is block the screen until I move it out of the way. I tried uninstall GB, deleted all folders, reinstalled, and it started with no errors a few times. I then did an auto-channel search, exited, then on restart the windows error box comes back.

I read that auto-channel searching with a digital OTA card (Twinhan) can cause problems, but it found all channels fine and plays TV fine. The log has errors on loading the main menu options ("TV" "TV Guide" etc), but it looks like they all work.

The other error is for what I assume is a USB IR device, the remote that came with the card, but it's not plugged in recently and the software was off in taskbar.

Everything worked fine together a few days ago. Logs attached.