Wouldn't it be nice if we could cut back XP to just the components required to support GB-PVR and the elements that could be expected to be needed in a media PC. You've save disk space, memory and processor cycles.

I tend to run a reasonably lean copy but there are all sorts of services I don't dare switch off, and stuff I don't dare delete, just in case.

Thoughts, possible project for someone?

I've had an idea about replacing the hard disk in my PVR PC with one of these:

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=16

fitted with, say, a 4Gb CF card. I thought I could run windows off that,
and then have GBPVR save its video files straight to the server upstairs via a network share.

Has anyone here done something similar?

It's a quest for a silent PVR with no moving parts, and would reduce power consumption too hopefully.

Jon.

So this is odd. I have the PC set to hibernate after 30 minutes of inactivity. This works really well. The problem is if I watch a show or movie that's longer than 30 minutes, the system hibernates about 1 minute after I get done watching, even if I click around with the remote.

This can be somewhat annoying when trying to decide what to watch next. The PC decides I'm too slow, and hibernates on me.

Any idea why the remote isn't resetting the idle timer?

So, I'm a new convert to GBPVR. I nuked my SageTV and came over here. So far, I like what I see, and REALLY like the Transcoding feature(s).

The question I have is:

I have all these programs/movies still from my SageTV recordings. I'd like to do a batch transcode from within the video library, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that.

Am I missing something?

Kurt

I'm working on a plugin for iTunes. Because DRM'd content must be played in iTunes and only in iTunes, the current approach is to let the user choose the video/song from GBPVR, which will then tell iTunes to play it. This works really well. My only issue is that when iTunes is done, I want GBPVR to gain focus.

I tried doing this with Process.Start, which worked, but GBPVR was no longer fullscreen. I've also tried using SetForegroundWindow() and BringWindowToFront(), but had no success there either.

I'm grabbing the window handle by way of Process.MainWindowHandle. Is that the right one to use?

Is there a reliable way to do this?

Thanks!

I was wondering if there is a new fix for updating EPG from Zap2it. There isn't any information in my TV guide. I looked for one but couldn't seem to find it.

Thanks

Hi guys,

Just set up my parents with a media system running GBPVR. I wanted to set it up in a very similar way to my own media system with regard to power options; specifically, the system shuts down in the early hours of the morning, and wakes up at around 10 AM ready for the next day.

On my own system, I wrote a simple batch script for the shutdown and ran it using task scheduler. I then used the wake on alarm function in the BIOS to restore the machine.

Unfortunately, the BIOS of the board I'm using for this new machine does not have a wake on alarm function, so I was wondering if there were any alternatives - perhaps through GBPVR itself. Specifically, I was thinking about the wake for EPG reload function. If i changed the batch script to hibernate, rather than shut down, would this feature restart the system as normal and leave it ready to go?

Cheers for any thoughts,

FK

I'm very new to all this so please bear with me. I recently got my Hauppauge 150 card installed on a Windows XP Pro computer. I didnt care for the software so I found GBPVR and have installed it. Took me awhile to get it configured but it now seems fine except for one problem. The IR remote that came with the capture cards works fine except for when I change channels. Everytime I change a channel I get a small popup that says - IR Startup, Found IR Controller(e2), then it just has and OK button. The remote will not do anything until I click ok. If I go back to the menu it all works fine again but if I change the channel up or down I get the popup again. I guessing its in the configuration somewhere but cant figure it out.

If this is in the wrong section I apologize.

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to display the video name in the OSD when using the "Play All" button in the standard video library?

So, I select my cartoons directory, and hit play all.
This happens, but the title of the currently playing video is not shown on the OSD bar - is this by design or a bug?

Also, the other day, it started playing the playlist in WMP - but this has been the only time I have seen that behaviuour.

I'm not sure that it's relevant, but this was when playing on the client machine. I'll check the server when I get a chance (ie. partner not watching some cr*p)

Thanks

Today I decided to bite the bullet and get caught up to v0.99.12. From what I've read, being so far behind means fresh install. Using the Hauppauge PVR-150 card with wired MediaMVP.

While trying to remove GBPVR from control panel the following error occurs: "Error 1306: Another application has exclusive access to the file 'C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb'. Please shut down all other applications, then click Retry." :confused:

Both retry and cancel do not work. Cancel gives message "Fatal error during installation."

No plugins here, only the MediaMVP service which was set to autostart=1. WinTV-2000 was never installed, and the only tweaking that was done was for the MVP to have the GBPVR interface show up instead of the default one by stopping that service.

I even uninstalled MediaMVP program to see if that would make a difference with no luck. I'm a little nervous to go any further. :o

I have attached logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.