I just installed GB-PVR and it seems like a great program. But one thing I can't figure out.... the Search Guide is empty! The TV Guide is OK and up to date. The Live TV works properly. I emptied the EPG and updated it again, but to no avail. I thought the Search Guide automatically populates... is there something I need to do manually?
On checking my machine this evening i noticed on the front screen that it said there were no scheduled recordings upcoming.
I know there should be as i record several things every week and some things daily.
I checked the recurring list and they were still there. I rebooted, did a manual epg reload and still nothing. In the end i navigated to tuesday and set a recurring recording of Holby from BBC1
I shows in the recurring list with the other holby and i also shows on the front screen. But why do none of my other recurring recordings show?
Looking in the tv guide they arent showing red. Nothing has changed on the machine, in fact 2 of the daily recording recorded correctly today, one of them only a couple of hours ago.
Since I upgraded to v0.99.12 automatic hibernation doesn't work anymore. Manual hibernation does work, but I'd like it to work after eg. 30 min. idle time.
I am using Windows XP, with nothing much installed except GBPVR and VNC.
Are there more people experiencing this problem or know a solution?
My recording service crashed the other day, no idea why, possibly a problem with the tuner. Anyway, I thought I'd take a look at Liteswap's startgbpvr to see how he monitored and controlled gbpvr. This lead me to Autoit and after hacking around Liteswaps code, I turned it into a program that checks every 60secs to see if the recording service is running. If it isn't it starts it and writes a message to my log file.
This is my first ever autoit script and there is no way I would have figured out what I was doing without using startgbvr as a basis, so thanks Liteswap.
I haven't included an .exe as I doubt anyone else writes to r:\temp\syslog.txt. If anyone else is interested, I could to a version that writes to a more common log or no log at all.
Changes:
2.8 Check to see if gbpvr has failed to start correctly.
If gbpvr is running but there is not window to activate then gbpvr must have barfed, probably due to the error
'Your system does not support the required VMR9 video renderer'
In this instance, gbpvr is killed and restarted.
2.9 Added writetolog funtion to tidy up code
Write message to log indicating what power mode the PC is entering/resuming from.
[update] August 2008
2.91 Don't kill gbpvr processes (with no active window) if file $EPGUpdate exists
So in your EPG update script, get it to create the file defined by $EPGUpdate before updating the EPG
and remove it once EPG update is complete.
[update] Oct 2009
$Delay_before_checking_IR_running = 3000
I am currently running with this setting at 3000 rather than 8000 in the script. This makes the script quicker at detecting ir.exe failure whilst still giving it process a chane to start up correctly
Under the dvd&remote tab of the GB-PVR configuration page, there are options to configure DVD playback via an ISO file. Once the config is saved and I lauch GB-PVR, there is no option to select DVD play back.
Anyone tried this before, am I missing something?:confused:
I recently encountered a loss of two days when updating the EPG.
I did an EPG update at about 3:40 am today (Apr. 30th).
The guide.xml file contains data starting with Apr. 29th 6:00am:
<programme start="20070329060000 +0200" stop="20070329080000 +0200" channel="vox.de">
<title lang="de">Dauerwerbesendung</title>
</programme>
But the TV-listing is empty until Apr. 31st 6:00am!!
anyone know how text is generated in gbpvr? On my computer, it's pretty fuzzy. Looks like the text (i.e. tv guide, menus, etc) that was upsampled to fit my screen. If you look at similarly sized text in MSWord, BeyondTV, etc. it's pretty sharp. Where's the difference? Is there anything I can do w/ the xml files to make it optimized for 1024x768? thanks.
