ZapTools has now been updated. You can download it here or from the wiki.

The wiki contains instructions for using ZapTools. The Enhanced Web Admin (EWA) for GBPVR will take advantage of the extended data offered in ZapTools for those users that use Zap2It for their EPG Source.

This is a minor update.

fla (Thanks!) has made an update that removes the requirement of the zapinterface library to have the zapimport config file which was introduced when GBPVR began the move from Access to SQLite.

Hi guys. I'm a long time user of GBPVR. My current setup is a small shuttle case with pvr150, 1gb ram, 2ghz Pentium 4 (from 2002) and i'm just watching regular analog cable (coaxial).

i want to get my system to a dual tuner. Can i use hauppauge's WinTV-USB2 in conjunction with my pvr150 card? I have a usb 2.0 port, and my case is really small. i had a hard time even getting the pvr150 card to fit.

I also have 2 hard drives in the system. (but the hard drives are both on the same IDE cable, i think). there are 2 ide slots, but one of them is used by the cd/dvd drive exclusively.

thanks for your input

I know that it was only posted a few days ago to show how to add an analog tuner to the list, but it didn't happened because the card wasn't supported. I have an Ads Tech Tuner card that has hardware MPEG-2 encoders. I was wondering if some could post an example of how to add an analog card to the .INI file or even how to do it for this model. Looking at the .INI file for analog cards it looks to be a little bit more involved. Thanks, Dave

Is it possible to configure an aspect ratio that would zoom into a 2.35 movie and make it 1.8 removing the black bars in the top and bottom and cropping both ends?

I tried different negative values to strech the picture vertically but it did not work.

I have some glitch during recording. The result appear to be choppy video, it like a fast fwd.

Sub suggest to upgrade PVR-150 driver, but I don't have success with that.

Quote form Sub: "The data that comes out of the PVR150 is written straight to disk without GB-PVR doing any processing on that data. GB-PVR doesn't know anything about the contents of that data at recording time."

After this comment from Sub, I tried some program to test writing speed of my hard drive. Surprise, system of my friend, have a writing speed about 35 MB / sec and mine have only 12 MB / sec

Problem solve with the option "activate writing cache on the disk" under strategy tab of hard drive propriety. (Friend system have this flag, but not mine...) now I have writing speed about 35 MB /sec


My brother have a Nvidia Raid 5 with 4 SATA drive. The option "activate writing cache on the disk" does not exist for this raid hard drive.
The writing speed is about 10 MB /sec.

Sub, could you tell me if it is possible when you write data to the disk, the write not write all data ???

I not have your ability in programming but I know write function return the number of bytes really written, do you test this return value ???

Maybe it is possible ?

Thank Sub

Stf

If you select XRecord, it selects the Ready button and defaults to selecting the first show in the Ready list.

Hitting a button my MCE remote (assigned Esc for "Return to Previous Menu") behaves as expected. This means it deselects the highlighted show, and just the Ready button is selected. Hitting this button one more time goes back to the main menu.

Hitton a button (assigned Home for "Return to Main Menu with Video Inset") also goes back one menu. It should go to the main menu.

This keystroke behavior behaves this way in all XRecord suite items.

I have HIP running, and when I hit a button on my MCE remote GB-PVR gets focus. However, I want it to get focus then GIVE IT BACK to the app had focus stolen. This is so I can be programming, browsing, etc. at the computer, and wife can hit the buttons on occasion to do her thing. It's not that big of a problem, since ComSkip works VERY nicely

I upgraded to 99.12 two days ago.

Two EPG updates have inflated my gbpvr.db3 to 12 MB (was 6 MB). After manually emptying it through config it stayed at 12 MB. After reloading the EPG I am at 27.7 MB which has slowed down GBPVR and browsing the EPG significantly.

Is this normal behaviour? How can I manually deflate the database?

Thanks
G

Have a link on the EWA page in the Wiki that links to the ChangeLog.xml (and xsl), per the two mentioned versions. This way, if there is a new version, I can decide how "urgent" it is to upgrade.

Many other plugins and utilities maintain a "Change Log" at the bottom of the Wiki page.

I just got a new system (upgraded from 1.5 GHz Athlon to Dual Core 2.13 GHz Intel) but I can't seem to install GBPVR.

I'm running Windows XP SP 2 and when I try to install 9912 or 9905, I get two errors and the installation stops.

Any ideas what the problem may be? Anyone else had any problem like this?