Hi,

Has anyone else here signed up for the public beta of Windows Home Server. It looks like a really interesting product, especially the expandable storage and redundancy features. My only worry is that i won't be able to run my own apps on it, such as GBPVR, Ninan and SQL Server.

Well, if i don't get accepted into the beta and someone else here does, i'd be very interested to know how you get on with it.

Regards.

I would like to add a video card with hardware MPEG2 decoding/help. I am looking to spend less than $75
Cabdidates include from NewEgg:
6200LE Nvidea
9700XT ATI
Must be AGP. Any syggestions welcome.

I am looking for the most band for the buck. I also have ITunes and would like to watch some episodes of Lost MP4 (Hardware MP4 Accel is propbably out of my range, X1300 and up)
Right now I am experiencing audio out of sync. After heavy video movement the audio loses sync and I have to pause to get it back.

Also I can't get the Live TV to work even though I am configured as a client to the PC w/PVR 150.

Current config:
IBM Netvista 2292_22U
PIV 1.6
640MB PC133
20GB HDD
EVGA GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP - using svideo into receiver
GBPVR .99
CHAINTECH 7.1 - Optical out into receiver, analog y cables into 5.1 inputs on receiver
Running as a Client from server.

Server/Main PC config:
1800 AMD
768 MB DDR2 2600
80GB HDD OS
200GB HDD Media
80 GB HDD external USB 2.0 Media backup
ATI 8500
PVR150
GBPVR .99

First, awesome plug-in. I installed it a week ago and absolutely love it.

But, here's a few issues I've come across in the week I've been using it. I've been able to work around all of them, so for me, they're relatively minor. I'm using the Access database, which is easier for me to edit and clean up tags and manually add tracks that weren't scanned.

1. Album name tags aren't read for .wma files.
2. .flac files aren't scanned (I haven't looked for .ogg). Edit: .ogg files are scanned.
3. If an album title contains a single quote ('), e.g., Joe's Garage, Jumpin' Jive, Paul's Boutique, Can't Buy a Thrill, etc., the track titles aren't displayed in the player, although they show when selecting 'all' tracks for the artist. The album itself can't be played. The tracks are still added when scanning, so this just affects playback. I worked around this by substituting a smart quote (’ for the single quote in the database.
4. The scan choked on a very long track name and wouldn't complete. The track on my system is a .wma file with a title tag of "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Going to" (although the actual song name is much longer).
5. Album names for excluded files still show in the player for an artist. For example, for songs on some albums, I may also have a single song on my server that was also on a Greatest Hits disk. I have excluded the file in the database (both by using noindex.txt and manually changing the excluded field to -1), but "Greatest Hits" still shows in the album list in the player with no tracks in the track listing. I worked around this by changing the album field for the tracks in the database to an existing album name for that artist.
6. Some track numbers for '10' and '20' are truncated to '1' and '2' when scanning. I haven't found a pattern to determine why this occurs, but it seems to happen about 60-70% of the time.

If the log is persistent, I can attach it for you later. Again, these are minor, and overall, I love your plug-in.

I just installed my Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2 on my 1.5-year-old Windows XP Home Edition Toshiba laptop. (I also have a DirecTV DVR Plus Model R15.)The PVR and FM tuner worked quite well, except for 1 annoying problem* that Hauppauge tech support folks couldn't find a fix for (yet, anyway). So that led me to search the 'net for a fix, which led me to discover GBPVR.com.

I haven't download the GBPVR09905.msi file yet because I'm not familiar with .msi files. (I'm very experienced in downloading and installing .exe files.) Is there anything I should know before proceeding to download that .msi file? Should I save it (in my C:\Downloads folder?) first, or simply Run it?

Thanks!

*The "annoying problem" is that when I watch a live or recorded TV show on my PC using my PVR, all 4 edges of the viewing screen are perfect, no matter what screen size I use. But if I record a live or previously recorded show, when I then play the .mpg video file created by the Recorder function, there's a thin area along the top edge of the entire video that apparently the Recorder didn't properly record. (My husband says this problem is probably referred to as "noise.") I've updated my graphics card driver and also updated all of the programs that came with the PVR, but that didn't fix the problem. Then I tried every combination of WinTV2000 program settings tweaks possible, but that didn't fix the problem either. I LOVE this new "video appliance" but I'm very disappointed to think that all .mpg files its Recorder creates will have this annoying flaw. If anyone has any suggestions for fixing this problem, I'd sure appreciate hearing them! Thanks.

Ok, So here's the deal...

I HAVE:
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
2 GB RAM
Nvidia 7900 GTX Graphics card
640 GB HDD Space
WinTV Nova-S

All this is going into a home theatre with a projector.

I need to be able to use the PC as a PVR for the Bell HD 9200 PVR. My client simply records too much for the capacity of the supplied PVR. He also likes the thought of using his PC to watch TV.

What do I need? It has to be as simple as possible. I have a fully programmable remote (URC MX3000) to work with so I can learn any codes I want.

A guide on his PC would be ideal with the ability to select a program and hit record, but I know it may not be that simple.

Thanks for any help.

Hey All!

Ok so this isn't a bitch thread or anything. Just a thought that I figured I'd vocalize and see if there is a response.

I was wondering why the EPG update routine isn't smarter? Why does it try to load everything at once? There should be a way to force it to play nice with IO and CPU cycles. My father lost his machine for a week cause it put so much load on it that it overheated glueing one of his fans up. I know the underlying problem there was a faulting fan to begin with (was likely spinning slower than it should have been).

But my concern still stands. On my two sat recievers the EPG loads over time. When I first hit the EPG its nice and fast and shows me current day events meanwhile it is populating future events in the background.

Just curious if this has been given any sort of consideration for future releases?

Hey all, I'm just wondering if it's possible to do this: I've got 2 computers, 1 I'm using for a regular PC and the other I'm using as a PVR with GBPVR installed on it. I notice that GBPVR has that feature where I can set up directories for music, video, pictures etc. Can I set up a wired ethernet local area network between the two computers and then play video/music on the PVR computer (a.k.a. my TV) that is actually hosted on the PC computer?

I've never really used local file sharing before so I don't know if this is possible through it or not.

I hate having to get up from my armchair to run a program on my media centre or restore a window so I can see what a program is doing! I want a web browser that I can work with just my remote. Why should I have to get up off my backside to move files and folders around and delete ones I no longer need?

What I need is a browser and a set of utilities designed to run on my TV using just my remote.

So that's what I wrote.

I hope you find them useful.

The CITA Ten Foot products consist of four modules to start with:

1. Launcher - allows you to launch any of the Ten Foot products and any other programs you want to run. This is not an GB-PVR add-in. The products will work with any Media Centre - or none at all.
   
2. Browser - displays web pages full screen with the ability to zoom in for detail. Designed to be operated with a standard remote, the Browser includes many features designed to minimise data entry. You even get a cursor you can work with your remote.
   
3. File manager - allows you to work with files and folders. Great for organising your videos and giving your files meaningful names.
   
4. Program manager - gives you options for minimising, restoring, maximising and closing windows from your armchair.

Hi,

I've just uploaded version 0.9 of the plugin at the wiki. Changes include:

Quote:- added support for a client/server setup
- paddings of scheduled season recordings are now updated automatically for already existant shows in the epg
- the appearance of the channels in the listings screen can now be adjusted via a “CompositeImage” element in the skin.xml file
- the plugin now recognizes EPG updates, and then starts loading the updated data automatically in the background

I'll try and keep this updated, with the latest version info