I've only recently discovered GB-PVR, and I'm very impressed with the rich features, flexibility, stability and community support. Sub - you're unbelievably helpful and patient with everybody's questions, and I want to thank you personally for your outstanding support.
I searched the forums but was unable to find any discussion on my question: I commonly use the "Keep X recordings" feature to limit the number of shows saved. I've noticed that this doesn't prevent new shows from queuing to record - even after the limit has been reached. I understand the rationale: the user will always have the most recent recordings, but my preference is to keep scheduled recordings to a minimum to avoid monopolizing the recording schedule and live TV availability.
Is there any option or tweak that will cause GB-PVR to stop scheduling recordings once the recorded shows threshold has been reached?
I'm using the latest version of GBPVR,Basic Skin and Themes Manager. I have the Revisor,MCE2 Orb and MCE2 Blue themes installed and no matter which one I select I get the correct background images but the taskimages are always from the MCE2 Orb theme. I have tried the theme manager helper but it dosen't seem to help.
I'm a long time user of Media Portal. However I came across some reveiws on GBPVR that were good and I read GBPVR supports several cool features that Media Portal dosen't currently support. So I decided to give it a try.....
Well, I'm using a Nvidia Dual TV tuner card (with the latest drivers) and I have so far have been able to get it to work, except when I try to exit live TV. When I press esc on the keyboard or back on the MCE remote the live TV freezes and I have to exit GBPVR. But once I open it again it works fine until I try to exit live TV again. Can any one help?
Trying to install a Hauppauge NOVA-T-500. When I go into GB-PVR configuration to add a new source i cant work out how to add this card. It doesn't show in the capture card type dropdown and when I check "Only show devices detected on this machine" I get a message saying "No known cards detected in this machine". The card seems to work fine with WinTv etc. Am i missing something??
I have been having great fun ( ) trying to get S3 suspend/resume trying to work properly on an EPC945 with a Nova-t-500. Yes I know that there are lots of posts elsewhere and lots of trouble with this card. But I just have to persevere!
I thought I had it cracked and just ran a test with 7, 10 minute manual recordings with 10 minute gaps in between. It should have recorded/slept 7 times. And indeed it did 5 times beautifully, but then trouble.
The attached logs cover the time period between about 15:00 and 16:00. The 6th and 7th recordings were scheduled for 15:10 and 15:30 (each for 10 minutes). The 15:10 recording started perfectly and looking at the logs you would think that it finished OK too. It did in one sense, that the recording on disk is 10 minutes long. But I was suspicious when the machine did not go to sleep in between 15:20 and 15:30 at all. When I came to look at the box at about 16:00 it was still on. It should have gone to sleep, but this is not a question about sleeping - I have that one cracked OK.
When I looked at 16:00 the GBPVR Pending recordings was still showing the 15:20 recording as still Recording. So did the status box from the Tray. The 15:30 recording had not started either. (two tuner system, so even if it thought there was still a recording, a tuner was available).
Restarting GBPVR gui did not change anything.Then I restated the recording service and immediately the Pending Recordings display changed to show the 15:10 recording as ready and the 15:30 recording as Failed.
I have an ATi TV Wonder Elite installed on a P4 system. The audio recording volume and audio TV viewing through the card is too low and I can't seem to correct the problem. The motherboard is an Intel D865PERL with onboard audio.
I've been hunting around, and can't find an answer, so I thought I'd ask you directly-
What screen resolution and color quality is GBPVR optimized for? I've been playing around with the permutations and there are definitely differences in OSD and pause behavior depending on whether the resolution is 640x480 or higher than that, and there are behavioral differences between 16-bit color and 32-bit color as well.
When you do your development, what are your video driver settings for this stuff?
First of all I`d like to say how much more success I`ve had with Gbpvr than with the 3 months I`ve wasted on Mediaportal (sorry is that word banned?)
Thanks to the creator and to the support team and fellow users on this forum. Most of my niggles have been sorted via a bit of searching on the forum.
Now to my problem.
I am using Gbpvr 0.99.5 with a Nova T-500, FX5200 and Nvidia purevideo codec.
I cannot use any of the VRM modes as they give me stuttering playback, but overlay plays fine.
When I use overlay though, I can`t get the screen positioned right on my CRT widescreen.
Going through the F7 modes gives me letterbox and a nicely fitting OSD. Filling the screen gives me a horrible stretched/zoom effect with the OSD overlapping the edges.
The VRM mode gives me a nice full screen with nicely fitting OSD, but with the stuttering.
I have found the zoom overlay functions in the Nvidia properties and it`s set as far to out as it will go.
I`m guessing overlay does not use any of the graphics card resolutions (am I right in thinking this?)
So how can I use overlay and get a nice unzoomed full screen picture with fitting OSD as in VRM modes?
) trying to get S3 suspend/resume trying to work properly on an EPC945 with a Nova-t-500. Yes I know that there are lots of posts elsewhere and lots of trouble with this card. But I just have to persevere!