GB-PVR is great. I use it every day to watch videos and listen to music off my hard drive.

Problem I have is that the signal around my area (UK Freeview) isn't that great. This isn't a problem as such, it's more the way GB-PVR handles certain things. There's some channels that come up in the scan but the signal is usually not good enough to show a picture. Instead of coming up with a message such as 'no signal', gb-pvr crashes and needs a restart when I try to go to these channels, meaning it's pointless me channel hopping. I could just disable these channels but from time to time when the conditions are right the signal is strong enough to view.

Also with some channels, such as E4, I can only get the +1 version (signal too bad on the standard). This isn't in the EPG so any scheduling I do is 1 hour off. I've tried contacting the BLEB person and he said he isn't going to write in +1 support and said that you should. BLEB is actually pretty out of date with the channels it lists with many missing. It would be great if gb-pvr supported a more up to date listing, if one exists.

It'd also be nice if the gb-pvr config was streamlined a bit. There's just so many options that most people just don't care about and it takes a day and an age for the config to launch. A scaled back version with a choice to go 'advanced' would be great.

Other than that the only other real issue I have is my remote doesn't work too well, although this isn't really anything to do with gb-pvr. It seems to emulate key strokes so I have it configured through HIP. It will often misinterperet the commands to mean something else which is very frustrating. Maybe I can change the timings in HIP to capture it better but it crashes if I mess with the settings too much as it's pretty buggy. Some sort of way for me to use my remote with gb-pvr without having to use HIP would be great.

Anyhow, these are the things I'm hoping to get out of a software PVR in 2007.

Keep up the good work.

(I knew I shouldn't have treated myself for Christmas )

Just installed a Nova-t-500 in addition to the old pvr-150.
Added the device in config and went ok.
Used the same xmltv from Radio Times went ok.
Mapped a few channels for a test and went ok.
Went back in after testing that it was recording ok to map the rest of the channels and got an error as shown when I pressed the "map digital....." button.
Sometimes config freezes and needs killing off when I click OK on the error box, but sometimes exits properly.
I made sure gbpvr, mvp and client were not running at the time.

screen dump and config.exe.log attached.
Martin

I checked in both direct.ini and in the GBPVR configuration screen and for High quality I have 720x480 resolution, for low I have 320x240 resolution, etc

I've checked and after recording all the videos playback at the same 1:1 640x480 resolution (in various programs, WMP, PowerDVD, VLC, etc). On the plus side the bitrates do change for High/Medium/Low as per my settings.

So, I searched the forums and for some specific cards I saw posts stating that GBPVR can not specify the resolution during recording. Is this true for the Hauppauge PVR150? I am still searching and will update this thread myself if I find an answer.

BTW, props to all who put together the WIKI documentation and coded the program. The above is the only nuance I had getting it working, everything else was clearly documented and it all worked fine on the first try. For comparison, I tried out the free demo of a commercial alternative and had nothing but problems with the same setup and no documentation about the issue for me to correct it.

[edit]: Per last post, video resolution appears to be working correctly [/edit]

I am in the process of designing a GBPVR system. I have been browsing the forums trying to get an idea of what tuner card to use. But have not had much luck. I need a tuner card capable of ATSC / HDTV over the air. I will be building a brand new PC to put it in. If money were not an issue, what card would you get and the reason why.

How about this one ? VBox Cats Eye 164e Dual Tuner HDTV Card (ATSC)

Where I live in the UK I cannot get Freeview (DVB-T) and only analogue with which I am able to recieve only 4 channels. Because of this I recently brought a FloppyDTV which has a CI built in. I also brought a T Rex 4.1 CAM and I was intending to use it with my SKY Freesat card.

Unfortunty I didnt do my homework properly and GBPVR does not support CAM. So at present using the floppydtv te recive the DVB-S the cannals that are transmitted unencrypted(FTV) (BBC, ITV etc). I am unable to get the encrypted channels(FTA) (Channel 4, five, five us, five life etc).

With the latest release MuliDec plugins are supported. I am therefore asking if it is possible to use such plugins to allow GBPVR to use my CAM. Or decypt encrupted channels that I would like to view.

Could anyone tell me if this is possible and if so how do I go about setting it up.

Also could anyone post some links to web pages that explain about multidec plugins?

I would also like to add that I do not want to do anything illegal and have a valid SKY card that allows me to view such services.

Hi,

GameZone v0.2 has now been released, any problems with the plugin or installation post a question and I will try and answer it as best I can.

For those of you that dont know GameZone is a front end for emulators and currently supports:

EPSXe
Mame
Zinc
And any emulator configured in My Programs

Enjoy and have a Happy New Year

Hi,

when i listen to netradio gbpvr creates a file called gbnetradio-0.mp3 in the tv capture directory ....
this might be ok for listening, but when i stop playing the stream, the filesize is still growing ...
when i exit gbpvr it stops growing, but i did not get deleted ....

ok, a record function will be interessting, but only when i decide to record something ....
and it should be go in a pre-definded directory and should be get a better filename .....

Hi

I found with the last couple of versions that if I get to the end of the currently recording video that it just stops (like pause) until I can rewind back a bit, then it will start playing again.

The catchup (*) on hauppauge 45 remote also seemed to do the same.

Will this show up in the logs??

Folks,

I've just moved my GBPVR machine to the lounge (My wife has approved the move) since I've got a nice new silverstone case, however the TV is being driven by a NVidia MX440 with svideo out, however the picture quality is poor.......

My question is What graphics card would people recommend ?

I've been using v0.98.13 for several weeks without any problem but since my upgrade to v0.99.5 my PC doesn't wakeup when in standby mode. I'm using Windows XP SP2, anybody facing the same problem ?

Cheers,

Phil