i've got an mpg that's 5.7 gb. what's best way to transcode it to fit 4.5 gb?

I have a LCD TV with fixed 16:9 ratio. 4:3 regular TV gets stretched a bit, oh well. An Olevia LT23HVX. 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolution for PC input. GForce MX440 via VGA out, PVR-350.

GBPVR has that nice feature where if I view a recorded program (or live TV with buffered mode) and I have the 16:9 TV format selected in config.exe, it will display the content resized with bars, super for my cheaper 16:9-only TV. This is great for recordings or buffered-mode live TV.

However I am unable to get the same effect when viewing a video_ts folder from the video library, or when playing a DVD from the disc drive. Instead of being full_screen 16:9 it will be "thin" with bars on top and bottom. I don't understand why this is... This happens whether the original source material is wide-screen or not ("Harry Potter" (i.e. recent) or "Hopscotch DVD" (1980 source material, doesn't SAY widescreen anyway). The chapter select part is full-screen for either, but actual content has bars on top/bottom.

I'd sure like to get DVDs (or video_ts) playing full-screen. I have the surround out from the computer in use, but not from the standalone DVD player, so prefer to play from the computer if possible.

I've toggled the 4:3/16:9 TV setting in config.exe with no change.

I looked at a couple threads, this one:
<http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=19874&page=2&highlight=widescreen>
mentioned the Nvidia aspect ratio bug, switching to VMR9 custom from VMR9 might help a little, DVD content might be a little "taller". Playing a 4:3 recording still is nicely resized and looks better than live (thanks for that!).

A fix or explanation of why this is would be great, it doesn't make sense to me. I'm pretty sure it make technical sense and I just don't get it but would love to find a fix. Hopefully I'm just missing something.

Thanks! Have a good holiday, all.

first, I am VERY happy the resume feature now works in the client "file sharing" mode.
the shows also seem to start up faster in this release too.

but for some reason I cannot delete the shows anymore from the client.

Is it possible to set GB-PVR to use the systems default screensaver instead of gbpvr's (or VA panel's which I using now)? I understand this wouldn't work on the MVP but maybe their is a way to fire off some kind of system event instead of the default screensaver.

Merry Christmas to all the GB-PVR'ers and here's to a great 2007!

Not sure when this started but I "think" it appeared after upgrading to EWA Build 53 (from 49). Currently EWA Build 53 w/ gbpvr 98.13 using the db3 database.

When I do an episode search within EWA, the drop down list has every genre duplicated in the list. Assuming that it might be an EPG issue, I went into gbpvr config and a) emptied and b) reloaded entire EPG from zap2it. The problem continues to exist. I suspect this is a db3 issue rather than EWA but I don't know how to resolve the issue.

ZProcess 1.0.809 has been released!
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To date I haven't made a full fledged community announcement as I wanted to be quite sure my program was stable.
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ZProcess addresses several issues with Transcoding non-MPGs (avi, wmv, etc) for viewing on the MediaMVP.

In this forum there have been many threads and posts regarding:

• Maintaining of aspect ratios (viewing a downloaded 16:9 AVI on a 4x3 TV - letterboxing, for example)
  
  
• Colour correction, including brighteness, saturation and hue
  

• You can choose between using the default 'FFmpeg.exe' (shipped with GB-PVR) or 'MEncoder' (to take advantage of the picture adjustments)
  
  
• You can preconfigure ZProcess to handle several transcode types: trans2MVP, 2mpg, 2avi, 2wmv, etc
  
  
• ZProcess can be called from the 'transcode' feature in the Video Library panel
  
  
• It can be called from the Postprocessing.bat
  
  
• But mostly, it will get called whenever you want an on-the-fly transcode, when you wish to view an AVI or WMV on your MediaMVP...
  

I use XRecord to schedule my recordings.
And I sometimes manually schedule some recordings with the EWA.

Aftter some months this leads to a large number of "failed recordings"
Is there a way to delete them all in a simple way?
Or even better, not to get them listed at all?

about a week ago the theater plugin stopped updating movie listings for the seattle, wa area. i can put in a zip for kansas city, mo and it works just fine. how can i fix this. pete

Hi
I bought a new winTV HVR 1300 and setup freeview channels successfully. Now my step is to connect up my Sky box to my card ( I am not planning to use the remote to change the channels at least for the timebeing ) .
I assume I can connect fro my sky tv's scart out to my card's s-video port (using a scart to s-video adaptor) .And my next step should be to add a new capture source.
I am not sure what I should select for the new capture source

recording source= ?? ( And other setting's for recording source)
epg Source = ??
channel changer= ??

Thanks in advance
Ajay