I have tested with multiple recordings and here are some feedback. I schedule 1 hr recording at the beginner hour like 9:00 AM. Blinky.rec is generated at that time. Few minutes later, I schedule another recording, but this time blinky.rec does not update. Can you have blinky update blinky.rec every time recording starts and every time recording finish?
Can you also have a log for it? I am not sure what has happened. blinky.rec file is no longer generated when recording starts.
While watching live tv, when the camera pans sideways, I always get the top half of the picture breaking up. I'm sure it is an interlacing problem, but not sure how to fix it. I have set deinterlace to encoder passthru, and hopefully my graphics card is doing the de-interlacing (on board 6150) Any ideas or hints?
If you're upgrading from an earlier version then I recommend you backup your config.xml and database (either gbpvr.mdb or gbpvr.db3).
This is not a support thread. Feel free to ask questions about installing/download/features etc. If you encounter problems with features, post a question in the support forum (...or I'll delete your post).
The release has only been lightly tested, but it consists mainly of pile of small bug fixes. From the change.log:
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2006-9-20 v0.98.13
- Much improved ATSC HDTV support, including new channel scanning functionality.
- Added ATSC QAM support (digital cable) for the OnAir USB HDTV GT device.
- Added support for ViXS based capture cards.
- Added support for new Hauppauge HVR3000/HVR4000 devices including DVB-T, DVB-S and software encoding analog. These devices have one tuner for DVB-S, and another for DVB-T/analog, so these two can be done at the same time. HVR1100/900 could also work in theory with this software encoding, but will require updates to direct.ini. To support the analog side of these devices, GB-PVR reuses several SoftPVR components, so this Hauppauge supplied software must have been installed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error stopping live tv with analog devices
- Fixed a bug that could cause a "System.ArgumentException: Rectangle '{X=120,Y=160,Width=0,Height=40}' cannot have a width or height equal to 0." type of error in the TV Guide.
- Minor improvement to DVB-T scanning
- Fixed a bug where the left arrow key was not successfully deleting a character when typing a freetext search in the search guide screen. Made things difficult on the MVP.
- Fixed a bug with video inset in sub menus.
- Added option to use splash screen
- Fixed a bug with gradient colours used with the round rect style of listings in the tv guide.
- Improvements to the DVB EPG option.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error when exiting GB-PVR before the EPG had finished loading in the background
- Fixed an incompatibility with IE7
- Fixed a bug that could cause the video inset window to continue showing even when it wasnt supposed to (ie, over photos in Photo Library etc).
- Fixed a couple of PC client bugs (deleting recordings was not removing files, comskip now works in stream mode)
- WMV playback on the MVP now uses ffmpeg for transcoding instead of the old trans2mvp method
- Fixed a bug with the upgrade procedure that would break the database connection strings if the user had skipped v0.97 jumping straight to v0.98.8
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error when stopping net radio playback when using 'VMR9 Custom' video renderer
- MuxChecker will now list ATI Mux if it is found on the machine.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a permanent database lock with SQLite database during auto file conversion
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when using the 'play' button on the left of the video library
- Integrated functionality for system sounds, much like that available previously in the BleepBloop plugin. Can be enabled/disabled in the Settings screen. Works with all remote types (MCE, Hauppauge, Direct Access etc). Not available on MVP.
- Added ability to configure the slide show delay
- 'Play all' on video files will not show the resume prompt
- Fixed a bug Video/Music/Photo Library when navigating directories that contained ".." somewhere in the name
- Fixed a bug with the built-in MCE2005 IR Blaster support
- Added some logic to stop it returning to the menu when exiting an item on a sub menu
- Fixed a bug on the Search Guide screen that was not correctly highlighting a scheduled recording in some specific circumstances.
- If a recording is transcoded externally from GB-PVR, it'll now detect the new file name and update the recording even if <AutoRemoveMissingRecordings> is set to false (previously didnt do it unless set to true)
- Fixed a problem with learning the ASPECT key when using an USB-UIRT remote control.
- Fixed a bug with the signal quality/strength being reversed in the live tv signal popup.
- Fixed a bug with the way plugins were loaded in v0.98.8 that could stop plugins receiving events.
- Added some log messages to help track down the cause of a SQLite database locking error that occurs for some users
- Improved volume control, including OSD graphics. (not for MVP - I have very little control over the volume on the MVP, and no way to determine what the volume is)
- Fixed a bug that could cause live tv to not exit cleanly on an MVP when the tuner needs to be used for a recording.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the right hand side of subtitles to become skewed. It only happened with some broadcasters due to differences in the way they encode the images. It had been noticed with Scandanavian broadcasts.
- You can now toggle the auto comskip jump during playback by pressing 999. Useful if you find comskip has really stuffed up the commerical detection on a show you're watching.
- Fixed a bug that would cause it to often say 'subtitles enabled' on the OSD when in live tv.
- Fixed a view bugs with the DVD player, and improved compatibility with DVD nagivators from Cyberlink, Intervideo etc.
- Fixed a skinning problem in the Video Library that could cause the background to get darker and darker when the 'delete file' popup was on the screen
I just install GBPVR 9808 and have two issues. I have searched the forum and found other with similar issues but did not find any resolutions. So here are the problems.
1 I have a Hauppauge 250 FM card and a Hauppauge 150 (no FM) installed. When configuring the capture devices if I select show only detected cards it shows 250 with FM, 250 , and 350 but no 150. I also donât have a 350 installed. I can leave the detect box unchecked and not worry about it, but this seems questionable. So should I not worry about it? It seem both cards are working ok with recording and Live TV.
2 Whenever I am watching Live TV and have a show schedule for recording, when the show start to records GBPVR switched to that tuner. At that point if I key in the previous channel number and hit enter noting happens. If I bring up the mini guide and go to the previous channel and hit enter it will make the channel change. Although this is not a critical problem it is very annoying. So if any can suggest a remedy It would be greatly appreciated
I run Desknow (http://www.desknow.com) email server on the PVR machine.
It has a web interface.
GBPVR also has a webinterface, but I dont know how to get both wen interfaces running at the same time.
Has anyone managed it ? What is required ?
Hey Everyone,
I'm currently writing a plugin for GBPVR and need to store some information in a database. I'm just wondering what the concensus is on adding tables to the GBPVR.db3 database? Is this frowned upon? Is it what most developers do when they need to store data? If not, what is?
Thanks in advance
I archive many DVR recordings off to DVD. I have found my HDD/DVD settop's predefined "groups" indispensible for this purpose. I believe they were originally intended to identify different genres but the manufacturer allows users to edit group names. In my case recordings start off as Raw, when I remove commercials they become Edited, as well as DVD-RW and DVD-R groups.
It would be extremely helpful if the GB-PVR database included a general purpose grouping ability accessible from the Recordings menu.
Other users could customize the groups to serve their own needs as well.
