On occassion when I flip on the TV and grab the remote, I push a button (say up or down) - I get nothing, so I press a couple more buttons maybe guide, down, etc - still nothing. Just as I'm about to throw in the big old reboot - all of a sudden all the actions are performed (in the sequence I pressed) and I'm all set.
I thought my PC might be going to sleep, but it's not the same reaction. I checked all my PC settings and I don't have it powering down or anything. It's fustrating. Thanks
I suspect this is a wmp-related problem, but I can't find it mentioned elsewhere in the forum. Basically when I am in the default gbpvr music library and press "stop" after a track or two has played, this seems to be ignored - I usually just switch to the pictures plugin, press stop there (which works) and then return to the music library. Not a major problem, but one I thought I would mention.
I recently switched skins from BlueMCE to the default, and now I when I go to the system screen where gbpvr shows you the available HD space, It's blank, just black space. Should I remove any extra skins?
Newbie observations. I guess I have to do this now because I'll only be a newbie once ! Please take these as observations not as complaints.
Mousing around in GBPVR is awkward and unnatural. The learning curve is higher than needs be, and could effect your market penetration. I've accidentally deleted events in the resolve menu screen because of this.
Highlighted items on menus: You think you are in a particular menu but you can't tell. Sub menus are not always what you are seeing in the window to the right. There is no way of identifying what menu you are inside of once selected. Should be more TREE like. Eg: in the recordings sub menu the currently selected menu highlighting disappears so you don't know which sub you are in.
Playback Recordings controls: no on-screen indication of a skip key and the drag bar on the progress indicator does not work.
Live TV shows + and - keys on the on-screen display, but the +/- keys do not change channels. I hope I can remap these because the num pad +/- keys are great for channel up/down.
TV Guide. Should have horizontal scroll bar of some kind. In the guide a right click sub menu would be nice to set up recording, watch, search or mark channels as favorites.
One last suggestion is to get yourself listed in the 3rd party software list on the Hauppauge site.
I have noticed this pattern in the last couple of releases of GBPVR:
When I initiate a recording from the TV Guide or edit a recurring recording, the system freezes. I have to reset the computer, and when it reloads, the recording is set. This seems to happen if the system has recorded something on that particular boot.
So I reboot the system and I can set recordings fine, edit recordings, etc... but once the system does a recording, it's back to freezing and i have to reset.
I have the ATI TV Wonder Pro. Does this work with gbpvr? Is it enough like other ATI tuners that it would be detected? I also have an older Matrox Marvel G400 tuner and wonder if that is supported? It is bad enough that that card did not continue to receive support under windows XP. Just wondering as I venture out into building a media-center-like experience with some older equipment. I do not need a tuner per-se, but wish to have some video capture and recording features to take things like prerecorded DirectTV TIVO shows and my camcorder recordings and easily dump to DVDs. I have regularly used the windows interface and software from ATI to do this on my desktop, but wonder if gbpvr would have what I need to streamline the process and make it look pretty at the same time. Any advice is welcome, short of spending $200+ for a better capture card. Thank you. BTW, gbpvr really looks wonderful. I hope it works for me.
-A poor teacher with lots of old(er) computers.
1. Now I have my cable going in to the card, and I thought you could then take a cable from the second antenna outled and atach that into my tv and record through the computer and at the same time watch regular tv, but that doesen´t seem to work. Is it suppose to work or do I need a split before it goes in to the card?
2. The hauppauge card has the abillity to compress in mpeg2, shouldn´t I be able to select it in configuration under Playback->"Hardware decoder devices" or do I just understand wrong?
