I'm almost certain that the answer to this question is going to be: "Don't use Vista", but I figured I'd give it a try anyway:
I'm using Windows Vista build 5728 (post RC1), and GBPVR seems to work just fine after disabling the new permissions mechanism. I'm having trouble getting my MVPs to work though. They conenct just fine and display the GBPVR main menu, but after about 30 seconds it loses the connection and goes right back to the "Contacting Servers..." screen.
Is it possible that the .NET framework 3.0 that Vista uses is incompatible with something in the MediaMVP server? Can I install .NET 2.0 over the top of .NET 3.0? Is this a known issue?
I've attached my logs, in case you're able to help
Perhaps this sounds stupid...is it possible to have a PVR150 card and a DVB card in the same PC and have the program guide "seamlessly" switch channels. In otherwords as I scroll through my cable channels when I get to the last cable channel it then goes to the first satellite channel and then when it gets to the last satellite channel it then goes to the first cable channel?
For some reason I am unable to download the Sassari skin. I have tried with IE and firefox without luck. My request just times out. Is there a problem with the Wiki Host or with the Sassari zip?
Is it possible to have certain channels have live preview enabled and then when you switch to other channels it would automatically switch to the normal hardware encoded mode and vica versa? I use gbpvr for everything tv, including composite input.
I'm still trying to get Xrecord to work with 98.9 and when installing Xrecord, I get an error that it can't find fastfind.dll. I can't find it either anywhere on my system. What installs this dll file?
Well, I did find the file fastfindplugin.dll and now can install Xrecord but now I get the message that it can't find background.jpg which is in the skin/xrecord folder.
I am trying to get a radio station (no video) to play out to my MediaMVP. My first thought was to use UBUStream to get it to work. Currently, on my computer I can get the stream in Windows Media Player. I have set up GBPVR to get this station to play in both list mode and in channel mode. It works great.
When I go out to my MediaMVP and try to play the station, Windows Media Player starts up on my computer and plays great. The problem (as you may have guessed) is that it doesn't actually stream to the MVP. I don't want the MVP to play music on my computer. That is counter productive.
There are times when I'd love to use the 'no duplicates' option for shows that air the same episode frequently. But there are other times when a show can be preempted, etc, and I want to make sure I record it, so I want to record duplicates for just that one show.
So, when youre setting up a reoccurring recording, it would be a great option to keep duplicates or not in the set up screen, so it can be used on a per show basis.
As it is, I have to disable the no duplicates option, and filter dupes myself.
Firstly, a big thank you to Sub and the other devs for a bloody great program. It's been running smoothly here for about a fortnight now with very few teething problems.
I have three suggestions that I would like, but obviously cannot say how others would appreciate or whether the coding is worth it.
1. Mouse hover on the GBPVR Tray icon. Currently it merely says "GB-PVR" - can it be changed to dynamically show what's being recorded on each tuner? (I know you can double-click to bring up the Info screen, but I like hovers for other tools)
2. Web guide. I *love* this feature and now do all my programming through it. The search features are great and the tv guide is as clear as it could be. However: One thing I like to do is sit down and browse through the upcoming programs in a big block. I can get this displayed by searching with an empty field - but the results are date sorted and not grouped by series or name. What I would like is a way to display a big list of what's on over the next $days_epg and be able to schedule recordings both for individual programs, and per-series. The existing popup and batch-adding system is fine for the recording aspect, it's just I've been unable to get a name-sorted and grouped guide up.
Similar to the gbpvr.exe's inbuilt browser, but without splitting into A,B,C,D etc. (Which takes forever)
3. More detail on the "Recording Failed". It would be good to know why a recording has failed when added by the web client; because of program conflicts for example - why not show which programs clash. Also, when started out I was very confused why two channels consistently failed - it was because they weren't setup correctly and GBPVR couldn't find a tuner to accept them, but it didn't say that so I was chasing my tail for some time.
Anyway, regardless of whether these suggestions are acted on, it's a fine piece of work. Thanks!
