I have a bunch of DVD's that I have ripped to hard drive via dvd decrypter. It rips them to Video_TS folders. What plug-in do I want to use to play them back on my computer from those folders, and how do I install that plug-in. I am new to this program and I don't understand batch files and all that stuff. All I want to do is be able to play the DVD's from the folders, and I would like to be able to get the cover art, catalog info, etc. I DO NOT need or want the ability to re-burn these to DVD or anything like that, since I already have the DVD's and just don't want them destroyed by my 5-year old.

What plugins do I need, and how exactly do I install them? Thanks for any help.

Hello. I've had gbpvr running for a few weeks now and love it, as does the wife. However, I've encountered a few small problems that I've been unable to resolve by searching the forums or reading the wiki.

Sometimes a recording appears to record all the way through, as indicated by the hard drive activity light, but when it gets done, I have only a few minutes of show. Looking in the file system, it is indeed a small recording of only several megabytes instead of several hundred megabytes. I rem'd out retime from my postprocessing bat yesterday, thinking that might be a contributor, but all that produced was a show that was all out of whack, and this with the newest pvr-150 driver from hauppauge's website. It happens less often since upgrading from a 30GB storage drive to a 160GB, around 1 in 10 versus 1 in 3 before. Is this maybe a lack of RAM issue?

Also, sometimes recordings do not show up in the recordings screen. They'll be present in the file system. I can drag them into the video library folder, where they play just fine. However, this moving of files is a bit beyond what the wife wants to do, and requires manual cleanup afterward to eliminate the containing folder and accompanying text files. I have no idea what might be causing this. In both of the above issues, I've had it happen when we were watching recordings and also when nobody was using the TV.

I have set my zap2it account to only give me the channels I'm subscribed to (basic cable, only; there are a bunch of channels available that I don't get). I've also unchecked all those channels that I don't get in the capture source section of config. On the TV guide, I only see the correct channels. However, in the search guide, I get results for all the channels offered. Is this something I can change? It's not a huge deal, but it does take longer to scroll through the offerings, and I have to remember to check the channel before telling it to record.

Last, I find that my, ahem, backup DVD's play just fine, but originals won't. I thought that I read that it uses media player, so I tried through that. It says, "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a problem occurred with digital copyright protection." It's on version 9. My DVD player is an older DVD-ROM/CD+/-RW. I would switch over to media player classic, but I seem to recall seeing somewhere on here sub saying that gbpvr won't use that.

If it helps, I'm using the sqlite db. If anybody needs some logs, just let me know. There are a bunch of them, so didn't want to stick them all up here. Thanks in advance for any help or guidance you can provide me.

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I have observed the picture quality on the new 1.02-223 version Purevideo decoder is not as good as the old 1.02-196 version. Interlaced video (TV recordings) has slightly blured motion on the 1.02-223 version.

I rolled-back to 1.02-196 and now have regained sharp clear motion.

For those of you using Purevideo decoder version 1.02-223, I highly recommend you try going back to version 1.02-196
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder...trial.html

If I put it on the other monitor it says "Due to limitations of your computer's display device this video can only play back on oone of your monitors. Please move the video window copmletely onto that monitor"

Why does it say this? Before I reformatted my computer the other week GBPVR worked fine on both monitors (and I thought since then too), and every other video program works fine on either monitor.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

(TO CLARIFY - TRYING TO ONLY USE ONE AT A TIME, BUT ONLY ONE ACTUALLY WORKS!)

My gbpvr.mdb is 182MB. This seems too big. What is not happening that should?

Thanks

I cannot seem to restart the recording service in a user level account and thus change GBPVR's config. How do I do this?

Thanks

Everything I've read tells me that Comskip should run without any additional input from me. In the GBPVR config i set it to run after recording, i even created a postprocessing.bat just for kicks and also to run comclean with it. And it is the comskip79_30 version and i put them all in my gbpvr directory.

Yet when I go to my recorded shows in GBPVR it never ran, when I go to where they are stored no logs or any txt files have been created.

What have I missed or failed to do. I have searched the forums but may be missing something obvious. Please help.

I've been working on a video plugin that forces itself to always be active. As a result its render method is called every second. The Render method basically takes some Controls and paints them onto a bitmap to overlay on top of the video. I've noticed an error, and I'm wondering if maybe there's something in GBPVR that can be fixed, or if it's an underlying windows error, in which case it's hopeless. Any thoughts would be great. I'm attaching the stack trace exception:

8/25/2006 9:57:00 AM.491 ERROR [1] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tickarameter is not valid.
8/25/2006 9:57:00 AM.491 ERROR [1] at System.Drawing.Graphics.GetHdc()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.DrawToBitmap(Bitmap bitmap, Rectangle targetBounds)
at Plugin.TTPlugin.ApplicationLogic.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering) in C:\Documents and Settings\tsohn\TTPlugin\ApplicationLogic.cs:line 140
at TTPlugin.TTPlugin.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering) in C:\Documents and Settings\tsohn\TTPlugin\TTPlugin.cs:line 304
at TTPlugin.TTPluginProxy.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering) in C:\Documents and Settings\tsohn\socialTV\TTPlugin\TTPluginProxy.cs:line 95
at GBPVR.xb3e61f7448c39547.RefreshOSD()
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xb1cbc922a07ef39b(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
8/25/2006 9:57:01 AM.351 ERROR [1] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tick:A generic error occurred in GDI+.
8/25/2006 9:57:01 AM.351 ERROR [1] at System.Drawing.Bitmap.GetHbitmap(Color background)
at System.Drawing.Bitmap.GetHbitmap()
at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.overlayBitmap(Image image)
at GBPVR.xb3e61f7448c39547.RefreshOSD()
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xb1cbc922a07ef39b(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, EventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)

Hi, i have a cyberlink remote that came with my powercolor theater 550 pro. how do i configure all the buttons. and also how to i pause live tv..

also i anyone knows how to get powercinema working that would help to. the program cant find the tv-tuner.

thanks