I'm never sure whether i'm the first or last to discover something on t'internet - but for all you PC based music users (I'm assuming if you watch TV on the 'puter, you listen to your music from it too, right?) try this for removing those pesky duplicate mp3s.

http://www.pekarna.si/

It's java based and truley brilliant! VERY fast (sorted c.30000 tracks in under 20min on a P3 - more like 5-10 min on my Athlon), and really user friendly - it will cross check differnt formats (wma, mpr, ogg), automatically decide which dupes to remove by a user set filter (bit rate, type etc.) AND it moves the dupes to a folder, rather than delete them completely, so you can check what it's done before you hit no-return button. Best of all it's FREE (bar any worthy paypal donations...)

I've tried MANY other ways to clean my music collection, and this wins hands down.

Hi I already have a dvico dvbt plus. I wanted to be able to watch a digital channel and record one at the same time. I also want to be able to use the analogue FM radio side of this card as well (Not Digital Radio). I was wondering if gbpvr would allow me to do this with the HVR1300, I have noticed it is listed in setup for the anologue side but not the digital side. I know I cant use digital and analogue at the same time.
Can anyone let me know if this would be a good card for me to go along with my old card for 2 digital channels and analogue FM radio.

Thanks Jugular

It's like this. I once asked and got a negative responce on GB-PVR and encrypted channels. But this task can be done in MyTheatre.
But on the other hand, MyTheatre can't be used with remote from the sofa (it has eye-aching small right-click menus).

So I would like to use MyTheatre from GB-PVR instead! How can I accomplish this?

I stumbled across a plug-in for MCE that works this way and I guess that I could use that but MCE has a lot of other features I don't like so I would like to have this function in GB-PVR so I can go on using it All the way!!

As for now, my mediaPC is somewhat crippled...

I have had this a couple times lately, just thought it was a fluke, but now it's happened 4-5 times. I was watching Live TV (Preview Mode), and at 8pm I had House scheduled to record. Live TV switched to the channel for House (ch 11) so I could see it on TV, but it wasn't recording to the drive. I stopped Live TV and went to go back in so I could watch the recording as it happened, but when I clicked on "Watch: House" it just stopped and dropped back to the main menu. I tried this several times, but it just dropped back. I closed GBPVR, restarted the recording service, loaded GBPVR back up and it started to write the file to the disk where I was then able to watch the recorded file play during the recording. Show info is:

House
8-8-06
8pm
Ch 11

I only have the single PVR150 tuner, so it usually kicks me back to the main menu, but several times lately it hasn't, just switched channels to the channel to record, but then doesn't record. Thanks.

Brian

I'm using 97.13 with Contour skin. I've changed the date setting to show:

Tues Aug 08, 2006.

This works great everywhere except in the Search Listings plugin. The newest version automatically shows the day so now I get this:

Tues Tues Aug 08, 2006.

Anyway to fix this so it just takes the formatting from windows? I don't know if it's the skin or plugin.

After encountering a ton-o-problems in my GBPVR system, I decided to simply cut my losses and reinstall. I'm running v0.97.13 with one PVR150 and one PVR500 with a 160GB hard drive (80GB available and defragged less than 24 hours ago) on a P4/1.8ghz. I'm running no plugins other than the default and the default Blue skin.

Of course, everything was running blazingly fast because of the fresh install, but the first recording on this new system would not stop recording. It was the Barefoot Contessa (cooking show) at 5:00pm-5:30pm EST with a 5 minute buffer set at either end. It started recording at 4:55pm, but although the GBPVR tray icon (and status screen) said that it was still recording this show at 9:00pm, the actual video file is only 22 minutes long so it's missing almost 20 minutes of the recording. Also, the show scheduled at 9:00pm-10:00pm ("Bones") did not record at all and is reported as failed. Another show at 10:00pm-11:00pm started recording just fine, but that's only after I restarted the recording service because that's the only way I could get the 5:00pm show to stop recording.

To get the failed recording to delete, I had to apply the appropriate patch. Now my recorded shows show weird start and stop times that do not correspond to the 5 minute buffer at either end.

The last time I went through the above process, I ended up with quite a few of my recordings playing at fast forward speed for the last five minutes of the show. The verdict is still out on whether or not that will start happening now, as I haven't had a successful recording yet.

My previous GBPVR versions have all been extremely reliable, even after numerous upgrades/updates being applied. This is a very fresh, plain vanilla install, and I am a bit surprised that the same thing that happened to my old install is now starting to happen to this brand new install.

I've attached all the logs.

Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.

I was wondering if someone could help me with Comskip settings. I have the comskip kinda working, but every now and again the comskip will miss a commericial or will cut too much and cut some of the show...

Or is there something better now available then Comskip?

A new version of EWA has been released.....build 43. It is available for download on the wiki which contains all necessary instructions for installation and usage.

Support can be found in the EWA Support Thread.

If you have never seen your used the EWA you can view a screenshot slideshow here.

GBPVR is currently shipping with build 40 of the EWA.

Here are the updates that were applied to build 41, 42 and 43.

Date: 2006-08-06 Build Number: 43 Changes:

• Updated EWA to not show stream button unless VLC is actually installed in the directory specified in the config.
  
• Retain scroll position in Episode Search Results when scheduling show to record via Detail Pop-Up.
  
• Added the ability to display search results in a TreeView rather than a table.
  
• Added the ability to set a configuration setting to show search results in a TreeView or Table View. It is defaulted to TreeView.

• Maintenance release to fix Windows Media browser Plugin issue in IE.

• Added ability to stream recorded shows from Manage Recordings. Requires VLC to be loaded on the GBPVR Server.

HI
Mi English isn´t good. Sorry please.
I have the Problem that Gb-Pvr can´t find any channels.
With the Terratec Software is all ok.
My Sys:
Terratec Cinergy 1200 dvb-s Driver version 4.18
WIn XP Sp2
GB-PVR new
What can it be that no channles being found?

Thx Morpheus

Is there a way to force windows to update the dvd title. Normally I wouldn't care much, but the dvd2mpeg seems to use the windows title to name the ripped file. This is resulting in overwritten files. The only way I have found to do this is to reboot the pc. Autorun is turned off and I want to keep off so dvd's won't start there own programs.

Thanks,
Brian