how do i turn off the visualizatins when using music library i just want to see the art and track info..

for the screensaver and the panel when playing netradio it says now playing gbnetradio-0 how can i fix this.

I get some of my channels via antenna and some via the output of a Sky Satellite Digibox.

I feed the Digibox composite output to the 'Composite In' on my Hauppauge WinPVR350. It seems I have to set up two separate 'Direct Recording Plugin' settings - one for my Antenna RF sources, and another one for the Composite Input. I will be setting up an MCE Remote with IR blasters.

Will I still be able to automatically schedule recordings from both inputs using the EPG and have GB-PVR select the required source and change the Digibox channels? If not I presume the only way around this is to use the RF out of the Digibox, with the inevitable loss of quality.

On the quality issue, I have excellent recording quality using the Hauppauge Win2000 software - Can I expect the same quality from GB-PVR with the same compression settings?

I also seem to have messed up the channel list on my EPG. I had it working fine, but while making some 'improvements' I seem to have added the channels again and now have many duplicate channels and an error message that pops up when I scroll through them - 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object'. How do I clear out the problem and start again? I'm using XMLTV GUI and it saves the updated channel data to file. I've tried all the options I can see like 'Update EPG' 'Clear EPG' and the two command line options referred to in the FAQ. I still end up with one listing in the EPG and the duplicate channels seem to be there. Tried 'Repair' too without success. Is there any way to just renew the whole EPG component?

And finally, what are the strongest arguments to move to the latest version of GB-PVR, if the Photo Library is not a big concern. I've seen lots of postings about problems with the new version and am a little wary, but don't want to end up down a blind alley by committing to the older .96 version. I'll be using two MediaMVP units and it seems there are some improvements in areas like Aspect Ratio with v. .97.

Can anyone confirm if the MCE Remote 2005 is directly supported for STB channel changing with V. .97, or do I still have to go the HIP route?

Thanks.

Hi all
I 've just purchase an acer 5652 laptop. It has very strong performance (for its price) but i am experienced a problem with tv.
The tv tuner is the avermedia m115 and despite i have installed the latest drivers and i have connected the laptop with my aerial i can't see any tv channel at all. I tried many times with autoscan but nothing. There is no signal despite i have connected my home aerial. Please anyone who can help...

Just wondering if anyone had ever tried to write anything that allowed GBPVR to play radio stations other than shoutcast ?

Otherwise, I may have a tinker

Hi,

I'm using 0.97.7, and DVB EPG.
It works great but it does not show any scandinavian letters (ä,ö,å...).

Also the Alt+Enter doesn't work correctly. When viewing gbpvr as a window and i press Alt+Enter, it resizes the window to fullscreen size, but it doesn't change left/top cordinates.

BlackMyst theme by Elow at MediaPortal..... a test version is uploaded.
What do you like this theme?

Uploaded Mayhem1 test version, even if task images is not 100% ....help needed.

Got a final of a rugby match here on tv, and you can't seen anything, it's all fogged in!!!

Hello all,

I have almost finished building my first HTPC.

It's a microATX system based around the MSI K8NGM2-FID motherboard (on-board S-Video, Component, VGA and DVI). I'm just waiting on the S/PDIF adaptor (on it's way from the US) to complete it. I've tested the S-Video and Component, both of which work really well. I used a DVD-RW drive i had spare (Asus DRW0402P/D). TV tuner is a Blackgold GDI DVB-T (which works fine in Windows MCE). The CPU is an Athlon64 3000+, with a Zalman CNPS7000B-CU cooler, 2 x 512 MB Corsair Value Select sticks of RAM, and storage provided by a Samsung SpinPoint 80gig SATA2 hard drive. All wrapped in the lovely Ahanix MCE-302 case, and controlled via an Accuratus Saturn wireless keyboard/trackball (very nice). No remote yet, i've got to research that.

The idea behind it was to get a HiDef media/DVD player that could replace my stand-alone DVD player, freeview box, MVP and Freecom media player (for playing DIVX/XVID). It does play DVDs (and ISOs via daemon tools) fine. Can't figure out how to make my drive (or GBPVR / MCE) region free, any help on that count would be nice. I'm more than willing to buy a new DVD-RW/ROM drive that can be made region-free more easily. It does have to be able to take different "front bits" (not sure or the terminology). The nice aluminium cover for the optical drive has a sticky pad for attaching to the optical drive.

I was hoping to configure it to get all it's recordings/music/video library from my server (which now has 5 tuners), and have LiveTV and DVD dealt with locally. So, i set GBPVR up following the instructions here. The thing is, since i've pointed GBPVR to the database on my server, it's recordings sources are on the server. Also, any new recordings made by the server have the local path in the database, which will not get picked up by the client. It may be possible to get around this by using a combination of subst and network drive mapping.

Is it possible (via plugins / future GBPVR version) to acheive this. In my view that'd be a killer app. I'd be able to have my server doing all the recording and a number of client PCs each with their own freeview tuner for live TV, and optionally their own DVD for playing DVDs locally. But all clients could access common recordings/music/videos. Since each client can only watch one live channel at any one time, this make perfect sense to me, as it leaves all the tuners on the server free for recording from the "shared" guide.

I would be happy to develop a plugin to do this, but i thought i'd find out first if it's even feasible. Maybe someone has already done this or made a start. I'd also be happy to help out with any efforts by either doing some development or testing it.

If anyone has any experience of this type of setup, i'd like to hear from you.

On a non-GBPVR note, when playing HiDef (720p or 1080i) content via 720p component out, it seems slightly jerky, like it's missing the odd frame. It's only really visible on large panning shots. My guess is that it's down to the on-board GeForce 6150 not quite being up to the job of putting out HiDef resolutions. It works fine when played at 800x600 via S-Video. I could be missing something in terms of setting up memory timings or video codecs optimally. The CPU runs at around 34-36 Celsius, so there might be room for a little overclocking to get that little bit extra it seems to need. I've never overclocked a PC myself, so am a little unsure of what to do.

Regards.

Hello everyone,

I am setting up my HTPC with GB-PVR and using the Hauppauge PVR150 and was curious to see how most of the users here have their audio set up. The PVR150 card does not have any audio outputs, so I am assuming the computer sound card drives the sound (I am only confused because the MCE-PVR150 has the composite outputs for audio and video). Do you wire the sound card with a composite splitter to your TV? Or just use the sound card to directly drive the speakers.

Thanks for helping a DIY HTPC newbie.

Cheers,
Tom