My TV guide isnt working...which means that my PVR did not tape many shows in the last couple days. I'm very pissed off. My router indicates that the PVR is online and it has an internal IP address...Also, I cannot connect to the webserver. I am using the right IP. Furthermore, I cant VNC to the computer (it has no monitor, keyboard or mouse). I am normally able to. Seems as though it cant connect to the internet which means it could not fetch the TV Guide from zap2it (my account is active). Please help.

I was using the Search TV Guide choice to pick a few programs to record and noticed something rather bad. I had picked two episodes of American Chopper to record and that was fine. Then a few days later looking at the same list I accidentally picked the same episodes again. Since there is no indication that any episodes are selected to record in the Search screen I didn't remember they were already choosen. It let me put them in again with no indication of the duplication. Then I was going through the pending recordings and noticed that both episodes were listed twice and I would assume they would both try to record twice. I don't know if the recording code can handle a file of the exact same name already being there so I deleted them from the pending recordings just to be safe.

I think someone else in the wishlist area asked for some sort of indication of already selected programs in the search guide section. I think this should be extended to include actually responding as it does in the normal tv guide section when you pick an already chosen episode to record. It should some up to allow changes so that you know it is already choosen.

Of course this may be a major P.I.T.A. to implement in that part of the code, I know what that is like. I would think that as long as the code that starts recordings can handle duplicate names then at least we are safe from crashes from this issue. It might cause someone to miss something if the duplicates occupy all their tuners though.

Anyone have any news on the release of the wireless Media MVP? Can't find anything about it?? I thought it was to be released in January???

Thanks.

I have recently changed my guide from Bleb to XMLTV (UK_RT), which now gives me 14 days worth of programmes. The problem i am having is that the times for some programmes seem to change, which then causes GBPVR to have 2 overlapping shows, which both get recorded due to me having 2 tuners.

I am running 96.12 and have the Complete EPG reload option checked. I also have Ignore TBA check in my XMLTV grabber.

I have been monitoring one particular programme (CSI:NY on five on saturday night). It was fine until todays update came down, when i guess the times were changed on it.

So, how does GBPVR work out whether a programmes start/end times have been changed?

Or, alternatively, is there a way to limit the XMLTV grabber to only get 7 days worth of programmes? I'm not really bothered about being able to see 2 weeks in advance, as all my season records will pick things up anyway. Also, it seems to me that alot of the schedule in the 2nd week is "TBA".

Can anyone offer any help, or am i going to have to write a little piece of software to strip out the stuff more than a week in advance?

Help!

I have my new GBPVR up and running with everything working but I am getting an error when it comes out of hibernation of a failure to start IR device. Everything else comes up fine but no remote control which fails the WAF. Can someone help my eyes are getting sore from reading all I can find but nothing works yet.

Thanks,
T

Hey All!

I have possibly a lame question here:

I am now realizing that I want Free to Air services. So I started looking into an FTA receiver and found out that that can be handled by a DVB card. This is a very attractive prospect as I could remove the need for an external reciever and the USB UIRT.

Firstly am I correct in my assumption? I can use this card to replace the above and have GB control channel changing etc?

Secondly, I am in Canada. I currently have a Hauppage WinTV PVR USB2 and am very happy with Hauppage. So would like to get a Hauppage DVB if possible. Looking at their website they take about European standards but nothing about North America. So can anyone suggest a DVB that I can use in Canada and that works well with GB? I would like to splurge and get on board encode/decode functionality if I can.

Thanks in advance for any help!

All:

I'm trying to setup my HDTV wonder with GB-PVR. Current status is that the card is working properly with both the supplied ATI software and snapstream's beyond TV 4.2. GB-PVR, however, does not see the card. I have two questions...

A) Do I need to go to ATI and install the Windows Media Center drivers (on my Windows XP box) in order to get the "BDA" drivers?

B) If so, will that break snapstream's Beyond TV?

THanks in advance
~Jeff

Does anyone have the last five minutes of lost from last night? I missed it because my post padding was only 1 minute, and the show ran until 10:05.

I'll take it in any format, edited or not....Thanks!

Hi,

I've written a little plugin to allow the popular SkyStar2 DVB-S card to be used with GB-PVR. You can find out more about the plugin, and download it here.

It's a little basic at the moment; in particular there's no automatic transponder scanning, so all the channel tuning information has to be entered into a config file. Tuning info for some channels from a few of the European satellites is included to get you going (if you live in Europe, of course!).

Hope this of use. Feel free to ask any questions over on the Plugin Support forum.

Regards,
Tim