Well, forgive the vulgar expression, but ya just gotta flush the toilet every once in a while to keep things nice.
I've been running GB-PVR since v09211, and since I'm relatively new to GB-PVR, I've been trying just about every mod, plugin, skin, etc., that I can get my hands on. Well, I haven't been cleaning up after myself when done with my experimenting and all. As I've become more familiar with the contents of the \gbpvr folder I realized that I have a lot of orphans in there. My theater listings were still be downloaded, and I don't even use that plugin any more and I had some residue of the Check Email plugin, too, that was still running some things even though I don't use the plugin.
Anyway, I just reinstalled the lastest version from scratch and BAM! Everything is faster, my two MVPs seem more stable, even my computer-in-general is running faster (especially at boot-up). Admittedly, some of this may just be in my head (especially since I was expecting it to be faster), but I'm also actually seeing features of the newer GB-PVR versions that I didn't even know existed. I was easily able to transfer my gbpvr.mdb database over, and took the opportunity to reconfigure my tuning sources to use Zap2it instead of XMLTV. I also imported my scheduled recordings without a hitch as well. If nothing else, things sure do look a lot prettier in the \gbpvr folder now.
One thing I did have to manually do was copy my MVP screen settings over to the new config.xml, but that's quite understandable since I reinstalled rather than upgrading. I didn't copy over the old config.xml because it also had a lot of orphans in there from my experimenting.
Anyway, don't be afraid to just reinstall from scratch to clean up a well-used/experimented GB-PVR system. It's really not the horror story I've been fearing. I had everything back up and working in less than an hour, and that included discovering the missing MVP display settings and adding those in. It was even late at night/early in the morning, and I was on cold medicine. Wait, maybe that's why everything worked so well...
Although I like the layout, I tend to steer away from 'fixed center button' menus because I find them a little hard to use. The test under button just jumps suddenly from one to the next. I keep missing the selection I want.
I feel these would be easer to use, and easier on the eye if the button/text scrolled smoothly up and down.
In fact, I would go so far to say that it would be pretty damn sexy!
In the extreme it would be nice if the button accelerated, coasted, then deaccelerated to a halt. But this is just the engineer in me coming out.
I'm trying to install on win 2000 and I only have MDAC 2.5 on my system. It seems that the Microsoft download pages for the MDAC 2.6 are not available. Is there any other way to get an updated MDAC?
Something very strange. Wondering if someone has some ideas.
Since I've updated some codecs & adjusted some MUX versions I have a problem where (the others work fine) the picture for one channel not showing on my 2nd monitor(TV), but does on primary(PC)?
All other channels show the picture fine on both, but just this one (SBS) does not get displayed on the TV (annoying). Note that the sound does work but the screen is BLACK.
Which decoder does the program use by default to play my nero encoded videos? (The Nero codec is not on this computer) Would the nero one be better for the h.264 mp4's?
