After going through some posts here it seems conventional wisdom that Stateside HDTV *IS* possible with GB-PVR but that you can only watch it on a PC monitor.
Is this because most VGA cards' S-Video output craps out above 480p? Won't it scale down to full screen? (my Matrox G550 may be different).
Will 720p programming work at 800x600? Or will the tops and bottoms be shaved off? Would fdshow work to scale HDTV down?
As a last-ditch effort to get HDTV through S-Video and GB-PVR, has anyone developed a way to convert HDTV program streams to standard NTSC-sized MPEG2 files automatically?
I realize I'm not going to get HDTV quality, but anything beats analog NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color).
sub Wrote:Attach some screenshots (not too large), with arrows pointing to the exact buttons your talking about and I'll try to help you.
To make it easier to explain I took the default skin and made only small changes to "BaseSkin.xml". I changed the fillcolor for popup buttons to red, and the fillcolor for normal buttons to green:
Code:
<!-- image used for a selected button (in this skin the main menu buttons are different size and shape, so these are defined separately in mainmenu\skin.xml) -->
<CompositeImage name="SelectedButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkGreen"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a normal button (in this skin the main menu buttons are different size and shape, so these are defined separately in mainmenu\skin.xml) -->
<CompositeImage name="NormalButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="Black" fillColor="DarkGreen"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a popup selected button -->
<CompositeImage name="PopupSelectedButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkRed"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,9" size="130,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>
<!-- image used for a popup normal button -->
<CompositeImage name="PopupNormalButtonImage" size="130,38">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="4,5" size="120,30" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="Black" fillColor="DarkRed"/>
<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,9" size="130,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>
This gives me the following result in the recordings screen:
(A) points to the normal buttons, which are displayed correctly in green.
(B) points to the popup buttons, which should be displayed in red, but show up in green, too.
Before I spend time posting logs etc. can anybody confirm that it is possible to schedule recordings using the Web interface?
If I try to schedule using one of the season options I get a web server error (index was out of range) and if I try using "once" then there is no error but nothing is scheduled. Might be connected but the web log has a lot of errors saying "capturesource not found".
I've tried the latest release as well as the latest webadmin release with no change. Searching the forums seems the imply there were issues with the cassani web server and the latest .net but nothing confirmed.
I have just been given an AV sender which I have hooked up to my pvr350 this seems to work really well although the picture is a bit dark, except that I cannot work out how to get the pvr350 to answer to the remote which should be being sent back via the AV system.
I have the config app set up to use 45 button remote and direct access to hauppauge remote [or words to that effect] I'm at work and cant quite remember what the config app says.
The devices came from argos in the uk partnumber 5344273 costing £24.99 and claim to have "Built-in infrared extender allows you to use your existing remote controls. "
Has anybody else got this type of setup working and if so what config options have you used for the remote
Looking through the change list it seems to be mostly bug fixes. My installation is working fine so thinking I should stick with it for now. Any reason not to?
Also I've just switched to the BlueMCE2 skin, is this still being updated?
I'm in the market for a TV card/s for my new media centre.
Ideally I would like a dual tuner or two separate tuners.
Here's where I'm stuck.......I want the ability to watch and record freeview as well as SKY (I'm in the UK). Does gbpvr support both analogue and digital at the same time? If it does (I think from reading other posts, that it does!) how does the EPG work and what cards should I be looking at?
I 'm guessing that SKY and its EPG is only accessable through a single dedicated channel???????
Clearly I'm a complete novice so any advice would be great!
I'm also looking out for a really quiet PSU (400W+) .....any recommendations.
Cheers
Modern families watch tv in small groups, not as a unit.
I would like a way to manually mark who in the family has watched and finished with a recording, or wants specifically to ask it not be deleted yet.
Just now we just get together every few days and have a "deleting" session agreeing what can go and what should be kept. Some sort of simple tag that could be updated after watching a recording could help with this chore.
Would best be doable from mvp or computer screen.
After spending quite some time this last week to get GBPVR set up (novice user alert!) it would be really great if the setup process, especially channel tuning, could be made to be a little smarter. If at all possible I would like to see:
1. Configuration for UK Bleb plugin (or maybe even XMLTV itself?) updated to grab groups of pre-set channels (eg. choice of Freeview, TOTV, Sky etc. channels from a menu).
2. Tuning dialog to put digital radio channels in a seperate list from the TV channels selected.
3. Tuning dialog to warn if expected channels (ie those selected for inclusion in the EPG) were not found?
4. Ability to setup timeshared channels in tuning dialog without having to rescan manually at different times of the day. For example on Freeview CBBC becomes BBC3 at 7pm so if you scan too early you might not get BBC3 in the channel list though you will get them seperately in your EPG. Assigning BBC to CBBC or vice versa appears to confuse the hell out of the EPG at the moment :-)
5. It would be useful if the tuning dialog was able to handle channel names a bit more smartly - could there be a map between BBC ONE, BBC1 and BBC 1 for example? this would reduce the amount of frantic mousing required to get things working.
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