I have installed the o2garbber and it works fine. With help for the forum I have also made a bat file, which will make the o2grabber update my XML-file.
GBPVR will automaticly update the EPG from the XML-file once a day.
Now I just have to let the windows scheduler activat the bat file once a day.
This is my problem. It damands a user password, which i do not have on this PC.
Probably a stupid question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway
My "real" harddisk recorder, a Sony HX717 (sorry guys...) has an Electronic Programming Guide that gets its information directly from the cable signal, as "European Guide Plus".
I don't have a clue how it works exactly, but it sounds to me that it is a European standard for delivering program details to harddisk recorders and/or televisions.
If so, wouldn't it be nice (for European users at least...) to have GBPVR deal with this GuidePlus signal so they won't have to do special tricks to get the information from different kind of websites, sticking it together to some kind of XMLTV format?
I don't know about other countries, but for dutch users the hardest part of GBPVR (or any other pvr program) is setting up the tvguide. It would be wonderful if that could be simplified!
Not all the shows that come up in the guide itself show up in the search guide function. I noticed this today. I'm watching Dirty Jobs on the Discovery channel, and thought I might like to record this sometime. Now I know I could set up some recording settings by using the guide directly, but instead I decided to use the search guide function. On my installation, this show does not show up in Search, but is displayed correctly in the guide itself. This is the first occurance of this that I have noticed. I have successfully found other shows I've wanted using this function. Perhaps when the EPG is updated daily, the search doesn't update itself accordingly one hundred percent of the time? Shows that I have already found in Search seem to update fine, new timeslots and such... Don't know what else to say about it, I guess. Just noting what seems to be a bug for the developer.
I had avi's playing fine with on both my computer and my mvp. While trying out the video archive plugin's dvd2mpg feature, I thought I'd see if I could also play an avi simultaneously to the mvp. It appeared to start, but then went directly back to the menu. I figured no big deal, not enough cpu or some other resource. Well after the dvd was done being converted I tried to play an avi on the mvp. No luck. I then tried on the computer directly. GBPVR gave me a black screen and hung up.
After lots of tinkering, I finally admitted defeat and used the installer to uninstall and reinstall GBPVR. Wow, avi's played. That was short lived. After setting the MVP server to boot automatically in the GBPVR config tool and selecting to display a few plugins that were already installed, I tried an avi on the mvp. It didn't seem to pick up the menu changes to display, but I didn't completely reboot the mvp, just the green button. Well it played about 10 seconds of avi and then went to the menu. Avi's stopped playing again.
I unistalled with the installer. Deleted all the files in devnz and rebooted the machine. I reinstalled gbpvr and now no avi's will play. I haven't even booted up the mvp yet.
Yes, avi's play fine with WMP and nero. And I have tried multiple avi's. My machine is running xp pro and is a p4 3.4Ghz, 1gb RAM, 600GB SATA raid 0 storage and 250GB eide storage.
Also, avi's play when booting up the mvp with the hauppauge software (lame compared to gbpvr!).
Any ideas. Attached is my gbpvr.exe.log file and config.xml file.
Text on the forecast and various other parts of the plugin show up crushed, or run off the page. Any ideas what I can do to get full forecast or 'uncrush' text?
Have the Net Radio plugin and left it running for several hours. When I came back to computer, it gave me an error mesage that the system was low on diskspace. After looking around I found that the GB-PVR log file (normally hidden) was over 2.5 gb in size. (I had to delete it if I wanted computer to run at all). (C: drive is only 8gb with XP Pro fully patched, with 80gb 'storage' drive attached).
How about a config feature in that if you delete something, it moves it to a specific other subfolder. You specify how long the retention is until GBPVR deletes the recording. Cleanup of specific recordings in the cleanup folder would be based on the timestamp of the files.
This way if I mistakenly delete a recording, it's easy to move it back.
Something in config like..
[ ] Enable delayed delete
Delayed Delete folder:
( ) Same drive as recording
( ) Copy to alternate location _________________
What settings should I use to optimize GBPVR's performance? I remember Sub mentioning in a previous post that the drive should be formatted using certain options, but I can't seem to find that post. Could someone please enlighten me as to what settings to use when formatting the storage drive? Also would it be better to place the live TV buffer on another drive seperate from the drive where the recordings are saved? My harddrive setup is as follows:
1x 160GB IDE Maxtor drive (OS plus whatever else)
2x 300GB SATA Seagate drives in RAID 0 (Recordings)
Any suggestings are greatly appreciated. Thanks...
