Sometimes you have a show start late or run long (or turn out to me 90min). It would be nice to have an edit function while it is recording, if only to add padding on the end.
Posted by: kaiger - 2005-11-17, 02:03 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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I've got another minor wish that I hope would be easy to implement:
I would like the guide to keep itself at the proper time. Say I watch a two-hour show starting at 12:00. When I hit exit to get back to the guide, it's still showing 12:00 instead of 2:00. It'd be nice if it automatically moved to the current hour whenever it's called.
I was just wondering the average RAM usage of the GB-PVR recording service. Mine is 100MB with about 6 shows scheduled to be recorded. This seems a little high to me, but what is the average RAM usage?
Does anyone who uses DVB to record know of a command line tool which can 'fix' the recording. As you may know, DVB transmission/reception isn't perfect. This means the captured mpg stream has missing and out of sync video and audio frames. These have to be corrected if the program is used to make a Video DVD, otherwise the picture/audio is likely to be out of sync (usually by a few seconds). At the moment I use either Ulead Movie Factory 4 to repair the file, or if this fails (which it does occassionally) I use PVAStrumento. The problem with both these tools is that they are gui based and take a 5- 10 minutes to run. It would be much nicer to have something automatically repair the recording in the postprocessing.bat file. Any ideas ?
I have removed the SD video size limitation in Comskip
The maxium video size is now 2000x1200
An experimental HD version of comskip can be downloaded from http://mk.kaashoek.com/gbpvr/comskipHDbeta.zip
All SD processing is as it used to be so you can use it for both SD and HD
Audio processing on HD is not yet operational so the result may be less accurate
Input can only be a Program Stream, Transport Stream does not work yet
I appriciate your feedback
Using the "you can never have enough tuner cards approach" one very quickly has to deal with the consequence of so many TV channels.
I have a DVBT card, DVB-S card and a dual composite input MCE500 card connected through an AV amplifier to a skybox, digital terrestrial box and further satellite box. Also have a motorised satellite dish which can see satellites all over europe and this gives me access to literally thousands of channels.
In GBPVR setting this up (using girder to control the dish) is possible but the GBPVR TV guide is troublesome in that it simply puts all the channels in a single long list.
Even without said multisatlleite system the problem would still exist (to a lesser degree).
It would be ideal if TV channels could be grouped into types like e.g. news, films, music etc.
I realise this would have to be a manual process since the xml data handling etc would be non algorithmic, but it ought to be fairly straightforward to implement.
Channels could be tagged (manually) as news, sport etc and then buttons would filter the TV channel list accordingly. Similarly a type could be defined such as favorites and this list could then be revealed at will.
Such a sytem might be easy to implement and there might even be space for a row of buttons at the top of the EPG screen.
