I'm having a problem with the news ticker. It scrolls across the screen just fine, but every five seconds or so, all text on the main menu briefly gets brighter. Not only that, but at the same time, it looks like the ticker jumps forward a few extra pixels, and then jumps back. I'm currently using the xmedia skin, but the problem occurs on other skins, as well. I have also played around with the interval and speed settings in the news.xml file.
It's hard to get any kind of screenshot on this, but I'll post my main menu\skin.xml and my panels\news.xml.
<settings>
<!-- text style -->
<TextStyles>
<TextStyle name="FeedText" color="Yellow" typeFace="Arial" size="12" style="bold"/>
<TextStyle name="TitleText" color="White" typeFace="Arial" size="12" style="bold"/>
</TextStyles>
<!-- Composite Images -->
<CompositeImages>
<!-- News, the size should match the panel size in the main menu skin-->
<CompositeImage name="Background" size="680,40">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="5,5" size="670,30" radius="1" borderWidth="2" borderColor="Transparent" fillColor="Transparent"/>
</CompositeImage>
</CompositeImages>
<Custom>
<!-- Number of pixels ticker advances at each refresh -->
<CustomElement name="Speed" value="10"/>
<!-- Time in miliseconds between refresh (minimal 10, but 100 is probably a safer value) -->
<CustomElement name="Interval" value="100"/>
<!-- Number of pixels ticker advances at each refresh, for usage on the MediaMVP -->
<CustomElement name="MVPSpeed" value="100"/>
<!-- Time in miliseconds between refresh, small values won't make sense due to hardware limitations -->
<CustomElement name="MVPInterval" value="1000"/>
<!-- Seperator between items in the ticker -->
<CustomElement name="Separator" value=" | "/>
</Custom>
<!-- special elements -->
<SpecialElements>
<!-- The area in the composite image used to draw the actual text -->
<SpecialElement name="NewsPanel" loc="10,10" size="660,25"/>
</SpecialElements>
</settings>
I just noticed that the Videos and Movies paths in X record will not list DVR-MS files (if you rename them to mpg everything's fine but this is not really a long term option).
Does anyone know if there a way to change recognised file extensions or is it like this for a reason?
Hey I like the external player option on "My Videos" how about adding an external player for "My Music". I use Winamp as it has some good plugins/visuals
I am investigating the posibility for Comskip to work on DVB.
Many digital TV cards record in mpeg transport stream format and I do not have access to these streams.
PM me if comeone is willing to upload a 100MByte mpeg TS recording to my ftp server.
Hello from a GBPVR newbie. Running .94.13 on Win 2K Server using a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe US2 2.0 device. Everything is working fine except the ability to change quality settings for a recording. No matter which setting I choose when setting up a recording (regardless of any changes I make in the "standard" settings) I get a recording of 6000 Kbps/2.5 gig an hour/720x480. Odd thing (to me is that any changes I make to audio settings bitrates show up in the recording) but the video bitrate is always the same.
I've searched around the forums and it seems that sub has that function working pretty well. I'm wondering if it might be a problem related directly to my Pinnacle Deluxe?
So I was setting up a HTPC setup using MediaMVP for the first time and I was dead set on using SageTV to run it. I thought that I would just install GB-PVR to work out all the kinks and then install SageTV.
Instead it turns out that GB-PVR well exceeded my expectations and I'm finding myself struggling for a reason to stop using GB-PVR and move to SageTV. It has worked so great out of the box! The only compelling reasons to move were the ability to search for programs by genre (which I think the XRecord plugin will solve) and suggestions (which I don't think I saw a plugin for). Still I don't think those reasons are enough pay $80+ and to tear me away from GB-PVR.
Just wondering where you get your DVD's cheap in NZ, or if you import most of them like me?
Do most of you buy them from a shop, or online?
I can't remember the last time I brought a DVD from a shop. I get annoyed that they take them out of the case and put them in those BS paper or plastic envelops, only to have them get small scratches all over them.
Just curious as I'm always looking for a cheap local supplier.
is it possible to enable the *system* screensaver in gbpvr? specifically i would like it to launch during inactivity when nothing is playing *and* when audio is playing. obviously, if video were playing you wouldn't want a screensaver to pop on. sound weird? here is why i ask:
as mentioned earlier, gbpvr does not have a visualization built in *but* there are some really nice screensaver visualizations out there (like geiss) that would work great if they could be launched after a preset amount of inactivity when music is playing or when in a menu. would be a nice quick fix for the visualization complaint without actually having to code it.
