I am using windows media player as an external task in GBPVR to play audio CDs, using the arguments /device: DVD (Device: audio CD doesn't work!) the /fullscrren switch doesn't work because it has to go before the /device which then doesn't have the desired effect (i.e. play CD with full screen visualizations no menu bar etc.). Anyone have any idea how I can automatically send a fullscreen command to WMP after the CD has started playing ?
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Is it possible to access recordings via the web. I have some recordings of shows that others would like to d/l from me. I have tried using icq on my pvr machine with the shared folders option enabled. However, I think that the actual file must be manually placed into the shared folder for this to work. I would like to grant access to users via a password to access the shows recorded and placed into the My Videos folder.
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What I'm about to talk you about is not a GBPVR issue, I only am looking for ideas about using my remote more powerfully.
Let me explain :
I do have only one computer at home with a graphic card that allows me to perform dual screen display. The main display is for working on my PC, the second is for the GBPVR TV display. I am able to simultaneously work on my PC and watch GBPVR-Live TV on my TV set (thanks to the dual view feature of my graphic card). Here is the thing : I have a Pinnacle TV Card (MediaCenter 200i which owns a dvb-t tuner) and I'm using an old Pinnacle Remote (which came with my old Pinnacle PCTV Analog Card). The remote came with an IR receiver (plugged into the serial port of the PC) and a Pinnacle little program (remote.exe) which for each remote pressed button performs a Keyboard shortcut I programmed. Therefore I programmed the remote to work fine with GBPVR but it has to be focused : I mean that the remote acts on focused programs only but when I'm doing something else with my computer, GBPVR isn't focused and then the remote cannot control GBPVR.
Does anyone of you has an idea to make the remote control GBPVR even if it is not focused which may help my girlfriend watch and control TV or recorded shows while I'm working on the computer.
Sorry if that message is long but I wanted to explain it in details in order you to be aware of my "configuration". Thank you
I decided to try out cleaning the EPG data last night to maybe help with performance....
The size of the gbpvr.mdb file was around 98meg!
I hit the "Empty EPG" button, and it thunk for quite a while. But when I opened the db in access there were still 31000 rows in the programme table, with some repeated rows!
Repeated pressing of the empty epg button still didn't clear out the data. I tried with the recording service stopped & Access closed (in case of locking issues). No dice.
Eventually I decided to to the clean manually with Access (after making a backup of the DB). After cleaning & compression the DB was at about 512Kb.
After an "UpdateEPG" it went up to 65Meg!!!
(I load 2 weeks of data & the XML file is approx 8 meg long)
So two things here:
1) "Empty EPG" didn't really do an empty.
2) Why is the DB sooo big? Is this just access?
An extra complication was that some preexisting recordings changed name e.g. "Frasier" became "Judge Judy" etc Obviously due to the fact I'd deleted the original programme IDs & the recording IDs pointed to new programmes.
So what would I need to do to do a safe clean?
I figured that the schedules from the epg are -1 hour.
I went to the config, re-configured the xmltv setting to +1 hour, clicked empty epg, then update epg, but still times continue to be wrong.
Any hint?
Second, when i select to watch a channel, it takes up to 30 seconds until the first channel display starts. I'm using software encoders, no tvout, pvr 350, epia sp8000E.
Once the live tv runs, performance is ok.
I tried to burn a tv show to a Sony DRU-700A and it got stuck on step 1 of 3 all night. I ran Sony's DVDChecker utility and all is well. Is there a configuration setting I missed? I have the DVD read and write directories, dvdauthor and dvddecrypter paths set up correctly. Thanks for helping out a newbie.
Hi everyone. I am currently in the process of setting up a HTPC and was wondering if I can use my MCE remote (Version 2 with no coloured buttons) /IR blaster with GBPVR to control a DishNetwork 301 receiver? I've done a bunch of searching on this site but I'm confused. Some posts say it is possible and others say it is not? I will be using MCE 2005 and would like to run GBPVR.
Well, i've looked through the forum trying to find an answer; I've changed video decoders multiple times; I've fiddled with the Live Preview Mode settings... BUT I CAN'T FIGURE THIS OUT!!!
I did my first three recordings tonight after spending the past two days yesterday installing GBPVR, some plugins, and the BlueMCE2 skin. RMy first two recordings went without a hitch. Although my third recording isn't coming out that great. When I try to watch it while it's recording the audio is staticy and the video is horrible. Attached are my logs. And here is a link to a 20 second long sample of the recorded video so you can see what I'm talking about. (http://rapidshare.de/files/7425339/movie_clip.zip.html)
One more thing so it's clear... I'm having no trouble watching live tv.
Thanks for the help!!
--edit--
I just attempted to watched the actual recordings of my first two shows. Video quality was horrible. Audio was ok, though. What could be wrong?????? I changed NOTHING between each of three recordings!
