I guess many of us have a lot of digital photos we would like to view on the TV set in the living room. I have spent several evening organizing my photos for GB-PVR. I watch them via an MVP box, which appeared to cause a lot of trouble. The combination of the MyPictures plugin and the MediaMVP Server is not working very well.
I already started one tread about this subject, but probably in the wrong forum. http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=9779
In addition I have experienced other problems. I'll list them one by one:
1)
Sometimes I cannot stop a slideshow. When this happends, this certain folder will always have this error. I can only fix it by creating a new folder with another name, move the jpg files to the new folder and delete the old folder.
2)
Certain jpg files causes MediaMVP server to crash. Stepping through the files manually or with slideshow makes no difference. I can see the failing photo, but I cannot move on to the next. Only workaround is to delete the failing files from the folder and restart MVP.
See detailed description http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=9779
3)
certain jpg files stops slideshow, but I can get out by pressing Stop on the remote control.
Only workaround is to delete the failing files from the folder.
4)
If I edit a jpg file (ie. rotate it) and save it again, MyPictures doesn't realize that the file has been changed.
The workaround is to save the edited picture with a new filename and delete the original.
[COLOR="Red"]None of these problems appear if I use GB-PVR direcly on the PC, only with MVP I see the problems.
The MVP box can view any of the failing files with the Hauppauge software.[/COLOR]
After spending weeks trying different HTPC/PVR software I ended up with GB-PVR as a clear favorite.
It is stable and the basic installation fulfils most of my needs. I only missed the picture viewer, which to my oppinion is a very essential part of at PVR/HTPC. I hoped that the plugin would be of a quality matching the GB-PVR, but so far I am getting more and more frustrated.
Coming home from a vacation with 200 photos takes ages to organize. Every time the slideshow meets a jpg file it doesn't like, I'll have to restart MediaMVP box 3 - 4 times until I am back in business and ready to continue the slide show.
I hope that you guys who write the GB-PVR software and MyPictures plugin Please please please will give these errors priority in your brilliant work.
As I have the opportunity to buy the MVP from US for a fraction of the price i´n DK, I just want to briefly ask if the version sold in the US has a 110V PSU or a universal 110-220V PSU?
For the shutdown plugin, I'm wondering how hard it would be to add a scheduled task, like a scheduled reboot.
I know I could do it externally within windows, but Shutdown already seems to know about upcoming recordings so I thought this was a logical place to put it.
I thought I remember (maybe it was just a feature request) that if there were multiple recordings in the sub-directory, and you were playing back with MVP, GBPVR would play the next recording without user interaction.
I have lots of 30 minute recordings that I'd love to just hit play once, and have all of them play back-to-back. WIth auto-comskip now working, in the US, a 30 minute program is really about 17 - 20 minutes, its annoying to have to keep going back to play every 17 minutes.
Also, what about auto-delete once a program has played. I see a screen much like the resume screen, asking "you have viewed this recording in its entirety, would you like to delete?" Then there would be Delete and Keep buttons.
Well if you have noticed there are a host of new movies out that you obviously own and want to backup or make into MPEG for MVP usage. I can tell you at least Hitch, Lords of Dogtown and Batman Begins have new copy protection on them. The latest DVDDecrypter, setup properly, will backup and convert Hitch just fine. But then comes the next two, nothing works... or at least nothing that seems to be used by the majority of us........ until now...
I found a cool, free program that has command line options, it looks like it will work, I have not fully tested it yet.. But I intend to.. Once I do, I will post information here... If you are interested in doing it yourself, b/c I'm just slow about getting things done, get DVDFabDecrypter from http://www.dvdidle.com.
Of course I must say, only BACKUP or DVD2MPEG DVDs you own.. Don't steal movies.
I live on the east coast in USA and have GBPVR setup to update EPG's from zap2it at 3AM everyday. It seems like since I upgraded to v0.94.13 it hasn't been auto-updating properly. I have to manually open the config app and update the EPG. This is an XP Pro box which is set to never go to sleep. Is there a log somewhere that I can check to see if the update is working properly? I went to zap2it and checked to make sure my account hadn't expired (had this happen once) and it was showing that it is still good until 12/16/2005.
Just as a minor change to usabiity, could we allow a user to skip a day in the tv guide? For example, if looking at the listings for Tuesday at 9:00pm, a use could hit vol up/down to skip to Wed/9:00pm or Mon/9:00pm rather than having to page through 24 hours of scheduling.
Can we have an Always on Top setting for windowed view. So that I can do some other stuff like surfing without GB-PVR window going under all the other windows.
There is a free alternative for Videoredo and Womble MPEG-VCR.
Its called mpeg2cut2.
It is a GOB cutter so don't expect frame accurate edits but it is supposed to have a very robust MPEG decoder allowing also the cutting of DVB-T recordings.
It features a new cutlist format that is currently not generated by comskip or SA.
But I may consider adding it to Comskip (if I understand the format, a lot of redundant info in there)
I am not sure if mpeg2cut2 fixes the PTS at the cutpoint so there is not jump in the timeline at the cut point causing some mpeg players to crash or otherwise fail.
