I've recently set up a GBPVR system with a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI and a MediaMVP. All is working very well, it really is an excellent system which seems extremely stable despite pushing the little MVP to its limits....
Just a couple of quick questions though.
Firstly, I have an old Aver TV Studio card which has a BT878 chip on-board which can be used for watching analogue channels and has an S-Video input. Reading this forum I note that it should be possible to get this to work utilising the software encoder plugin. Question is, will this give results good enough to be sufficient to grab programmes from a standalone satellite receiver or similar? If not, what is the minimum hardware I can get away with for this task, which I'll rarely use but may come in handy occasionally?
Secondly, are there any pitfalls associated with using two non-matching DVB-T cards? I've seen the Twinhan PCI card going cheap but will buy another Hauppauge if using one of each is going to cause a problem.
my remote seems to work fine when all of a sudden it stops working. i have narrrowed it down to the fact when i press a button that doesnt work ie-prev. ch" buttom the remote stops working. when i restart the pc all is good.
ANYONE???
thanks 4 dah help
matt
Setup- Happauge PVR-150
45 button remote
gbpvr version 94.13
win xp home
amd 3400+ 512 megs ram
Hej Have been using the default Blue skin. have now tried several other skins BlueMCE , BluBubbles and some others. after setting these in config the gbpvr application simply doesn't start up. going back to Blue in config it will then start. I have found one other skin that works and this is BlueMCE2
Am I missing somethig or is this a bug
I am using version 9413
When I select Videos from my menu I get a screen called Recordings. It lists my shows I have recorded on the left and on the right gives episode title. If I click on this, a new window pop's up. In this is the episode description, a picture of a television and 4 buttons on the bottom. Play, Archive, Delete and Cancel. I thought the poster or picture for the show was supposed to be pulled from the internet. I just have pictures of a tv. What am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to parse my xmltv file to pull out the programme start/end times, channel id and title. I'm using an XPath query to get all the programmes as follows (apologies for it being VB.NET but it's much the same when done in C#)...
Code:
Dim GuideDoc As Xml.XmlDocument
Dim GuideNode, TempNode1, TempNode2 As Xml.XmlNode
Dim ProgrammeList, TitleList As Xml.XmlNodeList
GuideDoc = New Xml.XmlDocument
GuideDoc.Load(New Xml.XmlTextReader(New IO.StreamReader("C:\Program Files\XMLTV Radio Times\data.xml")))
GuideNode = GuideDoc.DocumentElement
ProgrammeList = GuideNode.SelectNodes("programme")
The problem is that each '<programme>' node actually has the timing and channel info in it as in...
But each XmlNode in ProgrammeList simply has an XmlNode.Name of 'programme'. for the life of me I can't find a way to get the rest of the data.
Is this possible or do I need to treat the XML file simply as flat text and just do string searches on each line read? I can do that already but it's horribly inefficient.
Cheers,
Brian
PS unless I'm missing something, I can't find anything in the GBPVR.Public namespace which allows me to access the original file - only the EPG data in the database.
I was thinking about this, if some more options could be added to the TV Guide when you get information about a certain show.
- Alert
- Lookup
Since GBPVRTray is resident on your system and you don't watch TV all the time. Could there be a chance to add a reminder/alert for a certain show? While I was surfing through the TV Guide, I noticed that the options for the show are very limited. "Exit", "Quick Record", "Record" and "Watch". Could it be added that there would be an "Alert" option?
So that when GVPVR is closed and you're doing some other stuff on the computer, you can get alerted to a show that's coming up. (You can set the alert to how many minutes before the show starts before it pops up)
An option for "Lookup" could be added too. If you use "Lookup" the TV Guide will search for similar shows or their replays. It'll be helpful because then you can schedule your recordings/life on when the replay/next episode of the series would be.
