I wondering what the overscan parameter in config.xml do? I have an overscan problem and I am wondering if this would fix it. I am specifically interested in whether this scales down resolution for DVD playback as well as liveTv and Recording. If you used this please let me know. I am just afraid to touch it so it does not screw up something else. Thanks
Would really like to see some information in the config application regarding the current plugin version that is installed. One line or two on the right hand side that changed whenever a given plugin was clicked on would be GREAT. I soemtimes lose track of which version of the plugins I've got installed.
I've been experience this hang when exitting the config application for quite some time now and don't know how to avoid the problem.
It really doesn't seem to matter what I do to try to avoid the problem, however here is what I currently do:
1. Shutdown GBPVR using exit from the main menu.
2. Stop the GBPVR recording service either using XMEDIAs stop script or from the manage console under windows.
3. Exit the tray icon.
4. Start the config application to make my changes (even if I don't make any changes this happens).
5. Click OK
6. The window saying that it is restarting the recording service appears.
7. Hang.............
At the point it hangs only the config application, JETCOMP and the config window are active (nothing else meaning no GBPVR processes, tray, recording service).
I understand that there must be a connection to the gbpvr database, but I just can't seem to figure out what application other then the config application would have the connection at this time.
If there is NO EPG data loaded into the gbpvr database then I never see this problem. I reinstalled everything this morning and config worked perfectly until I performed the EPG update (through the tray icon). After that it hung immediately.
If there is a better way to ensure there are no connections to the database before running config please let me know.
I though it might have been the web admin, but since reinstalling GBPVR I have yet to reenable that in the config.
I know this has been mentioned in the past but can find the thread. Am I right in thinking there is a six capture source limit?
What would happen if I added a seventh (would the config app. let me?) and disabled the channels on one of the existing ones temporarily to prevent it being used.
Basically I already have 6 (1x 350, 1x 500, 3x Nova-t) and I want to trial run a fourth Nova-t to see how it performs with 4 simultaneous DVB recordings. I want to change my setup as little as possible though so would prefer not to delete one of the existing sources so I can easily revert.
Or would it be safer to just 'snapshot' my gbpvr install folders and delete out a source with the option of easily reverting to my previous installation point?
I'm not sure if this is the place as I'm talking about a plugin or maybe I should have used the wishlist threads...
Anyways, couple of nice tweaks to the SCAN option in the My Videos plugin...
The ability to collect tv shows info from TV.com and... something that will be a nice addition to the GetAllMovies util is the ability to collect the info from apple (where we actually getting the trailers...)
I continue to have the strangest problems with 94.12.
Several days ago I was changing channels using the channel up/down function and after about a dozen channels the audio/video became very "choppy." After a few more channel changes the system rebooted by itself. It then went into the reboot loop where it boots, starts windows and appears to be starting GBPVR then reboots --- it repeats this process time after time. I've found that the only way to stop this is to start in Safe Mode, schedule chkdsk /f, restart, let chkdsk run and when the machine restarts everything is back to normal and GBPVR starts normally.
Last night I avoided using channel up/down adn changed channels by directly entering the channel numbers. After about a dozen channels the system reboots and goes into the reboot loop. Again, running chkdsk seems to clear it up and operation is OK.
These problems did not occur with the 92.xx release and other than the GBPVR release nothing else has changed (no new drivers, plug ins, etc.) I haven't seen other reports of anything like this so it doesn't look to be endemic in GB but rather unique to my system. The strange thing is that running chkdsk seems to clear up the immediate rebooting problem. But chkdsk never reports any errors, just running it is enough to get things straightened out. Defrag runs once a week in the early morning hours. The EPG update runs at about 5AM every morning and seems to work fine.
i think that, if a recording starts and there already exists a file with the name it is using, it clobbers it.
what happened: 4.5 hours into a 5 hour recording, i managed to crash the machine (reason unrelated to gbpvr). it rebooted automatically, and the recording service started recording, presumably to finish. unfortunately, i lost the recording prior to the reboot.
it would be nice if it checked for file existance, and appended something to create a name that doesn't exist. or, alternatively, if it renamed any pre-existing file to something unique. (maybe the latter is easier, i can see there are issues with finding it for playback.)
This is not a GBPVR problem per se but I thought I'd ask if anyone had seen this. I just bought a PVR500MCE to add two additional tuners to the 2 PVR150MCE cards in my system.
But the machine will not boot with it installed and it hangs after the BIOS display. I tried removing one of the 150 card to see if that might help but it didn't. I tried it in another machine and that machine booted fine.
Could anyone tell me what settings to use in ffdshow to get fullscreen avi's on the mvp. I have a widescreen tv. I am in the uk so need pal settings.
I have tried setting the resize to 720 * 576 but this plays letter boxed on the tv.
I have tried 640 * 288 but then some of the picture is of the screen.
Also i have the osd set up in ffdshow, this is just of the screen as well, does this have something to do with the screen settings within gbpvr.
