I have yet to get channel changing on my cable box automated... Hauppauge's IR Blaster won't send an Enter after the channel change, the serial port on the my cable box is disabled and the first IR emitter I ordered was broken. So, I have to change the channel manually.

Trouble is, when you look at the details of a Pending recording, it doesn't tell you what channel it's going to be recording on. I fortunately did discover the web interface shows the channel... but my PC's dedicated to the TV and therefore in gbpvr 100% of the time, so my remote and I can't log into the web.

After succesfully used gbpvr for 2 weeks now, i now get failed recordings.
Yesterday i added a Hauppauge pvr500mce without any trouble.
I verified that all tuners worked by enableing a specific channel for each tuner wich were disabled for the other 2.
I don't see something obvious in the logs, but then again i don't know what i'm looking for.
I attached a few log files wich i thought were relevant. 1 show in there for instance "The king of queens" failed it was aired at 13-okt 18:25 - 18:55
The machine was on at the time doing nothing, no screensaver no hibernation or whatever.

Thanks for any suggestion.

GBPVR Version: 0.94.13

OS: Win XP Pro SP2

Mainboard: Epox 8rgm21 (nvidia nforce2) / AMD +2300 or something... / 1 GB memory

Capture: Hauppauge Nova DVB-T (90002)

Output: Xcard


Problem: When I try to use LIVE TV with my "live preview mode" -on, my system totally crashes (harddisk buffer mode does not work either, no picture, no sound)

Question: Should this hardware construction work in principle? Should livepreview work? And how to get it to work.

( Actually after my last crash, GBPVR wont start at all. .NET -system tells there is a broblem, ill fix this somehow... )

I just love this software, even though I have had nothing but broblems with it, but most have been only my stupidity, and learned a lot

DVD Discs dont want to play also, just blank screen, and GBPVR freezes. but for NOW I want to get LIVE TV to work.

By the way, is it possible somehow to record on-the-fly to DIVX-Format?

Thank You in advance for help =)

-JP-

I may be missing this somewhere (probably am).

It would be nice if the reocurring recording window would provide a little more information. Right now it only shows the title of the recording and that it is reocurring. It would be nice if it showed info more like the pending display - particularly day/date/time of recording. That way I can tell which recording is which without having to enter each one and risk hitting cancel when leaving it. That's happened to me much to frequently. I know that's my fault for making a mistake, but this extra info in the listing would prevent it.

It would also be helpful if this display was sorted differently - maybe order of recording? It seems like it is currently ordered by when the recording was entered.

Sorry if I'm asking for something already there and, in my stupidity, I am missing it.

Panagiotis Govotsos

All, I am playing around with developing my own system information plugin. Here is what I have thus far:



The problem I am having is making it flexible in terms of skinning. Right now I am using a CompositeImage along with a DrawRoundedRect to draw the rectangle around the drive information -- this part is in the skin.

However, in the code, I have it set to enumerate the drives and their status using absolute positioning. I am using DrawString and DrawRoundRect (from the original sysinfo plugin) to accomplish this.

The problem is that the skin can't know how many drives there are.

To rectify this, I was thinking of manually parsing the skin.xml file and adding my own nodes prior to calling the SkinHelper constructor. At least then, the dynamically created nodes would be relative to the parent CompositeImage/DrawRoundedRect.

Any other ideas?

I've got a WinTV PVR 350 and used to use it with a Media MVP for timeshifting TV. I've since replaced the MVP with a LiteOn LVD 2010 and am wondering if I can still timeshift using this combination?

Thanks.

according to this review of the new ipod video:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/article...ith-video/
the ipod video can only play video of mpeg-4 and the new H.264.
Will the mpg files that gbpvr records play back on the ipod video?
If not, can anything be done as far as changing the recording format or auto conversion to make video compatible for the ipod video?

I am about to purchase a Hauppauge HVR1300.
Can anyone confirm that this is supported.
Thanks

In case you missed it, Apple yesterday announced a ipod with video capability (320 x 240 30fps h.264 and mpeg-4 supported).

More info here:

http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html

Apple already has released a way to buy music videos and various tv-shows (Deperate Housewives, Lost, etc.) via their iTunes music store, but what's even better is that they've made it completely open for you to transfer your own video to the ipod.

More info here:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials...video.html


I think it would be awesome if you could "sync" your video ipod with your gbpvr recorded shows, and that way have your own recorded content with you on-the-go.

So basically my with is:

1. A change in the UI, so you could "tick off" the shows/recordings you wanted to export to your ipod (this could probably easily be made to work with the PSP as well, since the PSP uses the same codec as the video ipod)

2. A way to run a script after the show has been recorded (and possibly edited for commercial skipping), that kicks off the export of the recorded show.

3. An easy way to import the video to the ipod. The easiest way I see it, is via a podcast with a video attachment (GBPVR already has a built-in webserver, so that could probably be implemented semi-easily).

This could also open up for across-the-internet syncing of shows.

I know that the framework for GBPVR is based on Windows' media layer, but what I'm asking for is not native support for quicktime, but merely some way for example to facilitate easy export to other formats.

Most of the "Quicktime stuff" could probably be handed via a script that calls the relevant quicktime functions, so basically the most important stuff to have integrated would be the framework for it all to work together seamlessly (Meaning, you press record, tick of a box "export to ipod/psp", and everything is automatically done for you).

Hello folks,

I'm looking to buy an IR 'blaster' to allow GBPVR to change channels on my Telewest box. I think at about £80 RedRat is rather too expensive. USB UIRT at about £43 looks like a better bet, but I wonder if anyone can answer a couple of questions I have about it:

1. Do I need to buy Girder to get it to work with GBPVR?

2. What's the range like? I think I'd need about 5 metres to allow it to transmit across the room to the set top box.

Many thanks