1) the Tuning Assistant will only scan the first 11 channel frequencies, which in the case of New Zealand only covers the VHF band and misses out the UHF channel frequencies. After doing some research I found that for New Zealand it scans through the registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TV System Services\TVAutoTune\TS64-0]
This has 47 channels listed, so why doesn't the Tuning Assistant scan all 47 channel frequencies?
2) I also found out that if .........\TS0-0 key exists, then the Tuning Assistant and GBPVR will use that key instead of the TS64-0 key. This can really screw up your TV channel configuration in gbpvr if some other program generated the entries in the TS0-0 key (which is what happened to me). Is this supposed to happen?
It would be really appreciated if GBPVR could automatically detect and keep the source aspect ratio. This feature is very common on software DVD players and the competition (MediaPortal), and in my opinion would add substantial value to GBPVR.
I use GBPVR ver 94.13. When using the std plugin, Video Library, under MVP, I get a glitch when a video finishes playing. At video end, it goes back to the list of videos available (good) but when I try to navigate up or down with the Ch +or- it jumps back to the main menu. On the computer it navigates as expected.
'Just when one thought it was bad enough to try and introduce a bill to criminalise the skipping of commercials, apparently Microsoft has filed a patent where a user's subscription or rental fee on viewing content can be based on the user's viewing habits. For example, this would allow users to be charged fees for fast forwarding through or otherwise skipping over the commercials on TV, whether it is a recording on DVD, video-on-demand service or even a programme on TV/Cable/Satellite. On the other hand, the patent covers the rewarding of discounts for watching commercial advertising. If you copy, please show appreciation by linking back to CDFreaks.
As advertisers are losing interest in delivering paid advertising to users just for them to skip over the ads, Microsoft’s patent aims to solve this issue for media content providers by charging users based on their viewing habits, such as to penalise those who skip all the commercials or to reward those who watch them all. For example, this approach would essentially allow advertisers to only be charged for ads that are actually rendered. Microsoft's patent covers content on devices such as PVR's, DVDs video-on-demand set-top boxes, PCs, TV/Satellite/Cable recording devices or other equipment where users can skip over content.
"In addition to the revenue obtained from viewers for monthly content subscriptions and pay-per-view purchases, these advertisements for products and services are a large source of revenue for a provider of the media content," the patent application reads. "However, advertisers will be increasingly unwilling to have their advertising messages communicated with media content that a viewer can navigate to skip over the advertisements.
"Accordingly, media content providers need to provide alternate advertisement revenue models so that advertisers will continue to sponsor advertising messages being delivered with media content for consumer viewing."
So the solution, according to Microsoft's patent application, is to charge people when they skip these commercials and possibly charge them less in monthly fees when they do watch the advertisements. The full text patent can be viewed here. If content providers start making use of this patent,the worst affected will be those who insist on skipping all commercials as this would mean having to pay the full price. As consumers don’t pay for terrestrial TV in the US, then if these content providers take on this technology, it will be interesting to see how they will go about charging consumers for skipping over their commercials, especially since their programmes are mostly paid for through advertising. Please link back to CDFreaks if you copy this, thanks.
For pay-per-view content such as sporting events and movies, chances are that content providers will charge a higher fee for their content and then offer rebates based on how many commercials the user has watched during the programmes. I would not be keen on seeing DVDs take this on as it would mean having to purchase a new DVD player to support the user’s viewing habits or otherwise be excluded from discounts.'
From time to time I get a blank Menu Item. If I press that item I get an errormessages like "Index out of range".
To fix it I run config.exe one or two times and it works again. The blank item is always the shutdown plugin, located at the bottom of the Menu. My menu has more items not visible to screen and contains also a Submenu.
It seems XP SP2 can't find a driver for the MCE 2005 remote. I tried the microsoft driver download but it seems when you try to install it (run the executable) it is expecting you to have the media centre o/s:mad: (got it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en)
Can anyone confirm where to get an XP SP2 compatible driver from?
I'm currently using v0.93.10 gbpvr on win2k and everything is working great. i have a hauppauge 350 and 150 dual tuner setup and use zap2it for my listings. If I change my config.xml to pull in more than 3 days in listings (setting is <Zap2itListingDays>3</Zap2itListingDays>) I get memory errors where it states I have run out of memory and gbpvr.exe hangs and i have to terminate it. Even a value of 4 causes it to hang.
I get the following in my gbpvr main log as an example. Is there anyway around this that anyone knows of?? I'd love to load at least 1 week for the listings. This is a small piece and it keeps repeating until memory runs out. Thanks in advance.
9/30/2005 3:10:14 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 3:10:14 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 3:25:19 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 3:25:19 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 3:40:25 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 3:40:25 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 3:55:31 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 3:55:31 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 4:10:37 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 4:10:37 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 4:25:43 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 4:25:43 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 4:40:49 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 4:40:49 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 4:55:55 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 4:55:55 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 5:11:01 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:11:01 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 5:26:07 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:26:07 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 5:41:13 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:41:13 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 5:56:19 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:56:19 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 5:59:02 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] MDB updated, forcing refresh of next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:59:08 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 5:59:08 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 6:14:14 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 6:14:14 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 6:29:20 AM.968 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 6:29:20 AM.968 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 6:32:02 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] MDB updated, forcing refresh of next recording panel
9/30/2005 6:32:08 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 6:32:08 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 6:47:14 AM.953 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 6:47:15 AM.078 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 7:02:20 AM.062 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 7:02:20 AM.093 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 7:17:26 AM.062 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 7:17:26 AM.156 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 7:32:32 AM.062 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 7:32:32 AM.109 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 7:47:38 AM.046 VERBOSE [2] Loading recordig list for next recording panel
9/30/2005 7:47:38 AM.156 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
9/30/2005 8:01:38 AM.703 ERROR [2] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tick:Out of memory.
9/30/2005 8:01:40 AM.375 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at cp.a(Boolean& A_0)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
9/30/2005 8:01:44 AM.062 ERROR [2] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tick:Out of memory.
9/30/2005 8:01:44 AM.062 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at cp.a(Boolean& A_0)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
9/30/2005 8:01:50 AM.062 ERROR [2] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tick:Out of memory.
9/30/2005 8:01:50 AM.062 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at cp.a(Boolean& A_0)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
9/30/2005 8:01:56 AM.062 ERROR [2] Encounter unexpected exception in timerRefresh_Tick:Out of memory.
9/30/2005 8:01:56 AM.062 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at cp.a(Boolean& A_0)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
.............
this keeps repeating until it hangs.
I am getting an error randomly, but mainly when I moving between menu options. I have not really changed anything on my system, but changed some GBPVR settings. The error has to do with missing reference to an object. The log talks about a missing DB connection. But you will see more in the attached log file.
