I've always had the My Programs installed but it was the first release build (1.1 i think). With this build installed, none of the skins have ever 'flickered' - i.e., every 2 seconds, fonts would disappear and then reappear (sometimes, the app even crashes with an error)
Well, i upgraded the plugin to build 2.0.0.4 and now, my skins are 'flickering' all the time (i've checked with blue and blueMCE2).
If I unchecked the plugin in Config (and delete it from plugin dir) - no more flickering.
If reinstalled the plugin - flickering comes back.
FYI, I also have Video Archiver plugin installed - only have the VA Panel checked tho...
I did a search in forums and couldn't find anything...
Is the above a known pb with My Programs 2.0.0.4 ?
PS: thnx heaps for your work on the My Series ... it's what helped my family comfortably move to gbpvr
I'd like to improve the general look of GB-PVR, but unfortunately I'm artisically challenged, so I'll have to look to the wider community for help.
I'd like to replace the 'blue' skin with one that will give a better first impression. This may be a matter of adopting an already existing skin, or designing an entirely new one. I would like to hear people's thoughts on this, or if the ideal skin already exists then let us know. I'd love to see any general discussion on this, from color scheme's, good fonts, background images etc. This is your chance to get it looking the way you think it should.
To help ensure we can make a great skin, I'm happy to make changes to the core components of GB-PVR, but I have to be realistic about what can be changed in a reasonable period of time, and what can be done within the limitations of the devices we support, so not everything will be possible.
Stealing artwork from other applications may cause me legal problems, so we'll need to avoid this.
I'm a noob to GBPVR running the latest release 09412.
PIII600
Win XP
PVR150
ATI AIW VE - PCI
running WinVNC server
connected to TV - no monitor
dedicated to PVR - no other functions running on the box.
There is a Showshifter installation disabled (ie; not running)
GBPVR records ok, got most stuff working, but whenever I use the menu via ir blaster or remotely via VNC - I get a crash. By "use the menu" I mean like, arrow down from say TV Guide to Recordings and boom - I get a crash.
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at xf5bc786a1d6def9c.x18f56f732cd3e8b1.renderPanel()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& xbae0ec4fbb835d1e)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.ForceRepaint()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.x5337203f86c34517(String x2022b5e8d76ee693)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& x5f8f2c40c000ab2c)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.
I can restart GBPVR and eventually get done what I want to do, but it's a bit cumbersome.
Now that Quicktime 7 is available for Windows, it means easy access to the very, very nice H.264/AVC codec.
I would love to be able to use this codec in GBPVR (Imagine how much space it would save over regular mpeg2 encoding and xvid/divx).
I've done some preliminary tests with the codec and I am completely amazed over how crazy this codec is, so for me this would be my nr. 1 feature sought after.
Has anyone been able to get this combination to work? Or if not, can you recommend a remote that does work with the SA explorer 8000 (and of course, gbpvr?)
While I see most folks here with the 500 seem to have audio issues with radio, my radio works fine in gbpvr, The problem I'm having is that no audio is being recorded with the .mpg stream. I also get no audio while watching live-tv.
I have a Hauppauge 500MCE, and a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS and am running in winxp. Any ideas?
due to a request of cape-city, the shutdown plugin got enhanced again:
- removed option to define what 'shutdown' does (shutdown, standby, hibernate). instead:
- added new buttons 'standby', 'hibernate' and 'logoff' (by default commented out). all buttons except 'main menu' are optional. so you can define your prefered options.
- removed 'order'-attribute from skin-xml. the 'tab-order' of the buttons is now definied by the order of the <button>-tags itself. adding this was a bad idea (apologies!). this way skins supporting >=v2.0 don't need to be edited.
I just can't update the EPG from DVB. Other update sources work OK and so does viewing of DVB channels.
Here's the error in config.exe's log: 25-Sep-05 8:11:28 PM.328 INFO [144] Auto-Updating EPG
25-Sep-05 8:11:28 PM.375 ERROR [144] Unexpected failed in DvbEpgReader.LoadChannels(): System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.DvbEpgReader.LoadChannels(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback x421ce789b9741187)
After so much experimenting, installing and uninstalling, i think i have a few codecs and dshow filters laying around in my system, that i don't use and probably should get rid of--though the problem is, i don't know which ones to remove and which ones to keep. I'm wondering if someone can help me and/or give me a general guideline on how to identify which of these i should remove and/or unregister.
... it's what helped my family comfortably move to gbpvr 
