Following the current trend of attampting to make GBPVR a little prettier I've started working on a new skin. It's my first attempt and seems to be going pretty well up until now and am looking forward to posting the results.

However, I was wondering if it's possible to reposition/recolour the black panels in the 'Search Guide' page. I can't find them in the xml and have a worrying feeling they are probably hard coded. Could someone please clarify this as if i can't move/colour them then i'll have to rethink the design.

Also, so I know what to work around in the future, are there any other panels which can't be changed?

It would be a shame if there are as it means there will always be tell tale signs of the 'old' GBPVR and makes a complete 'theme' out of the question.


Thanks

Although I love the look and feel and extensibility of GBPVR does not always behave the way I want it to... and sometimes I revert to the old faithful MVP software.

What i was thinking of doing was to use the MyPrograms plugin to run something (a batch file perhaps?) that will stop the GBPVR service and start the MVP services on my PC. I would then (somehow) be able to start up the MVP software. Not sure if this would this need a 'soft' reboot of MVP from the remote or a 'hard' reboot by powering down the MVP?

As this would not be modifying the start up behaviour of the services on the PC at the next PC reboot the GBPVR service and software would start.

What I want to know (before I start messing about) is has anyone done anything similar or is there any reason why this would not work?

Also has anyone got ideas on a way to switch back from MVP software to GBPVR without rebooting or accessing the PC?

Just a minor issue that I think came with 92.11.

The default recording quality will no always be "Medium" regardless of what I try to set in the Recording source configuration.

When going back into the configuration pop-up, it shows that it still is "Medium"

Workaround: Setting the recording quality specificaly for each show I record.

A curiosity, when deselecting "use ffdshow if installed" I only get sound and a black screen (with osd) why?

I have a new dual-head display running since Friday. The primary display is an Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 AGP (great card, works fine) and a Radeon 7000 VE PCI (older but has S-Video out). I've been able to get GB-PVR running on the second display and on the TV with some hassle allowing me to use my desktop while things are playing on the TV (although I've decided I won't do this for reasons not relevant here).

At some point while screwing around with this setup this weekend, I somehow lost the live preview, not only for GBPVR but also WinTV. Figuring this was a driver issue, I went to http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...vr150.html and updated *everything*. This restored live preview mode for both programs and I assume all was well. All was definitely not well.

When it came time for GBPVR to record a program, it changed the channel, created the directory and file (of zero size) and then the recording service terminated. There were no errors in any of the logs, and there were no error dialogs. Restarting the recording service succeeded only to have it terminate when it tried to begin recording again.

At first I thought this was a bug with the new version (the new new version) and I tried to revert (which started a battle with windows MSI installer which I barely escaped alive.)

I eventually was able to revert and found the problem persisted across the previous version as well. Having gained nothing, I upgraded again and still encountered the problem. I downgraded again, and was getting no where.

I'll note here that live preview mode DID work at this point for both GBPVR and WinTV. Only recording with GBPVR caused the service to die, and unfortunately I was too focused on getting this problem fixed to check and see if recording with WinTV still worked.

I finally decided to uninstall the new video decoder (http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/...wsmd05.exe) and found there was no uninstall method for it. I just (as in minutes ago) reverted my entire system to a restore point the system created when I first installed the newest GBPVR which should have been before I revamped the WinTV suite of crap. This seems to have worked, as a test (finding anything and setting it to quick rec from the guide) resulted in this:

08/15/2005 04:19 AM 20,694,976 The Real Da Vinci Code_20050815_04000600.mpg

and the recording service did not terminate.

Now since I lack a JIT debugger for C# (I'm a Java and C guy, I have debuggers for those but not this) I can't even begin to tell you where things went wrong, only that the recording service was consistently terminating without logging any errors (yes I set the error level to Debug) after creating the file on disk, and that my best guess is that the video decoder update was responsible. Either that, or one of the most recent driver updates (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...r150.html), I had installed them all.

I strongly urge that no one go to that hauppauge site and update their drivers until this has been investigated more fully.

Good luck figuring this out.

Hey sub if buy the newer (URC6134N 6IN1 upgradeable remote whit DVR/PVR) do I still need to get a usb-uirt to control the cable box. It looks like I can program the remote to control the cable box...but will it be able to control gb-pvr. I have a ir blaster that i got from here http://www.irblaster.info. will this work. Is so do I need drivers for it.

Thanks soloxp

Every so often when hitting the "forecast" button in weather, I get an error message (didn't write it down, and naturally, it's working now) and the forecast not only won't show, it can only be fixed by a shutdown of gbpvr and restarting it again.

When it happens again, I'll be sure to write down the error message and post it here, but has anyone else had this problem (and perhaps can recite the error message too)

I'd like for the movie listings to be able to be updated, but in dialing in my skin, I can't figure out if there's a way to have the listing delete/remove/not show a few theaters.

I'm simply NEVER going to those theaters, so if those few theaters can be set to never update and never show on my display, it'll save me time and headaches paging through them.

Possible?

I have figured out how this cool little app works but I'm just not having the kind of success that I want. For some reason, the left margin of the GBPVR menu is offset by roughly 1 inch from the actual edge of the TV screen. I've tried to widen the "width" setting which only expanded the right side of the viewable area. Adjusting the offset only made the left edge disappear behind the left margin as if it were some sort of solid border. This problem only affects the MVP menu screen (blue skin is the default). Video files play normally.

Any suggestions?

P.S. - I think the original thread on this subject has been deleted because I simply couldn't find it. The link on the wiki only takes you to the Developer forum, not the thread itself.

Quick example...

Tonight on ITV1 was 'Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia'. Next week's episode (same channel/timeslot) is simply shown as 'Agatha Christie's Poirot' with a sub-title of 'Sad Cypyus'. I've noticed this seems to be more common in TV listings recently, i.e., sometimes using a ':' and the sub-title to make up the main title. What would be nice would be an option to treat a ':' as a prefix/suffix delimiter and match season recordings on the prefix.

...or should I say it never pauses to give me the option to save any stations as presets. Basically it works fine if I manually enter a freq. and save it but a scan just gives a progress bar from left to right with split-second snippets of anything it finds along the way. When it gets to the end, it starts playing the last station it found (Radio Jackie 107.8 MHz). The gbpvr.exe.native.log shows the following...