Well, i am very pleased with gbpvr, and now when it works like a charm i been thinking of ways to really spice it up a bit, hence the little wishlist below:
1. the xml-app i use, o2grabber can save extended info about actors abd a lot of stuff, see code-snippet:
<programme start="20050812230000 +0200" stop="20050813010000 +0200" channel="26.dagenstv.com">
<title lang="sv">Fire down below</title>
<desc lang="sv">Amerikanskt actiondrama från 1997. Det amerikanska miljödepartementet får ett tips om att någon dumpar giftigt avfall. Gifterna kan vara orsaken till byns hälsoproblem och man sänder genast dit en agent för att utreda fallet. När han och två FBI-agenter snart hittas mördade i området sänder man dit det tyngsta artilleriet, i form av specialagenten Jack Taggert för att finna mördarna och stoppa de som dumpar avfallet. </desc>
<credits>
<director>Felix Enriquez Alcal</director>
</credits>
<year production="1997" />
<premiere />
<category>Film</category>
<category>Action</category>
</programme>
There you see al ot of info (though Actor-info is missing... drat!) anyway....veeery cool IMHO.. But, is there a way to search for that extended info? Perhaps in enhanched webadmin or?
Also, as a bonus o2grabber can give you an extra xml-file with categories, codesnippet below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<Categories>
<Date Value="20050812">
<Program Name="Best of friends" Category="Actionfilm" />
<Program Name="Flood: A river's rampage" Category="Actionfilm" />
Would be cool to search for special categories, right?
2. Reruns... we either love recording them, or hate it.. Anyway, in the epgxml described above it is often clearly stated that chosen programme is a rerun, or "Repris" in swedish...
My thought here, is it possible to do a filter or similar where you can choose whether you lie to display the reruns or not?
Well, thats it from me!
Cheers!
/edit/ Stupid me, it would help if i looked in a new, fresh xml-file as well, ah well... Changed the code a bit /edit
When I'm watching live tv and I hit the green button it brings up the scrollable show descriptions for what's on every channel. Right now it shows the channel number (twice), the channel letters, logo and show description. Would it be possible to put the show title in there as well? Maybe remove "Browsing Mini Guide" since you should know what you're doing when you hit the button.
thanks
i'm fairly new to HTPC but I've tried all that is out there for software and I must say the GB-pvr is quite nice. The flexability is unmatched.
I have a problem however. I use a pvr150 and xcard to my tv. It seems that the ui "sticks" on the screen. If I select a chanel from the EPG the menu stays on the screen. I can hear the audio but the video is hidden. The only way I know to remove it is to hit the guide button to bring up the mini-guide, then the full screen menu disappears, and then hit the guide button again to remove the miniguide. Any thoughts?
I am getting a cloudy image when watching TV, whether it is live or time captured. This happens on all channels. Colors are not very vivid and it appears like you are looking through smoke at the image. The image quality appears to be real good but the colors seem muffled.
In another thread it was mentioned that rewind doesn't really work right now. Is there any way to change left and right to skip instead of FF/RW? Even better, is it possible for repeated presses of skip forward/reverse to increase the rate at which it skips?
Buy.com is having a 10% sale. The WinTV PVRs are already on sale with free shipping. After the 10% off you can get a PVR150 for $76 or the MCE for $59 shipped.
Somehow when I play something from my video library GBPVR loses focus and the remote stops responding. If i pull out my mouse and click it gets focus and the remote starts working again.
I noticed that I've been recording doubles of a few shows, usually shows from cable stations that repeat programming every 3-4 hours.
I looked in the web admin and it shows that it's a season recording but the time slot is like 4 hours wide. Is there a way to edit this to tighten it up? I've tried deleting the recording and re-adding the season and it comes back the same.
If I delete the scheduled recording and then do a quick record it just records the half hour show.
The worst part is it's not consistant, most of them shows work fine,it just seems like some shows that repeat within a few hours trigger this 4 hour window.
Here are some examples:
Reoccurring
Quality: Medium
Season
12:00 AM - 4:00 AM 43
TOONCP Futurama
Reoccurring
Quality: Medium
Season
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM 14
TDCC Frontiers of Construction
Reoccurring
Quality: Medium
Season
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM 14
TDCC Extreme Engineering
Reoccurring
Quality: Medium
Season
10:30 PM - 2:30 AM 24
WTVS This Old House
Any ideas on how to stop this or how to edit the recordings?
I just found your site a short while ago and have done some reading here in the forums. I'm currently using Mythtv but it has not been an easy ride. Myth is very nice with lots of features, but after finally getting most everything up and running, I ran into a major problem with video freezing, a slew of errors. So....
I took a look at your screen shots and wow, very nice. I aplogize for another 'can it do this' post but I need to replace my current box with something else ASAP. My hardware is compatbile BTW.
1. ability or record shows with auto commercial flagging/skipping. (allow me to skip commercials)
2. play DVD's from the hard drive using the gbpvr menu and control them w/a PVR-250 remote
3. allow you to edit and remove commercials out of recorded programs within gbpvr itself
4. control an external dtv reciever with an ir-blaster
5. search feature for tv shows
6. handles reruns and keeps from recording shows you alread have set to record or have recorded
7. is there a plugin that allows you to access Mame and roms with the gbpvr menu
8. last but certainly not least, how is the stability? are their problems with live tv freezing or jerky or bad quality (I have a pvr-250 and new nvidia with s-video out) . Does gbpvr lose recorded shows or miss shows from time to time? What about recorded video, is the quality good only with certain hardware?
Like all releases, I recommend you backup your config.xml and gbpvr.mdb in case of any unexpected upgrade problems.
You'll need to switch to the standard blue skin to give the skin owners a chance to update their skins for compatibility with the new build.
From the change.log
Quote:2005-08-12 v0.93.08
- Fixed a bug with the audio bitrate for Hauppauge cards.
- Fixed a memory leak on the main menu screen.
- Fixed a bug with manual reoccuring recordings.
- Fixed some bugs with conflict resolution
- Fixed a bug that would result in zero byte recording for a small percentage of multi-PVR150/PVR500 setups.
- Added DiSEqC 1.0/1.1 support for DVB-S, for those with multiple-LNB/satellite setups. DiSEqC is not convered by the BDA standards, so tends to be implemented in different ways on different devices, but I've added specific support for the TwinHan and Fire-DTV. Other DVB-S devices may also work if they use the IDVBSTuningSpace->put_InputRange() method for DiSEqC control.
- Added logic to stop the machine from hibernating if a recording is due to start in the next five minutes.
- When scheduling a timeslot season recording, you can specify either a daily or weekly timeslot
- Fixed a bug that cause a new timeshift file to be created each minute in the case that GB-PVR had no EPG listings.
- Improved the time taken to switch files at the end of each show in timeshift mode.
- New and improved FM Radio screen including scanning.
- Added 'Microsoft DVR-MS' to the list of mux filters. Please note, this mux option is not compatible with timeshift mode for viewing TV, so it selected should only be used for recording or live preview mode. Also be aware that this mux filter produces .dvr-ms files instead of .mpg files.
- Some stability improvements to the playback of AVI/WMV files via the MVP. To play these file types, you must have the latest Hauppauge MVP software installed on your PC.
- Added playback of DVR-MS files on MVP. For now you need to have the Cyberlink mux installed on your machine for this to work. This requirement will go away very soon - just waiting for Hauppauge to fix a confirmed bug in the next release of the MVP software.
- Added a 'Transport Stream' mux option, but this is more for my testing, so I dont recommend anyone uses it.
- If you're using the NTFS filesystem, metadata about the recording is now saved into the recording as an 'Alternate Data Stream'. To view the metadata, you can type "notepad c:\path\recording.mpg:metadata.xml".
- Added support for ratDVD when using VMR7/VMR9/Overlay. You use this you need to download ratDVD from http://www.ratdvd.dk/. Older versions of ratDVD didnt support VMR, so make sure your running a very recent one.
- Removing a capture source will no longer remove completed recordings from the database. Pending recordings that are associated with the capture source will still be removed.
- Fixed a bug with pressing skip on the last track of an audio play list. It would restart the last song, instead of stopping playback
- Added initial support for HDTV (ATSC). Its pretty manual, with no channel scanning facilities, but if you know the physical/major/minor number for each of your channels then you can manually configure them. This has only been lightly tested against a FusionHDTV Gold-T, but should also work with other cards if they have BDA compliant drivers. To record you need to have an MPEG2 multiplexer filter. GB-PVR supports the Cyberlink, ShowShifter, Intervideo and Microsoft DVR-MS multiplexer filters.
- Now able to cope with non-numeric channel numbers from zap2it, like those used for some satellite lineups.
- You can now configure the number of days of zap2it EPG information the app will try to retain.
- Updated the Hauppauge 45 button remote settings in irremote.ini so that the TV button no longer starts WinTV2000.
- Improved net radio. Now browses PLS files from shoutcast website. While a station is highlighted, you can press Record (ctrl-k) to add the station to your favourites.
- You can now specify the MVP skin separately from the PC skin.
- You can now click on the left/right arrows with a mouse in the recording popups.
- A few changes to the DVD keys. Home/Menu now takes you to the DVD menu. 'Stop' during DVD playback will return to GB-PVR. 'Escape' during DVD playback will return to the DVD Menu. 'Escape' from the DVD menu will return to GB-PVR. Blue/Ctrl-B will now show the OSD.
- Improvements to teletext. In addition to analog tv, it also now works with DVB. Teletext is now accessed using the red key (Ctrl-R).
- You can now configure plugins to be used over video. This uses the <VideoPlugin0> thru <VideoPlugin9> settings in the config.xml. To show 'video plugin 6', type '6' then press the GO key (F11). Trying to play music or video from one of these video plugins may give unpredicatble results (so dont try it). Developers can also optionally implement the IVideoPlugin interface to provide additional features.
- Added option to automatically skip commercials during playback. Needs comskip to be setup and working.
- Updated version of web admin. Thanks again to normanr and UncleJohnsBand for contributing these updates.
- The config app now warns if a recording is in progress before restarting the recording service.
- Added mechanism for plugins to force the recording service to reload its schedule from the database
- Added a couple of buttons in the config app to 'export recordings' and 'import recordings'. Export generates an xml file with the filenames, show title, show description etc, which can be later reimported using the 'import recordings' button. These functions back up metadata for successfully completed recordings (not pending etc).
- If you attempt to start a second instance of GB-PVR, it'll now default to showing the instance which is already running.
- Changed the rewind keyboard shortcut to from Ctrl-R to Ctrl-D, to resolve the conflict with the Ctrl-R keystroke that many of the plugin developers had started using for the Red button.
- In the recordings screen, the red key (Ctrl-R) reverses the ordering of the items (not folders).
- Added a "Dont record duplicates (zap2it)" setting on the misc tab of the config app. This will use the unique show number supplied by zap2it to try to ensure the exact same show isnt recorded several times.
- Added a screen saver a framework so that developers can add their own screen savers. I've also implemented a default simple screen saver.
- Added internal SRT viewer.
- The keyboard number pad can now also be used for entering numbers.
- Fixed numerous other small bugs which I cant remember....
** dont use the 'Hauppauge WinTV Muxer' mux option until you get the OK from me. Hauppauge need to make a change to their software, and have said they will, so it'll only be able work when some future Hauppauge software is installed.
