Im not exactly sure that GB-Pvr caused this problem, but it started happening after I installed GBPVR. No matter what file format I use in Windows Media Player, I can never get any audio. Ive tried reinstalling WMP 10 three times now but without succsess. Any ideas?
Ive noticed GB-PVR can use a hardware decoder. Im not at my home PC and cannot check if my hardware MPEG decoder built into my video card is listed as an option. Can I make use of the oboard MPEG decoder on my Leadtek video card if I buy a PVR-150 and use GB-PVR?
Has any one looked at the icon dispaly format that a google developer put out on the net but was quickly taken down.
Can be seen at various locations look for googlex
i.e
Any way I think this format could make a good skin.
No text is displayed until you mouse over or select then the icon increases in size to indicated that is the one you are on.
Any one else interested in seeing or creating this as a GBPVR skin?
Maybe I'm missing something, but whenever GB-PVR uses timeshifting or recording functions of my PVR-150 my normally widescreen video (i have my computer hooked up to a widescreen TV) goes into a vertical 4:3 letterbox mode. Is there anyway for the video to be stretched to widescreen like SageTV does? I love GB-PVR but the 4:3 timeshifting letterbox drives me nuts. If I stop the recording or timeshifting and go back to live tv through GB-PVR it resumes to fill up my entire screen again. Also whenever I play any recorded stuff it letter boxes as well. If I play the recording back in a MPEG plater that suppoer widescreen, the move isn't letterboxed and fills my 16:9 screen. Seems the only thing that gets stretched to 16:9 properly is true live tv through the overlay. Seems to me that the mpeg decoder isn't support 16:9 stretching?
Whats also weird is that if I record at 720x480 (which I think would by widescreen, I still get the weird letterboxed 4:3 display on my widescreen tv.
Strange thing is the WinTV software that comes with the PVR-150 does the same thing and leterboxes to 4:3 on my 16:9 screen.
SageTV is the only PVR software so far that seems to support stretching video to 16:9 when timeshifting/recording.
I believe the keep five records is design to accept five records of a show and then STOP recording until some of those five are watched and deleted.
Here's an idea: Add an *option* that automatically deletes the oldest show and always allow a new show to be recorded. In other words, make it a rotating collection of the latest five shows.
WHY? Let's say I record Jay, Jay, the jet plane for my son. I'd love to have a little collection of shows "on-tap" to launch when I need it. I don't care if some never get watched (deleted before we get some TV time in) but a first-in, first-out option for this type of show would keep the group of five from getting too stale...
So far I have a HFX Case, Including the VFD & IR Remote, Heatpipes and so on for a motherboard & graphics card.
Looking for some support and tips on what I should buy for the :-
Motherboard
Graphics Card
I was intending on getting a BENQ Lightscribe DVD Writer and I have a bunch of 250GB IDE drives.
I intend to hook it all up to a SKY TV decoder. I have a pretty standard TV and a projector for output. I figured I would hook up the TV out and the VGA DSUB to the projector.
What are the pro's and cons of various Network media players. I'm on the market for one and trying to get info on the pro's and cons of them all is hard work at present.
I just trialled a SMC Wireless player and the playback quality of my Hauppauge 500mce captured video was FLAWLESS - REALLY NICE quality! But the catch is this STUPID device can't FFW or RWD which is useless for Ad's etc. Does the MVP do good skipping in and does it ad-skip with Comskip when used with GBPVR's server software?
One other nice product was from http://www.buffalotech.com - Its a DVD Player with progressive scan and wireless/ethernet media player all in one. And its DIVX certified as well to boot although this is for the bedroom tv and I'll really only want to playback stuff in MPEG2 format video'd from TV.
Any advice out there from owners of any like products?
I currently have GB-PVR running on two machines, one with a FreeView WinTV on a PC/Monitor in my study, and one with a PC/capture card and Sky Box plugged into the TV.
What I'd like is plugin that merged the recorded programs from the two GB-PVR's onto each machine. It doesn't have to copy the actual MPEG across as this can just be accessed by a network file path, however I'd like to be able to click on the Recordings button on either GB-PVR and see recordings from both machines and then click play and have GB-PVR play the file regardless of whether it is on the local machine or on another instance of GB-PVR on the network.
I haven't looked into this closely yet.. if its storing recorded programs in an XML (or other format) file, it should be an easy matter of periodically comparing and merging entries from both files, along with a relative path so GB-PVR can play the file. So recordings show from all GB-PVR's running on the network.
What do you plugin developers think? Sounds pretty straightforward.. it doesn't need an advanced config interface, just a place where you can specify network file paths of other GB-PVR instances and recorded files for merging into a local instance of GB-PVR and how often to sync.
Thoughts? Anyone else ever wanted all their GB-PVR's to work together?
