this is my first experience with a real pvr program, and i am very happy with it. great job sub. i just have a few simple questions, as i am not very familiar with some of the features on this program.

1) whenever i turn on live tv, it automatically starts recording and creating a file. is there a way to just watch and not record? it shows a recording bar towards the top of the tv window.

2) scan lines. i have many scan lines and it does bother me a little bit. i have the cyberlink mpeg2 decoder installed, and in the configuration, i have live preview mode disabled. i have tried using the microsoft program which allows you to choose your mpeg2 decoder, and the one i was using was the cyberlink sp. any other ideas? i tried installing dscaler, but it wouldn't show up in the list to choose from.

here is some information about my hardware:
ati tv wonder elite
bfg geforce 7800 gtx oc
amd athlon 64 3700+
1gb ocz pc3200 gold
74gb western digital 10,000rpm 8mb hd

thanks for any help.

It seems to me (a newbie) that I cannot use the tv guide to switch/view channels because my tv feed is coming from the cable box. Clicking on a show does not switch my cable box' channel. How do people get around this problem ?

using PVR-150MCE.

is their a way to get gb-pvr to launch in full screen? ... i dont mind hitting the alt-enter every time .. but their should be a way to do it in the command line or the short cut ( best the shortcut does is full window , that still give a top bar and the start bar )

ok this may or may not be in the correct place in the forum ..

when i search for
Server Error in '/gbpvr' Application.

i get allot of messages saying how you should goto url/gbpvr/index.aspx.. etc

but i seems to me that their is just a path error somewhere .. now looking at the web dir it looks like most of the stuff is in c#?! so i dont even know where to start to change it ...
anyone know where the web interface is getting any of it's settings from? it doesnt make a ton of sense to not have the option to just put the ip their and have it default to gbpvr dir

I was watching a recorded show that was about 2 hours long. It was recorded on my last channel--#61. About 10-15 minutes before it ended, the file showed a different channel--channel 2 (the first channel on my list). Anyone have any idea what the problem might be. It's as if something went awry with the frequency or something.

I installed comclean per the instructions. However, it is not cleaning. It renames the mpeg file to original at the end of the process but it does not generate the cleaned mpeg.
I reinstalled it with same results.
i read the posts about comclean but cannot find a solution.
Thanks

Hi Sub,

When playback the chinese characters filename media files with MVP, MVP reboot. The error log attached for your reference

26/6/2005 16:29:58.998 INFO [56] playFile(情迷黑森林
26/6/2005 16:29:58.998 INFO [56] Found commercial skip point file: d:\recorded tv\情迷黑森林\情迷黑森林_20050624_20002100.txt
26/6/2005 16:30:01.161 VERBOSE [56] About to play file: D:\Recorded TV\情迷黑森林\情迷黑森林_20050624_20002100.mpg
26/6/2005 16:30:01.161 VERBOSE [56] Sending MVP Video Playback Request: D:\Recorded TV\情迷黑森林\情迷黑森林_20050624_20002100.mpg
26/6/2005 16:30:01.161 VERBOSE [56] Playback started: D:\Recorded TV\情迷黑森林\情迷黑森林_20050624_20002100.mpg
26/6/2005 16:30:01.281 VERBOSE [55] MVP playback requested: D:\RECORD~1\fh?7i;~1\f
26/6/2005 16:30:01.361 ERROR [55] Media stream thread caught exception: Illegal characters in path.
26/6/2005 16:30:01.402 ERROR [55] at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
at q.ai()
26/6/2005 16:30:01.412 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize
26/6/2005 16:30:01.412 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize : 96000
26/6/2005 16:30:01.412 INFO [2] NetRadio buffer size is: 96000
26/6/2005 16:30:02.012 VERBOSE [55] MVP Streaming thread waiting for connection
26/6/2005 16:30:02.984 VERBOSE [56] requiresMoreRendering
26/6/2005 16:30:02.984 VERBOSE [56] requiresMoreRendering
26/6/2005 16:30:03.444 VERBOSE [56] MVP not sending frame
26/6/2005 16:30:03.475 VERBOSE [56] MVP request processed
26/6/2005 16:30:03.475 VERBOSE [56] MVP data read: 1 (3)
26/6/2005 16:30:05.497 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
26/6/2005 16:30:05.497 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at q.a(Boolean A_0)
at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)


Is it possible to have a fix on this issue? Anyway, thank you for your great work.

I get only 1 minute files in live tv mod and when i look it stops for 1-2 sekunds
and start to record a new 1 minutes movie fil ???? :confused:

Anyone able to make a dreambox plugin for GB-PVR .


Theres a script for XBMC on a modded xbox for watching and recording tv from the dreambox and it would be cool if some code make a similiar plugin for gb-pvr. Using xmltv, a great idea would be able to see whats on at for example 7pm on CNN next saturday and be able to select "record with dreambox". On the dreambox and its web interface you only get now and next epg(so you cant set something to record thats on in a week or so unless you look up when its on and channel details etc and add it manually on the dreambox, but with xmltv you can get a few weeks epg.

But im not a coder, just taught id post this here, some clever person might know how to attempt something

Heres a screenshot of setting up a recording - another button saying record with dreambox would be heaven
http://gbpvr.com/images/small-record.jpg

When I click the "Play Program" in the web admin, it only works on the local machine. On my other systems I can connect to the web admin, click play program, and it just sits there.

I'd like to get the the file to stream to another system on my network. The M3U file has the right IP address, and there is no software firewall on my GBPVR box.

I've tried Winamp and MediaPlayer, installing all kinds of codecs, and nothing works. Any ideas?