I hate titling threads.

Anyway after a couple of weeks of playing with my PVR & loving gbpvr (I'm gonna donate when I get paid) I have a couple of things I'd like to see.

• Wrapping Navigation:
  I'd like all the navigation to wrap in the same way as the main menu navigation, if I press up it goes to the bottom item in the list. This is something I do out of instinct all the time on the record menus and it annoys me that I can't do it, as usually all I want to do is press the record button and leave everything else as is.
  
• Resume intelligence
  I really like the resume feature, I can however also see why it is disabled by default. However if you could make the resume feature more intelligent, e.g. if the user stops the program with <1-2% of it left then assume that they've reached the credits and not set a resume point. This will probably need someone to do a little research on both films & tv programmes to find out if there is an average percentage that can be used for this.
  

Hello,

For some reason, archived programs are loosing their description. Is there a way to avoid loosing this information?

Thanks,

Steve

I would appreciate if somebody lets me know if GB-PVR is compatible with the VMagic TV Ultra card, manufactured by http://www.vmagic.de

Please note that this card is not inserted in the PC as a normal capture card but it writes data with PCI master write mode. The card has no high priority at the moment but, as it is claimed by the manufacturers, they would like to offer a driver for that in the near future.

The card software comes with a VFW plugin and it is claimed to work with software like the VirtualDub (and other programs, which works with the VFWs). The vmagic.sys driver is a WDM driver, which means it follows the Windows driver model, BUT this doesn't mean, the hardware is inserted as capture device in the PC.

I would appreciate your information on how to use this card with your program if at all possible.

Thanks.
Christos Agapiou

Hi, MusicPlayer seemed to me just what I wanted (not too much features like MyMusic and MusicAlbums, not too few like the built in player). However, it doesn't work for me. I can briefly see my music directory, but it either clears the available directory, or it gives an index out of range error. After that I have to restart gbpvr before it works.

Who is the author?

Greetz,
MaBo

I know how to do this in WinTV2k, with the tweak from cask/amontillado...is there a way to do this in GBPVR?
Or does the setting in the reg for wintv2k also work in gbpvr?
Ideally, I'd like it to be 5 or 6.

Comskip is a hit or miss thing for me. About 50% of the time it is not generating the Videoredo cutlist. Is there a way I can manually generate the Videoredo cutlist?

I just found out about GB-PVR and so far I'm thoroughly impressed. I was able to configure gbpvr to change channels on my rca directv receiver via a serial cable link and just wanted to share my solution.

First obtain a serial cable. You can build or buy one. see http://www.dtvcontrol.com/

Next install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). You'll need bash and perl at a minimum - I did a full install.

Then get David Gesswein's Perl Directv serial script at http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml (hint: this is the script http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.pl)

Create a simple bash script that will call directv.pl Name this script something like dtv.sh:

#!/bin/bash
/cygdrive/c/gbpvr/scripts/directv.pl $1 $2

Goto gvpvr config->capture sources->channel changer Select "exe Changer Plugin" then goto Settings

Select bash.exe for the executable. For my installation this was C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe

For parameters, enter the following:
"c:\gbpvr\scripts\dtv.sh setup_channel {channel}"
Of course substitute c:\gbpvr\scripts for the path to your script.

That's it.

I wish for...

...the ability to schedule manual recordings from the web interface.
...the ability to access the web interface from something other than localhost.

..AM/PM on the manual recording page instead of military time. Having to convert the times and praying I get it right is terrible.

..a new config.xml entry that allows you to specify the number of days to fetch from zap2it. 7 is an utter pain when you can have 14.

..aggresive memory optimization in the recording service. 100MB+ for a service that's not doing anything makes me want to cry. It's just awful.

..a new recording method: Record Season - All episodes this timeslot, this day of the week, this channel.

..another MS Access table to store the title and description of previously recorded shows, and a page for setting how they are expired (if ever).

..telling the zap2it webserver to compress the EPG response. A 35MB update can shrink to between 5-8MB just by using zlib, and it supports more than one compression algo.

..the ability to stop a recording from the system tray icon.

..More detailed information in the Video Library. Long filenames wrap and are hidden by the folder icon. File size would be nice for *, running time for MPEG2's would be great.

..a new information screen for disk space usage, and an estimation of hours used/left.

Are you interested in wrapping SSL around your GBPVR web console access from outside of your firewall? Tomorrow I will have detailed HOW-TO for you to use. This is Windows-centric since it seems most users in the community are Windows users, I will note any difference for those of us, er you using Linux.

:o

John

Hey Reven,

You think you could incorporate dvd shrink to fit larger files on a DVD on your DVD Burning option under My Videos?