This is a very transparent skin. Probably work well on a monitor, not too sure about larger TV's, as the biggest I have is 27".
Feedback welcome/encouraged.
p.s. I can't get the DVD portion to work with this skin, and haven't debugged the FM radio section, because my card doesn't support it/I don't have LAME installed.
Weather plugin included.

Would it be possible to mark groups/recordings with a tag such as "children" and add some easy feature to go to "children" whereunder the normal groups of today can be found?

I do not know if I explain it in a good way so I try another way too:

I would like to be able to group different kinds of recordings (and videos) before/after they are recorded so that I easy can go to "children", "movies", "series" etc

under the group "children" one would find different kinds of recordings that I wan't my kids to easily find. Under the group "series" I would find the groups "24", "LOST" etc.

it would be neat to have tagging as a possibility during season recording too.


maybe this is already possible?

When looking through the TV guide and having to choose between various movies to watch/record how about being able to click on a movie listed and see it's IMBD review. The short description in the TV guide is usually somewhat lacking.

Is this possible to do now?

I'd like an always-visible small thin line on the TV Guide that is normally green, but shows red whenever there's a program scheduled.

Right now you have to search through all the channels to see if something else is being recorded. Either that, or you have to actually schedule the recording and THEN see if there's a conflict.

This bar would be similar to the one Outlook uses when scheduling meetings with multiple contacts.

If I have live preview checked everything works flawlessly... untill I watch a recorded program. Weird thing is I get the error only if I ff,rw, or pause the recording. When I exit I get the error: object reference....
Once I get this error I can no longer watch live tv. If I turn off live preview I still get the error, but I am able to watch live tv afterwards. Annoying though as channels take forever to change when the live preview button is unchecked. Hope to get a resolution that is not delete everything including the DB and reinstall.

After I reboot my computer, my MVP just keeps searching for the server. If I restart the recording service in "programs" it soon finds the server and everything is OK. It did not used to be like this. I think it happened sometime around the .91 revision. I have it starting 1 MVP in Config. I tried 2 and it does the same thing. Under services, I set the MVPMedia and MVPSvc services set to start manually so I don't have to turn them off. Is this correct? Any thoughts?

I am using a 150mce card and XP home if that helps. This is a work around and I need to fix it before my mother-in-law stays at our house to watch the kids while we are on vacation. She will never get the system started again!

Thanks for the help. This program is great.

Getting in to GB-PVR sure has put me in my place. I thought I was pretty well-versed in all things computer related, but I get a huge headache when I try to dive in to the nitty-gritty of some of the plugins.

Would it be possible for someone to write a guide or glossary for us newbies who think "xml" is simply a way Microsoft found to make "ini" files MORE confusing?

What's a schema? "Schematics" are supposed to take something complex and make it understandable by portraying it graphically. If the "Priority Recordings" schema was "simplified" my hats off to you!!

Also, how can we make heads or tails of all the plugins that seem to do the same thing, or at least have overlapping functions: PriorityRecordings, external recording manager, rectracker, deleterecordings, guide2j, CDKScheduler, and XRecord. Not only are they overlapping, but some seem to depend on others. But I'm not sure. I haven't found one place that really explains it all. The manual tries, but leaves too many questions unanswered.

Also, am I the only one who doesn't see quotes in this forum? It makes people's config files pretty hard to read. "TEST"

Thanks!

I have a WinTV-500. I am having a variety of issues with GBPVR freezing here and there, though I have it on a dedicated disk.

Nevertheless, the big issue at the moment is that when I go to select an FM Radio station, instead of turning on the radio, it starts pumping in whatever tv channel I was last on. I noticed that this may not occur when in LIVE TV mode.

Thoughts?

I would like to suggest an additional recording source which executes an external .EXE, in a similar manner to the .exe Changer plug-in.

The reason for this is to offer some support for cards, such as the non-PVR WinTV cards, DEC-2000-T, etc. which have a command line interface which allows recording of shows. I currently use this method with scheduled tasks on my old/live PVR PC.

Ideally GB-PVR would also pass along extra parameters, e.g.

{channel} Channel number
{channel_name}
{program_title}
{duration_mins} Length of program to record in minutes (WinTV2k.EXE expects minutes)
{duration_secs} Length of program to record in seconds (DVB-TV.EXE expects seconds)
{target_file} Complete path and filename
{target_path} Just the path to the file
{target_name} Just the name of the file

Any comments ?

Sean

Since the last two updates of gbpvr, I'm not able to use the webinterface anymore. Is there a change somewere? Please help.