Here is a question that I've been pondering for a while. Most of the time, playback of recordings looks fine, but every so often I get this effect, where it looks like the colors need to be blended better (a bit hard to see, but circled for emphasis; ignore the clouds):



Is there anything I can do to improve the quality of this picture? Is using a higher bitrate the answer (I currently use the default of Low)? Would using a different decoder (this shot was taken with the NVIDIA DVD decoder, but I also notice the effect using DScaler 5) help? Or, failing that, is this something that FFDSHOW can clean up?

Just wondering if there is a simple way of adding stations to those that come on the installation?

Dunno if it's feasable, but could someone investigate if xAP intergration is possible ?

I use Homeseer for my Home Automation (X10 and Z-wave devices) and recently discovered xAP. This is a protocol which can make different hardware devices and Home Automation platforms communicate with eachother.

Kinda nice to control Homeseer and my lighting from the GBPVR interface.

I tried searching but didn't have much luck.

I've tried SageTV and Snapstream's solution, but neither worked with my card. However, GB-PVR does work.

I understand that PVR = personal video recorder, but was wondering if I can just make it let me watch TV without it recording?

Thanks in advance for any help given.

The last week or so, my card (pvr-350) has started doing something weird with the sound. All of a sudden it changes. I can best describe it as if the bass part of the sound disappears. It wil be gone long enough time for you to get used to it (3-4 minutes) and then come back again (and that's when you realize what you've been missing for the last few minutes ;-))

Any day now I will look into whether this is an issue with recording or playback, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Anyone else experienced this?

I have a msi tv@nywhere master. I can't seem to get it to work. It uses a conextant 2388x or something tuner. Is it possible to use this card; and if not, will there be any support for it?

ok ive added the ability to use subfolders off of the .link files. so if you place a .link file containing "D:\my videos\" in a dir
and "D:\my videos\" has the subdirs
"a"
"b"
"c"
"d"

they will be added to the list and the same for each of their subfolders, and their subfolders, and so on and so on. it should also work with .link files in another directory, so if you add a .link file to "D:\my videos" and that .link points to "D:\videos\" and in "D:\videos\" you have a .link pointing to "D:\my videos", well that would catch it in a forever loop, but the idea is .link files can be used anywhere.

ive tested this for oh all of ten minutes, and it appears to be working (well this version, ironed out bugs before this).

you need to have v2.1.10.0 first, since i did change some skinning stuff in 2.1.10.0, but havent changed any skinning stuff in this one.

also test check the memory usage, it should be about the same, only using a arraylist to hold the parent directory strings. of course more thigns are being loaded now (ie the subdirs) so it might take a little longer.

once all is well, ill do a proper release, for now its just the dll.

Well after promising this would be more reliabke than my VCR in the past, I found that my first two recordings (of my wife's favourite show, no less! stopped after only about 10 minutes....although I saw no indication of this in the list of recorded shows. What could have happened? Is is possible that my screen saver kicked in and fouled something up? I'm going to try again tonight after disabling screen saver. That's the only thing I can think of.

I can't get video or live TV to playback properly on my PC. All works fine through the MVP and my TV. Videos play fine using Windows Media Player on the PC. I have tried all combinations of video decoders and VMR9/7/overlay with about the same results with all.

The video plays and I have sound but the screen is severly distorted/stretched. When I shrink the size of the GBPVR window significantly, the picture looks better but it only looks like I'm seeing about 10% of the whole screen. I think that 10% is getting stretched when the screen is bigger.

I have a pvr250 and dell flat panel monitor.

Any ideas?

Is the dvr-ms format supported in the video library playback function ? This format seems to to work using software decoder setup in gbpvr however not with xcard playback. Just get a blank screen with the progress OSD indicating 0, any ideas ?