I just bought an LCD set here:
http://www.htvision.com/ at a great price.

1. Did the hardware (parallell port, power connector), easy!
2. I installed the port driver
(http://www.driverlinx.com/DownLoad/DlPortIO.htm)
for these character LCD's (mine's 16*2).
3. Installed JalCDs
(http://www.jalcds.de)
4. Installed Janviet's plugin (both in jal (gbpvr.cfg) en gbpvr; LCDPlugin.dll to GBPVR plugin directory and UltraID3Lib.dll to GBPVR installation directory)

And I ended up with a nice blue square light but no characters.
Q1. In Janviets plugin package there' s a file "lcdplugin.cs". Where does that one go; it's not mentioned in the readme.
Q2. In GBPVR config the plugin doesn't show up in the plugin list, so i can't check it.
Q3. What did i do wrong?

Any suggestions, other solutions etc. etc. would be very much welcome

Do Haupauge cards share the same device? Say pvr150, pvr250 and 350? How is the instance set? What about cards from the different manufacturers. Are these both set to #1

I have a PVR150 and a PVR350 setup and works like a champ (now). The 150 is set to #1 and the 350 is #2. The PVR150 is in slot 2 (pci) and the PVR350 is in slot 3. I suspect this make a difference. If I swap the instances around it does not record properly. Why is this? Should they be set to the same instance?

I had a solution to an ongoing problem with Live TV preview where I was getting effectively 1 frame per second or less.

I was playing around in the Lifeview TV software and noticed the same symptom when I first opened or changed channel where it would stutter for the first few seconds then reset and display STEREO in OSD. I remembered a setting to do with Audio Auto detect Stereo/Mono so I changed this to Stereo and turned off Auto Detect and now Live TV works perfectly in GBPVR.

Hopefully this helps others!

Hi all,

First, great piece of software Sub!

Quick question. Is there a way to spawn an external player when playing files from the video library (or recorded files)?

I would like to use VLC (then I don't have to install any codecs) as an external player for any files I load up in the video library (avi or not).

Is there a way to just have avi files load with an external player?

Thanks.

-Adam

Next month I'm building a new pc and I'm thinking of adding TV tuner card (WinTV PvR150),except I have a few issues.

GB-PVR home page doesn't show the 150 as a supported TV tuner card only 250/350.

Is WinTv 150 compatible with GB-PVR?

I have DirecTV and I'm using a Hughes DVR receiver model#SD DVR40. From what I've been reading while surfing the web I can't record/control via serial connection using DTVcon since my receiver doesn't support it. I can record via IR Blaster.

I Remember using IR B method 10-15 years ago when mini dishes first came out in conjunction with my vcr. It was terrible experience it was very unreliable method of recording.

Would some one w/ experience recording using IR B via Satellite, please explain how it works using a PVR and a third party recording guide application such as GBPVR, Beyond TV3, Sage TV?.... and is it reliable?

Thanks
RM

I'm not sure what is the problem but here's my errors:

I was able to use it w/ no problems yesterday and then today when I tried to use the app, I had lots of vertical lines and don't know how to get rid of it.

Now I get this error when I click on liveTV
Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Any suggestions for both of these problems?

If you have the WinTV 45 button remote and a remote made by Philips, it's likely you have conflicts.  For instace, Mute on the TV remote is actually the system mute, and pressing either mute again does not turn it off (meaning you need to do manually on system).

Solution: Put a ";" in front of any buttons in the "old" remote maps (first set near top) in irremote.ini.  It's the old remote maps that also read the Philips signals.  Keep any you can be clever with or find a dual use for.

Example: The power button the Philips remote also is the Radio button on WinTV.  By mapping the radio button to esc-home, you can leave live tv to the menu by turning the TV off.

EPG works, but I am not able to see anything past 7 days. I know the norm is 14 days from zap2it, but for some reason only 7 days shows up.

John

How about a screen displaying the local weather for the area. I have seen on other PVR's that this can be done. It would keep me from turning on the Weather Channel and waiting 10 minutes till they say the local weather.

Hey guys, so here's the score.. I just got digital cable and I got all of the channels going into the EPG but when I call them up on GBPVR, no worky.. Any ideas what the problem might be. Is it that the PVR250 won't do channels higher than 100 or something like that?

Dubya