A few weeks ago, I set GBPVR to record Jimmy Kimmel live just once. Now, each night, I get a blank directory labeled Jimmy Kimmel Live, in my video folder. It's not shown to record anywhere. How can I remove this.

Thanks

Has anyone else been having problems with the skip function in the last two versions? I have the skip set to skip forwards or backwards 10 seconds with a button press but when the skip backwards button is pressed it often skips forward a second or two and I'm not confident that the number + skip is going in the right direction by the right amount consistently.

My Hauppauge winTV USB2 card is hardware encoding my TV shows and I have no problem what so ever to play them. Works great.

However, when I try to re-code them to xvid for playing on my cell using the software from Lonely Cat I get an error that the file can't be read. I thought it was a limitation in that software, but now I'm trying to re-encode using Transcoder on my freeBSD server, same result.

Is there something strange going on in the files that Hauppauge generates?

I have been repeatedly getting this error lately.  Every once in a while I'll find my computer more or less frozen.  Standard opp for this is to shutdown and restart.  Well, this is where this error keeps coming up.  After I command a shut down a few of the normal things happen and then this error pops up.  In the title bar it says "Gbpvr.exe - DLL Initialization Failed" and in the window it has the red circular 'X' with "The application failed to initialize because the windows station is shutting down" written next to it.  This window keeps coming back when closed and because of this my machine won't fully shut down with out turning it off on the front of the console (ie the way your not supposed to do it).  So I do it because it is the only option I have found to get around this, it reboots and all is well.  

After a while of observing this happening I am 99% sure this is related to gbpvr waking my machine from standby which it is set to go into after 2 hrs. of idle.  I say this because it only seems to happen on days where I have a recording scheduled for when I'm not arround, so my computer is likely to be in standby when it starts.  It is also worth noting, that other than this my machine is VERY stable.  I think I may of had to shut it down the wrong way once other than this over the two years I've had it.  

See sig for setup, here is a copy of my gbpvr.exe.log that was taken just after a reboot as described.  If this isn't the log you need, or if you need anything else to help with this one, just let me know...I would love to get this taken care of!!

Thanks for any help you can offer!!

After creating PriorityRecordings.xml and running PriorityRecording.exe i'm getting this:

GBPVR External Recording Manager - v0.1.0 Beta
Loading Known Recordings.
Number of Known Recordings: 18
Number of Priority Recordings: 11
Number of Recordings in Conflict Status: 0
Checking Total Potential Priority Recordings.
 has 2 potential recording(s).
 has 4 potential recording(s).
 has 8 potential recording(s).
 has 8 potential recording(s).
 has 12 potential recording(s).
Langt fra Las Vegas has 12 potential recording(s).
 has 17 potential recording(s).
No Programs found for:
  Removing from PriorityList for this run.
 has 2 potential recording(s).
No Programs found for:
  Removing from PriorityList for this run.
 has 2 potential recording(s).
Total Potential Recordings Found: 67
Total Priority Recordings to be Scheduled: 9
Temporarirly removing conflict status recordings.
Scheduling Recordings.
Start Time: 23. februar 2005 00:09:29
Done.

There seems to be a lot of programs to schedule - but nothing gets done. And you can't see the program name?. It kills me because it really would make a great add on to gbpvr.

One thing I don't understand - if you have made scheduling and edit the xml-file to exclude a recording - will it remove the former recording or do you have to do "Empty EPG"?

Hi, How can I apply a thumbnail picture for each directory?
In the picture you see an empty blue box so I suppose it is to display a thumbnail.

Second, how to display some small description of each directory?
I made a textfile with same name as folder but I can's see no description at all.

Any help would be glad
thx
Newbie

Hello,

I'm new to the entire PVR thing. Just picked up a Hauppage 500MCE and I'm trying to configure gb-pvr and girder. GB-PVR is awesome! Nice job...and great community support.

My question is this. Are the 'Channel Up/Down' commands distinct from the Menu 'Up/Down/Left/Right' commands? My remote has separate buttons but I didn't notice separate commands in the grider gml file. I'd like to use the different buttons on the remote.

The keyboard reference in the wiki docs refer to the Hauppage but it's unclear me how to go about doing this without using the built-in support for the Hauppage remote.

Suggestions anyone?

Does anyone know whether GBPVR hooks to a batch file when a recording starts (much the same way it hooks to PostProcessing.bat when a recording is finished)?

I can think of several uses (depending upon what data is passed to the batch file) for such a hook.

If the answer is 'No', I'll repost this message in the Wishlist forum.  

ive updated media experience so it can work with "my videos v2.1.2.0"
things added
- locked icon now displayed for a folder/file that requires a pin
- added "remove from database" to the menu

think i added one more thing, but i forgot.

download gbpvrme.zip

enjoy.

ok when i first starting playing around with making a plugin, i began working on a settings plugin, as gbpvr seems to be missing this, however ran into issues:
- what if the plugin developer completely changes something; then the settings for that plugin no longer work
- only a limited number of plugins will have settings
- what if i buggered off and the settings were no longer maintained
- how do i force the plugins do update these settings?

ok now with auto update, discussion lead to downloading new plugins, skins. if you download a skin in gbpvr you dont really want to quit go into the config and change the skin, thats annoying if you can download it in gbpvr shouldnt you be able to change it in gbpvr? (ok we arent there yet, but im sure we are going to get there, yeah im optimistic).

anyway, i was thinking long and hard (err maybe ten minutes) but what if each plugin had a subclass called "Settings" (or something) and in the class we had a few methods
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">///proccess keyevents
//returns if handled
public bool KeyPress(Keyevent e){
}

//draw method (or is it render?)
//returns err whatever the normal draw method returns
public somethign Draw(){
}

//restarts the settings (eg button positions etc)
public void activate(){
}[/QUOTE]

and the IMenuTask would add this method
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">//returns a class of type "SettingsScreen"
public SettingsScreen getSettings(){
return null; //if no settings are needed
return new SettingsScreen();
}[/QUOTE]


now there would be a &quot;Settings&quot; plugin, this plugin would show every plugin in a menu (much like the main menu, even possible display the task images), instead of starting the plugins normal, it would just call the &quot;Settings&quot; class, and pass the keyevents and draw method to this class. if the keyevent returns false (ie the keypress wasnt handled, eg &quot;back&quot; or &quot;home&quot; then the primary &quot;Settings&quot; plugin would handle this, but not by default, incase the plugin wants to process the &quot;back&quot; button internally).

so this means every plugin would handle its own settings screen, every plugin would be aware of the updates and can update itself accordingly, every plugin on the menu could have a settings screen.

the best solution would probably be to let sub make the initial class (since gbpvr seems to have no problem starting plugins, and every other plugin needs the dll to be in the gbpvr root directory (well i think it does), also this should be package with gbpvr itself).

ok i think this is a good idea (well its mine, so course i would), but gbpvr is missing this, its going to need it, and very soon, i often find myself editing the config.xml file and quickly closing and then restarting gbpvr to change a setting, with this you wouldnt need to. its genius!

some what you all think?