Hey guys.  I just loaded the .90.1 release, and while playing around, I thought the channel-change bug was gone in LiveTV. I changed channels several times using both miniguides (green button and go button on old remote). Then all of a sudden it starts resetting every couple of minutes again, and my folder is full of 20MB files. I can't be sure, but I think it started after I changed channels by keying in the channel number and hitting OK, to go directly to it. Selecting from the miniguides seemed OK, and just scanning up or down seemed to play for quite a while. Now those don't even work any more, cannot change channels in LiveTV without the stop-stop restart trick.

Sub,
I installed ver 09010 yesterday. I ended up with two instances of GBPVRTray.exe running on my system.

After a little digging, I found that the registry entry for (WinXP):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Startup
was set to:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

It should have been:
%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

This may have nothing to do with GBPVR. Since the other program in the "All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" folder wouldn't open multiple instances, I have no way of knowing when this change happened. I just thought you may want to check if your installation makes this change.

This is an idea I've had spinning in my mind for a while now and I really think there's a demand for this..
I have my HTPC set for a very short standby delay (2 minutes) and I like it like that way, keeps the machine from being on unnecessarily. However it also poses a slight problem... I sometimes get "stupid" standbys, like just 15 minutes ago; one program finishes recording and comskip does its job, two minutes pass and the machine enters power saving mode. 15-20 seconds later it wakes up and starts recording another show! Now that's not smart and it's not good for the hardware.

Therefore I'd like to propose that a plugin would be written (I'd try it myself but my programming skills are totally nonexistent) to check what the 'puter it up to in the near future and is there's going to be activity in say the next 10 minutes (configurable naturally) then prevent the computer from entering standby. Preferably it would check the scheduled tasks (I've got xmltv and virus scan there, everyone probably has something..) and GB-PVRs internal scheduling, i.e. recordings. It might also be useful it it were configurable that at night time the standby dealy would be shorter (turn of immediately if there's no activity in xx minutes) and longer at daytime.

I hope I'm making some sence and mostly I hope someone else would find this usefull too. Oh BTW, thanks for an awesome program, 0.90.10 is very near perfection, and thanks to all plugin developes for a heap of most excellent plugins!

I've gotten a PriorityRecording.exe-Common Language Runtime Debugging Services error twice in the last week but my system is still working normal (it seems anyway).Besides the enclosed error message, I have a command box that is opened behind it that shows:
D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>cd c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr
The system cannot find the path specified.
D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>PriorityRecording.exe 1>recording.log.

I have a partitioned disc and GBPVR is on D. It appears that something is not where it belongs but I'm not sure what it is and don't want to try myself and mess up something that's working now. I'd appreciate some direction on how to make changes.
Thanks

Hi All,
I encountered strange behaviour on cable reception and sound.

If I setup my source channels (eg. 80) as suggested by 'tuning assistent' everything seems to work, except from a bad reception on some channels.
I then entered the frequencies (eg. 16125000) in the recording source setup instead of the channels numbers. Now all the channels are crystal clear.
The strange things is that if I start the program for the first time, there will be no sound on any channel. If then i would change one of the channel from frequency (eg. 16125000) to a normal channel number (eg 80) and I go to live tv, this channel will 'activate' the sound and thereafter all other channels (still on a frequency mapping) will have sound as well.

The sound on all channels will even be there after restarting the program, but as soon as I restart windows, all sound dissapears and I need to tune into the one channel with the channel number (e.g. 80) to receive sound again.

It looks like some sort of initialisation.

Thanks for your support & effort.

Great program !

Cheers,
Michel

anyone know how to get a WS dvd to fill the screen? (just the standard 1.77:1 aspect ratio not 2.25:1 (ill worry about those later)).

i have ffdshow to "no aspect ratio correct" "raw video - all supported", in gbpvr "use ffdshow is available". it can do it fine under zoomplayer. just trying to get it to fill the screen in gbpvr, i have gbpvr in "fullscreen mode" running hdtv at 576P (720x576). my tv is picking up the signal as a widescreen signal (which is a really good thing, since its a widescreen tv). just i get black bars on a normal ws dvd, when it should just fill the screen.

wasnt sure if i should put this under support, hardware, wishlist, blah blah blah. decided here is good enough.

anyone had success with dvd playback under gbpvr? i dont want to use zoomplayer since the hauppauge remote apparently doesnt work, and you have to pay for it.

cheers,
reven.

Hi. i've currently got a Kworld Vstream Xpert DVBt PCI card and it doesn't have a hardware encoder. i've tried using it with gbpvr but it doesn't work.

is there any chance that gbpvr will support these soon?

if not, which digital tv cards are the more widely supported?

sub in the next release can you make it possible to skin the blue button screen (info screen). ive decided to fix the -noborder problem just to use it in fullscreen mode. i can skin everything so its visible except the info screen. the new live-guide (turns out i really love this, just missing the current time) maybe something like that, like variables like
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><CompositeImage name="Normal" size="720,480">
<DrawImage name="@ChannelIcon" loc="20,20" size="30,30" visible="true"/>
<DrawText text="@Description" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" visible="true"/>
</CompositeImage>

<CompositeImage name="Recording" size="720,480">
<DrawImage name="@ChannelIcon" loc="20,20" size="30,30" visible="true"/>
<DrawText text="@Description" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" visible="true"/>
<DrawText text="@Time" loc="15,9" size="115,34" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" visible="true"/>
</CompositeImage>
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and a specialelement for the progress bar
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<SpecialElement name="ProgressBar" loc="50,348" size="500,20"/>
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and just two defined colours for the progress bar colours.

two different images so you can skin for recording and normal playback. the visible=&quot;true&quot; just helps if people dont want this to be displayed.

this is the last thing really that needs to be skinned, it shouldnt take that long, and would help alot with the overscan issue. i hope you can get this into the next release.

thanks,
reven.

In the TV Guide the channel icons are approx 1:1.5 (height:width) but in the recordings window the icons are approx 1:1 so either ones are distorted (in my case the recording icons) as I've edited all my channel icons to 40x60 pixels. Could either (preferably recordings ) be changed?

ok in my videos currently it sorts the files as absolute filenames eg
D:\my videos\films\a.mpg
D:\my videos\films\b.mpg

now this usually isnt a problem, but with the .link files any directories specified in that file, its files will be added to the list, and with using absolute names the sorting isnt always alphabetical
eg
D:\my videos\films1\b.mpg
D:\my videos\films2\a.mpg

b is sorted before a.

now do you want it to sort via
(a) relative
ie &quot;a.mpg&quot; and &quot;b.mpg&quot;
or do you want it so you can tell which videos are in which dirs, and sort by
(b) absolute
ie &quot;D:\my videos\films1\b.mpg&quot; &quot;d:\my videos\films2\a.mpg&quot;