On Saturday, the system allowed me to pause, rewind, etc (on LIVE TV)... But then on Sunday, the system seemed to have defaulted not to be in Live Preview Mode. I can then switch to Live Preview mode, but the side-effect of that is then the channel changing is a little slower (from instantaneous to about 2 seconds)
I sat to watch the superbowl with my friends, and they were thoroughly impressed with GBPVR--however, they felt that the video (though clearer) was a little choppy during fast action plays. In other words, they wanted to watch it on regular TV. (I'm running the computer to my TV)
is this unique to GBPVR or are PVR s in general not very hot when it comes to fast action??
Posted by: bucknljake - 2005-02-07, 04:43 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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1: faster menu processing (xcard output). just moving around in the epg shouldn't have to lag and spike the cpu as bad as it does.
2: overscan adjustment on the video/tv output of the xcard (not just the gui)
3: badly overscanned friendly skin for the XCard. since the gui overscan compensation in gbpvr causes the fonts and other things in the skin to become almost unreadable. a skin (including epg) with lots of empty border space around the outside would be nice for all the xcard users (and most likely the 350 people too) that way we could leave the overscan boarders to be 0,0,0,0
4: a purely 256 color skin, OR a way to show the gui directly in 256 colors, instead of trying to downconvert gui images and other things. The new feature in .9 is nice but I can only imagine the amount of processing power needed to run it efficiently. I don't like the lag time without the "use best color" thing turned on.
5: as many config/setup options availible through the gui as possible (through the main menu maybe?) and the possibility to auto restart gbpvr if needed.
TVedia (formerly jove player) has great gui capabilities through the xcard. basic, but nice looking icons and background image(s), and the button reaction time is great (like scrolling through the epg). there has to be a way to improve the gui output piping through the xcard. I can do my best to find out how they do it if you'd like me to sub.
this app also has the #2 capability. actually the gui doesn't even adjust at all. just the main video/tv output. you can also adjust the aspect ratio output of a video playing on the fly (which is also a nice feature)
I know there aren't a ton of xcard people out there, so I know your focus isn't that strong on this card. BUT if there is ANYTHING I can do to help these things come along... please let me know- testing / research / etc. I am also a professional software developer, so I would hope I could be of some use.
Looking around and playing with the remote, I don't see any way to move the current time pointer around during playback of a recording, other than the skip buttons, which is not good enough if I want to move 3-quarters of the way into a 3-hour recording. Is there a way to grab the time pointer, kind of like what you can do in WinDVD or Media Player? Or can you use the remote to key in a time target like you would on a DVD player? This would primarily apply to playing through the MVP, as I almost never use the PC interface for playback.
FastFind
*2005-02-06 v12
**Set Show List for recommendations
**fixed bug when hitting ctrl-b when a popup was up.
**added feature when hit ctrl-y will requery with search string.
*v16 2005-2-06
**removed reoccur panel
**added transcoding screen
**added hook to recordingtracker called watched
**initial hook to ERM called scheduler
**Press no text button open popup Ctrl O funct new menu
***download picture
***find recommendations
**integration with channel image tool
***Channel view
***Recording popup
Known limitations
Hitting watch without having recordingtracker db in the gbpvr directory, get an error.
Hitting schedule without the priorityrecordings.xml will generate an error. Please wait till the release of the ERM to use the schedule feature. We need the new recordingutil and backend engine.
I get the following error when calling ScheduleHelper.LoadRecordingSchedule in the .9 release.
[b Wrote:Quote[/b] ]2/6/2005 6:34:28 AM ...Error filling recordings cache.
2/6/2005 6:34:28 AM System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: The channel tcp is already registered.
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.RegisterChannelInternal(IChannel chnl)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(IChannel chnl)
at br..ctor(Boolean instanceIsRecordingService)
at br.b()
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.ScheduleHelper.LoadRecordingSchedule()
at ArchiveVideosPlugin.DirListClass.CacheCompletedRecordings()
I had been running the previous version for almost a month and I just upgraded to 90 last night.....now my live tv is stuttering when it didn't before. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Just finished putting together my GB-PVR machine  -and no video.
I'm using a Radeon All-In-Wonder (the original -the one before the numbering system) for my TV out.
EDIT: updated the drivers to the PVR-250 and everything works!
New Question now: Â All is fine except for 2 areas:
Dropped frames. The picture is a litttle jerky sometimes. I am completely assuming this is due to my slow machine (800 mhz Duron). Â Right? yes? time to upgrade?
Ok, problem 2 - colors. Â The picture seems over-saturated, especially the reds. Other colors are darker and uglier than on my TV. I can change some settings on my Radeon All-In-Wonder, but I haven't had much luck - it's probably a 4 or 5 year old card. Â Do you imagine that getting a new vid card fix the colors? If, so what's a good cheap one with S-video out that won't stink? Newegg.com has lots of Radeon 7000's for around 30 bucks.
Im having a problem with the archive plugin. Ever since I upgraded to .9 and the new plugin version the show episode names are not resolving. It is just giving me dates. Episodes before the upgrade have titles, episodes after the upgrade are date/time.
