I was wondering if and how to add the info NEW or REPEAT to the program description in the EPG. The ZAP2IT guide on the web shows this info. I emailed Zap2it labs and they said to set it up in the software. Any ideas?
I've been using GBPVR for about a month and I think it is great!! Also on the Recordings screen, It shows the show title and date it was recorded. I'd like it to show the name of the episode instead of the date, if this is possible. Thanks for any help!

Hi, great software you got here, xcard support is much appreciated!

How about support for the xcard's s/pdif digital audio out?
I want this mainly when playing DVDs, so it should probably be an option for the DVD plugin.

And speaking of DVDs, I dont seem to be able to skip chapters... it resets the movie back to the beginning.

Sub, I upgraded to the .90 and it went well. I'm going to go up and test it on the MVP. I tried scheduling a show when another was already set, and got a conflict. Then I tried an upper channel and didn't.

I have 1-99 as capture through the 150's internal tuner.
I have 100+ as capture through the 150's AV Jacks and external girder tuner.

Both work fine, but will not conflict with each other, even though they are the same card.

Hi Sub

I hoping possibly you could make your xmltv a bit more robust..
seems it works quite well with the tsreaders xmltv file ( for those not familar tsreader is dvb sat program found at coolstf.com - there is a free crippled version that will download the guide ). you can download a nine day guide for most sats in a couple minutes ( but I find the 4 day guide much more reliable) . normally it will only download the 2 hour guide but if you go transponder by transponder you will find the one that has the four or nine day guide. once you find it just remember that transponder and use it to download the guide quickly

BUT..... there is a bit of a problem since data streams from the sats can come down a bit gagbled at times you might have to receive the guide a couple time before getting a good one..
when checking the problem out in the epg.xml it seems most of the time is just because there might be an unreconizable character in the description of the program and your xml import program does not know how to deal with this character and fails to load the xml..

anyways just a suggestion.. it alot easier to download the guide this way then to do it over the net, especially so if you live in a country that does not have xmltv support or surfing by modem. and for some sats you could be talking a thousand channels to have to download via these routes..

On the Manage Recordings tab of the web interface, it looks like it lists all my 'batch records (season, all episodes etc)'. However, The air date tab and Show tab give little to no info about which show it is.... Could we have it actually say the name of the show instead of Manual Recording?

Thanks

I posted this on the MVP forum, didn't get any help, then discovered it happens on the PC interface as well. Sorry for the cross post; I know that's evil most of the time.

When I press the stop button on the remote while playing music through the MVP, the music stops and then the MVP hangs with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."  Here's the gbpvr.exe.log lines from just prior to and including the event:

1/29/2005 3:36:00 PM.803 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 244000)
1/29/2005 3:36:00 PM.803 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:00 PM.923 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 246000)
1/29/2005 3:36:00 PM.923 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.004 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 248000)
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.004 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.044 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 250000)
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.044 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.164 VERBOSE [64] MVP data read: 1
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.164 VERBOSE [64] MVP request processed
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.164 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 252000)
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.164 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.204 VERBOSE [64] MVP data read: 1
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.204 VERBOSE [64] User pressed: 27
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.244 VERBOSE [65] Request 2000 bytes (file size:6674235   file location: 254000)
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.244 VERBOSE [65] about to check
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.835 ERROR [64] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
1/29/2005 3:36:01 PM.855 ERROR [64]   at MyAlbumsPlugin.MyAlbumsTask.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
 at bw.a(Boolean& A_0)
 at n.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
 at n.ag()

That looks to me like getting file data for the song, then the button press. Performing the same task on the PC, pressing STOP did the same thing, logged as follows:

1/29/2005 3:51:00 PM.307 VERBOSE [2] Adding C:\Documents and Settings\Walter\My Documents\My Music\Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic\07 Through With Buzz.mp3 to play queue
1/29/2005 3:51:00 PM.317 VERBOSE [2] Adding C:\Documents and Settings\Walter\My Documents\My Music\Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic\08 Pretzel Logic.mp3 to play queue
1/29/2005 3:51:00 PM.327 VERBOSE [2] Adding C:\Documents and Settings\Walter\My Documents\My Music\Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic\09 With A Gun.mp3 to play queue
1/29/2005 3:51:00 PM.337 VERBOSE [2] Adding C:\Documents and Settings\Walter\My Documents\My Music\Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic\10 Charlie Freak.mp3 to play queue
1/29/2005 3:51:00 PM.337 VERBOSE [2] Adding C:\Documents and Settings\Walter\My Documents\My Music\Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic\11 Monkey In Your Soul.mp3 to play queue
1/29/2005 3:51:01 PM.548 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
1/29/2005 3:51:11 PM.413 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x60013c wparam=0x53 lparam=0x1 result=0x0   :  Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   :     at MyAlbumsPlugin.MyAlbumsTask.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
 at bw.a(Boolean& A_0)
 at n.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
 at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
 at n.a(Message& A_0)
1/29/2005 3:51:11 PM.463 VERBOSE [2] Rendering MenuMenuTask
1/29/2005 3:51:11 PM.653 VERBOSE [2] Rendering MenuMenuTask

Added the album songs to the queue, I let it play fo ten seconds or so and pressed STOP.

If it matters, my PC is an old Compaq Deskpro, 650-MHz P-III, XP-Pro, 384 MB RAM, humongous disk space, over 30GB free. gbpvr and plugins are current, D/L last week.

Can someone help me with this? I'm thinking I really like this plugin better than the built-in GBPVR music player, but not if it's unusable for some reason. . . . .

Hey, still mentally putting together my GBPVR ---

Went digging in my storage area and came across a TView Silver VGA to Composite/S-Video/Scart converstion box. It is circa 1999, but the updated web site is:

Tview

Mine does not have quite those specs, but it does handle up to 800 x600 at 72Hz. Now I'm thinking I can just use my low cost nvidia TNT VGA AGP card connected to this thing. Any one see a problem with that?

And with the PVR-150 card at $70 (thanks for the earlier post), this thing is getting cheaper.

Now, can any one reccommend a good PVR or SFF type case that can handle a full ATX mobo? Just need a 1 PCI and on AGP slot.

later,

I have 2 machines - regular computer & my HTPC (networked) - both need Windows XP updates from time to time. Since I use dial-up, and only have 15 hours per month, I don't want to download the same stuff twice. Can you share XP updates between 2 networked computers somehow? I have been strangely unable to find any information on this topic anywhere. Thanks for any help.

Is there a way to display a task image for sub menus. What I mean is that I grouped all TV related tasks and plugins in my TV menu, jukebox, my music, etc in the music sub menu. Can I somehow have a task image for the TV submenu?

Sub,

Can you create a method that you can either watch live tv or an existing recorded show based on ID.

Thanks