This is a great product and my compliments to Sub and the plug-in authors for all the great stuff.


1)  Current Status of Recordings I'm not sure if this is a skin thing or whether it is suppported already, but it would be nice to see on the main screen whether GBPVR is recording something at that time or not.  Currently, I have to go to Recordings, Pending to see if my show is recording at that time.

and

2)  Update EPG manually  My EPG auto update doesn't work on schedule all the time (must be a problem of waking up from Hibernate to update the EPG) or some other user error.  The only way I know of GBPVR manually updating the EPG is via the Config program.  I'd like to kick off an EPG update from the main menu if possible.

Ben

I'm hooked up to a sat box and have access to 300+ channels. They range from ~50 all the way up to the 900s. When I open the guide, it always starts at the bottom. If I want to see what is on in the 600s, I have to scroll over about 200 channels to get there. How about:

a) Using the remote's numpad to enter a specific channel (ex: 666) and the guide will automatically scroll to that channel, or the next closest one.
b) Having a PgUp/PgDn function. Perhaps tie it to the FFD/RWD buttons. This would scroll the guide by a page at a time.
c) Remember the last channel that the guide was left on and go back to that channel when the guide is reopened.

Any or all of the above would be extremely nice and make the guide much more user friendly.

Perhaps this could be a Plugin for any developers out there.

Sorry, I'm a build your own PVR newbie so this question may be obvious to some but I couldn't find documentation that would help me answer this question.

Is anyone using a single GB-PVR server to source multiple MVP units ? If so how's the performance? What about other client computers? I see some of the other PVR solutions out there sell seperate client software to gain access to live TV and recordings but I didn't see any mention of this on this site.

Thanks.

Hi!

I wanted to test GB-PVR but had difficulties to install. I searched this forum but found nothing similar: Setup works fine at the beginning, copies files, registers stuff and the progress bar is rising. But when the progress bar nearly reaches its end it starts to shrink. All actions performed earlier are rolling back. All ends in a pop-up telling me that "installation ended prematurely because of an error".
Tried it on WinXP Home SP2 and WinXP Professional without SP. Same effect. .NET redistributable pack installed of course. Installed WinXPs are german, but language shouldn't have any influence I think.

Any ideas?

Thx in advance!

shrimp..

I have now seen this behavior 3 times during the last months. GBPVR will start recording a scheduled show and about 13 minutes into the show i stops and writes this in the log:
"Received request to stop livetv: 1"

noone triggered this intentionally - so what gives?

Guys,

Can anyone tell me what the objects in the skin.xml files are based on?

What I'd love to see is a reference so I know what attributes are available.

download: shutdown2.0.zip

i got sick of the lack of skinnability in the shutdown plugin, and the spelling mistakes, and mostly how it would cause gbpvr to crash every time i tried to reboot or shutdown, thus rendering the plugin useless. so i fixed it. you can now skin it, you can have task image for each option (havent included this in the blue skin, but ill do this in the media experience skin), everything can be translated; and best of all i can shut down my computer with it!

the source can also be found at the wiki (ive commented out the original "shutdown"/"restart" code, and used some i found at codeproject.com but if people have problems with the new code ill add a checkbox to the configuration so you can choose which code you want to use, pretty sure it will work for everyone thou.).

oh and background now uses composite images so tblackwe you wont have the problems with displaying text anymore.

anyone find any bugs, any spelling mistakes (yes i make them too), just let me know. the black rounded rectangle isnt semi transparent anymore, since its a composite image, but thats no biggy, you could photoshop a different background to give it that effect, so im not going to worry about it.

build: #1.2.1844.30494

ive added dvd burning to "my videos".  works best with mpeg2 files recorded in gbpvr, but should work for any files as long as they are converted in the "convert.bat" file.

configuration (needs a lot)
first you need to download a few programs.
dvddecrytper - http://www.dvddecrypter (you all should have this by now).
dvdauthor - dvdauthor.sourceforge.net (download the latest windows binaries).
PVAStrumento - used to demux the file, http://www.offeryn.de/dv.htm#pvash
mkisofs - used to create an iso from the directory created by dvdauthor (http://smithii.com/)

once you got all those installed you'll have to edit the convert.bat dvdburn.bat which are included in the zip and placed in the gbpvr root directory.  edit these to suit your system.

convert.bat arguments
%1 - the new file to be created which will be like %tempdir%\temp.0.mpg
%2 - the mpv file created (used with PVAStrumento)
%3 - the mpa file created
%4 - the original video file (incase your not using PVAStrumento)

dvdburn.bat arguments
%1 - the dvd directory created ie %tempdir%\dvd
%2 - the dvd volume name eg "Sliders"

once you have all this set up, your ready to begin, well you have to configure my videos as well (really only to point to the dvdauthor.exe file).

if you have any questions (expecting a lot here) just ask, my instructions probably could be clearer, but hey im a programming what you expect .

note: if a comskip file exists for the video file, it will use this to generate chapters, otherwise each title will only have one chapter (im planning on fixing this later, when i able to read the duration of the video file, and just auto generate a chapter at a given interval, eg every five minutes). if anyone knows of a program that can scan a video file and detect scene changes from the command line let me know, comskip can do this if you adjust the settings, but rather not comskip for this. otherwise ill have to wait for sub to add chapters to gbpvr (which would be the best solution).

This is a skin I've been working on. It's still a bit raw but it's coming along. I've attached the preview.jpg for the Golf skin so if I did it right you can take a look

Please let me know if there is any interest.
-eric...

HI All,

I have some AVIs I want to convert using TMPGENC but I am unsure what settings to use that will work for output through GBPVR using my PVR350

thanks

Dana