This seems to be quite simple that future versions of GB-PVR should also interact with WinLIRC. Spec is here and also sample codes:

http://winlirc.sourceforge.net/developer.html

So, the story in short is that many people has only one PCI slot in their super slick and small and quiet home media pc. When you use Hauppauge tunercards other than MCE release, they are shipped with remote, but if only one tuner device is less and want for example use Hauppauge PVR-500MCE, there is no way you could use original Hauppauge IR sensor, you could use it only via WinLIRC (simple and extremely cheap serial port IR receiver for PC). I have used successfully Hauppauge remote control with WinLIRC controlling for example ViPlay and BSPlayer, so why not also GB-PVR should support it?  

PS. Using WinLIRC it is also possible not to have about ten remote controls near the TV, but use only the one to control all with lirc

Sorry for crosspostings, but this feature is too valuable for me not to be noticed from others.

It's annoying, but sometimes the TV companies will move the timeslot for a program back and forth by a few minutes (for instance to cater for extended news bulletins etc.).

If you have a VCR or DVD recorder that uses PlusCodes (e.g. VideoPlus/VCRPlus), then a program set to record from that code will record when it occurs, not just when it was scheduled (I have no idea how this works - is it something embedded in the TV signal that the VCR or DVD Recorder picks up on?).

Anyway, it occurs to me that this would be a nice-to-have feature for one-off recordings (I don't think it would work for a season record unless the same pluscode is used for all episodes in a season - does anyone know?).

Anyway, if the pluscodes were also available to the EPG (I assume they are), couldn't GB use this as the means of ensuring that a scheduled recording starts and finishes at the right time?

This is just a thought for the future, and to find out if anyone else can enlighten me as to how this works.

Definately a 'lower-than-low' wishlist item.

As you know, the HDD space fills very quickly and there is a little solution to this I have used. I don't post the complete code here yet (because I have to rewrite it a little bit), but the workflow/idea is here

1) edit postprocessing.bat to run comskip.exe on %1 and echo %1 >> \pvr\transcode.txt
2) edit \pvr\transcode.cmd to sth like that:
#!/bin/bash
f=`cat \pvr\transcode.txt`
for t in $f; do
\pvr\mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 $t -o $t.new
if [ %errorlevel% == 0]; do
del $t
ren $t.new $t
done
egrep -e $t \pvr\transcode.txt >\pvr\transcode
done
3) schedule a new task to be run on weekdays (Mo-Fr) at 9:00 \pvr\transcode.cmd and enable maximum run for 8h.

So what it does is after a new recording it runs comskip and marks out commercials and inserts new recording filename to processing queue. So, if you watch the recording before 9:00 on Monday, you will see original mpeg2 stream. At 9:00 on Monday morning it wakes up computer and transcodes as many mpeg2 streams from queue to xvid as it could in 8 hours and all left in queue are processed the next day (I choosed this time because the PVR is in living room and I don't want that the PVR makes any additional unwanted noise when my family is at home). It keeps the mpg extension on files and in original location. So, if you happen to playback this recording afterwards GB-PVR doesn't make difference that inside is avi not mpeg and allows to play back as normally it does (also commercial skipping and all other works).

All comments are welcome!

This seems to be quite simple that future versions of GB-PVR should also interact with WinLIRC. Spec is here and also sample codes:

http://winlirc.sourceforge.net/developer.html

So, the story in short is that many people has only one PCI slot in their super slick and small and quiet home media pc. When you use Hauppauge tunercards other than MCE release, they are shipped with remote, but if only one tuner device is less and want for example use Hauppauge PVR-500MCE, there is no way you could use original Hauppauge IR sensor, you could use it only via WinLIRC (simple and extremely cheap serial port IR receiver for PC). I have used successfully Hauppauge remote control with WinLIRC controlling for example ViPlay and BSPlayer, so why not also GB-PVR should support it?

hello all,

what is the meaning of the season-record-type:

record season (all episodes in this timeslot, this channel)?

what is timeslot precise?

- same weekday, same time (exact)
- same weekday
- same weekday, same time (+- x hours)

thx for help

i update my epg with xmltv-files, which are generated from nextview.
with nextview i get the epg for the next 10 days, but only for the next 3 days with description.
when the epg-updates only new show will be added, the description (now available) for existing shows in the db will not be updated.

workaround can be solved with the options -onlyemptyepg and -onlyupdateepg, but for scheduled shows (especially season-records) is this not working.

is it possible to force an epg-update for existing db-entries too?

otherwise i have to switch back to native xmltv which is not so good as the data from nextview.

i have got sharpdevelop to work, to make plugins finally, now i am just interested in doing a video plug in, what code do i need, and which interface, ivideoplayer, be gentle i am still learning..

I would like an extra option in season record.
'Season record, same channel,same timeslot, same day of week'

Extra option is same day of week.

Hey there. Two things:

where can I find some good codecs downloadable for free?

how to i integrate them into GBPVR so that they are available on the 'playback' popup menu.

thanks
AC

The only way I can watch TV on my pc is if I use the Software decorder. If I use the PVR 350 for playback it doesn't display a picture. How can I watch TV on my PC but still use the PVR 350 decoder and not software decoding? Thank you for any help.