Hi @all,
for the channels here in germany I downloaded some channel logos from
Speedbomb.de

The logos there are either 64 x 64 pixels or 82 x 82 pixels.
All as png.

The problem now is that the logos get distorted (stretched horizontally).

Is there any way to prevent the stretching ?
I read somewhere that I must remove some kind of information from the png ?
Is that right and if yes what must be removed ?

Does it help if I convert the png files into a jpg with Corel Draw 9 ?

Or the other way round :
What is the best resolution / color depth of channel logos for GBPVR ?

Regards
Sven

Hi there,
is it planned to extend the xrecord plugin with an onscreen keyboard ?

If not......
Would it be allowed that I try to implement an onscreen keyboard in it and post the new plugin here ?

Is it allowed to use the sources of xrecord and findfast to do this ?

Sorry for these - meybe stupid - questions, but I´m a newbie hiere.

Regards
Sven

I've tried to read all the forum to learn what I can -  there's a lot of stuff out there.  I guess the biggest thorn in my side (or, maybe it's the pea under my mattresses) has to do with "conflicts".  I get enough of that in my real life and from Lost, Desperate Housewives and Alias.

I don't really remember how GBPVR resolves them - first one scheduled gets recorded, or last one scheduled gets recorded or maybe neither of those is correct.  In any case, I've resorted to manually verifying the programs I want to record show in red in the TV Guide listing.  Let me propose an idea to help automate the resolution.

Add a "priority" to each program scheduled.  This could be a number from 1-10 (or 1-100, or anything) with, let's say, 10 being the most important.  A value of 5 could be assigned to everything by default.  If users decide they don't want to take advantage of this feature they wouldn't have to change this priority and conflicts would be resolved as before.  Nothing would change.

In my case I would assign a value of 4 to Friends and 2 to Good Eats.  Lost, LAX, Desperate Housewives would get 5 or maybe 7.  Alias, of course gets the most important priority!

GBPVR would go about building its recording schedule as usual but would have one more routine available when a conflict is encountered: the program with the highest priority would get scheduled.

Yes, it's possible, even with this priority system, a conflict would occur at user specified priorities,  They would be handled the same as before the system was in place (and the same as conflicts are resolved at the default level.)  Basically, nothing would change in that case.  With 10 priorities the conflicts could be greatly reduced.

This way, I won't have to worry about which order I entered my schedule.  I'll get all the episodes of Friends unless something with a higher priority is in conflict.  Maybe the producers can resolve all the character conflicts for me.

Is there something like this already implemented, or has this been suggested before?  I'm interested to hear what people have to say about it.

Thanks,
Bebop

Hows it going guys? I was wondering what the keyboard controls are for GB-PVR. I am also wondering what remote controls yuo guys are using to control GB-PVR.

Thanks

Hey all,
I wanna find an easier way to cut out the commercials permanently from the files themselves. Is there a video editor out there that will take a list of cut points (like the kind generated by comskip) and use them to automatically cut out the commercials and produce a new file?

Hey all
New to GBPVR, thinking of migrating from BeyondTV becuase i dont like being railroaded into 50$ for beyondmedia.

What i was curious about is if GBPVR can achieve full commercial skip & transcoding capability that BTV had, which is to
1) Record show
2) Scan for commericials and make cut points xml (txt)
3) Transcode to XVID/WMV/DIVX
4) play back transcoded file and still use the cut points from comskip
5) do all of this automatically in the right order of operations.


If this functionality can be achieved then the only thing the commercial products would have over GB would be the spotlight/online features which are pretyt much crap anyway except radio and i think gb does shoutcast or whatever soo..

is it possible to use the pvr350s sensor for the new hauppauge remote?

why might you ask. well the sensor for my 350 is behind a plate thingy on my case, which has a VFD (so its hidden but accessible) but with the pvr150 it has a ir sender on it aswell, and putting the new sensor inside the case would mean i couldnt use the ir sender. so i have to use the pvr 350 sensor inside the case (and i dont want to put the sensor outside the case, since its ugly and sticks out (well its not that ugly,but you know what i mean)).
anyway i read somewhere that the MVP was able to use the new hauppauge remote, by updating something, i was hoping this was also possible with the 350. so anyone know how?

and sub i get why you were so fussy about the remote buttons. im going to try and make the buttons in my plugins configurable. maybe using a remote.xml in gbpvr root directory or something.

Just bought a new setup today, WinTV-PVR-150 and MVP 1000. Downloaded the latest GBPVR and installed it. Seems to work fine on the PC, but after starting the GB MVP service and then plugging in the MVP, it hangs at "Loading Application".

If I start up the MVP with its own software, then turn it off and start the GB-PVR MediaMVP Server, I get the messages "Failed to Locate GUI Server" and "Failed to Locate Streaming Server" alternating back and forth.

Sorry if you've already addressed this, but the forum doesn't have a search feature, and I didn't see it after scanning some of the topics.

Hi Sub,

I'm writing a small software for german pay-tv (premiere) users.
Here I have a external box connected to my tv-card.
In my XMLTV I've all stations and can switch the channels with an infrared-sender.

This works fine, BUT:
When a movie is not approved for childreen, you must enter a pin-code. For example: The movie at 14:00 is FSK 16 (you must 16 years old), you need a pin. If the same movie comes at 23:00, you need no pin.

My program should change the channel AND send the pin to active the movie.

In the xmltv-file you can find this:

<rating system="FSK">
<value>16</value>
</rating>

(means 16 years)

Is it possible to use this values like fsk or channel-name from xmtlv as a channel-changer-parameter ?

This would be very nice.

Thanks.

Sebastian

Hi,

GBPVR is great. But the media-mvp-Screensaver comes too fast.
When I listen to some mp3-files, the screensaver is there after one minute.
Is it possible to change the time before the screensaver comes ?

Maybe GBPVR could create a visualation like Media-Player and stream this to the MVP with the mp3-sound :-)
With a fast pc, this should be possible.

Bye,
Sebastian