I hope to use GB-PVR in a car, using a touchscreen rather than a remote control.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to traverse menus without the use of a keyboard / remote.

Adding this functionality should be fairly straightforward by making the down / up arrows clickable and providing additional cursor buttons where necessary, for instance the TV guide.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Steve

Hi,
I'm testing DVD2MPEG. I have installed all like it is documented in the pdf. When I start the module, it shows that it is a 3-way conversion (not 4 like written in the doc). OK, but after the 3rd point there is no MPEG in the targetfolder. In my temp-folder there are 6 files:
- audio.ac3
- audio.mp2
- BeSweet.log (attached)
- video.m2v
- VTS_08 - Stream Information.txt
- VTS_08_0.IFO

What could be wrong with my configuration?

this may sound like a stupid question but i have installed gb-pvr on my pc which has a wintv-350 tunner card. when i click wacth live tv i get the message found IR countroller 30. then a active movie window comes up tunned to none of the channels i am using i live in the uk. i have already tried using the tuning assitent and entering the channel ferquency in the eddit recording sofce in the settings program. please could someone help

Hi,
I have installed the version4 of DVD2MPEG and test it. When I start GB-PVR there is an errormessage that there is a xml missing in the ..\skin\...\panels folder. I can't found that. Does someone has the file for me?

First off let me congratulate you on a great product.

Everything working fine for me but the FM I've downloaded the latest update and it still will not work and crashes my PC as soon as I select a station.

Heres the error :

Debug Assertion Failed!

program: c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvrrecordingservice.exe
File: dbgdel.cpp
Line: 52

Expression: _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse)

Current Setup:

M/B: Asus A7m266-D
Proc: 2 x AMD MP2000+
Mem: 2 x 512Mb PC2100
Vid: Nvidia Ti4200
TVCard: PVR-350

Note: Sub has nothing to do with the process I'm about to describe. If you try this method, and mess up your GBPVR application, do not ask him for help. I'll try to answer questions regarding this. Sub may or may not ever "officially" support MSDE or Sql Server as a database for GBPVR. The initial notion for doing this came from a Wishlist item, and Sub's response that initially GBPVR was developed using MSDE as the database, and that the SQL used was pretty generic.

Well, I was curious if the current version of GBPVR could be made to use a SQL Server database such as MSDE. After much trial and error, and many reinstalls of GBPVR on my development machine I think I have it working. I've checked all the logs, and they are all saying they are using the SQL Server connection string, and my access database last update time stamp has not changed (even though the LDB for it is getting updated). Not to sure why that is getting updated, but it is.

Regardless, from some brief testing, a couple of items I have noticed:

1. Data Access seems much quicker. Noticeably so with the Web Admin, and building the initial TV Guide page.

2. TV Guide in the main GBPVR application also populates much quicker.

3. Refreshed my EPG data from Zap2It, and refresh time took half the time it normally does.

Now, to get this to work is not for the faint of heart. You have to follow certain steps. I'm not going to go into great detail but here is what needs to be done.

1. Install MSDE either from your Office XP CD, or you can download a copy at http://www.asp.net/msde/default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

2. You'll also need a Manager for MSDE as it doesn't come with one. A very basic one that will let you add new users to the system can be found at: http://www.whitebearconsulting.com/Utilities.htm

3. After MSDE is installed, reboot your system, or start the MSSQL service in your services panel.

4. Run the MSDE Manager and a user named gbpvr as a SQL Server user. I just set the password to the same as the user name. Also, I gave this user full authority to the SQL Server system.

5. Launch Access 2000 (or newer), and load the GBPVR database.

6. From the menu, select Tools -> Database Utilities -> Upsizing Wizard. Select Create New Database, when prompted give it the name of the Database, the gbpvr username you created, and the password. Also, name the database GBPVR (the default is GBPVRSQL). Follow the prompts, and when it asks, select the No Application change radio button. The wizard will migrate all tables, and data to SQL Server.

Next you'll need to modify your GBPVR config.xml, so that it points to the new database location.

Important: If the GBPVR Recording Service is currently running, Stop the service.

1. Find the DataBaseConnectionString element, and change it to something like this:
Provider=sqloledb;Data Source=(local);User Id=gbpvr;Password=gbpvr;Initial Catalog=gbpvr;

Change the user Id, and Password, to the user you created, and the Initial Catalog to the database you created using the Upsizing Wizard.

2. Next, shutdown and reboot. You could probably just stop the GBPVR Recording Service, but have found that the best way is to just shutdown and reboot the system.

3. Once the System reboots, everything should be as it was before, except you will now be using MSDE as the database. You can check to see if GBPVR is using your new database setting by checking the GBPVRTray.exe.log file. Also, when you launch the Config.exe, and the GBPVRRecording Service, their logs should also specify have the new connection string displayed.

That is it. A couple of notes. Do not remove the MDB file. If you do so, Windows will try and repair the GBPVR installation. Trust me, this caused me to have to uninstall and reinstall my GBPVR application many times.

Why would you want to switch?

1. Mainly for Speed. SQL Server/MSDE is much quicker than Access at doing queries. It is optimized for speed.

2. Enhanced querying capability for future plugin development. Similar steps for migrating Jorm's Zap2It meta data database to MSDE could be undertaken. With that database loaded there as well, it would allow for fairly simple cross database queries to be undertaken, to provide extra information for the GBPVR application and plugins.

3. Reliablity and data integrity. Access has always been buggy when it comes to database integrity. Loss of data, and index corruption were very common in the past.

4. It gives the end users a choice, of where to have it installed. If you already have a MSDE application on your system, now you can store and manage the GBPVR database there as well.

Why did I do this?

A. Mainly for my own curiosity. I currently only have this combination setup on my development machine. I had originally tried to get MySQL running, and actually came very close, except the OLEDB drivers are very buggy and I kept being prompted for username and password everytime GBPVR would access the database. Plus I wanted to see what type of speed difference, if any would occur.

Do any other PVR applications give you this option?

A. Not that I'm aware of. I've used BTV in the past, and most of their information is stored in XML files, which is good and bad. I have no idea what GAM, MediaPortal, or any other PVR software uses as their database. This may make GBPVR unique in this aspect.

I'm trying to increase the recording quality using the "Quality Profile Settings" under "Edit Recording Source -> Direct Recording Configuration".  It seems that no matter which settings I choose, it gets reset to "Medium Quality".

Just looking, I don't see where it gets updated in a config file (but then it's late, and I may just be looking past it).  Any pointers? This was happening with both 0.23.8 and 0.23.11.

Thanks for a wonderful product...

Hot on the tail of last week's release, I've just uploaded a maintenance release. It addresses several of the issues raised with the last release, as well as a few older bugs, and adds a couple of new features. Its now available for download from http://www.gbpvr.com/GBPVR02311.msi

From the change.log:
2004-12-05 v0.23.10 (maintenance release)
- Added RECORD button support for the MCE remote, and for Hauppauge Direct IR Access.
- Fixed a bug with the installation scripts that would give an error when registering msado15.dll
- Fixed a bug where the remote web scheduling would not work until a couple interop files were moved into the .\web\bin directory
- Fixed a bug that could cause 100% CPU usage when using the PVR350 tv out.
- Fixed a bug that would stop the DVD button from appearing in the menu
- Added a new "LiveTV Pre-Play" delay setting on the Playback tab which *may* help those having problems with the file switch during livetv.
- Fixed a bug on the recordings screen. If you had multiple groups of recordings available and play a recording, it always seem to jump back to the first group when playback is complete.
- Fixed a bug where the first live tv channel changes was always relative to your first channel, even if you started on a different channel from the tv guide.
- Fixed a bug that was stopping custom tasks from working.
- Added the ability to specify independant forward and back skip durations.
- Added a minimal OSD option, to makes the MVP more responsive. When this is enabled, the OSD wont be automatically displayed when a file playback starts, during channel changes, or when you skip to another location. You can still see the OSD by pressing the blue button, or by pausing.
- Added settings in direct.ini and go.ini to change the brightness/contrast/hue/saturation etc, for those that aren't happy with the driver defaults.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a live tv recording file being overwritten
- Fixed a bug with season recordings which could skip certain shows for zap2it users
- Fixed a bug with selecting "ready" recordings when the new grouping feature was disabled.
- Fixed a bug with rewinding past the start of the video on the MVP.
- The blank key on the Hauppauge remote (or ctrl-O on the keyboard) will catch up to "near" live tv.
- Removed requirement for ADO. Too difficult to deploy.
- Added code to ignore very small random mouse movements. For some people these were causing the OSD appear often.
- Fixed a bug that would stop .avi playing correctly.
- Added initial support for PVR150 remote.

I don't know if it's possible, but it's a idea.

I have a PVR 250, with problems with Live TV. I receive audio, but no video. I have all the Playback defaults for 238
Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to solve this issue? Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

Gav