I'd put this on a medium to low priority list item, but it would be nice to migrate away from Access as a database, and move to a middle tier level database such as MSDE or MySQL. As with Access there are no royalty payments or restrictions. MSDE is basically SQL Server, but only allows a limited number of users to access it at a time. MySQL of course is open source, and can be included free of charge.
Setup of these might be a bit more complicated, but some of the benefits might be helpful for plugin/utility developers, as well as database maintenance. Indexing and speed of these two databases is much faster than Access.
In .238, I have the Medium and High settings set for variable video rates with audio at 384, but gbpvr just recorded a couple of things and TMPGENC DVD Author says the audio rate was only 224.
I'm sorry for the dumb question. I know that everyone is busy.
I've tried to read all of the old posts but I am still confused. I'm trying to get DVD's to play through GBPVR. I can't seem to get the DVD button to show up. I believe that there are hardware requirements for this but I'm not 100% sure what they are.
Every thing is working fine except for the DVD option. The following is my setup:
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
This is my setup:
Windows XP SP2
PowerDVD
Hauppage PVR250
ATI radeon 9800
LiteON DVD burner
AMD Athlon 800mhz (slow, I know)
I plan to use the S-Video out of the ATI board to connect up to the TV but right now I am viewing TV on the PC.
Since the move to the new version (and betas) the osd seems to never disappear for more than a minute. When watching live tv, even if i take the batteries out of the mouse the osd keeps on popping up. The only thing I can presume is happening is as it writes to the temp file or something that that is setting it off...
It seems that getting the hang of how to upload updated stuff to the wiki is one of the most frequent questions I get.
So here is a step by step instuction:
2) Enter the name the uploaded file should have in the box after "Name attachment as:" NOTE! Do not use spaces in file names, as this is reported to not work correctly.
(Since you are not allowed to remove any files, you should probably keep it as it is.)
3) Browse to your local file you want to upload (The file will be renamed once you upload it.) on your local machine
4) Hit upload
5) Post questions here, if something is unclear ;-)
I've upgraded to .238, and I like what I've seen so far, especially the small files sizes due to the VBR encoding. Very nice!
In my recordings list, the shows were grouped by show by default. I don't like this view, because I don't have many multiple episodes of one show, so it just adds another menu level to play a show. In the config app, I unchecked the box marked "show recordings group by show". When I restarted GB-PVR, the recording list was back to normal, but when I used my Hauppauge silver remote to select a show (by pressing the 'ok' button), it just refreshed the recording list. If I scroll down the list again, I get an error (Error: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index). However, if I choose the first item on the list, it plays, but it plays the wrong file. I suspect that the graphic is representing the list of recordings not grouped by show, but internally it is still behaving as if they were grouped.
The weird thing is, if I use the mouse and double-click on the show in the list to watch, it works fine. There must be a difference between the remote 'ok' button and a double-click with the mouse.
This is a small utility that will read in a file called Reoccur.txt. This file contains a list of Phrases to search the Episode Guide database, and add any occurence of the phrase to the
GBPVR scheduler. Each phrase needs to be on it's own line. For example, to add to the scheduler every episode in the guide that contains Sylvester Stallone, you would put in the Reoccur.txt file:
Sylvester Stallone
The program will then search episode Titles and Descriptions. If either of these has this exact Phrase then it will be added to the scheduler. If an episode is already in the scheduler it will not be
re-added.
This currently will search a max of 30 days out from the current date that the program is run.
Reoccurr.txt must be in the GBPVR directory, as well as AddReOccuring.
A log file is generated by AddReOccuring every time it runs. Also, any Console activity may be redirected to a file with the following command:
AddReoccuring > filesadded.txt
This program has been tested with GBPVR 0.238 but should work with at least version 0.22.
You can either run this manually, create a Windows Scheduled Task, or add it to the PostUpdateEPG.bat file. You may add as many phrases as you want to the ReOccur.txt. You'll want to keep an eye on your scheduled recordings, as the list can start to grow pretty quickly.
Sub or anybody else, is there an easy way to add a Season Recording to the system?
What is appears has to be done now, is use the ScheduleHelper to add the Season recording to using the ScheduleHelper.TYPE_SEASON and the group GROUP_ALLOCATE, then loop through the channel you are adding a recording for, find the episodes, and add a ScheduleHelper.TYPE_ONCE and the appropriate group number.
Just looking for a little guidance on what is the easiest way to go about adding season recordings so that when the EPG is updated it'll pick those season recordings up that were added from the Web Admin.
