How about the ability to spawn an external program either before or after a recording takes place?

What I would like to do, is run a small batch file before and after a recording to send me an e-mail or even an SMS message indicated the start, end (or failure) of a recording.

(I'm assuming that I would be able to pass command-line arguments to the external program.)

I could see this being useful when I'm out of town and it would be nice to know that the recordings are happening as they're supposed to.

I ultimately envision an application that might scan the finished mpeg file and send a couple of sample frames in an e-mail. (with a gmail account, this wouldn't severly bog down a server)

Cheers,
--Peter

So are there any tags that should be or could be in XMLTV so that I give to GVPVR ADDITIONAL information?

More specificaly is there a way to READ from the XMLTV.xml file:

- the channel frequency (for example Greek NET is channel 44, because now I had to edit those manualy as all where imported as channel 0)

- the channel's position in the list (as seen in your configuration last tab - again I edited them manualy)

- channel information even if the channel is not supported by an EPG source (in other words what tags are minimum just to DESCRIBE a channel and be automaticaly added in the list with its name and frequency, without having any real EPG data for it ...and yes now I had to add them manualy and I'm afraid to lose them and have to add them again manualy in case I have to delete PVR source again!

Thanks in advance!

sub what is the name of the control you used for the video library and music library in the config app. the table thingy with the columns "Name" "Directory", i tried finding it in vs but i couldnt find it. is it an extra control you downloaded somewhere? if so is it free? do you remember where you got it?

im looking for something similar (or that exactly) for a plugin.
cheers

Suggestions. I also included a thumbs up on the slected path...Please any suggestions thoughts. etc..

sub,

I already read about this problem somewhere in this forum but am not sure if a resolution was mentioned. The MVP resets itself very often for me in conjunction with GB-PVR. Specifically, after having watched Live TV or a recorded show for a few minutes, when I then press the 'Menu' button on the remote, the screen first goes blank, then either it stays like that or the MVP goes into its "Connecting Servers" mode (essentially a reset). Often it then recovers back to the GB-PVR screen, but sometimes it just stays in search mode and I have to restart the GB-PVR recording service on my PC one or more times for it to work again. It seems that this is more likley to occurr the longer I have watched a show. If I just go to Live TV for a few seconds, I usually don't have that problem. Could it have to do with some buffer filling up over time?

If you want, I can send you the logs I have. Just let me know which ones in particular you would like to have.

Thanks
-Jan

P.S.: Just for the archives, my MVP is a rev. D3A.

Is there anyway to adjust GBPVR so that it doesn't record the data line that is transmitted with a tv show. The line I'm talking about is the one that shows up at the top of a show, that is usually hidden because of overscanning. However, with GBPVR it records this line as well.

I know is some PVRs there is the ability to specify the offset for recording. When I recompress the recorded shows to Xvid, AutoGK correctly crops the picture, but I'd rather not have it there to begin with.

Anyone give a little description on what post filters do and how to use them (with GBPVR)? Thanks

Hello,

I get ther following message when trying to install the latest version of the app:

Error 1270. There is a problem with this windows installer package. A script required for this installer to complete could not be run. Contact your support personell or package vendor.


Has anyone come accross this before? I would be grateful for any help in resolving this.

By the way, i am running XP pro with Service pack 2.

Thanks
nii

shall there be a defined behaviour in case one scheduled recording interrupts another?
I wanted to record two shows which are immediately succeeding.
Show one was scheduled from 0:50 to 2:45,
show two was scheduled from 2:45 to 4:40.
I have set 1 minute pre-pad and 20 minutes post-pad.
I expected that the file for show one starts at 0:49 and is interrupted at 2:44 by the second show, thus containing about 1:55 hours of video. Actually, it contains only 1:31 hours of video and I lost the rest.
Of course, I can adapt the pre-pad and post-pad each time when I record succeeding shows, but it would be more comfortable if there is a defined behaviour for this situation.

-tschoo

Dear GBPVR,
I was hoping someone could help me with a problem that has just started happening when i try and schedule recordings. Although the program repoprts that it has recoded the whole show when i open the file only the start has recorded (typically ~15min). Don't think it is a problem with disk space as there is ~90 GB free on the drive.
Log file from a recent recording which stopped after 17 min attached.
Any help much appreciated