Sub,
Would it be possible to pick Windows' time format up, so we can get 24-hour time format if that is what's chosen in Windows?
This should also apply to the web interface.
Thanks,

If I click on Live TV when it is recording I get an error message. Is it supposed to show me the show that it is recording, or is the error message what you're "supposed" to get? (I haven't got Live TV to work yet...but this error I only get when trying to watch live tv while it is recording)

I have been mostly watching recorded programs. I just noticed that I cannot fast forward/rewind Live TV. I can pause, though. Any ideas as to where I need to look?

I was planning on starting to organize and compress all of these shows I have recorded and ran into a thousand different choices, so I figured I would see what you guys are using.

What compression do you use? XVID, Divx?
What tool do you use to perform the compression?
What (if any) filters do you run on the MPEG files?
What is your final desired result? Archive, or media server?
If you do have a media center, what kind is it? XBMC, Tivo home media, TwonkyVision, MCE 2005, etc.?

My system is a pIII 933mhz, 128 mb ram (133mhz), 120 gb hd and i use a Hauppuge 350 for encoding and a xcard for decoding. My problem was that due to the graphics implementation of GBPVR my system lags when menushifting. I upgraded my pIII 733 to 933 recently and only a slight improvement was noticed.

Anyway this is what i found out:
1. Since my computer is dedicated for tv, video etc and I am using a hardware decoder I lowered my resoultion, on my built-in graphics card, to 800*600 and set the colors to 16-bit (you could go lower, 256 colors but for me it made no difference). This was a great improvement.
2. And now to the other big improvement. After my first "fix" GBPVR still lags when menushifting with the remote but not when using my keyboard, but I found that this was cuased by using direct access to the Hauppauge remote. When I turned on IR.EXE I now get almost instant menushifting.
3. I also noticed that when I have started IR.EXE, booting up GBPVR now only takes 4 seconds compared to 20 when I didn´t have IR.EXE running. I don´t know if this is general or if it´s just my system.

Hope this sheds some light for some of you and also I apologize if this has already been covered.

//Zfinxen

I just installed GB-PVR last night in a brand new Dell desktop with an AverMedia M150 and RADEON X300. I've heard that there can be various things wrong when Live TV is not working. I can record TV, and I can watch it, but no Live TV.

At first I installed PowerDVD, and tried VMR9, 7 and Overlay Manager settings. None worked for Live TV. I would just be sent back to the Main Menu. Then I uninstalled that, rebooted, and installed WinDVD. Now I get a blank screen.

Also, with PowerDVD I was able to use fast forward while watching recorded TV. Now, with WinDVD, I cannot, in fact the menu (ff, rw, title, etc) is stuck on the screen but unusable.

Thanks

Hi,
I have a PVR-250, XP.
When recording with GBPVR, the sound is metalic, and the video freeze a little every second (changing recording size and rate changes nothing), same Pb with liveTV when I pause, but in that case it freeze for many seconds.
WINTV2000 works fine with recording.
What did I wrong? I tested Live TV and pause before I install my Sound blaster 5.1 sound card, it worked fine.
Thanks for helping,
Bzh

Hey sub!

Here is a small compilation of suggestions I have for you after having test driven your very cool PVR software for the past two days. Some of these suggestions are derived from my prior experience with a commercial DVR set-top-box from my previous cable company (model was a Scientific Atlanta 8000 dual-tuner DVR). I apologize in advance if there is any redundancy with previously submitted suggestions from other people (I did my best to search the forums beforehand).

1) After having finished watching a recorded show (i.e. I have fully watched it or I am pressing the stop button), it would be useful to be asked if I want to delete the show I just watched. This was the case with my previous DVR and is a convenient shortcut instead of having to go to the list of recorded shows and delete it manually from there. The assumption I am making here is that people normally want to delete shows they have finished watching to conserve disk space.

2) When stopping the playback of a recorded show, it would be cool if there was a way to resume it later on. On my previous DVR, when choosing to play a recorded show, it would ask me if I want to watch it from the beginning or from where I left off last time. This could be achieved by storing a text file (similar to the comskip text file) that keeps track of the position where one pressed stop during playback.

3) Similarly, if I am in the process of watching Live TV but want to just quickly go through the TV Guide to see what else is on, it might be useful to automatically pause (and keep paused) the show I am currently watching in case I change my mind and return to it without having choosen a different show. Alternatively, a full OSD version of the TV Guide that can be superimposed on top of a running live show would be even cooler. The mini guide is halfway there already, but a full version would be fantastic. On my previous DVR, when pressing the guide button, it would switch to a view where I could still see the current tv show in the upper right hand corner (similar to PIP), while the remaining real estate of the screen was used to display the program grid and detail information about the selected shows.

4) During playback of a show that is still in the process of being recorded (timeshift): When I catch up with 'real time' during fast forward, it should switch to 'play' and disallow any further forwarding. Currently, it just stops the playback and requires me to watch the show from the beginning again.

5) After having scheduled a future recording, it would be useful if it were possible to later on alter recording options such as the recording quality without having to cancel that recording and reschedule it with modified settings.

6) I noticed that when I cancelled a running recording, it doesn't automatically disappear from the 'pending' view (the partially recorded show should disappear from 'pending' and now be in 'ready'. It only disappears when going away and returning to the 'pending' view. Not a biggie, just a minor bug.

Thanks for reading this sub! I can only imagine how busy you are with all the various requests, but I hope that some of these suggestions are useful.

-Jan

P.S.: I should have mentioned that I am using the MediaMVP as playback device. Just in case that there are differences in behavior between it and the GB-PVR viewer application.

I have a few Manual Recordings showing up in the "Manage Recordings" list on the web managment page, but not in the "Recordings" listing in the GBPVR interface.

Anyone seen that before?

Any way to get rid of them? Thanks.

Anedjf

I just finally started using GBPVR with the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE and the MediaMVP. Is there a way to customize a scheduled recording so it happens only once a week?

If this doesn't exist it would be nice to have. The scheduling system that GBPVR has right now isn't very intuitive. If I just want to record "The Simpsons" on Sundays, right now I have to edit the config.xml file to change the TimeAllowance from 120min to about 5min. I should be able to specify: Record this show only on this day.

I don't know if this feature is already available and that's why I didn't post this thread in the Wishlist area.