Not sure if this has been requested....

How's about various speed with FFW/REW like TiVo?
Push once = normal ffw/rew
Push again = 2X ffw/rew
Push third time = 4X ffw/rew
Push Fourth time = play

For anyone struggling with their Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 350 locking up in software and/or hardware output mode, you should try the new drivers.  I'm running an Asus P4C800 with an Intel 875P chipset & Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with Hyperthreading on Windows XP Home.  Previously I could sometimes get the hardware output to work in WinTV2000 here and there, but was far from stable.  Even the software output locked up occassionally, requiring a "soft reload".  Many recordings either from GV-PVR or the WinTV Scheduler would end up being small empty files.  The GB-PVR OSD would immediately cause the card to lockup in hardware output mode and was unusuable to me.

I tried everything to get it working, including setting cpu affinity, disabling hyperthreading, and every other tip & trick I could find with no avail.  I was living with the software mode, which pretty much sucks once you've seen hardware mode, and I noticed this last weekend that new drivers, version PVR250_22_22292 were available on Hauppauge's site.  I followed their prior driver removal instructions and installed the new ones and applications and it now works perfectly.  I've been running on the new drivers for four days now with absolutely no lockups whatsoever.  Even the GB-PVR OSD works now in hardware output mode.  No more of the occasional stuttering after pausing or fast forwarding recorded video.

I hope others are having the success that I now am, I was starting to debate Ebaying the 350 in favor of another card since the software output was not what I was looking for.

Hi

I wonder if anybody can explain the following

I have been using GBpvr for a few months now without problems
with a pvr350, a telewest cable box and a mvp unit

but all of sudden all my scheduled recordings failed to record anything

the directory would be created and the tray icon would go green to show the recording service was active, but no output mpg file was ever created. If you looked during the recording the directory was empty then as well.

At first I assumed that I wasn't getting a signal from my cable box, but I could watch Live Tv without problem including pausing it !!

after trying various options of rebooting, re-installing etc etc nothing seemed to solve problem

as a last resort I tried the hauppauge wintv application which recorded perfectly.

and most strange of all after using wintv gb-pvr is recording happily again

can anybody suggest what the problem might have been

Tkgafs

Currently I have a single-tuner set up but am considering buying a second capture card and getting a second cable box. If I do, do I need to also get a second IR blaster, or can a single IR blaster be configured to control two cable boxes. Obviously, I'll have to set the second cable box on a different frequency/channel for receiving IR commands. But can an IR blaster like the Actisys support sending signals to two different cable boxes?

Thanks for any input
-Jan

Hi All,

This is a shameless plug for the new LCD Plugin that can be downloaded from the plugins page.

This plugin requires jaLCDs to drive an LCD or VFD (check http://www.jalcds.de to find out if your display is supported). All the plugin does is set a number of variables based on values reported by GB-PVR. Using jaLCDs' configuration tool you can define the layout of the screens that display the values of these variables anyway you want.

I hope this plugin is of use to some of you.

Regards,

Jan

No plans of implementing this "feature", I hope? :-D

[snip]
Blech.. so Tivo will be sending out a new OS version that when you fast
forward through commercials, you're going to get pop-up ads! This won't
effect Tivo1 users (no upgrades in a long time) but stand-alone Tivo2
people /will/ get it. Doesn't seem like DirecTV Tivo2 people will get
nailed with this but then again, they don't get the HomeMedia option,
etc. either.
--
TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button
from the sky-is-falling-but-first-this-word dept.
posted by jamie on Wednesday November 17, @11:27 (Television)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1538219

I am playing around with the MVP screen calibration settings in the config.xml. I was successful in adjusting the horizontal calibration parametes to fit my TV screen exactly (width and X-offset that is), but adjusting the MVPOffsetY tag value doesn't change anything. Height adjustments work, but not the Y-offset. I tried changing both MVPOffsetY tags that I found in the config.xml (what is the other MAC-specific one for anyway?).

Any help appreciated. My second day, and I am diving deeper into the internals of GB-PVR :) Very cool stuff!

-Jan

P.S.: "Preview Post" function before posting new messages to the forum doesn't work -- returns you back to the edit screen.

Has anyone developed a GBPVR plugin for misterhouse? Or maybe some other general X10 stuff like lights or cameras?

It'd be nice to have an X10 plugin so I could switch the view to one of my X10 cameras or turn on a light, etc. I was thinking about trying this and didn't want to re-invent the wheel if someone else had started down this path already.

I don't like the options "Exit or Cancel" when looking at the pending recordings. For me "cancel" on a dialog box means
"never mind, take me back" but this time it means "Delete
pending recording".

I rather have Exit and Delete in this dialog window.

Just as a side point, since the translations are done on a word to word basis, in swedish I get the choice of "Shutdown" or "Abort", abort being delete the recording :-)

Possible Pc Maintence....Defrag etc..