Hi,

Up till now I've been using software decoding for recordings and everything has worked as expected - I can playback my gbpvr recordings, divx, etc.

Today I switched to using my PVR-350's tv-out for recordings. This is working great (picture quality is way better than software decoder). But, when I playback divxs and switch to the tv-out on my gfx card I get a black screen and no audio?

Switch back to software only and everything is fine again.

Now i thought if you used the 350's tv-out it would only play mpeg2 and playing divx would go through the gfx card tv-out. Is this how its supposed to work or am I being incredibly stupid?

Cheers,

Scott

I'm using a NEC ND3500 DVD RW drive in my PVR. All works well except that it is too noisey when playing back DVDs.  I can reduce the DVD read speed using Nero DriveSpeed V2.0.  However when putting new DVD in the drive the speed resets to the original maximum speed.  I want to be able to start DriveSpeed via a shortcut and use command line options to set the drive speed. This page http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=...speed.html provides some hints on command line options but this seems to cover an older version ie Drive speed for CD-Roms only.  I would expect that there are more option to cover dvd drives.

Does any one have details of the command line options to use with this version of Nero DriveSpeed?  TIA

Hello,

I just bought an xcard, and it works pretty smoothly (i was surprised that so many things worked with the first attempt).

The only thing that does not work, is playing divx. On my tv i just get a black screen then, and gbpvr stops responding... there is a 1/2 second that i see the logo of windows media player on my screen though, so it is loading something.

And if i try to play the divx locally on my pc, it works just fine. With mediaplayer 9 that is.

tnx

Hi All,

I'm currently using an nVidia Fx5700LE video card and running tv off the tv-out. I've tweaked this thing up as well as I can but the picture quality is noticably poorer than the tv picture straight from the STB or the pc picture on a vga monitor.

Is this a limitation of nVidia tvout? Are ATi any better? I've heard the Matrox cards have great tvout quality but I want to use this PC for 3D games so the Matrox cards are kinda eliminated.

Your advice appreciated!

Cheers,
JohnO

For those that are looking for a way to automate the conversion of MPG to Divx/Xvid formats, you might want to take a look at the following BTV 3.5 thread:

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17894

I think it could be fairly simple to setup something to automate this, especially if Sub has a way to run tasks after recording is finished. If nothing else a batch file that is run through the Task scheduler could easily scan the recording directories for any MPG and then add it to a list of files that are to be processed.

Hi sub,

I just checked the latest version and the GB-PVR configuration tool still shows some behaviour I find mildly annoying...

When I setup a fresh install of GB-PVR, I use an XMLTV file which contains my channel lineup in the order I want, and no EPG data. I load this XMLTV file into GB-PVR as an EPG source and all is fine except for one thing: the channel list starts with channel number 2. Could you please make it so that this list starts with 1, so I don't have to go through the list and decrement each channel number?

Regards,

Jan

I guess i will just have to leave it up to you real developers, because i do not enough c# to write these plugins, even though i will keep trying...

Hi all,

Im new to GBPVR. When I schedule recordings or do quickrecordings a folder gets made where I set the recording folder. But no file gets created inside it ?

BTW... made my own xmltv grabber and Im using that file for the schedule. The schedule seems to be 100% ok.
I also needed to install all the channels by hand into the mdb file if that matters...

Anyone know whats this is about ?

Regards.

im writing a new plugin which im trying to make it remember the directories last view (list, icon etc). ive decided to do it in an xml file like
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<dirviews>
 <D>
   <My_Videos>1</MY_VIDEOS>
   <Recordings>0</Recordings>
 </D>
</dirviews>
[/QUOTE]
so D:\MyVideos has the view associated with 1 and D:\Recordings has the view associated with 0.  im having problems adding things that arent in the xmlfile already thou.
im using this code (from a plugin config i was using as blueprint)
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
XmlDocument newDocument = new XmlDocument();
newDocument.LoadXml(newNodeXML);

XmlNode imported = DirectoryView.ImportNode(newDocument.DocumentElement.LastChild, true);

DirectoryView.DocumentElement.AppendChild(imported);

node = DirectoryView.SelectSingleNode(DirToNodeString(currentDirectory.Location));
[/QUOTE]
newNodeXml = a string for the new node eg &quot;/dirviews/d/recordings&quot;
DirectoryView is my xmldocument im using

but that code gives me xml file like
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<dirviews>
 <D>
   <My_Videos>1</MY_VIDEOS>
 </D>
 <D>
   <Recordings>0</Recordings>
 </D>
</dirviews>
[/QUOTE]

i figure the problem is in &quot;AppendChild&quot; and/or &quot;LastChild&quot;, but i cant figure out how to fix this problem, if anyone knows what im doing wrong and how i can fix this, your help would be very much appreciated;
cheers in advance.

oh and if your interested heres info about the plugin and its current status.

I have a problem with dual entries in the EPG. Some days are duplicated into entries for the date before (i.e., all epg listings are put into the EPG on the correct date, but also a copy of the same listings are overwriting the listing entries for the day before). It seems a little erratic, it is not all days that get duplicated, and not all channels either.

I have a PVR-350 and a PVR-250 card, and therefore two almost identical capture sources.

Whe I try to &quot;Empty EPG&quot; in the Config app, nothing happens. I have to force emptying by deleting both capture sources and the re-create them (fairly tedious - is there a way to copy the channel numbers easily back?).

Could I be doing something wrong? I assume both cards need to be set up with full set of channel numbers, as well as point to the same xmltv file?

peter