My first post - I have the PVR350 (just got it a week ago).
I have tried everything i can think of to try and get sound (Live TV) out of my machine but get nothing.
I've tried numerous drivers for both the PVR350 and the AC97 onboard (nforce2) audio but GBPVR will not play sound. If i play music or a dvd with GBPVR - i get sound.
The Wintv2000 application as well as SageTV,BeyondTV and Showshifter all have sound on live tv.
I have set the "hardware decoder device" to software and have tried both the "intervideo NonCSS" decoders as well as system default. and every other one listed - Nvidea, sonic etc.
GUI
The possibility to change the order of plugins and video/music libraries.
Better support for national characters like åäöü and so on.
Net Radio
A stop button.
Music Library
A highlight on the active song, or a "Now playing" text field.
Video Library
The possibility to turn off OSD on slower machines.
If possible, a way to sync the audio/video like in Mplayer.
TV Guide
Automaticly remove padding if you choose to record two or more programs in a row.
A way to edit scheduled recordings that has not yet started.
The GB-PVR software is excellent! Thanks guys!
I am just wondering if it works with the Nebula Electronics DigiTV card.
I am building a new HTPC system and I am undecided between an Hauppauge win-tv 350 and a Nebula card. The later is particularly appealing, because of the possibility of having freeview channels all in one card.
I have a problem that all video plays okay at it's correct aspect ratio except DivX files. I guess this is because they are encoded with the black bars at the top and bottom trimmed off them. All other programs play them back okay, but GBPVR stretches them to fill the screen. Is there some way I can stop this happening?
I just installed gbpvr w/ PVR-250 and like everything about the program except the 3 second pause that it takes to change the channel in live tv. Essentially the screen freezes for three seconds when a new channel is selected and then the new channel starts playing. Is there any way to lessen this pause? Would using a different software decoder help?
I tried the trial versions of two other pvr programs - one had almost no latency and the other had about a three second delay. Both supported pausing live tv. So I know it is possible to have quick channel changes and still be able to pause live tv - just not sure whether or not gbpvr supports this.
My remote stopped working. It works occasionally now. I tried re-installing GBPVR, and it doesn't work still.
It seems to be working outside of GBPVR - I can press the Go button and I get the choice between WinTV2k and WinTV32. And I can press the Menu button and get the Task switcher in Windows.
I have a couple of questions some which are mentioned more often but i couldn't find a suitable solution.
What I want.
- Stutter free livetv / timeshifting
- ffwd/rew (or skip) in livetv / timeshifting.
As you can see, basically what everybody else wants.
This is what I can get gbpvr to do at the moment
1) - Not using Sbe
Perfect stutter free livetv / timeshift  (it really plays wonderfull, only some slight stuttering when the osd/mini guide is visible,  but that is no problem).
But no ffdw/rew (this is a known isue of course)
or:
2) - Using Sbe
Perfectly working ffwd/rew
But unfortunalty lots of micro stutters, Â regardless of the decoders used, or how far i'm behind livetv.
The microstuttering occurs randomly but quite frequently (couple of stutters every minute).
What I tried
- Other harddisk partion (livetv/pause buffer is now on a completly empty udma drive)
- Different decoders and audio/video renderers.
- Different pvr cards (i have a 250 (ivac 15), 250 (ivac 16) and 350 available for testing.
- Installed pvr is a second pc, Â same problem.
Questions
- Is there some sbe buffer that can be increased (i noticed an sbe buffer value in a myhtpc registry key,but couldn't find one for gbpvr).... or wouldn't that help anyway ?
- I read that the problem whith ffwd/rew without sbe is partially because of the standard mpeg splitter, wouldn't it be possible to select the mpeg splitter just like the decoders ? For example, the opensource mpeg splitter (by gabest), i have zoomplayer setup to use this splitter and it works perfectly, Â with this you can ffwd up to 48x speed (it can also do this with files that are still being recorded). Â
- But this also makes me wondering, am I correct in asuming that when not using SBE, gbpvr uses for the playback part the same directshow graph in livetv aswell as playback of recorded files ?
If so, wouldn't ffwd/rew be possible, at least for the ones not using the 350 hardware decoder ?
Considering the fact that ffwd/rew without sbe is probably more difficult, the most likely solution for me would be to solve the microstuttering whenn using sbe... does anybody have any other suggestions for this.
Notes
I know that the subject of ffwd/rew is covered in lost and lost of other topics, and i don't want to seem ungratefull since i think sub has done / is doing a great job.
But I still hope there a solution can be found for this, since gbpvr has so many great capabilities, but this problem is just driving me crazy.
Once buttons are drawn on the screen, is it possible to clear them and generate a new list of buttons based on a user action ? If so, how do you do it ? I have tried clearing the ScreenButtons ArrayList and then re-populating it... but, the original buttons remain on the screen. I am using VB.NET and the sample code from the Weather Plugin. My original buttons work fine, it is just updating the list of buttons that I am having problems with.
