Hi Sub,

Whats your recommended settings, for a Hauppauge PVR350 within the GBPVR config setup.

ive written a program in C# to grab these channels:
tv1,tv2,tv3,c4,juice,triangle,prime and trackside

its only an alpha release at the moment, theres a couple of bugs, mostly with c4 and and tvnz.co.nz's server, you run it at the command prompt so can easily put it in schedule tasks to update your tv listings once a day.

if you find a bug let me know and ill fix it.

also if you want me to add any more tv channels (from nz) to this grabber, like the local tv stations (only know the ones in auckland) let me know and ill see what i can do

you can download it at here

I'm thinking on getting one of these MVP units and was wondering a few questions.
Can you set up recording from it?
Is the tv out quality better than an ATI 9600?
can it look like GBpvr or that cheesy skin Hauppauge gives you?
is the remote able to operate farther than the 4ft given to the pvr250 remote?

Thanks in advance for the answers

i was just looking at my main menu and noticed theres a lot of buttons, it would be cool if you could group things together like have a menu called DVD and in this you had

---------------    ---------------------------------------
|Get DVD Info  |   |                                                     |
|Play DVD       |   |                                                     |
|Copy DVD      |   |                   DVD info                       |
|  Play DVD     |   |   (like how media player does this        |
|  from HDD     |   |                                                     |
----------------  |                                                      |
                        -----------------------------------------

ok my ascii art needs work, but the basic idea menu on the side and dvds info in the middle, this could work for other things like music, play mp3s, play cds, rip cd, net radio etc

i dont know if this is possible with the way sub does the live video, but there is alot of tv shows out there that have black bars for widescreen shows (those of us in places that dont have digital tv anyways) and i was hoping there was a way to stretch the image (for widescreen tvs just stretch it vertically leave the horizontal along) and for normal tvs zoom into the video to cut of the bars.

would this be possible? doesnt have to detect it or anything just you push a button on the remote and it zooms in, can be predefined zoom settings since most shows will probably be the same level of black bars or like 3 different zoom factors etc

Hi!

I know that there are three possible information sources and many country differences to deal with, but is there any possibility that the show names shown in the recordings schedule could be used instead of the date/ time stamp? It would be easier to spot repeats and sort the files after recording. I am sure it would reult in some loooong file names, but I find the numbers hard to read and figure out, particularly on the mvp.

Alternatively, if this is not an option for the file name, is it possible for it to be part of the initial greyed information area that plays right at the beginning of the show?

Thanks!
yorrick aka 2n

NM found the search button and answer...

I've been poking around the forums a bit, and I think I can do what I'd like with a custom plugin, but I'm not positive.

I'm looking for something like a merge between the IMDB plugin, and the built-in Video player capability. I want to use something like the IMDB plugin to browse the media collection, then once a movie is selected, hand it off to GB-PVR to play normally.

The built-in video module appears to lack any form of meta-data support for the videos, ie; descriptions, runtime, covers, etc. I like the OSD and the resume feature (especially the resume feature) though, and it's not clear if I'd have to code all the internally in the plug-in, or how I'd call the player from within the plugin.

If I can do this, I might have finally found my ideal package. I'd been using a custom written VB front end, but couldn't figure out how to do OSD on the xcard. I switched to Joveplayer, but that also lacks the metadata, resume function, and some other things.

It seems like I should be able to use GB-PVR as a base to add a custom plugin to that will allow me to navigate and view the metadata for my collection, and then hand it off to GB-PVR to play. If I have to code all the FF/RW/OSD/resume etc into the plugin, well, then I'm back to my standalone VB app

I have an issue which staarted recently; when changing channels it instead of changing it goes back to the main menu screen, on the odd occasion it does change the channel once but change again and it goes back to the main screen. It doesn't matter if I go through the epg or the live view. Before when this happened I did an uninstall and then re-installed gbpvr and that worked for about a week or two. A repair install doesn't solve the problem, as you can understand doing a uninstall then re-install means I lose my season pass settings.
Tell me what logs I have post or email and I will do so.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I've only recently discovered this excellent prog but have been struggling to understand a problem playing MP3s .

I've finally narrowed it down to the fact if the MP3 has an ID3 tag with no embedded album cover picture it plays fine. If the file contains an ID3 tag with a picture, nothing happens when you select the file. The same happens with the Jukebox plugin as well.

The suspect MP3s work fine in Music Match and Windows Media Player displaying the album picture thumbnail in both.

Should these files work or am I missing something? I can send an example file if needed.

Any help appreciated