How about...

1) Like on Sky+ (but having an option to disable/enable cos some system may not like it), recording up to half an hour every time you watch some channel so rewind is available whenever no matter what? When you change channel cancel the recording and start another, again up to half an hour, just like on Sky+ (maybe you could have an option to choose how long you want the pre-view-padding-recording (phew! to be!.

2) Somebody make a plugin to support funky visualisations! This would be the icing on the cake for the jukebox plugin, making the lounge ultra-ULTRA-cool!

I'm having a small problem with the SBE-Feature and the Hauppauge Intervideo NonCSS Codec. After pausing LiveTV for more than 8 minutes it's impossible for me to use FF or RW. The OSD shows a negativ time-display like "SBE -00:03:01".

mlemmy

Hi All,
I just started playing with this app as a substitute for media center. Nicely done.
My question is How do I keep the aspect ratio on my divx or xvid backups? Even if I specify the 16x9 in the setup, GBPVR stretches it to full screen and whomps the aspect ratio.
Any ideas?

Is there an API call that will allow me to display some text (on an MVP) when something external happens. IRRESPECTIVE of which screen is showing.

The plugin I want to develop is a "phone call from...." popup message that overlays the screen.

The "backend" is easy - I can write some .NET code to trap an incoming xAP message, and parse that to work out whether it's a phone call. Then, if it is, I can display a message on screen... or can I?

For those not familiar, xAP is an open protocol for Home Automation (http://www.xapautomation.org). As such, there are already drivers for various systems that send a xAP message round the network when the phone rings. I want to be able to trap these messages a popup on my telly, using MVP, when this happens.

M.

Is it just me or has the systemtray icon for the recording service disapeared in the new release (wen't from .18 to .20)? Is there any way to get it back, I kind of liked having a confirmation that the service was runing.

Im just after a bit of advice, what I want is a media centre pc which does the following:

1) Plays videos, dvds, mp3s off the pc and displays on my TV
2) Takes a video input from my digital freeview reciever
3) Can output using one of theose usb IR transmiters to change the channel of my digital reciever
4) Full PVR capabilities and playback to TV

My main concearn is getting as much as possible working on the TV and though the remote control that comes with the PVR-350. SO a couple more questions should narrow things down:

5) Does the TV-Out on the PVR-350 allow you to use the full GB-PVR interface on my TV with dvd, video, mp3 & picture playback etc??
6) Does the remote with the PVR-350 allow you to control the GB-PVR interface ok??

Im really looking forward to getting my first media centre pc working but want to get things right and will definately be making a donation when its all working as this software looks great!!

Thanks

Carl

Hi Sub,

Can you please change the colour on the Album Directory select.When using the MVP its hard to see what Album you've
selected,because the backgrounds white and the Highlighters a thicker white. What about Blue or RED.

Regards
Joe

A few completely unimportant but probably necessary things to point out..

DVD Ripper says:
Rip DVDs from your DVD drive to **you** hard drive

Comics says:
View the **lastest** comics....

Oh, and here's one that's just ultra-super-picky (don't hit me)..
Just for consistency, 'TV Guide' button has a full-stop at the end of it's description at the bottom of the screen, but nowt else does.

As I said, nitty, picky unimportant things but might as-well get 'em ironed out!



joshley

I have a few questions on recording...
Is it possible to watch a program whilst recording it? At the moment as far as I can distinguish it is, but you have to go into recordings and the pending and click watch on that, but I find if I've only recorded ten minutes then even though whilst watching that ten minutes another ten were recorded, it will stop after ten?
Perhaps a wishlist item but I could be wrong so I thought I'd check here.. it would be much better if when something is recording, you could still watch that 'live', so when you click on it in the EPG the 'watch' button is still there, and when you click 'Live TV' it goes to whatever is being recorded; i.e. if some flag is activated saying 'Recording Active' then when Live TV is clicked it simply watches the feed but sends no change channel signal.
Also would it be possible to watch DVDs whilst recording something?
Oh and I've noticed that if I start to record something that is already on, sometimes it never actually records anything (maybe because it has no time trigger activation as it already passed when the program started?).
Thanks!!

joshley

My USB-UIRT device arrived today. I have it running GB-PVR right now, with three shows scheduled to tape overnight as a test run.

It's working so far. I'm using a Motorola DCT2000 digital cable box. I have the USB-UIRT sitting right next to the cable box, and it changes the channels. I didn't test the range beyond maybe 4-5 feet. It doesn't weigh that much and kept falling off the top of the TV, so I put a paperweight on top of it to keep it in place.

Notes:

* You don't need Girder (but you already knew that).
* I think you have to leave the cable box on all of the time, right?

Pretty cool!