Hi guys,

I've been searching the web for an alternative to Media Centre for ages and just came upon this site! - I like the fact that this software is compatible with loads more PVR cards that the MS product!!! but was wondering if ....

To be a truely functional 'Media PC', will GB-PVR support Web Cameras for basic video conferencing (messenger style) (Does it do this already??) - It would be nice to have a video to video link via the TV instead of the PC!

Is this a silly request or do other people have a need for it like I do???

Regards

Pretorian

I am thinking of getting a Radeon 7500 PCI version (note the PCI, NOT AGP) from a friend for really cheap.
Do you think this would be enough to run GB-PVR (or other media centers), LiveTV and Record Shows and playback DVDs?

I will be doing Overlay only, since my PC (Pentium III 1GHz) cannot handle the processing of VRM (RVM??)

Any limitations, disadvantages I will experience?

Thanks a lot in advance...

Hi Sub,

It would be good to have a quicker way of seraching a list of mp3 files ,within the Jukebox. At the moment you have to go down the list one by one and choose a song. A pgn down/up option would be good. Also when you skip to a new song, the screen won't update until ,you press the green button again.

Regards
Joe

For the weather plugin for example, I assume this method should return the string "weather".  Is this correct?  How can I find this information out?  For the Blue skin, main menu skin.xml file, the only 'panel' reference is:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="comics" visible="false" loc="500,100" size="180,80"/> [/QUOTE]

even though I do have the weather plugin enabled.

Also, is there a reason to make the returned image 180X80 as suggested in the code? I was thinking of putting the current weather icon and current temp in the panel, but 180X80 seems a little small for that. Is there a maximum size it can be?

Hi,

I've just set up GB-PVR and am incredibly impressed at how easy it was to get going. many, many thanks for making this great software available  

Just one question... when I change channels (in live TV) within GB-PVR, it's incredibly slow, up to about 10 seconds!

I'm using the Hauppage PVR-350, changing channels using that software is almost immediate (1-2 sec's max).

Can I change anything to speed it up?

Thanks.

Just would like to say thanks to the author for this release, it works well with my Adaptec USB2.
In South Africa we are very limited with regards to purchasing hardware mpeg encoders &amp; are unfortunately unable to purchase Hauppage products over here.
For any South Africans requiring an XMLTV link here it is http://download.flash.za.org/schedule/zaxmltv.php
My next mission is to try &amp; get my Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe(Hardware mpeg encoder) to work with GB-PVR as i'm currently successfully using it with a SageTV2 trial version which does not support my Adaptec USB2.
I'd prefer to have both encoders working with GB-PVR, will add
PCTV Deluxe to direct ini later today &amp; will let you know the outcome tomorrow.

I learned that GB-PVR uses a set of predefined tables to show live TV. But i live in the netherlands and the frequencies differ from the west-european standards. I also learned that you can manually enter them in the registery. But can someone tell me where and how?

Thanks in advance

Hi sub,
Well v 20 is working along nicely. Installation was a charm now it's not needed to redo the settings anymore. Many many improvements, of which the basic touchscreen support is one of my favorites. Thanks sub!

But you know me by now. I did some testing and still found several smal thingies (in random order):

-navigation of TV guide: click the arrow moves one program/station. Instead one page would be nicer. However if you implement the scrollbars, this issue is obsolete.

-make navigation arrow in main menu clickable (when there are more items than fit on one page) (for touchscreen/mouse users)

-navigation buttons/scrollbar also in other modules (pictures, search tv guide,  etc)

-navigation buttons may be a little bigger.

-jukebox plugin: error &quot;The path contains illegal characters&quot; but where to enter the path? Possibly conflict between newer gbpvr version and old jukebox version (v.5).

-when selecting an FM radio station: error &quot;No tuner was available to enable you to record the requested station&quot;. Solved after selecting pvr350 in the config app/capture source tab. Strange that all settings are retained on upgrading except for the card type.

-It appears the last seconds of a file are not played (also occured in a few of the first releases)

-I still think the recording icon should be red, idle green.

-in video playback &quot;pause&quot; pauses and both &quot;pause&quot; and &quot;play&quot; resume playing, in music playback &quot;pause&quot; pauses, only &quot;play&quot; resumes.

-pressing full-button gives a beep

-gbpvr starts non-windowed, full-screen: there is still space above the window and the taskbar is on top of gbpvr. Pressing full twice makes gbpvr properly full screen and hides the taskbar.

-With language file: main menu texts are not translated. Not in my version nor in dk version.

For the rest I like it   . Greetz,
MaBo

(runnning x.20)

I noticed that GBPVR creates a directory name of &quot;The Oprah Winfrey Show&quot; for a program that is being recorded, but the actual file name ends up with the spaces removed of &quot;TheOprahWinfreyShow_2004_12_08.mpg&quot;.

Any reason why it removes spaces in the name? I ask because my wife has taken to making jokes about some of the names that are appearing - i.e. &quot;TheCompleteandUtterHistoryofEverything&quot; seems rather appropriate without spaces!!

Thanks,

Pete

I'm getting this error message for some reason. Just started happening recently, I haven't touched anything. Here's what's in my dos box:

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;&quot;C:\\XMLTV_Automate\\xmltv\\xmltv.exe&quot; tv_grab_na_dd --days 5
--output xmltv\TVDatapre.xml --old-chan-id
Timezone is -0400
adding '--share=C:/XMLTV_Automate/xmltv/share/xmltv'
using config filename ./.xmltv/tv_grab_na_dd.conf

**WARNING** Password in config file, protect as required

Fetching from DataDirect
Fetched 5576 k/bytes in 32 seconds
loading data: ##################################################
Writing schedule: ##################################################
Message: Your subscription will expire: 2004-10-27T05:23:06Z
Downloaded 9262 programs in 123 seconds

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;&quot;C:\\XMLTV_Automate\\xmltv\\xmltv.exe&quot; tv_sort --by-channel --
output xmltv\TVData.xml xmltv\TVDatapre.xml
Timezone is -0400

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;COPY /Y xmltv\TVData.xml &quot;C:\\Program Files\\devnz\\GBPVR\\lis
tings\\TVData.xml&quot;
The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;del xmltv\TVDatapre.xml

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;do nothing
'do' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\XMLTV_Automate&gt;&quot;C:\\XMLTV_Automate\\xmltv\\FixXMLTVListings&quot; &quot;C:\\Program Fil
es\\devnz\\GBPVR\\listings\\TVData.xml&quot;

I just click OK and it goes away. My EPG is updated, I have things in it until next week, actually. Any ideas?