Hi Sub,

I was looking forward to installing the new version of GBPVR. In particular the search tv-guide and fm radio functions were what I really liked.

However, yesterday after installing v19, I noticed two particularly severe problems, together with a few smaller ones, that made me decide to immediately go back to v18.

The biggest problem is that after watching live-tv or playing a video, when the main menu is shown, it is correctly shown on the pc-screen, but via the tv-out of my pvr350, it is constantly being redrawn. The program does not listen to the remote, keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Only option is to stop it via the task manager.
This has never happened before with gbpvr! I don't know whether it can make any difference, but I tried it with VMR9&7 and overlay. No difference. Is this the infamous PVR350-OSD bug?

BUT reading throught the forums, I see this should have been fixed with a fix-download. I will give it a try tonight or in the weekend...

Second biggest problem is that the audio-video sync for livetv was very bad. In v18 it is correct most of the time, in v19 the several times I tried it was always wrong. Once it jumped into sync when I pushed the full-button on my remote while watching livetv?!? Very strange.

Other -less severe- problems were:
-The radio didn't work, I got an error saying that the recording service was not running, but it was. However, I may have installed the lame encoder wrongly. I had the lame-enc.dll file copied into the gbpvr directory. Or is more needed?

-I configured gbpvr to be shown in full-screen (better: not windowed). However, it is put behind the taskbar and it leaves a small space clear at the top (see picture)
To be honest: the clear space at the top is now smaller than it was in previous versions.

Well, this has been the first time that I went back to a previous version of gbpvr, I do hope the first two problems can be solved. Because I'm a real big fan of this program...

Greetz,
MaBo

I was recording all shows to my first hdd (vol c). I've got a 4 drive system. Clean the 4th drive up and xfered all the files over to it. Used the config utility to add the new drive as a video folder and as the default recording folder.


I can read/play all the shows if I go into the videos section, however the recordings section only contains the new shows that have been recorded.

Is there a way to merge my existing recordings w/ the recordings option so that I can see them all and look at the data on the show.

I'm having a problem using a .exe channel changer. Its the redeye changer for NTL set-top box.

http://www.redremote.co.uk/serial/index.html

Using redeye2.exe the channels can be changed fine, but a new window opens and there is text output of 'wrote 1 bytes' to indicate the data was sent to the serial port.

Have tried adding >nul to the parameters, and while this works on the command line, no luck from within GB-PVR

Can you do #define in C#? I want to emulate this from C

#ifdef DEBUG
#define LOGV(string) \
Logger.Verbose(string);
#else
#define LOGV(string)
#endif

then on the compile include something like -DDEBUG

Its just useful for building in debug for testing then droping the -DDEBUG to remove in for release code,

cheers,
Colin.

Just a suggestion for the future

It would be nice if you could choose to show short pieces of information from the plugins on the main menu, so at the place where the task image should be you could have a line showing the current weather, the subject of the latest email, the free disc space, the name of the mp3 file playing and the next recording GBpvr is going to make.

Maybe it could be put into the skin file so you can define areas for each plugin to show it's information.

Of course, the plugins would have to support this so they can supply GBpvr with strings of text (or a pointer to what image to show or something). There would be the risk of cluttering up the screen, but it'll be up to the user to limit oneself

I have come across a few issues with GBPVR, which is (as I'm sure you hear a lot) a great PVR. So thanks.
However:
1. When I go into either the diskspace or shutdown plug in after the interface has been running for a while ( longer than 3 minutes) I get a windows error that crashes GB-PVR. The error is "Setup Error - Failed to load resources from resource file. Please check your Setup"  This looks like a .NET issue to me but it only seems to happen on these two plugins when accessed from the main menu. I am using win 2k. Sometimes it won't go away until the config program is run again.

2. The recording service sometimes doesn't seem to  be working quite as planned. I was away last week and set it to record three shows. When I got back the three shows were still in the pending section. I stopped and restarted the recording service and they all went to failed status. Bit of a bummer, but not the end of the world. Anybody else seen this one ?

3. Started using bleb ('cos I'm UK based) and it is great as I really only watch the main five terrestrial channels. Bleb includes the descriptions which XMLTV does not (as it uses the radio times website in the UK and the description bit is broken) However, since changing the EPG I have noticed that browsing the TV Guide with the remote is more awkward. It takes almost always 6 presses of the left or right buttons on the remote to move onto the next program in the list where it only used to take one press with XMLTV. Weirdly enough this is only the case for BBC1 BBC2 and ITV. Channel 4 and channel 5 behave normally.

Let me know if I'm being thick.

Just to say also that I really like the direction this is going, it is much easier to customise skins now and I really like the new features that are coming in. Great work.

Hey All,

Since I have recently joined a test development group at work and am thinking a lot these days on how to break software I wondered if those who are regulars at testing Sub's new releases are interested in writing up a core set of tests to work through?

I think this would benefit GBPVR and help find problems and verify fixes. When you consider GBPVR works in all timezones, with how many different types of cards (individually used and combined), with manual, scheduled one off or season recordings with the ability to watch live TV (and record with multiple cards) and a heck of a lot of other stuff some formalised testing would be good.

If you are interested let me know,

cheers,
Colin.

Edit: Fortunately there was not a spelling test for this job, of course Matix should be Matrix

Firstly let me say congrats on an excellent peice of software, bought myself an MVP a few days ago and was just looking to re-skin the app and then stumbled accross GB-PVR (WOW! I was very impressed).

Ok on to my first problem.
When using the Video Library tab, it correctly opens the directory where videos are stored and lists movie folders. Upon Selecting a folder on the MVP I do not see the movie listed ony the PREVIOUS DIRECTORY icon is shown, yet if I try the same on the GBPVR PC client it works fine, any ideas why this may be ?

Second Question,
I would really like to get the LiveTV/Recording functionality working. I do not have a TV tuner card in my machine I use the video in on my GF4 graphics card, this combined with Virtual VCR allows me to record whatever station I'm watching on my cable box.
Is there anyway to make GBPVR support this input as all I would need to purchase is an IRblaster to change the channel on the cable box. If this is not possible what about a cheap TV tuner card ? dont understand why i would kneed to buy an expensive PVR card.

many thanks. lee.

Hi, I've a question regarding standby functionality. From several topics I understand that gbpvr can wake up the pc when it needs to start recording. What I've tried is to standby the machine (suspend to memory) and then wait until the machine was woken up...but it never was. What kind of setup is needed to make this work?

Hi Sub, Can see that you are a hugely active and overworked individual.

For my benefit and no doubt the hordes of others who will follow in the future would you mind giving me (in Auckland) a one/two three guide to the setup of your software.

Intro
I have a 350 card and mediaMVP which I have configured and is working using the Hauppauge software. (It didn't originally find any local channels specific for NZ and only found channels when I searched for all countries).
I have a Sky digital feed coming to my PC through a standard aerial line, downstream from my tv.

1) Do I load GBPVR ontop of what I have, leaving current software where it is?

2) Are there any adjustments I need to do to my firewall, I am running Win XP Pro service pack 2 and the standard windows firewall and need to specify any exceptions for GBPVR programs that will access my PC?

3) Do I need to turnoff the existing MediaMVP services, and if so how?

4) Do I need to do any further channel setup for NZ,

5) Can I download program guides for Auckland, at present?

6) Is there anything else that I am likely to need to do?

Thanks in anticipation

John