v0.18 is available for download from http://www.gbpvr.com/Setup018e.exe

From the change.log:

2004-6-15 v0.18
- Added a new major recorder plugin type. GO7007SB Recording Plugin can be used with with devices based on this WIS chipset to record directly to MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4/DivX. This plugin currently supports the Plextor PX-M402U and the generic WIS GO7007SB. Several new devices based on this chipset family will be release soon, and GB-PVR will add support for them as they are released.
- Added DVD playback for software playback (VMR/Overlay). Requires DVD player software (WinDVD, PowerDVD etc) to be installed. Like the XCard dvd player, during DVD playback "Blue/Ctrl-B" key will return to the DVD's main menu.  "Home/Menu/Stop" key will stop DVD playback and return to the main GB-PVR menu. During DVD playback "Green/Ctrl-G" key toggles closed caption information. Pause/Play/Skip/FF/RW are as you'd expect. DVDs can be played from the DVD menu button on the front screen, which plays the movie in your configured DVD drive, or from the video library if the DVD is on the hard drive. For movies ripped to the hard drive, make sure you retain the VIDEO_TS folder in the dirctory of the movie (or the cant be played).
- You can now specify the recording quality, and any required pre/post padding directly when scheduling a recording.
- Implemented ring buffer to cap diskspace usage when watching livetv.
- added ShowChannelIcons setting in config.xml for those that dont like channel icons in the tv guide screen.
- Fixed several small bugs - double skip with MCE remote, DivX (DX50) playback on the XCard, occasional recording service startup problem, tuner selection for multi-tuner systems.
- Attempted work around for those wih PVR350's and certain chipset motherboards that experience hard lockups. Let me know how you get on.
- Added option in config.xml to disable channel icons in TV Guide.
- Improved color rendition on the MVP. Photos now look much better with the pictures plugin.
- Added support for favourite channels. When watching live tv, CH UP and CH DOWN will cycle through the favorites. Mini guide (Ctrl-G or GREEN button) still lets you easily get to the rest of the channels if you need to.
- Added support for multiple music and video directories for those with media files spread across multiple drives and directories.
- PVR USB2 now working correctly.  
- Corrected MPEG1/2 video length determination on the Media MVP

If you're upgrading from a previous version, you should uninstall your current version before installing this new one.

Tried to watch a recorded show last night, and the first time I hit the skip ahead key, it jumped 18 minutes into the show, I then tried to skip back and the MVP went to "Contacting Server".  GBpvr did come back up but didn't respond to remote input.  I had to kill the service from the task manager on the computer.  The file I was trying to watch was large (3 hour baseball game - probably 9gb +) and was recorded with Sage TV through a hauppauge 250.  I could watch it fine using the standard Hauppauge service.  I am not sure exactly what my recording setting are, as far as variable or fixed bit rate, etc...  but I would be happy to provide them when I get home tonight.  This problem seems intermittent for people, so I am hoping we can find recording settings that will work consistently.

I am using the latest beta - ver .18d

I'm finding using my new MPV player with GB-PVR to be very impressive but I do have a couple minor issues with it:

First of all the MVP wont boot with the GB-PVR server. I have to run the Hauppauge one and boot the MVP, then shut down the Hauppauge server and run the GB-PVR one. Is this the correct procedure for making the player work with GB-PVR?

Also the player reboots if I try and select the tv guide or the recording menu options. Live tv, net radio, and video library are all fine though. Are these know issues?

Any chance of doing a client/server setup? I'm currently using Myth with 1 backend & 4 frontends.

Thanks!

Hi,
Was just thinking with the new MediaMVP Hauppauge beta software supporting Divx transcoding it would be good to be able to have both GBPVR and Hauppauge services running. GBPVR could act as the master passing selected commands through to the Hauppauge service. Then we could get
1) The linux image passed through to a cold MediaMVP start rather than fiddling with the services. Although not a huge hassle at the moment this is really just a nice to have.
2) The use the the Divx transcoding feature which is very handy.
To do this I expect you'd have to get the Hauppauge service to change the default port its using. I've had a poke around and can't see anything that would allow you to change this. Or maybe we could try and get it to bind to another IP address such as one of the loopback addresses. Once again I haven't seen anything that would allow this either :-(.
I don't know how the internals of the MVP work so I might be way off base with this one but any thoughts and comments would be appreciated.
Regards
Rob

Following up from PC World's bargain price of £50 e-buyer are now doing the same. Plus you also get to claim a free DVD of the new LOTR film too from Hauppauge.
Don't know if this is an effort to clear stocks before a new model comes out?
Sub - please remove if u think this is inappropriate.
Cheers
Rob

Hi,

I am having problems playing MP3's - there is just no sound. I have Live TV working, and recordings work, along with DivXs.

This problem seems to happen intermittently - sometimes I can get them playing, then after I have switched between a few, they stop playing.

I am using an AMD XP2400 along with a PVR-250 - all sound is channelled through my sound card. This is on Win2k with GB-PVR 0.17.

I have looked in the logs, but can't see any error messages. Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers.

Hi all,

I have GB-PVR set up, and it is running really well - I can schedule recordings both via the front-end and via the web interface.

However, when I come to watch the recordings, after a few minutes the sound and video get out of sync. It starts off fine, but then gradually gets worse until the sound gets extremely "choppy".

I get this watching through the GB-PVR front-end, and also with Media Player 9.

When watching with WMP9, when things start to get bad, if I click on the bar at the bottom to jump to a specific point in a recording (even it is approximately the same point), things are fine, but then gradually start getting out of sync again.

I have searched the internet, but can't seem to find any relevant info.

My current set-up is: -

Shuttle SK41G (VIA KM266 chipset)
PVR250
XP2400
512MB
Win 2k

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks.

I have two sources set up on the 350. One is the internal tuner, the other is the s video in on the 350. I have channels 1-100 set up on the internal tuner a the everything above 100 is set to use the s video. When I change channels with the remote it works properly, ie. if I type channel 241 it goes to s video like it should. If I schedle a recording through the guide on channel 241 it records the wrong channel. It appears it does not change channels. What should I look for?

Hi Sub,

Yesterday I wanted to install the software for my new touchscreen. However, the installer didn't start even after several retries with different versions. As I was also fiddling around with my vtplus scripts I stopped the recordingservice to let vtplus run. Then suddenly the touchscreen installer started several times! So apparantly the v017 recordingservice does more than only prevent vtplus from starting.

I really hope you can look into this and solve it.

Greetz,
MaBo