Hi,
Yesterday I finally received my touchscreen that I like to use to control my HTPC. When playing around with it, I noticed that a touchscreen is handy with GBPVR. But there are a couple of points where some minor modifications would make it a lot better in combination with a touchscreen:
- add an arrow button on the EPG screen to move further and backwards in time and up and down.
- ensure there are back and main-menu buttons on all sub-menus. For the standard gbpvr modules this is well done, many plugins lack these buttons.
- in particular for the jukebox plugin: a button to move up one folder, and a stop button. Now I have to start another piece of music from within the music library and stop that one to stop the jukobox (or use the remote).
- pictures plugin: tap the screen to advance one picture
- volume up and down controls on the main menu(?)
- when playing a movie (I use the tv-out of the pvr350) it would be convenient to leave buttons to start/stop/pause/FFW/FBW/Vol-up/Vol-dwn on the monitor output (now only black with a message in it).
- queue button on the menu of the music library. Then I can select a song and press queue to have it appended.

I assume more ideas will pop up when playing with it further.

Greetz,
MaBo

Hey,

Im going to buy some of this hardware and setup a system for my house.

My main question is whats the difference between the PVR350 and the PVR250? Is the 350 really worth the price difference?

Ill also probably get a MediaMVP for the scart interface etc.. Will this thing decode divx streams? It says explicitly that it only does MPEG but if you use the GBPVR software does that really matter??

Thanks for your help
mafro

Hi.

I have a PVR 350 and trying to install GB-PVR 0.17 fresh.
It does not seem to install the recording service (not in my services list).
How can I install it manually? So I can fix this problem.
Thanks for all the help and this what looks like to be a great program.

Hi all,

Just a quick question - what kind of system requirements are we looking at for a GB PVR MediaMVP Server???

I have an old Celeron-850 lying around with 384mb RAM.

I was hoping to keep this in the garage and control GB-PVR from a Hauppauge MediaMVP situated in my lounge.

Does anybody know if this is acceptable?

Also, looking forward, is it possible yet to connect multiple MVP's to the same host?

Cheers.

If anyone is interested in writing a plugin to support additional capture devices (HDTV, DVB etc), and would like to write their own capture device plugin, let me know.

Theres not too much required. You ultimately need to implement a class which implements the following interface:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
using System;

namespace GBPVR.Public
{
/// <summary>
/// Interface implemented by all recording sources.
/// </summary>
public abstract class IRecordingSource
{
public enum RecordingStatus
{
RECORDING_IN_PROGRESS,
RECORDING_FAILED,
RECORDING_COMPETED
};

abstract public void startRecording(int qualityLevel, string suggestedFilename, int sourceChannel, bool useStreamBufferEngineIfAvailable);
abstract public RecordingStatus getRecordingStatus();
abstract public void stopRecording();
abstract public string getFinalFileName();
}
}
[/QUOTE]
There is a couple of addition steps required to implement a configuration form, but let me know if anyone wants to write their own plugin and I'll help you out with this stuff.

What are the keyboard or 'remote control' controls?

Information on controlling GB-PVR with either a remote control control or the keyboard can be found here:http://www.gbpvr.com/QuickStart/shortcuts.htm


I get the 'Failed to communicate with the GB-PVR Recording Service' message?

If the GBPVR Recording Service is running, this probably means you've not fully configured your capture source. Edit the Capture Source and click on each of the Settings buttons and confirm the settings are correct. Even if you know the defaults match your settings, you should view the settings as its only at this stage the defaults are applied.

You can also get this error if you installed the Microsoft .net v1.1 runtime after you installed GB-PVR. If this is the case, uninstall GB-PVR and (re)install.


When I view Live TV or attempt to play back an MPEG-2 video file, a separate window with the title &quot;ActiveMovie&quot; popups. Whats happening?

I know of one situation which can cause this. I get this if I have selected to use VMR and my preferred decoder (or system default decoder) is the PowerDVD Cyberlink decoder. This is occurring because the Cyberlink decoder does not support VMR. To stop it happening, either configure GB-PVR to use Overlay instead of VMR, or select another preferred MPEG-2 decoder


How can I get channel icons in my TV Guide like those shown in your screenshots?

If you're using XMLTV and the xml contains the url of the channel logo, GB-PVR will automatically download and use a copy of the image. Otherwise, GB-PVR looks for channel logos in the c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\media\ChannelLogos directory. It looks for a file with the same name as the channel + the extension .jpg or .gif.

A good place to download high quality channel logos is http://www.satlogo.com

Does anybody have the skills to help this community with coming up with some good skins for GBPVR and the Xcard? I wish I had these abilities, but I don't. It looks to me like a very simple background or a solid color is needed, then using the transparent menus we could get a pretty decent looking one.
Mike

Whenever I record a programme longer than 1 hr the duration counter (during playback) never shows a length greater than 59 min XX secs. I believe this started at version .15 but it could have been earlier.

The programme is recorded completely and plays back fine.

JE

Hi Sub,

I've two question about the recording feature:

When I select a movie while recording and click on &quot;play&quot; I get a black screen. With escape I can go back to the movie-list.
Is this feature implemented now ?

I tried to install a new manual recording-job. There I would select the start and stop time in one-minute steps.
I remember in a thread in this forum where you said, this function is in the next release.

Will this feature come ?


Thanks!

Bye,
Sebastian

Hi,

now gbpvr is very fine.
Actually my girlfriend is using it:-)

We miss only one feature:

There a 40 TV-Channels. When I want to zap from Channel 1 to 35, I must go 34 times up on the remote. This needs so much time because a channel-change needs ca. 5 seconds.

There should be two functions:

- Entering the channel-number on the remote. e.g. 35
- A simple channel list in the on screen-menu to navigate
  through the channels.
  The style can be a simple listbox.

Is this function possbile or actually planed ?

Thanks a lot!

Bye,
Sebastian