I am using the TV-out of my PVR-350 and noticed that the picture is too small. There is a blck bar on the top and bottom of the screen and the picture is comressed in the hight. The same is true for the OSD. When I use WinTV2000 the picture is right. I am using PAL. When I watch the recorded files on my MediaMVP the picture is also right. I am using GB-PVR 0.19 with the OSD-blinking fix.
I belive it has something to do with NTSC/PAL resolution, like sending 720x480 to the TV-out when it should be 720x576.
The same problem can be seen when I install the PVR-Driver from SHSsomething.

ANother question I have is about channel switching in LiveTV: Can I switch to a specific channel with the number buttons on the remote? Like press button 7 and switch to channel 7.
I am using the remote of my PVR-350 without the Hauppauge IR program.

Any suggestions?

PS: great program, thank you sub!

Sub,
Just noticed that the link that should download the jukebox plugin points to a file called shutdownplugin.zip.

MaBo

hi,

I have just installed ver 0.19 on a friends shuttle pc.

which uses an NVidia nForce2 IGP chipset and an AMD processor (XP 2500+)

if I try and watch a recording on the pc all I get is a quick flash of the picture at the start then a blank screen whilst the sound plays

but if I just drag the screen silghtly with the mouse it then plays perfectly anyone any ideas what the problem might be.

thanks in advance

tkgafs

Well, I already mentioned this before (In this previous post). And those remarks still stand.

However, I would already be satisfied when on the epg-screen there is a main-menu button, and there are buttons to navigate through the epg (so an arrow to the left and right, and if appropriate to the top and the bottom).

If possible open a program in the epg with a single click instead of a double click.

Sub, is that feasible in the next release? Thanks in advance.

Greetz,
MaBo

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.