I'm sure I remember reading the answer to this, but can't find the post.

Is there a way to change the size of the rows on the TV guide i.e. if I change the number of channels displayed to 5, can I make the boxes larger so it still fills the screen.

The reason I want to do this is because the EPG is not clear enough on a (fairly small) TV screen.

Cheers
Dom

Hi,

I have some very basic questions.  Have an oldish PC I plan to use as a PVR (and for nothing else).  Planning to put it next to the TV for now, possible adding an MPV later and move the PC away.

My questions are as follows:

If I buy the Hauppauge PVR-350, is there any more hardware I need apart from what normally is included with the PC and my wireless network?

I subscribe to Sky in the UK, having an Amstrad DRX300 STB.  The STB has two scart sockets (in/out) currently in use, two RF Out and an RS 232 port.  My questions are:  How/can I control the STB from the PVR?  How do I best connect the STB to the PVR card?

Finally, am I right to assume that once this is set up with GB-PVR I do not neet to have keyboard, mouse or monitor attached to the PC/PVR, but will be able to control it with the remote?

Sorry for these basic questions, but any help would be appreciated!  Thanks.

After the success of fixing the blinking OSD via the TV-out with the PVR350 I am now getting lockups when trying to either use the skip or replay keys on the haupauge remote when replaying a recorded programme.  When watching a recored programme on the TV pressing the skip/replay keys on the remote sometimes cause the TV screen to lock on narrow pink vertical strips.  I can close down GBPVR from the PC keyboard but cannot clear the TV screen. The only way to restore service is a PC re-boot and restart GBPVR.

I have sent log files from a couple of example failures under separate cover.  Hope you can help.

Hello,

i came from Germany and find GP-PVR is a really great piece of software.
Lately i have upgraded to version 19. But this did not solve the problem that i have:
In the TV Guide of GB-PVR the title of any movie is always shown with its original name. But there is a german title name in the epg.xml file too.
eg.:
The movie is called in germany: Abrechnung in Abilene
The original title (USA) is: Gunfighters of Abilene

The section in the epg.xml file looks like this:
<title lang="de">Abrechnung in Abilene</title>
<title>Gunfighters of Abilene</title>

The EPG data is beeing grabbed by XMLTV (tv_grab_de_tvtoday).

I think GP-PVR does not unterstand the item ...lang="de"=...
Can anybody tell me what i could do to get this right?

Thanks in advance.

S.Grobi

Hi all, have just found GBPVR, which is such a great application it has caused me to send off for a Hauppage-250 to go with my MVP.

While waiting for it to arrive, I'm just setting up a skin using "Flat-Blue" as a base in order to make the various screens easier to read on my 29" TV from across the room. I'm slowly getting there, except I have problems with getting the task images to show for three of the plugins I have installed (cartoons, picture and disk space) although it works fine with the weather plugin.

ie. I have set the Special Element TaskImage to visible in my main menu skin.xml, and have created 250x180 icons for all the menu options, which all work perfectly until you hit one of those three plugins, at which point the MVP just crashes, or, more informatively the internal GBPVR gives the following exception text:

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
  at bv.d()
  at bv.a(String A_0)
  at bv.a(Message& A_0)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

etc

I have placed task.png images into the appropriate three directories - whereabouts do I have to go to let GBPVR know this?

thanks,

Simon

ps. I'm also looking for where I go to update the TaskDescriptions - basically I want to change the Search Guide description to "Search...for your favourite shows" rather than "...you favourite shows".

Hi Sub,

I'd been thinking about the whole PVR thing for ages (a couple of years), and after finding GB-PVR and discovering it would interface with the MVP, well I was sold! So I went out and ordered a WinTV-PVR 250 and it arrived yesterday. And so began my frustration.

I still haven't been able to tune the channels! I get *some* stuff, but it I can't get all the channels. I have tried both GB-PVR and the bundled software (WinTV2k). I never realised this would be as frustrating as it has been.

Have you got any ideas for a kiwi noob?

Thanks.


--John Röthlisberger

This is basicly only for eye candy but I would like to see a menu system to where you see only the menu item selected, the next choice above it would be a little transparent, as well as the previous choice below it. So really you only see 3 menu items at a time. Like this.

MAME <--- translucent with background
LIVE TV <--- selected so its BOLD
RRCORDINGS <---- translucent with background.

I would alos like to see these have a roll effect, Instead of ust poping up they would roll into the selection. It would be nice if you could select between this menu system adn the old way in the config panel, or come by skin.

Also I would like to see a way to use pictures for buttons. Like maybe use a "aqua button image" in use for selections.
Or maybe make the menu selections alos translucent (thanks sub for considering this one for next release)

It would alo be cool, when you make a selection, to fade in or zoom in instead of just popping up.

Also to have images popup beside the menu items when you highlight them, like a Big TV when you select Live TV. But make it optional.

As for Plugins: Id like to see a Caller ID plugin, something to popup on the screen telling whos calling, like Tivo.

how about a RSS news feed plugin.

Or mabe have a plugin where it shows new movie trailers that streams from the net, and updates itself.

A plugin to stream my cable across the net in WMV format so my PPC can play channels?

I would really like to make some great skins for these. Alot of ideas just lack of knowledge on my part.

Great program PLEASE keep up the good work, need any help, ill do what I can do...

Just wanted to post a link to newegg.com for refurbed MVP's for $69 ea. Im sure they are all the D3 models that got returned

http://www.newegg.com/app....furbish


well this kind of defeats teh purpose when they are selling new ones for the same price...

http://www.newegg.com/app....&depa=0

Hi Sub - Awesome new release. Thanks for implementing some of my suggestions. Last major issue for me is the DVD player. Since you put this in, I have not been able to get it to work correctly. The sound and picture is very choppy. The sound makes chirping noises. Everything else works fine (TV, Net Radio, Video Playback, etc). I have tried every combination of options in the three drop downs. I'm running a 250PVR, Geforce3, on board sound (Realtek AC97). Any suggestions?

Hi everyone! I'm new to this software, new to the board and relatively new to PVRs in general (although fairly experienced when it comes to computers).

First off - your software looks great! I'm very interetested in using it with my PVR-250 and MediaMVP for my PVR needs (pretty much as desceibed in this article over at byopvr.com) but, I can't seem to get things working correctly. I'm still in the "configuring" stage at this point... I haven't even gotten to trying to make it work with the MediaMVP yet.

I've downloaded/installed the latest version (0.19.3) and the setup seems to be fairly straightforward but, I'm having some problems.

My first issue is getting the EPG data to load. When I try to update the EPG data, I get the message "Your EPG source does not appear to be configured correctly. Please check the EPG Source Settings and try again". I know the settings are correct as I can use the link from the settings page and login to my laps.zap2it.com account. If I look in the Config.exe.log file I see the following:

[b Wrote:Quote[/b] ]7/30/2004 1:25:34 PM.311 INFO [397] Requesting listings for period: 2004-07-30T00:00:00Z - 2004-08-07T00:00:00Z
7/30/2004 1:25:38 PM.817 ERROR [397] Error UpdateEPG()'ing: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server.
7/30/2004 1:25:38 PM.817 ERROR [397]   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.CheckFinalStatus()
  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
  at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
  at Zap2itDataDirect.xtvdWebService.download(String startTime, String endTime)
  at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.a(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_0)
  at q.a(t A_0, IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_1)
  at a.b()