Finally after much digging in cupboards to find the correct combinations of cables and a little vb.net to get the redrat3 working I now have a *fully* working GBPVR  

Just for the record I have the following hardware etc..
AMD Athlon XP2500+, 512MB PC2700, 2x160GB hdd
Hauppauge PVR350
ATI Radeon 9600SE
redrat3 usb infrared adaptor
PACE SkyMinibox
Response Video Sender / Receiver

Issues
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The UK version of the PVR350 ships with a 9 pin din to scart connector which caused me a few problems. The 9 pin din end has a stereo jack on it which I was trying to use to ship the audio from the pvr350 to the sound card so that I got audio from both TV/Video and NetRadio/MP3. This did not work. I had to use the other 9pin din connector that has svideo, audio L+R and composite video outs. Take the audio L+R into a stereo jack (one cable which was hiding in the cupboard) and then into the line in of the sound card. Now take the line out of the sound card from stereo jack back to audio L+R (another cable which was hiding in the cupboard). Add that to the composite video out and convert back to scart (yup another cable!!!. Simple huh!!!!

Second issue - using the redrat3 out of the box should have been simple as they provide a command line exe to change channels. However, when I tried to run the darn thing I kept getting this error.... An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.Serialization. SerializationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility. Expected Version 1.0. Received Version 1008738336.1684104552. Searched MSDN and all I could find was some garbage about IIS and webservices. So knocked up a little command line exe that simplay accepts the {channel} input from gbpvr and sends it onto the PAC box using ir signals stored in an xml file. I might get round to tidying it up enough to give to subs (work permitting this week!!

That's about it really - I added one more complication by sending the output round the house using Response Video Sender / Receiver. This sends the video and stereo sound to the receivers and allows the IR back to the transmitter. So set my all-in-one to emulate a hauppauge remote and viola control of gbpvr from all over the house.

I might be tempted to have a look at the Media MVP but I'm not sure how it handles live-TV etc. subs can you enlighten?

A big thanks to all on the forum for their help either directly or indirectly and esp. to subs for writing a #### fine piece of software.

Regards
PK

I have just installed version 16 and I now also have an OSD through my XCard. The screen is low resolution however, and/or the aspect ratio is wrong. Because when I look at the weather some information on the right side is missing.

I finally plugged my pvr250 into the cable and tried to watch live tv via gbpvr on this 700 mhz box and watching it on the monitor.  Unwatchable.  Like a broken up slideshow.  I was watching in window, not full screen mode.

How low do you can figure you can go and still watch tv?

I've seen MCE running on 500 mhz boxes OK.

What do I need to know to give it a try? I have a simple 'hello world' app that should work.

I've just uploaded the next release of GB-PVR. You can download it from http://www.gbpvr.com/Setup016.exe

From the change.log:

2003-4-18 v0.16
- Now remembering and returning to previous file/directory which navigating the file system in the music and video libraries.
- FF/RW now working on the MVP, including in LiveTV mode.
- Fixed a bug with some versions of XCard drivers that would cause the OSD not to display, and only allow a single file to be played.
- Config.xml now allows you to specify specific screen sizes for each MediaMVP based on there mac address. See example in config.xml.
- You can now specify the filename for a manual recording. If its a reoccuring recoring, then this becomes the prefix for the filename.
- Enabled debugging of plugins. Launch GBPVR.exe as the executable for your plugin .DLL file.
- Fixed a bug where netradio streaming would sometimes not stop, if started playing a music file while listening to net radio.
- Fixed a bug when cancelling season recordings.
- Removed source code for weather plugin. This can now be downloaded from the website - visit the plugins page.
- A few changes to the netradio audio is started. You can now specify the size of the buffer which must be filled before playback starts. MVP also not starts netradio playback asynchronously, which may help on slow bitrate station which previously took too long to fill the play buffer (this used to cause the mvp to disconnect).
- Added PlayAudioFile/PlayAudioFiles/PlayVideoFile to the IPluginHelper interface. Plugins can use these to begin playback of media files.
- Fixed a problem with multiple capture sources, where they have the same channel list but a different set enabled.
- Added support for capture cards based on the "BlackBird" reference design. ProVideo PV258T and PV259 directly supported - for other card just add new section to to direct.ini modelled on the ProVideo settings.
- Back/Exit and RED key now work on MVP.
- Added simple web server. No pages yet, these will follow in a later release.

Hey there,

First of all my compliments to the man behind the program, keep up the good work.
Now my problem

When playing back my mpegs (through GBpvr) that I recorded via the tvout of my pvr350 it looks like the position of the video is higher (black border at the bottom of tvscreen) than playing the same file with wintv2000 and also the quality of the picture is better with wintv2000.

When just displaying the mainmenu of the software there is also a small black border at the bottom.

Maybe I am doing something wrong or there are some settings I can try to solve this problem.

And has someone an xmltv file for Belgium because the channel setup is not working like it should, I used the xmltv from the Netherlands.

Thx ad advance


Greetzzzzz


PS: Sorry for my bad English

Option to turn off the channel icons in the grid and just have all channels look like the ones that currently have no icon.  And in this case, show the icon in the lower description area with the program text.

Or, make the TV guide a plugin and I will tweak it

Almost transparent maybe, small, near the GBPVR logo.

I've been reading most of the posts on here, and it seems that most are doing good, including myself. But there are those unfortunate ones also. If we could build a list of the gear we have, and the problems we are having, Sub could more easily fix the problem. So I'll start the list:

GBPVR - V. .15e
USA
MB: Asus A7N266
Ram: 512 pc2100
Proc: XP 1600
Windows XP Pro

I have had no problems using this gear and everything is functioning as it should be.

Here is a screenshot of what the forecast screen looks like. It should be released a day or two after sub releases