In the GBPVR Configuration program if I go to Edit Recording Source and click on Settings the Quality Profile Settings field is set to Medium Quality. Changing it to another value appears not to be saved.

Paul

First off. I must say excellent work on the latest release Sub.

I installed V0.18 last night and began with testing the quality and stability of the Media MVP with GBPVR and noticed a couple of things. The stability of the interface is less than desireable. I ran into a couple of lockups which I can't pinpoint at the moment, but had to restart in order to make the MVP behave again. I am a D1 owner so I don't think it's an overheating problem, and I think only D3 has problems.
When switching back and forth between LiveTV and the Program guide, and miniguide, I sometimes ran into a screen which seemed to be black and flashin the green play icon in the top right of the screen every second or so. This problem persisted even when I powered off the MVP and powered it back on. The main screen would come back up, but it would go back to that flashing screen whenever I tried to enter LiveTV.
Let me know if there is any other info I can give you.
Oh yeah, I am using the latest beta MVP drivers and 250 drivers XXXX037

Mike

First off. I must say excellent work on the latest release Sub.

I installed V0.18 last night and began with testing the quality and stability of the Media MVP with GBPVR and noticed a couple of things. The stability of the interface is less than desireable. I ran into a couple of lockups which I can't pinpoint at the moment, but had to restart in order to make the MVP behave again. I am a D1 owner so I don't think it's an overheating problem, and I think only D3 has problems.
When switching back and forth between LiveTV and the Program guide, and miniguide, I sometimes ran into a screen which seemed to be black and flashin the green play icon in the top right of the screen every second or so. This problem persisted even when I powered off the MVP and powered it back on. The main screen would come back up, but it would go back to that flashing screen whenever I tried to enter LiveTV.
Let me know if there is any other info I can give you.
Oh yeah, I am using the latest beta MVP drivers and 250 drivers XXXX037

Mike

1st post newbie, so please excuse the potentially dumb questions!

I have just installed GB and think it’s a fantastic system, many thanks to Sub and all the others here that created this.

On to the dumb questions;

1. I was thinking of getting an MVP and can understand how this plays files from the server, but how do you record? Are there video/audio inputs on the MVP & does the server software do the actual recording? What about controlling a STB?

2. Do people here think using an MVP & separate server is a better option than building a SFF PC and putting it under the TV?

3. Has anyone tried using the MVP using a Wireless Ethernet Bridge (802.11g)? Does it work at all and are there any restrictions such as maybe it works for playback but not recording?

Many thanks in advance,

Lee

Hi Sub,

Great work, love some of the improvements. Couple of things I've noticed on 0.18, but not sure if it's my set-up, changed functionality or a problem.

When watching LiveTV, the banner will appear but I never get the Skip, FF, pause buttons appearing. I can pause using the keyboard and play again, but can't ff, rew or skip etc

Also whilst watching Video's, the Skip, FF, pause etc will appear but the FF and REW don't do anything, nor do the eqivalent keyboard inputs. FF skips a frame or 2, that's it. Don't think this worked for me on previous version either.

This is all on the PC end and I've done a complete uninstall and re-install. Is it just my set-up?

Cheers, Rob

Lots of good stuff to play with in the new version, but is the season record option missing? I thought I might have screwed the install of the skins (by installing over v17) but after a clean install it still seems to be missing.......

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!