A few weeks ago I began looking into playing with PVR stuff. So I went out and bought a fair amount of equipment and built a new pc for myself! I have put a Hauppauge PVR350 card in there as well as a decent 128mb graphics card.

I d/loaded GB-PVR last night and tried it out for 30 mins before I went to bed. Oh man am I impressed! At present I can do everything with it except watch live tv. I live in the UK and have a Freeview digital box linked into the tv and pc. Therefore upto now I can only record the channel the box is set to (or so it seems! when I use the WinTV software. However is there any way with gb pvr to set up a way of the box channel being changed when scheduled?? Also what would be the best setting in the configuration in order to watch live tv (at the moment i have a fuzzy tv screen! Sorry to be a pain but I am really getting into this PVR lark! I am also extremely new to all this.

Cheers and hope to experiment further...

Simon Blood.

I have a pvr 350 and am using v13. After watching live tv and going back to the main menu GB doesn't stop recording. This obviously messes up my recording schedule. Any help would be great. Thanks.

I am setting recordings for the week, lets say it's monday. I go to Friday and I want to record a couple shows. When I select the 1st show and select 'record' it throws me right back to monday and the current time. I have to page to Friday again and find the right time to record the second show. Would it not make sense to stay where you are after selecting a program to record?

Thanks,
Paul

Great program!!

I've been tinkering with it for a while to get everything set but I have a few questions regarding setup.

1. I have a 350 so I'm using the internal tuner plus I have a digital cable box connected to the svideo input. I have the two sources set up with one using the tuner and the other using the svideo input but I can't seem to figure out how to switch between the two with the remote. Is this documented somewhere?

2. I have a vga monitor connected to the vga output and my television connected to the 350 svideo out. The picture on the TV is shifted to the right a bit and cut off top and bottom. This sounds like an issue with the 350 and not gbpvr. Are there some setting I can use to align the pic properly?

3. The mini guide is a great feature but when the broadcast is displaying text on the screen it gets difficult to read the mini guide. Is there a way to lessen the transparency of the mini guide?

Quick comment on the discussion regarding the season recording and repeats: If when you selected season recording it would be nice to have a couple check boxes. One to select record 'Only same channel, same time of day' and another to select if you wanted to use the show description as determination if it's a repeat. I think this would allow someone to eliminate the repeats of a majority of the programs.

It must be overwhelming to try to add all the features everyone asks for. It's a sign you have a great product when every one wants to participate. Thanks again for putting in so much effort!

John

Hello,
Congratulations for the greate job...( at least it seams so, because I just started searching around the forum for tips.)
I have WinTV-PVR-350 for a year or so, and I decieded to move forward to something else beside WinTV-2000.
I have already done a rather unsuccesful installation of GB-PVR v0.1.3, may be because of a lot of installations of different products.So now I am in the middle of a fresh install(Win XP).

For starting
1. Could you please let me know if I have to do any special configuration, because in Europe there is PAL TV.
I mean do I have to configure my environment for PAL reception and how?
2. Is OSD supported in PAL or it does not make any difference.
3. What about xmltv (ini file).
As, as far as I know , there is no support for TVguide (here in Greece). Is it correct?
So , do I have to create one with some default channel names or not?
Thanks in advance .

Beginning of February was the target to put out an SDK of sorts, but I'm a bit behind schedule. It'll just consist of a couple of samples and some of classes to make things a little easier.

If you want to get started developing a plugin before this SDK, you can start developing a class which implements the following interface.


namespace GBPVR.Public
{
/// <summary>The IMenuTask is the interface that all GBPVR menu tasks implement</summary>
public interface IMenuTask
{
/// <summary>Returns the name of task, which is shown on the task's button</summary>
string getName();

/// <summary>Returns a short description about the purpose of the task</summary>
string getDescription();

/// <summary>Returns an image that represent the task. </summary>
Image getTaskImage();

/// <summary>Is called by GBPVR to get the task to render the screen to show the user.
/// Set requiresMoreRendering to true to render a series of screen (simple animation)</summary>
Image render(out bool requiresMoreRendering);

/// <summary>
/// Is called by GBPVR in response to a key being pressed while this
/// task is active. The task should return true if it has performed some action
/// as a result of the key press - which will inturn cause the task to be render()'d
/// </summary>
bool OnKeyDown(System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e);

/// <summary>Is called by GBPVR when the user has click'd somewhere on the page</summary>
void OnClick(System.Drawing.Point location);

/// <summary>Is called by GBPVR when the user has double click'd somewhere on the page</summary>
void OnDoubleClick(System.Drawing.Point location);

/// <summary>Is called by GBPVR when the task is activated.</summary>
void Activate();

/// <summary>Is called by GBPVR when the task is deactivated.</summary>
void Deactivate();

/// <summary>
/// This method is used to inform the active task of mouse wheel actions for scrolling etc...
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e">Mouse args that can be used for information about the mouse action</param>
void OnMouseWheel(MouseEventArgs e);
}
}


If you have any questions just ask...

Hi,

i'm using gbvr with myhtpc. I'm only using the Live TV, Recordings and TV Guide.
So i don't need the Video Library or Music Library. This is done by myhtpc.
So the seamless integration isn't that seamless at the moment. Fortunately it's possible to modify skin, so i've changed the Video / Music Buttons to transparent buttons without content, so they went away.
But thats not seamless at all.......
It would be nice if i can start directly into one module or if i can disable some buttons from showing.

regards

mamema

Hi,

today I read a new press release from hauppauge.de (http://www.hauppauge.de/files/pr_hauppau...heiten.pdf). The text says that Media MVP will support DIVX-Movies.
GBPVR should support this the function. I think, this is not a hard job to implementate this feature.

I'm at the cebit 2004 in hannover this year and have an appointment with a hauppauge programmer. I will try to get more informations about new functions and programming-interfaces.

Bye,
Sebastian

I am using the PowerDVD codec for playback in GBPVR. It will not work with VMR9 or VMR7, so I am using Overlay. When in overlay, it displays a black screen when the controls are being overlayed. When in PowerDVD, there are no overlay problems what so ever. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,

i've scheduled a season rec -> snap of access db from gbpvr

oid programme_oid capture_source_oid status filename recording_type recording_group manual_start_time manual_end_time manual_channel_oid
14 708 1 1 D:\TVRecording\Hörmal,werdahämmert_20040308_08100830.mpg 0 0 08.03.2004 08:10:00 08.03.2004 08:30:00 3

the recording should start at 8:10 and should end at 8:30

at 9:00 i stopped manually by myself because of the recording still runs at that time.

Here's a snap of from the wintvcap.log

4964 InitParams: Your lpCmdLine is "-c5 -board:1 -profile:HALFD1 -startr:\TVRecording\Hörmal,werdahämmert_20040308_08100830.mpg"
[....]
were are the start and end timers gone?
I've using the latest gbvr and wintvcap versions......

regards mamema