I've just upload the v0.0.6 BETA release. As with previous releases, you should uninstall the previous release before installing this one.

2003-12-26 v0.0.6
- Now able to resize the PVR350 OSD size and video overscan using settings in the config.xml
- Initial support for myhtpc .my files. Looks for metadata.my files in each directory, and uses this in preference to any files found. Still only supports standard media types though - no vob/ifo playback.
- Support for playback of multi part movies. Video 'chain's from metadata.my are now played to consecutively.
- Improved support for MediaMVP.
- Now allow you to use the 'Watch' button from the TV Guide for shows currently playing
- Fixed program name for 'Open With' context menu
- Slightly improved fast forward for both software playback and PVR350. Attempts to do 2x and 8x, but this functionality is very dependant on third party drivers and directshow filters, so there is only so much I can do. My current PVR350 drivers seem to pop and fart when fast forwarding...
- Resolved some of the LiveTV issues with PVR350. Makes it 'sort of' usable, but channel changing is very slow!

HI Sub,
Thank you for the great tool! I really like GB-PVR. I have installed it as the standard player in myHTPC for recordings I've made using my Hauppauge PVR-350. I use the tvOut of the PVR all the time (That's why  chose the 350). I particularly like the on-screen display and the use of the Hauppauge remote controller when playing movies. But, as you've asked to test, there are also some issues that need some attention in my opinion:
- The OSD does not dissapear automatically in some cases. Pressing a left or right button on the remote then makes the OSD dissapear after a few seconds.
- Fast forward and rewind buttons on the remote have no effect.
- Sometimes after using pause or skip forward or backward, sound and image are slightly out of sync. This can be resolved in certain cases by skipping backward or forward again.
- The program has no name. This makes that in the windows interface I cannot permanently as sociate .mpg files with GB-PVR. The icon is there in the "Open with..." list, but no name.
- When the OSD is on the TV-screen, there is a slight flicker in the image every now and then. Without the OSD this does not happen.
Now that I've got the entire GB-PVR program (I downloaded setup005c yesterday) I tested that program as well. I REALLY like it. I'm seriously thinking of making it the default htpc-program on my HTPC. But, I can't get Live-TV to work. In the previouw version (005) the program either hung or didn't do anything. 005c switches to live tv for a few moments and then goes back to the main menu. I do not like to use freqcopy as it messes with the registry. Rather I'd like to enter the channels manually in gbpvr. But that didn't work.
I did enter a few channels and found that entry no.1 appeared only after entering entry no.2 ;-) Also, when using internal tuner, there is no add button for channels. Only by first using wintvcap (also installed) and entering one or two channels, and then switching to the internal tuner, turned the add button on.
The manual programming didn't work. However, it seems everything works, only after hitting "record" nothing happens. But I read that is not yet implemented. I would very much like it though.
Closing question is: if I get livetv working, will pause-mode work. That is the killer app for me. If it will work GB-PVR is IT for me!

Anyway, I really like this program you've created. I hope it will develop quickly. At this moment, I think it is more usable than the wintv application (apart from live-tv).
Greetings,
MaBo

In installed version 005 and it works more or less smoothly now. I will report small issues in a separate report.

"Big" issue is that I can not get LiveTV working. I only get a freezing screen with "Initializing TV Channel".

I investigated this more closely. Important to know is that WinTVCap works perfectly. I use a separate scheduler with WinTVCap and it has been recording shows for two weeks now without problems.

I noticed that when selecting the first channel in my list the small WinTVCap icon in the status bar hints that it is recording from channel 67. When I select the third channel, the icon says it is recording from channel 69.

All available channels are in position 1-35. With the WinTVCap command -c they are always selected without problems. I guess GBTVR does not use that, or wrong. In WinTVCap's ini file I have an empty "Preset" section.

In the GBPVR.MDB file I found the following tables:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">oid name channelID channel_number
45 Nederland 1 1
46 Nederland 2 2
47 Nederland 3 3[/QUOTE]

And:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">oid channel_oid capture_source_oid source_channel_number enabled
65 45 5 1 Y
66 46 5 2 Y
67 47 5 3 Y[/QUOTE]

In other words: when I want to watch &quot;Nederland 1&quot; WinTVCap tries to record from &quot;67&quot;, and &quot;Nederland 3&quot; goes to &quot;69&quot;. Which is quite weird. The &quot;recording&quot;, I suppose, is for time-shifting, nothing I worry about.

I must say that I re-configured the default Capture source a couple of times, maybe that caused complications which are too much for this version.

Starting from v0.0.5, GB-PVR now supports the Hauppauge MediaMVP as a client. You can use the MVP to do all the normal GB-PVR stuff:

- View the TV Guide and schedule recordings
- Watch movies (MPEG1/MPEG2)
- Listen to music (MP3's)
- Watch Live TV

It can be downloaded from http://www.gbpvr.com/Setup005.exe

2003-12-14 v0.0.5
- Setup programme now restarting Hauppauge IR so remote works without manual restart
- Hide disabled channel's icon from TV Guide
- In the TV Guide, Skip Foward and Back now move one day through the guide with each press
- Initial Hauppauge MediaMVP support.  
- Added LiveTV - Currently a little *unstable*. This will be improved in the coming releases. Full range of playback controls (skip forward etc) not currently implemented.
- Manual recording still not functional - sorry! LiveTV took priority.
- Stopped screen save from showing while video is playing
- Added Icon view to music and video libraries. If a folder contains a folder.png file, it will be shown as the folder icon.
- Change the way the skin's settings are listed in the XML files to be more consistent, and make it easier to maintain in future. Should also make it easier to create new skins in future.
- enable direct access to Hauppauge remote for PVR350 installation (so GBPVR doesn't have to be in foreground to receive remote control events)
- improved transparency on PVR350. Video no longer dims when showing OSD.
- pressing the GREEN button (or ctrl-G) when watching LiveTV will bring up the Mini Guide. This will show a list of whats currently on the other channels and change to the channel of your choice.

Since its been over a couple of weeks since the last release, I thought I'd leave a quick note to let you now whats going on.

I hope to get the next release out by the end of the weekend. The main addition is live TV, which has been much much more painful than I'd hoped. There are a few other changes, some visible like new icon mode in the video and music libraries, some not so visible like changes to the skin XML structure to make it easier to maintain.

I've also been very busy at work.

Some of the &quot;in-betweens&quot; in our TV guide are scheduled as programs in the XMLTV feed from ananova - they can be as little as 15 seconds long!    This causes issues in the TV guide in displaying blank gaps and non-shown items.  I don't know what the best solution is (not show short items?), but wanted to provide examples (see below):



The two programmes that cause the problems are show below:



and



Cheers,
Andy

... and if so, what do I need in order to use it (i.e. a web server set up?)

Cheers,
Andy

In my XMLTV feed, I get multiple entries for the &lt;desc&gt; property for each programme. They seem to be in descending order of size (i.e. largest text first, smallest last) - I think GBPVR is only picking the last one up - is it possible to pick all of them up and use the most appropriate one for display (e.g. short description for the TV Guide display, long description for the detail when an entry is double-clicked.

I've just had a look at myHTPC - the GUI on it is very nice, and it's easier to mention that than try and verbalise the things that could be incorporated (http://www.myhtpc.net).

I know that these are low on the list vs. functionality such as live tv though...

Cheers,
Andy