First off I'd like to thank you for your excellent work. You've done a great job.
Now for my wishlist:
Other Window Resolutions
I only have a pvr 250 and I run at 1600x1200 so you can imagine your window is a little small on my pc. Personally I'd like to be able to view the menu at a much higher/customizable resolution rather than at the resolution of a TV.
True PNG transparency
Right now your program has semi complete png transparency, in other words the graphic is transparent to the background container. If you place two png transparent images over each other they don't both show up, only the one with the highest z-order does. This is a bug with how .NET implements the GDI+ picturebox. The good news it can probably be fixed pretty easily.
My friend had the same problem when designing his now defunct pvr, he fixed it by creating a custom Picturebox control invoking some api call or something. Anyways he still has the C# source code up so it should be easy for you to see and fix in your own program.
Hi-
I am a new user of GBPVR. I downloaded Beta008 today and am having problems getting it to show any video. I am running Win2KPro with one PVR-250 board and a MediaMVP. WinTV2000, SageTV and SS BTV3 all work with my configuration just fine. I want to experiment with GBPVR because of the MediaMVP support with Live TV. I live in the US. A few questions:
1. Do you have a installation guide available or something that outlines the general steps to take.
2. Do I need to install WinTVCap in my system. If so, how do I configure it, install it or do I need to change anything in the INI file.
3. Should the GBPVR MediaMVP server work. I am using the mediamvp_1.1.21365.exe off of the shspvr forum. The MediaMVP finds my server using the Hauppauge software but when I use the GBPVR MediaMVP Server, the MediaMVP never gets past the "Contacting MediaMVP BootServer" message. I have a Linksys router in my home network.
4.Do you have any instructions that I can use to setup my EPGDATA.XML file. So far I am just manually adding a few channels during the GBPVR configuration.
Thanks for any help you can give me. I am really looking forward to getting the software to work correctly, especially the MediaMVP client with Live TV.
o live tv runs for about 10 seconds then picture breaks up and returns to the main menu
o pressing the down arrow when i first enter into the live tv this hangs my machine. power off is the only recovery
o entering a manual recording prevents me from acessing the TV Guide, and I cannot delete the manual record entry.
o If i play a music file, press stop on the remote control, then go and play a video file, i get a white screen in GBPVR with a red cross and an error from the C# application and the only option i have apart from debug is quit. But the music file starts playing in the background
About to test the scheduled recordings, will comment later,
2003-1-6 v0.0.8
- Now initializing tuner audio processor instead of relying on defaults
- Support for .m3u playlists
- Support for stop, next track, prev track buttons anywhere in app when playing music playlist
- Fixed some problems with reference counting the hiding/showing mouse pointer
- Added skip forward and back for MediaMVP. Also changed packet layout and structure to match new MVP beta software.
- Gracefully handling recordings that are manually deleted
- New prompt screen to allow video playback to be resumed
- Fixed bug with import of channels which were already present but not enabled
- Fixed a minor bug in TV guide where click regions for programmes were slightly to the left of the rectangle on the screen
Sub,
Indeed, I had forgotten to install .net framework. Now it works.
-I do have sound in LiveTV
-Pause works great!!
-Manual recording works, whether the system wakes up I don't know. Also, I still have an issue with standby and the pvr350. (I'm not very interested in the EPG)
There are of course some issues/bugs:
-After several channel switches, there is no sound anymore; Â also after playing a file.
-Yesterday, while in pause mode, playing the delayed file, I skipped backwards ==> the main menu appeared.
-In the recordings window, clicking (with the remote) on an available recording gives an error message (msg=0x100). OK on the remote dismisses that message and I can go back to the main menu. However, if I click the message away with the mouse results in reappearing of error messages... The remote doesn't help then.
-When playing a file, the first press on ffwd does nothing. The second press makes the movie ffwd. Play resumes normal playback.
-When playing a file the last few seconds are ignored. As far as I know this also happens with wintv2000, but not in windows media player.
-What happens with the livetv.mpg files?
-Stop for music doesn't work (was known)
-Skip to next/previous song from gbpvr would be nice; so would be volume control.
Still some testing to do (music playback etc...)
Greetings and success!
MaBo - who thinks gbpvr is better usable than wintv2000 ;-)
The way that ananova.com deals with the short programmes is to concatenate them to the previous programme and identify it as "followed by" - e.g.
- in the ananova xmltv feed it's easy to see which should be "followed by" as the second programme is "embedded" in the first programme ends (i.e. they end at the same time - in this case both finish at 7pm.)
This adds a greater level of complexity in reading the xmltv file, but would "read" more like the TV schedules.
It would be great to be able to have the ability to set up shows that would be recorded whenever they are on - e.g. I'm a bit of an addict for "Worlds Wildest Police Videos", and would like to record all episodes that are on the TV. This could be done through the config interface rather than the TV interface by linking it into the EPG upload function or as a "series record" button in the TV guide.
i'm seeing some weirdness with respect to the TV Guide. I currently list all channels for my area but have only 4 selected. When i update the xmltv data file, in the TV Guide section i get my 4 channels then the rest of the channels listed after them..
Going back into the Configuration app. the EPG info still lists only the 4 channels as enabled.
Something my DVD player does, that I find very useful, is to allow you to resume a disc that has been removed from the machine at a later time - useful for those times when your viewing is interrupted by a small child who wants to watch a DVD of their own!
This would be an extremely useful feature for video playback on gbpvr - when starting a video that has been seen partway through before, you could be prompted to start from the beginning or from the last viewed point.
