Pausing live tv question???

[pvrn00b]

I have an TUL capture card with a ATI Theater 550 chip. I used Cyberlink PowerCinema and I liked it because it worked right out of the box. It is very limited though so I decided to try GB-PVR and it seems to work pretty good.

One of things that is bugging me is pausing live tv. I would like for the TV to freeze at the scene when I press pause, but instead it is recording but it keeps showing live tv. Then, I have to go back to where i started to "Pause"
Am I doing something wrong or it is suppose to work this way?

I would think that since I'm pausing the TV, it needs to stop right there while I'm doing something else (picking a up a phonecall for example).

Enlighten me please?

Other comments:
1. Music player needs some work to the interface. I also tried the plug-ins: Jukebox and Music Player but so far all the interfaces don't seem very polished. It would be nice to have song information: time, artists, title, etc showing.

2. Show the volume level when I change it.

This are just small things, but I think it is a great program. I appreciate the time and effort you put into it. GREAT JOB !!!!!

[stefan]

One of things that is bugging me is pausing live tv. I would like for the TV to freeze at the scene when I press pause, but instead it is recording but it keeps showing live tv. Then, I have to go back to where i started to "Pause"
Am I doing something wrong or it is suppose to work this way?

No, you are not doing anything wrong. The first "pause" press makes gbpvr enter timeshift mode so that you can then pause, skip back, skip forth. I think that most people that want to be able to do this either presses pause once whenever they have found a show they want to watch (there is also an option in the config to *exit* timeshift mode whenever you switch channels), or they set in the config app the option to always use timeshift mode (this slows down channel surfing, though).

[j3flight]

I don't use it much, but in my humble opinion the pause button should throw you into timeshift mode and then instantly pause. It's not a big deal how it is though, i've gotten used to it.

[stefan]

j3flight has a point, but that would yield a need for another button to only enter time shift mode.

[sub]

I have an TUL capture card with a ATI Theater 550 chip. I used Cyberlink PowerCinema and I liked it because it worked right out of the box. It is very limited though so I decided to try GB-PVR and it seems to work pretty good.

One of things that is bugging me is pausing live tv. I would like for the TV to freeze at the scene when I press pause, but instead it is recording but it keeps showing live tv. Then, I have to go back to where i started to "Pause"
Am I doing something wrong or it is suppose to work this way?

I would think that since I'm pausing the TV, it needs to stop right there while I'm doing something else (picking a up a phonecall for example).

Enlighten me please?

If you disable live preview mode, then the software will always run in timeshift mode, and pressing 'pause' will instantly pause playback.