Invalid chars in show names

[multirotor]

Hi,

I managed to setup GBPVR + MediaMVP to play the files recorded by my Windows Media Center (in DVR-MS format).
All standard settings, just changed the muxer to the cyberlink one which I was able to install by installing the autodvrconverter application.

All is working perfectly fine. Sound in sync, acceptable delays, even plays files bigger than 2GB which was a limitation on my networked KISS DVD players before.

One issue remains: when the show file name contains an "e" with an accent ("accent égu" in French like the word for private=privé), GBPVR is unable to find the file and crashes.

The char is ascii decimal 233: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

When I rename the file to contain a normal e instead, all is fine.

Any chance of fixing this ?

Strangely, one of the previous versions of VideoRedo had the same issue but it was fixed in a more recent release.

Thanks a lot. I really like this setup. This setup is a lot faster than my Linksys Media Center Extenders DMA2100 and DMA2200.

[multirotor]

Okay, I have some time now to elaborate a little more.
Hope this helps someone in a similar boat as myself.

A few years ago, I was using GBPVR to do my recordings but I had a hard time to setup the guide and keep it working. It was also missing local language support.
I had a MediaMVP connected to GBPVR.

I switched to Windows XP Media Centre 2005 just for the recording part. My players were two KISS DP1500 networked DVD players. Later one of these was replaced by a DP1600. I didn't like the KISS PC-Link software so I replaced that one with Freekiss.
The Kiss players only play MPG2 files reliably and are unable to play the MCE 2005 DVR-MS format so I used Autodvrconvert to convert the recordings to MPG.
This setup was working fine but I needed to walk to the PC to schedule recordings.

A few months ago, I found a cheap Linksys DMA2100 and started playing around with Window 7 MCE. While being slow (power on, reaction to remote) it looks nice and you can access all the MCE functions from the remote on the TV.
I switched to Windows 7 and bought an additional DMA2200 for the bedroom and put the Kiss DVD players in the attic with the MediaMVP.
The Linksys players cannot operate without Vista or Windows 7 MCE and are crap when playing anything non dvr-ms. For example, you can't FF in MPG files.
So I have converted all my videos to dvr-ms.

Now I am looking for a solution to take the external drive with the dvr-ms recordings + old laptop along on holiday and play the files on a TV. Having too much networked players in the attic already, I don't want to spend more money right now.

The DP1600 is a upnp device but it doesn't play dvr-ms. So I need a upnp server that does transcoding of dvr-ms to mpg.
-Tversity: hard to setup and once I got it working I found it doesn't allow FF & REW
-Twonkymedia server: couldn't get transcoding to work
-Windows 7 integrated upnp server: doesn't transcode
-Nero Mediahome 4: works, doesn't FF & REW and takes 5 minutes before a 1GB file starts to play
=> DP1600 is not an option

My old trustworthy MediaMVP
-Hauppage software (latest beta) doesn't play any of my dvr-ms files
-GBPVR does a great job, movies start pretty fast, FF and REW working, the only issue I found is the one above with the filename character.
=> GBPVR + MediaMVP is the way to go for me

[mvallevand]

There's a bug I think in GBPVR on using shortnames that was designed for the NMT but the setting is also being used on the MVP See this thread for more info.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=43598

Longname accented characters are still broken on the NMT, I hope sub will fix this on day.

Bonne chance.

Martin