A few suggestions/wishes.

[elricfate]

Support for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150's hardware decoder for mpg2 streams.

Intelligent directory listings.
I do a lot of television records, edits, encodes to divx (cuts down the filesize by ten times) ... and then use the Video Library and gbpvr's media player to play them. However when doing directories of shows (because I record multiple episodes) ... no matter what numbering schema I use, it never gets it right. I tried 1x1, 1x2, etc - also tried S1E1, S1E2, etc - and even tried (1x1), (1x2) ... - but whenever I get into double digits, it starts to order them by 1x1, 1x12, 1x13 ... instead of 1x1, 1x2, 1x3 etc... It just needs to learn to intelligently sort the directories. Can't be hard to add in, right?

Also, the ability to choose a profile (when you're setting the recording part of the tuner card in the config) to be the default. I realize it always defaults to medium, even when choosing to record a program, so I changed Medium to match what I needed... basically one step above high. But if could choose a default profile, instead of medium, it would be nice.

Let me know what you can do, will do, and won't do. Thanks sub.

As always, and since I'm a month old user, gbpvr is *the* best PVR application I've ever, ever used, installed, and built for. Appreciate the hard work, and you're a true gentleman. Thanks mate.

-Seth

[ricklous]

However when doing directories of shows (because I record multiple episodes) ... no matter what numbering schema I use, it never gets it right. I tried 1x1, 1x2, etc - also tried S1E1, S1E2, etc - and even tried (1x1), (1x2) ... - but whenever I get into double digits, it starts to order them by 1x1, 1x12, 1x13 ... instead of 1x1, 1x2, 1x3 etc... It just needs to learn to intelligently sort the directories. Can't be hard to add in, right?

I may be shooting up the wrong tree here, but this is not a GBPVR thing and more a feature with the way a rational database sorts data. You can open a Excel sheet and see the same behaviour using the 'sort' function on a test set of data.

Basicly, Access (the database that GBPVR uses) sees a line of data as text *OR* numerical (theres a lot of other types too but for this situation we'll keep to the two main ones) if you just save numerical data in a field then you can set that field to be recognized as a number, and then Access knows when sorting to look at the whole number and sort '12' after '3'

but if you are storing either text, or a jumble of text and numbers, it'll see it all as text.

If Access is looking at text, it''ll effectivly go along the line of text one character at a time and sort on each character seperatly before looking at the one after it.
so when you want it to see: '1x13'
as: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '13',
Access sees it as: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '1' and a '3',
and logically thinks that: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '1'
comes before: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '2'
before it even considers the trailing '3'

To handle this, GBPVR would have to store the episode number seperatly from the season number and seperatly from anything else relevant to that programe. Which from my days of working on Access wouldnt be a problem right at the start, but would be a right old merrygoround setting it up now...

The only thing i imagine might work would be to use numbers to denote a season and text to denote an episode. so '1x1'woud be '1a' and '1x2' would be '1b' this would allow you to have nine seasons and 24 episodes in each season and have them sorted correctly. not the slickest fix but it might work for you.

Ive not used Access for a long time though so maybe im talking from my rear end....can someone confirm this is whats happening?

[erik]

A simpler solution may be to use leading zero's
so 1x01 1x02 etc...
This will ensure the text sortinting is the database keeps the right order.

[dottore]

the pvr 150 has no hardware decoder, just an encoder. and this one is used by gbpvr.

concerning numbering: try erik's solution.

[sub]

I the other guys have pretty much addressed these points, but in summary:

Support for the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150's hardware decoder for mpg2 streams.

The PVR150 does not have a hardware decoder. It does have an encoder, and this is used by GB-PVR

Basicly, Access (the database that GBPVR uses) sees a line of data as text *OR* numerical (theres a lot of other types too but for this situation we'll keep to the two main ones) if you just save numerical data in a field then you can set that field to be recognized as a number, and then Access knows when sorting to look at the whole number and sort '12' after '3'

but if you are storing either text, or a jumble of text and numbers, it'll see it all as text.

If Access is looking at text, it''ll effectivly go along the line of text one character at a time and sort on each character seperatly before looking at the one after it.
so when you want it to see: '1x13'
as: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '13',
Access sees it as: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '1' and a '3',
and logically thinks that: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '1'
comes before: '1' follwed by a 'x' and a '2'
before it even considers the trailing '3'

To handle this, GBPVR would have to store the episode number seperatly from the season number and seperatly from anything else relevant to that programe. Which from my days of working on Access wouldnt be a problem right at the start, but would be a right old merrygoround setting it up now...

The only thing i imagine might work would be to use numbers to denote a season and text to denote an episode. so '1x1'woud be '1a' and '1x2' would be '1b' this would allow you to have nine seasons and 24 episodes in each season and have them sorted correctly. not the slickest fix but it might work for you.

Add leading zeros. I see many shows for download from P2P apps use this naming convention.

Also, the ability to choose a profile (when you're setting the recording part of the tuner card in the config) to be the default. I realize it always defaults to medium, even when choosing to record a program, so I changed Medium to match what I needed... basically one step above high.

That is how it is designed to work. You can change medium to whatever bitrate/resolution you prefer. In hindsight, it would have been better to call this profile 'default' instead of medium, then I would get this question any more.

[elricfate]

Awesome.

I'll try the leading zero solution. Never thought of that.

As for the profile, yea, I changed the medium one already. In a future release it would just be a minor thing to change the name to default.

Oh, and thanks for clarifying. I thought it had a hardware DECODER, that was my misread when I purchased it.

But my compliments still stand. Awesome software. Thanks!

[elricfate]

Mmkay.

Leading zeros did NOT work.

But the lettering worked. Though I admit, it's damn annoying to have your episodes done by 1a 1b 1c ... but meh.

Would there be any other way to make it work with numbers?

I tried S1E1, S01E01, and 1x01 ... none of those zero methods worked for me.

EDIT: I did a mix of the 1a 1b and the 1x1 1x2 method... which is suitable for now. Lets me view them with episode numbers, but also keeps them in order. Now I just have to change all of my recorded stuff to match it.

However, sub... Can I make another few suggestions?

When you're in Video Library, viewing things you have backed up, or recorded and encoded from TV, a working seekbar would be nifty. I'm sure the OSD is not capable of that, but I thought I'd throw it out there, as sometimes I sit at the pc and use my mouse to control gbpvr instead of my remote.

Another thing is a non-transparent OSD (because for some reason even without it set in the config, it's still transparent and the machine chugs for a second while it tries to pull up the onscreen guide)... of course this may just be because I need another 512mb of ddr to complete the 1gb (recently had to pull a dimm because it went bad) ...

I mean, if it's possible... let me know. If not, do the same. I like this community. :-)

[reboot]

I use S01E01, S01E02, etc., and it works on my system...

[elricfate]

Oh... Uh. I... duh. I kinda did it wrong. I went up to S01E011 ... completely destroying the naming convention.

Sorry, had a brain fart. Been a rough morning.

Thanks.