Newbie Problems

[jsteele]

I am a newbie to GB-PVR. I've been "futzing" with MediaPortal for several months now and my level of frustration was finally breeched last weekend. So I downloaded GB-PVR and installed it and after minimal fiddling, lo and behold it came up.

I like GB's onscreen guide and display better than MP although I prefer MP's two level menu structure where you can assign less-frequently-used functions to a secondary "Programs" menu.

But GB switches channels much, much faster than MP.

Getting channels configured in GB is a snap, in MP it is a royal pain-in-the-backside.

And I really like the fact that in GB to go to channel 135 (satellite) you enter "1-3-5". Clever, eh? In MP you have to know that channel 135 is the 58th item in the database so you enter "5-8" to get there!

Anyway, I was really enthused about GB until I came across two problems:

1. Hitting "ESC" to go to the previous function. If I hit it from the main menu GB exits!
2. GB is running along in TV mode and for no apparent reason it simply exits.

Can someone provide some guidance here? I can't believe that either of these is the expected behavior.

John

[HenkH]

1. Hitting "ESC" to go to the previous function. If I hit it from the main menu GB exits!
2. GB is running along in TV mode and for no apparent reason it simply exits.

The 1st one is easy to fix. Go to the gbpvr directory (usually c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr) and open the file config.xml in an editor (e.g. notepad). Scroll to the bottom; there should be a line saying:

Code:

<ExitOnEsc>true</ExitOnEsc>

Change the 'true' in 'false' and everything should be fine.

For the second one: GB-PVR writes several log files in the directory mentioned above. You might find clues in them :eek:

[stefan]

1. Hitting "ESC" to go to the previous function. If I hit it from the main menu GB exits!
John

(Courtesy of Reven)
<ExitOnEsc>true</ExitOnEsc>
to the config.xml file, which allows you to exit gbpvr when you press escape (which is the back button). *just change it to
<ExitOnEsc>false</ExitOnEsc>

[nkh]

I like GB's onscreen guide and display better than MP although I prefer MP's two level menu structure where you can assign less-frequently-used functions to a secondary "Programs" menu.

You can make sub-menus in the config app, so that should take care of that problem

[jsteele]

Thanks to everyone.

I will edit the XML file as suggested.

As to the menus I finally figured out how to make that work and it is much more flexible than MP :-)