2008-03-14, 10:48 PM
Well, that seems to work a treat. Obviously this is a trivial integration of GB-PVR and Vista Media Center, but it does allow you to use both together with a single MCE remote, customise things as you see fit, and not resort to having to use a keyboard.
First unpack the attached VistaMCELaunch.zip into the GBPVR folder of your installation. This is just a tweak to what I posted on the DVBViewer forum posting above - full details/instructions are the same as with DVBViewer and can be found here . All it does is give you something to launch GB-PVR from on Vista Media Center start menu, this time with a GB-PVR icon.
Second, you need to properly disable ehtray.exe in order to use all the buttons on the MCE remote sensibly. The best instructions I found for doing this in Vista are in this PDF guide here (search for "Vista Media Center Edition ehtray.exe instructions").
Finally, install LM Remote Keymap and just follow the instructions - basically it lets you setup the MCE remote per-active application (with a default profile for when none of your configured apps are active).
I have the Green/Windows button set to launch Vista Media Center in the default profile, a standard MCE remote set-up in another profile for when VMC itself is active (unsurprisingly) and a slightly tweaked MCE remote (e.g. Ctrl+B setup on "Info") for my GB-PVR profile.
So far, it all seems to work perfectly... It really does allow you to tweak/enable buttons on the remote as you see fit for the application you're using, so if I press Guide in GB-PVR I get the GB-PVR Guide, and in VMC the VMC Guide.
First unpack the attached VistaMCELaunch.zip into the GBPVR folder of your installation. This is just a tweak to what I posted on the DVBViewer forum posting above - full details/instructions are the same as with DVBViewer and can be found here . All it does is give you something to launch GB-PVR from on Vista Media Center start menu, this time with a GB-PVR icon.
Second, you need to properly disable ehtray.exe in order to use all the buttons on the MCE remote sensibly. The best instructions I found for doing this in Vista are in this PDF guide here (search for "Vista Media Center Edition ehtray.exe instructions").
Finally, install LM Remote Keymap and just follow the instructions - basically it lets you setup the MCE remote per-active application (with a default profile for when none of your configured apps are active).
I have the Green/Windows button set to launch Vista Media Center in the default profile, a standard MCE remote set-up in another profile for when VMC itself is active (unsurprisingly) and a slightly tweaked MCE remote (e.g. Ctrl+B setup on "Info") for my GB-PVR profile.
So far, it all seems to work perfectly... It really does allow you to tweak/enable buttons on the remote as you see fit for the application you're using, so if I press Guide in GB-PVR I get the GB-PVR Guide, and in VMC the VMC Guide.