2006-06-23, 06:38 PM
Hi,
I encountered some problems with 97.9 leading to some request for future versions.
When one has multiple tuners with different channel lineup there is a problem zapping through LiveTV when one tuner is recording and thus making some channels unavailable. If one comes to an unavailable channel there is no check wether it is available before it is entered. gbpvr will hang with a black screen. From my point of view the best would be to just skip those channels with a little message on the screen about what happened.
Furthermore, if one tuner is capturing and you want to enter LiveTV you will get the "not available" message if the last watched channel is now unavailable. Here, there should be a check if any other channel is available and just go there.
Last not least, there is a problem scheduling recordings if tuners have overlapping channel lineup. Setting up two recordings, the first of a channel that is available on both tuners, the second only on the second tuner in the config lineup will cause a conflict although there is a combination making both recordings possible. Seems like the tuners are reserved by their mere position in the config. In this case it should use the second tuner for the first recording and the first tuner for the second recording though. I know your opinion about letting the user chose the capture device. But maybe this should be added as an expert feature or something.
but still, this is an awesome piece of software!!
(once one managed to set it up)
I encountered some problems with 97.9 leading to some request for future versions.
When one has multiple tuners with different channel lineup there is a problem zapping through LiveTV when one tuner is recording and thus making some channels unavailable. If one comes to an unavailable channel there is no check wether it is available before it is entered. gbpvr will hang with a black screen. From my point of view the best would be to just skip those channels with a little message on the screen about what happened.
Furthermore, if one tuner is capturing and you want to enter LiveTV you will get the "not available" message if the last watched channel is now unavailable. Here, there should be a check if any other channel is available and just go there.
Last not least, there is a problem scheduling recordings if tuners have overlapping channel lineup. Setting up two recordings, the first of a channel that is available on both tuners, the second only on the second tuner in the config lineup will cause a conflict although there is a combination making both recordings possible. Seems like the tuners are reserved by their mere position in the config. In this case it should use the second tuner for the first recording and the first tuner for the second recording though. I know your opinion about letting the user chose the capture device. But maybe this should be added as an expert feature or something.
but still, this is an awesome piece of software!!
(once one managed to set it up)
