External players for video, is it possible?

[rscheller]

Or am I missing how GBPVR really works?

Since you say you have two tuners in your PC, I assume you do record TV shows for later viewing. If you watch these recorded TV shows with WMP11, rather than GBPVR, then I'd say yes, you've (totally) missed how GBPVR really works.

[madcat]

Why? I mean in theory (not that I would, as I use GB-PVR on a TV and the interface looks like it was designed for it, as opposed to WMP[9,10,11]), one could use GB-PVR as a "recording engine", use only the EWA as the interface to schedule and delete recordings, and use WMP to watch (either the stream or directly from the file system).

[flyswatta]

Why? I mean in theory (not that I would, as I use GB-PVR on a TV and the interface looks like it was designed for it, as opposed to WMP[9,10,11]), one could use GB-PVR as a "recording engine", use only the EWA as the interface to schedule and delete recordings, and use WMP to watch (either the stream or directly from the file system).

This is exactly how I do it, but use VLC instead of WMP with the files straight from a network share or ocassionally I'll playback through the MVP.

[rscheller]

Can WMP.X and VLC do comskip? That feature alone will make me stick with GBPVR.