how to figure out what channel a tuner is recording

[Wakalaka]

I'm trying to figure out how to enumerate the tuners in the system, and if one is recording, what channel it's recording and the show name and description. Anyone have pointers? I've been digging through docs and the DLL Object Browser in Visual Studio 2005 for CommonGBPVRUtilities.

[pBS]

check out graph viewer plugin, i think it has source...
pretty simple and he had to enum tuners so we could tune them.
other wise might check out the wdm software recorder plugin [both on wiki]
as it well programmed and covers a lot of areas..

[Wakalaka]

Thanks for the pointer. I found a plugin called GraphRecorder, but not Graph Viewer or WDM Software Recorder plugin. Do you know where they're at?

[whurlston]

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugi...reRecorder

[psycik]

What does this return while recording: GBPVR.Public.PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().getCaptureSourceStatus();

I know it says sleeping when sleeping, maybe you could match that string with the channel/program

[Wakalaka]

I have code that returns a string array for tuner status. Right now [0] says "Recording Mind of Mencia =" and [1] says "Sleeping" because I have 2 tuners.
I need to figure out how to get the channel string or OID for each tuner, when recording, so I can get the channel image, and then how to get the show description. If I knew the channel #, string, or OID, I'm sure that can be used to get the show description from the TV guide data. Without that info, it wouldn't be reliable to search the entire guide looking for a show name match to get the channel #.

[psycik]

but if you know this: Recording Mind of Mencia you could zip through the program list for the current time and figure out the programme - and from that you can get the channel and everything else.

Not ideal, but I'm guessing what you want isn't exposed by sub...

[Wakalaka]

I thought of that, and it would work only if the same show name is never on 2 channels at times that overlap. If show name is "xyz", and is on channel 5 from 3pm to 7 pm, and is on channel 9 from 5 pm to 6 pm, then you have a problem because the show on channel 9 could be matched to the one on channel 5, and the shows could have different descriptions. You then end up showing the descriptions backwards.

[psycik]

Maybe you can then only do it by reading the scheduled recordings and resolving that back to the tuner in use....

[Wakalaka]

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugi...reRecorder

Using the code from the plugin above, I now have the following:
The channel icon, show name, and show description are all place holders. I can't find a way to get the currently tuned channel for a capture source.
sub, any suggestions?