2008-12-29, 01:25 AM
Hi Guys,
My son lives out in the country and doesn't have satellite, just ota through a digital convertor box.
He has a lap top that's not used much so I loaded GBPVR on it and now he can hookup to my network when he's here and copy programs over from my temp directory to his machine and then take it home and hook it up to the TV and watch it through the Videos plugin (his laptop has an SVHS output for the TV, in fact it can do dual monitors between the LCD and TV!).
This works fine, but you know we're kinda greedy . . . we'd like it to work better. Is there a way I could get the programs into his Recordings Directory and bring the program descriptions with it? He may not want every program I have, but I figured he could just copy what he wanted. I'm guessing the program info is in a database file somewhere he'd need to grab? And I'm guessing/hoping that if there are programs in that database for which there aren't any programs for in the directory that it'll just drop those off?
Clear as mud, huh? Hopefully you guys can understand what we're doing and what we would like for it to be able to do and can point us in the right direction!
So far it's working pretty good!
Thanks!
Steve
My son lives out in the country and doesn't have satellite, just ota through a digital convertor box.
He has a lap top that's not used much so I loaded GBPVR on it and now he can hookup to my network when he's here and copy programs over from my temp directory to his machine and then take it home and hook it up to the TV and watch it through the Videos plugin (his laptop has an SVHS output for the TV, in fact it can do dual monitors between the LCD and TV!).
This works fine, but you know we're kinda greedy . . . we'd like it to work better. Is there a way I could get the programs into his Recordings Directory and bring the program descriptions with it? He may not want every program I have, but I figured he could just copy what he wanted. I'm guessing the program info is in a database file somewhere he'd need to grab? And I'm guessing/hoping that if there are programs in that database for which there aren't any programs for in the directory that it'll just drop those off?
Clear as mud, huh? Hopefully you guys can understand what we're doing and what we would like for it to be able to do and can point us in the right direction!
So far it's working pretty good!
Thanks!
Steve