Newbie Questions - How do I ...

[slejhamer]

GB-PVR is great! I'm using it with my new ConvertX TV402U. Here are my questions:

1. In the TV Guide, how do I view the listings for a single channel? In other words, I want to click on the channel and see one page with the entire list of shows for that day (and scroll to subsequent days). Can this be done?

2. How do I lock the screen aspect ratio? If I change the shape of the GBPVR window, the contents are squeezed or stretched. Can the aspect ratio be locked somewhere in the config? The only thing I see that comes close is under DVD playback, where I have this set to 16:9 and it does not retain that format in any other window (TV Guide, playback, etc.)

3. Is there a way to apply filters such as sharpening to my recordings, either during recording or during playback? I've searched the forums and it seems that some video cards allow this to be done (mine does not), but I'd like to do it within the software.

4. During playback, how do I jump ahead to a particular spot? I can work the fast-forward control, but I'd like to be able to use a slider-like control to zoom way ahead. There is what appears to be a slider in the playback window when I move the mouse, but it has no functionality (I guess the little pointer tells me where I am in the recording - I'd like to be able to drag this pointer to a new position.)

5. Finally, when I watch Live TV it is very jumpy, almost like watching a slideshow of stills. The audio is okay, and recordings do not have this problem. I've played with the de-interlace settings to no avail. If I turn off Live TV Preview then it looks good, but I don't want to record everything I watch ("Timeshift Mode.")

Thanks in advance for any help!

[AOSandman]

1. In the TV Guide, how do I view the listings for a single channel? In other words, I want to click on the channel and see one page with the entire list of shows for that day (and scroll to subsequent days). Can this be done?

I believe there is a guide replacement (plugin) that does that.

4. During playback, how do I jump ahead to a particular spot? I can work the fast-forward control, but I'd like to be able to use a slider-like control to zoom way ahead. There is what appears to be a slider in the playback window when I move the mouse, but it has no functionality (I guess the little pointer tells me where I am in the recording - I'd like to be able to drag this pointer to a new position.)

Enter how many minutes you want to skip, then press skip. So if you want to skip ahead 15 minutes, type 1 5 <skip fwd>

5. Finally, when I watch Live TV it is very jumpy, almost like watching a slideshow of stills. The audio is okay, and recordings do not have this problem. I've played with the de-interlace settings to no avail. If I turn off Live TV Preview then it looks good, but I don't want to record everything I watch ("Timeshift Mode.")

This doesn't answer your question, but for what it's worth the recordings from time-shifting are only temporary. GB-PVR will automatically delete them.

[slejhamer]

Hey thanks AOS. I'll check out the replacement guide.

That bit of info about timeshifting is very informative.