GB PVR Newbie Wishlist

[corinthos]

First, thanks for such a nice program.

As a new user, I have found that I'd like to see the following (minor) features added:

1. hotkeys for muting
2. option to hide the titlebar from the tv window (sort of like how you can
do with WINTV2000), so all you see is a slim border all the way around.
3. lower CPU utilization if possible (not sure but it seems GB PVR seems to
stutter when multitasking (i noticed this while watching TV and playing
a game and while holding down the scroll bar when viewing web pages.
In each case, the audio and video in GB PVR would be cut off here and
there. I also had WINTV2000 running at the same time on another TV
tuner card in the same machine, but it didn't show this stuttering problem
when I compared them side by side. So that's why I suspect the CPU
utilization of GB PVR could be improved. But maybe the source of the
problem is something entirely different, I don't know.
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4. I don't know if this feature is already available, but I can't seem to get
any sort of on screen menu to show up while viewing TV, aside from
a display of channel and current time at the bottom of the screen.
Would be nice to have a menu on there as well to access the functions
of GB PVR.

Thanks.

[reven]

2. thats already available (i forget which command line switch it is thou, or you can just put it in fullscreen).

i noticed this while watching TV and playing a game and while holding down the scroll bar when viewing web pages.

3. why on earth would you do all that at the same time? and whats your system specs? gbpvr uses bugger all of my cpu, alot of ram, but bugger all cpu.

4. what functions do you mean? at the moment theres a tv guide you can access and program information (ie information about the show you are watching).

[nia]

3. why on earth would you do all that at the same time? and whats your system specs? gbpvr uses bugger all of my cpu, alot of ram, but bugger all cpu.

Well - about CPU, that can be fixed with Hardware. I can be recording 2 different shows on each of my Hauppauge PVR-350 and watch a previous recording on my MeduiaMVP, and I can barely see the CPU rise from flatline - it's maybe using 3-5%.

That's what Hardware MPEG2 encoding does for you

My PVR also has 2 Windows 2003 servers running in each their VMWare session, one acting as a weather server, the other some file-server and other stuff. It still handles GBPVR without any issues whatsoever.

[corinthos]

I am using a hardware encoder card (PVR-500MCE).. and I should clarify that I'm not talking about CPU activity during recording..

What I'm experiencing is about 30% cpu usage (Athlon 1800+ @ nearly 2GHz) when I load GBPVR and simply view TV w/o recording anything. I notice a stuttering in audio and a slight jerking when I try to manipulate the GBPVR screen (move it, resize) or open up a web browser or something.. that happens *sometimes*, but I can always reproduce the problem if I am scrolling quickly in a web browser like FireFox.. GBPVR audio and video sort of stutters when I do that while watching TV.. I don't experience this with the WinTV2000 program.

Thought I'd mention it in case CPU utilization (or whatever's causing it) could be improved in GBPVR in a future release.

[gomjabar]

Id like to see a volume display. Also this may already exit but a button to show the onscreen display. ive been hitting pause to bring it up while watching a dvd or whatnot.

[reven]

blue = onscreen display (ie show you the progress bar and info about what you are watching), but for dvds (which is a bad design decission i think, i dont think sub uses gbpvr to play dvds) blue = dvd menu, which makes it kind of weird.

volume display would be nice, but i removed the volume section from my irremote.ini file, its much quicker this way since the hauppuage software does this without handy it off to gbpvr (volume change is instance, when using gbpvr there was times where i noticed lag).

[sub]

but for dvds (which is a bad design decission i think, i dont think sub uses gbpvr to play dvds) blue = dvd menu, which makes it kind of weird.

Thats for historical reasons. It'd been like this for about a year before the DVD player got OSD support. I'll probably change it one day, but I'll need to find a new button for the DVD menu button. Any suggestions?

[jsteele]

I am using a hardware encoder card (PVR-500MCE).. and I should clarify that I'm not talking about CPU activity during recording..

What I'm experiencing is about 30% cpu usage (Athlon 1800+ @ nearly 2GHz) when I load GBPVR and simply view TV w/o recording anything. I notice a stuttering in audio and a slight jerking when I try to manipulate the GBPVR screen (move it, resize) or open up a web browser or something.. that happens *sometimes*, but I can always reproduce the problem if I am scrolling quickly in a web browser like FireFox.. GBPVR audio and video sort of stutters when I do that while watching TV.. I don't experience this with the WinTV2000 program.

Thought I'd mention it in case CPU utilization (or whatever's causing it) could be improved in GBPVR in a future release.

My system has an Athlon 3000+ and just running Live TV, no recordings going on and right now I see 211MB memory usage and between 22-29% CPU

[reboot]

Taupe. The button should be taupe....Oh, wait...you mean an existing button...(DUH!)

If you experience stuttering, it's not the program. It's either too slow a CPU (for your multitasking), not enough RAM, thus the pagefile must be used, a slow, badly fragged hard drive, or recording to the system drive (same drive as the OS, and the OS is accessing things).
Turn off anti-virus scanners on the recordings folder/drive.
Turn off indexing on the recordings folder/drive.
And about 200 other things you can do to streamline the system.

[dottore]

well, i think, in dvdplayback, the menu-button should take you to the dvd-menu. thats my opinion. the blue button then would show the osd, the back/exit-button would close the dvd-playback.

and the other "coloured" buttons could be used for instant switch/change of subtitles and audio.