Age Of GBPVR
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2006-01-29, 03:41 PM
How long has gbpvr been around?
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2006-01-29, 04:16 PM
Whoa.... Sub.. Whats been some of the hardest things in creating gbpvr
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2006-01-29, 04:30 PM
There has been heaps of challenges along the way. The digital tv stuff has been the hardest. It consumes the majority of my development time these days, yet provides very little visible differences each release. With analog TV you can pretty much use the components provided by Microsoft. With digital tv, those components that do exist only do part of the job, and you end up having to write your own replacements for virtually everything....this is very very time consuming.
I originally started GB-PVR after trying a few of the other PVR apps like SageTV and BeyondTV, and deciding they were buggy, didnt quite do what I wanted, and were slow at changing channels. I thought they were just being lazy not fixing bugs, and was sure I could do a better...  so I've created another one with the same issues. I now have much more respect for the job those guys have done. This stuff is really really hard, and there is so much that can go wrong, particularly giving the millions of combinations of hardware and software on users machines, and the lack of control you have over the third party components you have to rely on.
2006-01-29, 07:17 PM
Well, IMO, GB-PVR is probably the most useful piece of software I've ever used on my home PC. I'm amazed that one guy can even write something as complex and that works as well, let alone release it to the world and provide the level of support that you do. And work a real job, too. I've been involved in software development for over 30 years (I do almost all Java these days) and there's no way I would even attempt to write something like GB-PVR (esp. in Java
 ). My hat is off to you...
2006-01-29, 09:40 PM
I´d also want to offer a big "THANK YOU SUB FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL PEACE OF SOFTWARE"
I´ve just created a pay pal account - so my donation will be on the way soon sub!
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2006-01-31, 07:11 PM
Indeed a master piece given the huge variety in equipement. Hats off gentlemen!
2006-01-31, 07:54 PM
Agreed....never in the field of PVR programming have so many owed so much to so few (or just one man really....)
Thanks Sub
2006-02-01, 01:59 PM
dazzyb2k3 Wrote:never in the field of PVR programming have so many owed so much to so fewPhoto of dazzyb2k3 ![[Image: churchill.jpg]](http://googy.co.uk/mark/gbpvr/forum/churchill.jpg)
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