Can GB-PVR overlay taskbar during playback?

[WorkForFood]

Hi,

First of all WOW, what a piece of software! I checked out most if not all of the PVR software and they all had limitations that made them less then desirable including poor playback, lack of support for remotes, poor performance and sometimes just bad user interface. GB-PVR handled all the requirements and then some. Not sure if the author reads this forum or not, but kudos and congratulations on an excellent piece of work.

For those of you that are struggling at all with poor playback, I found that using the NVidia Pure Video Decoder made everything much clearer and smoothed out the playback considerably. I was originally using Cyberlink decoder but was disappointed in the quality (oddly the qualiy of the Cyberlink decoder was good enough when using the original Hauppauge Win TV 2000 application, the change was only required to improve GB-PVR playback).

I'm almost embarrassed to put forth this question but here goes: Under Windows XP Pro when I have the taskbar auto-hide unchecked AND I maximize GB-PVR I thought the TV / video should take up the entire screen but the taskbar remains showing at all times (unless I auto-hide it).

As you would expect, a bright blue bar with a myriad of colorful icons takes away from the viewing experience. Is there a setting in GB-PVR that will allow me to experience my video in full screen without seeing the taskbar?

BTW: I never auto-hide the taskbar during normal use of the PC, so it is intrusive to have to set and unset this feature to use a single application like GB-PVR.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[stefan]

If you really wanna thank the author (he reads the forum, by the way, you just caught him on his vacation week), there's a paypal link in the top rightmost corner =)

If you check http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Config/Config you can see that there is a checkbox for windowed/not windowed mode. That's what you're looking for :-)

[WorkForFood]

Yes, that helps, although I would prefer to be able to set a mode that allowed me to run windows and then full screen when I click the maximize button, rather then have to open the config app to make the windowed / no windowed change.

Thanks for the help.

[stefan]

What's wrong with fullscreen all the time?

[stefan]

I mean, you can "exit" from full screen by hitting the "windows" button on your keyboard (that makes the taskbar popup)

[ejeffers]

While not viewing a movie (i.e., in the main menu or other menu) you can hit alt+enter to go full screen. I have this key command mapped to my * button on my Hauppage 45 button remote. works great for me.

[mitcheloc]

Ahhh, the alt-enter works! I was poking around the forums to see if something like that existed. If I could ask, it would be nice to simply be able to double click the window (like in windows media player).

One quirk though...it seems to be buggy and doesn't remember previous positions. I have to maximize the window first and then press alt-enter 2-3 times before it will work.