My wishlist

[gruskada]

Here are my suggestions / wishes after using GB-PVR for about a month:

- search by show type (i.e. "movie" vs. "tv show"). The XSearch plugin is great for about all my other show-searching needs, but even with this I can't just see a list of all movies.

- resume recording after restart. Maybe this was just my setup, but when I had to restart my computer, I lost all of the show that was just recording. It resumed, but it didn't piece the full recording back together. (i.e. start recording at 3:00pm, restart at 3:15pm, recording restarts at 3:18pm - when I go to view the show, it would be great if it contained from 3:00 on, just missing the 3 minutes required to restart.)

- tooltip in the system tray icon to show what's recording (I know you can right-click the icon, then click on "Show status", but that's too freakin' difficult )

- aspect ratio change from a remote control. If there's an easy way for me to map this myself, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone told me how to do it.

- ability to skip show repeats (this info comes through on Zap2It, at least).

- ability to limit the number of rows shown at the same time on the TV guide (or ability to resize the font or magnify a listing on select with the remote). (I'm going blind with my tiny TV... )

- ability to watch live TV in other quality settings (low, custom, etc.). Maybe I just can't find where to do this...

- ability to save a search phrase, and get some kind of alert when shows that matched that alert came up (i.e. I've been wanting to tape "Office Space" off of normal TV for a while, so I can get a version without all the cursing. It would be great it I could just set this up as an alert - probably the Web admin would be the best place for this?).


I'm mostly being picky here. The software is great, and you can't beat the price Implementing these, IMHO, would make GBPVR absolutely perfect.

gruskada

[-stattik-]

- aspect ratio change from a remote control. If there's an easy way for me to map this myself, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone told me how to do it.

- ability to skip show repeats (this info comes through on Zap2It, at least).

- ability to watch live TV in other quality settings (low, custom, etc.). Maybe I just can't find where to do this...


gruskada

- aspect ratio change from a remote control

I added the following to my irremote.ini (I have a PVR250)
FULLSCREEN={f7}

- ability to skip show repeats

This option is enabled on the last page of the config app. It only works if Zap2It supplies the correct info.

- ability to watch live TV in other quality settings (low, custom, etc.). Maybe I just can't find where to do this...

Assuming again that you have a PVR 150/250/350, you can set this in the Direct Recording Configuration. It in the Capture Sources Tab/Edit Recording Source/Direct Recording Plugin Settings. Other cards probably support this as well.

[gruskada]

Thanks for the help, -stattik-. Everything works except for not recording repeats (I already had the option checked). I guess it's due to bad data on Zap2It's part, like you mentioned.

gruskada