Help Sub with the GBPVR web page

[MixMan]

I think that the GBPVR web page doesn't reflect all the excellent features of GBPVR. It was some time since the web page was updated.....or hasn't in been the same way always.
I suggest that we in this post add material that Sub can use for an update of the web page. It think that web owe him somthing in return for all the work he puts in.

I will add facts that comes to mind. I ask you to do the same.



[SIZE="4"]Features[/SIZE]

TV with multiple analog and digital cards
TVguide
Search Guide for EPG
Video
Music
FM radio
Net Radio
Easy-to-use and clearly structured interface



TV & Record

• Watch LiveTV (Both Analog and Digital TV)
  
• Aspect Ratio adjustable via hot key
  
• Fullscreen or Window preview
  
• Pause and Timehift TV
  
• Schedule and Record TV from EPG or manually
  
• EPG Search Guide with Free text search.
  
• OSD EPG while watching LiveTV
  
• OSD EPG brighness and color controls
  
• MiniGuide - a fast channel selector
  
• TeleText for Analog and Digital TV
  
• Teletext Subtitle for Digital TV (Both LiveTV and Timeshift)
  
• Full MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 support
  
• Numerous TV standards for worldwide usage
  

TVGuide Scheduler

• Schedule TV recordings via EPG
  
• Schedule episodes daily, weekly, season
  
• Schedule manually
  
• Supports XMLTV, Zap2it, Bleb formats
  

Web TVGuide Scheduler

• Schedule TV recordings via a "local" Web Server
  
• Free text search.
  

Video & Recordings

• Aspect Ratio adjustable via hot keys
  
• SRT Subtitle support for Video
  
• Transcode recorded video to other formats (DivX, ..etc)
  
• Resume viewing from earlier position
  

DVD

• Aspect Ratio adjustable via hot keys
  
• Subtitle support for DVD
  
• Option of using seperate software for OSD/Navigator (PowerDVD, WinDVD etc)
  
  

Music Library

• Play MP3 and WMA music
  
• Support for viewing music visalisations in window or fullscreen
  
• Browse your music by displaying Album Art mode or List Mode
  

Hardware Support

• Analog TV cards (see list below)
  
• Digital TV cards (see list below)
  
• Hauppauge MVP support allows watching TV on remote TV
  
• Remote Control support (Happauge Remotes, MCE Remote, Cyberlink Remote)
  
• IR Blaster support (Hauppauge IR Blaster, USBUIRT, MCE,)
  

Hauppauge MVP

• Watch GBPVR Media content on a regular TV set
  

Internal Remote Support
Hauppauge 34 button remote
Hauppauge 45 button remote
MCE 2005 remote
Cyberlink remote ? (I remember it was in there sometime)

External Remotes
Logitec Harmony

Configuration Possibilities

• Configure Remote Control functions in each sub menu, via "KeyMappings"
  

Skin support
(small pictures of skins)
Some screenshots of skins (Blue, BlueMCE2, Contour, SharperEdge, Collection, Tipstir)

Multi-Language support
(small pictures of flags)
(English, Us English. German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Polish)
….. more Languages that might have translations.

Supported MPEG2 Video decoders
bitcontrol® MPEG-2 Video Decoder
DScaler Mpeg2 Video Decoder
CyberLink DTV Video Decoder
InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge
InterVideo Video Decoder
CyberLink Video/SP Decoder (ATI)
NVIDIA Video Decoder
CyberLink Video/SP Decoder
Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
Moonlight-Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder
MainConcept (Hauppauge)
MPEG Video Decoder
Sonic Cinemaster® DS Video Decoder
Zulu HDTV Video Decoder(BDA)
Nero Video Decoder
GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder (MediaPortal)

Supported Audio Decoders
AC3Filter
CyberLink Audio Decoder(TwinHan)
MPEG Audio Decoder
NVIDIA Audio Decoder
CyberLink Audio Decoder
InterVideo Audio Decoder
InterVideo NonCSS Audio Decoder for Hauppauge
MainConcept MPEG Audio Decoder
MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Audio Decoder
Sonic Cinemaster® DS Audio Decoder
Nero Digital Audio Decoder

Supported DVD Decoders
InterVideo Video Decoder
NVIDIA Video Decoder
CyberLink Video/SP Decoder
MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder
Sonic Cinemaster® DS Video Decoder

[SIZE="4"]Supported TV card List[/SIZE]
I suggest a grid with list of cards, with links to homepages for drivers.

GBPVR supports multiple cards of almost any combination.
Below cards have been reported by users

Analog TV cards
· Hauppauge TV cards
· Hauppauge PVR150
· Hauppauge PVR150MCE
· Hauppauge PVR500
· Hauppauge PVR500 with FM tuner
· Hauppauge PVR250
· Hauppauge PVR250 with FM radio
· Hauppauge PVR350
· Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
· Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2
· ATI Theater 550 Pro
· ATI TV Wonder Elite
· Emuzed Maui III PAL
· Adaptec VideOh
· Adaptec VideOh (PCI)
· ProVideo PV258T/PV259
· Conexant BlackBird
· Hauppauge Roslyn
· AverMedia M150
· ATI eHome Wonder
· AverMedia M179
· Python 2
· PlayTV@P7000 BlackBird
· Leadtek WinFast PVR2000
· Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe (NTSC)
· Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe (PAL)
· Diamond XtremeTV PVR600 USB

GO7007SB based capture devices, such as
· Plextor PX-M402U,
· Plextor PX-TV402U and L
· Lifeview TV Walker

Digital TV cards
DVB-T, DVB-S and DVB-C devices with BDA drivers including:

· Hauppauge Nova-S
· Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus
· Hauppauge HVR-900
· Hauppauge Nova-T (90002)
· Hauppauge Nova-T (909)
· Hauppauge Nova-T USB2
· Twinhan DVB-S
· Twinhan DVB-C
· Twinhan DVB-T
· Twinhan DVB-T (PCI BDA Tuner Driver)
· Twinhan DVB-S (PCI BDA Tuner Driver)
· Twinhan DVB-T (DVB-TV 878 Digital Tuner Driver)
· Twinhan DVB-S (DVB-TV 878 Digital Tuner Driver)
· Twinhan DVB-C (DVB-TV 878 Digital Tuner Driver)
· Twinhan DVB-T (Spectrum)
· Twinhan Mantis DVB-T BDA Receiver
· Twinhan Alpha USB DVB-T
· Twinhan Alpha USB DVB-T (Rev B)
· FireDTV CI/S (no CI support)
· FireDTV CI/C (no CI support)
· FireDTV CI/T (no CI support)
· Nebula PCI BDA DVB-T
· Dvico Fusion DVB-T
· Dvico Fusion DVB-T PLUS
· Dvico Fusion T1
· Dvico Fusion DVB-T USB
· V-Box DTT-150
· V-Box2 DTT-150 (Thomson tuner)
· Lifeview FlyDVB-T
· Conexant BDA DVB-T
· KNC One TV-Station DVB-S
· Compro VideoMate T200
· Compro VideoMate T300
· Fusion HDTV Gold-T (ATSC)
· Fusion HDTV5 Lite
· Fusion HDTV-USB (ATSC)
· ATI HDTV WONDER
· Pinnacle DVB-T 200e BDA
· Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i PAL
· TerraTec CinergyT2 USB
· TerraTec Cinergy 1200 DVB-T
· Kworld Xpert DTV - DVBT
· KWORLD DVB-T 220 PCI PHILIPS SILICON TUNER
· KWorld ATSC-110
· DNTV Live! Tiny USB2 BDA
· DNTV Live! LP BDA
· AVerMedia A800
· PCHDTV 3000
· AVerMedia A180
· AdsTech Cardbus DVB-T
· Medion BDA Digital Capture
· Freecom DVB
· Technisat Skystar 1
· TerraTec Cinergy 2400i DT #1 DVB-T
· TerraTec Cinergy 2400i DT #2 DVB-T
· TerraTec Cinergy 1200 DVB-S

[SIZE="4"]TV Card Drivers[/SIZE]

Hauppauge
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support.html

Twinhan
http://www.twinhan.com/download_driver&software.asp

[SIZE="4"]Downloads & System Requirements[/SIZE]

• Windows XP or Windows 2000
  
• Microsoft .NET v1.1 & .NET 2.0 runtime must be installed.
  
• Windows 2000, needs to have MDAC2.6 (or higher) to be installed
  
• MPEG2 decoder (comes with PowerDVD or WinDVD)
  
• EPG source for TV channels
  

Updates for Windows TV functionality
Patch for BDA
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en
Patch for VMR9
http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...-us;891220

Main Program
Release 96.08
Release xx.xx

Languages
GBPVR have been translated to many languages. If you don’t find your language in the list, you can help out and translate it to your language. It is very simple and just a couple of hours work.
Languages - translated but not yet implemented can be found on the Wiki
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manual/Translation

Plugins
Plugins can be found on the Wiki
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/Plugin

Skins
Skins can be found on the Wiki
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Skin/Skin
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Development/Skin

Help Getting Started
How to configure and get started
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quick...QuickStart

EPG Sources
USA http://www.zap2it.com/
World http://www.xmltv.org
World http://www.tvxb.com
Scandinavia http://www.o2design.se/o2grabber/

[ricklous]

I like how the webpage is rather unasuming...

Next to certain other PVR websites that seem to go 'LOOK AT ME I'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE HERES 7000 WAYS I WILL!!!!!', it has its own charm in its simplicity and sort of, 'try it if you like, it wont bit' style.

Im probably taking through my rear-end, but do you know what i mean?:o just thats the first impression i got from the home page and it drew me in. didnt promise the world, but gave me everything id been looking elsewhere for.

It would be nice if the home page retained that friendly feel. Maybe just pretty it up a bit, make the wiki more visible from the home page and ramp up the efforts to get the wiki up to date?

Ive suggested the Supported Tuner list in the past, but with the facility for people to append their own to the list, along with (very short) experiences in getting it working with GBPVR.

something like five levels of setup :

works out of box
easy editing of setup files
medium
advanced/tricky setup
unstable

thoughts?

EDIT: i think as a list like this would grow, maybe this would be better on the wiki? im quite happy to do the legwork for a page like this...

[betlit]

i agree with ricklous. a flashy 'aggressive' site full of buzzwords promising me everything i could ever imagine is more a con than a pro for me.

however, a more detailed tuner list would be great. it may reduce the 'will this card XY work'-posts
should be in the wiki, though (so sub does not have to do all updates himself)

[dfdario]

You should add also: Hauppauge HVR-1300 (recognized as Nova-T + Roslyn)
and HVR-1100 (only the DVB part as Nova-T) in the section of supported cards.

[gruskada]

I think the new "Blue" skin should be added, at least. It looks a lot better than the old one.

gruskada

[MixMan]

Please add facts, instead of having an opinion of whether there should be facts or not.
For you that dont like documentation, start a tread for that.
In the end its up to Sub if he want to add facts to the web page or not. I just want to give him some relevant facts to select from.

[ricklous]

For you that dont like documentation, start a tread for that.

Im sorry if you misunderstood my post, I wasnt arguing that we need documentation, but we already have a tool for that in the Wiki. i was just saying that it needs updating, possibly more so than the home page.

Once the community has got the Wiki into good shape, (if he wants to) Sub can select titbits of stuff from that to transfer to the home page. Surely thats a more logical way of doing it?

Thanks to the work that you yourself has done, along with Sub, Old Dog, Reven, Dottore et al, its a bit out of date in a lot of places. Not being a programmer in any way, nor a graphic artist, andi cant even afford to send Sub a donation so pretty much the only way i can contribute is in the form of documentaion to help other newbies get the most from GBPVR. Ive very keen to do this, which is why my HipGuide is on the Wiki, and why I'll try and help your efforts as much as i can.

Which is why i was offering to do the tuner list on the Wiki and flesh it out to include feedback from the forum on what people have found with particular tuners, if people think it would be a valuable resource.

And im hoping we wont see sub around much come the next few weeks anyway

[McBainUK]

Once the community has got the Wiki into good shape, (if he wants to) Sub can select titbits of stuff from that to transfer to the home page. Surely thats a more logical way of doing it?

Which is why i was offering to do the tuner list on the Wiki and flesh it out to include feedback from the forum on what people have found with particular tuners, if people think it would be a valuable resource.

These are very good ideas. Can tell MixMan has spent alot of time making the tuner list (it goes on forever ) Put it on the wiki now! is all I can say.

If you want to add/edit the wiki go ahead; it is ,after all, a community driven document.

edit : maybe parts of mixman's 1st post could be on a "What GBPVR can do" page?

Mark

[MixMan]

I just spent 5 minutes on that list.
It is just the names in bda.ini and direct.ini

But there might be more cards that is supported in reality?
It is really easy to make your own section in those files.
Just add the filter names and the pin names of the driver filter.....and try.
But I dont know if it documented somewhere....in the Wiki.

[blader_se]

But I dont know if it documented somewhere....in the Wiki.

It have always been on the wiki at http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manual/CaptureCards
I have (now) also made a direct link to that page in the sidebar since it's probably one of the first pages a potential user would like to see.

Do help to keep the list up-to-date, as stated above it IS a community document.

(If anyone wan't to have edit rights just PM me. This registering is just to keep vandals out in an easy manner. You are all welcome as wiki editors!)