2004-04-22, 11:18 AM
Sub,
It's time to give you a bit of feedback on v016 after having had some time to test it a bit. Although the general status is VERY good, there are some minor issues that I thought were good to mention to you:
Duration of recordings always shows 00 hours, even for longer recordings (already in v015, maybe even older versions)
Yellow button doesnt work for m3u playlists: I can't queue two albums.
Volume control doesnot work (music/video) although the release notes says they should work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
There is an inconsistency with the use of the pause button. It pauses video AND music playback. It resumes video playback, but music playback can only be resumed with the play button.
I can start wmp form gbpvr (custom task that also starts ir.exe and puts gbpvr in the background) to watch a dvd. However playing a dvd this way gave clicking sound when using vmr9 in gbpbr. With overlay there is no problem.
With pause/livetv the skip fwd/bwd doesn't work, though according to the release notes it should.
To conclude this post a tip:
In the current setup skipping forward and backward in video playback requires many buttonpresses (number of seconds, skip). So to skip 5 minutes (a commercial break) you first must calculate 5*60 =300, then press 3 0 0 skip.
Another strategy is to skip minutes. 5 minutes is then 5 skip.
To allow for smaller skips, parts of a minute should be preceded with a zero: so 30 seconds (=half a minute) means 0 5 skip.
I think this reduces the number of keypresses considerably and is also more intuitive.
Greetings,
MaBo
(Setup: pvr350, tv-out to tv, no ir.exe running)
It's time to give you a bit of feedback on v016 after having had some time to test it a bit. Although the general status is VERY good, there are some minor issues that I thought were good to mention to you:
Duration of recordings always shows 00 hours, even for longer recordings (already in v015, maybe even older versions)
Yellow button doesnt work for m3u playlists: I can't queue two albums.
Volume control doesnot work (music/video) although the release notes says they should work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
There is an inconsistency with the use of the pause button. It pauses video AND music playback. It resumes video playback, but music playback can only be resumed with the play button.
I can start wmp form gbpvr (custom task that also starts ir.exe and puts gbpvr in the background) to watch a dvd. However playing a dvd this way gave clicking sound when using vmr9 in gbpbr. With overlay there is no problem.
With pause/livetv the skip fwd/bwd doesn't work, though according to the release notes it should.
To conclude this post a tip:
In the current setup skipping forward and backward in video playback requires many buttonpresses (number of seconds, skip). So to skip 5 minutes (a commercial break) you first must calculate 5*60 =300, then press 3 0 0 skip.
Another strategy is to skip minutes. 5 minutes is then 5 skip.
To allow for smaller skips, parts of a minute should be preceded with a zero: so 30 seconds (=half a minute) means 0 5 skip.
I think this reduces the number of keypresses considerably and is also more intuitive.
Greetings,
MaBo
(Setup: pvr350, tv-out to tv, no ir.exe running)
ASUS pundit, pvr 350, celeron 2600, 512 MB, 160GB HD, winXP Pro, 12" touchscreen
