custom task overlay issue

[robert2011]

I am using a custom task to launch VLC to watch a HD (720p) DVB channel. When I am done, I quit VLC and return to GB-PVR, but I can no longer watch (SD) TV in GB-PVR via the "TV guide" plugin, I just get a purple-ish screen. TV works by using the "Live TV" plugin though. Closing and re-opening GBPVR fixes the problem completely. Running GBPVR in VMR9 mode (instead of overlay) also fixes the problem, but then (strangely) ffdshow doesn't de-interlace properly and I have to switch to Elecard. Unfortunately, Elecard doesn't do subtitles like ffdshow. For some reason EVR mode doesn't work any more.

[stustunz]

run batch files to close gbpvr and open vlc

Code:

taskill /F /IM "pvrx2.exe"
cd"\program files\cyberlink\powerdvd8"
start/max powerdvd8.exe

copy to notepad then save as startvlc.bat(or what ever you want to call it)

place in pvrx2 folder then select as your external task
to get back to pvrx2 make another batch file with the opposite
the example is to kill pvrx2(gbpvr) and start power dvd8 full screen
substitute in vlc where powerdvd8 is

Has to be run from the folder where the program.exe is
this kills pverx2 and opens powerdvd8 full screen
change them to whatever you want to run/close

taskkill probably isnt the best way to close a program but it quick and nasty

[imilne]

Better yet, do it all from a single batch file. Don't use the "start" command in the example above and the script will wait until PDVD is finished. You can then end the batch file with another call to reopen GBPVR that won't happen until PDVD (or VLC in your case) is closed.

[stustunz]

yeah but then it hangs around till the end doesnt it (black box)
im extremely limited at using batch files

[imilne]

You mean while PDVD was running? There are programs (and vbscripts) you can get that will run a batch file without showing the dos window. You'd just call one of them from GBPVR with its argument being the path to the batch file itself.

[stustunz]

Ok it's cool thought I may have been missing something

[Sykor]

IIRC, creating the custom task like this: start /min startvlc.bat (or whatever name you want to give) will solve that.

That was my solution to the wake.cmd windows being visible during wake up. All that wake.cmd had was a start minimized call to a another batch that restart the IR software, and recalled pvrx2 to give it focus.

[pBS]

also, take out the '/f' in taskkill line to make it close the program 'nicely', exactly same as if you pressed alt-f4...
and here's a trick to make it SELF-minimizing
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post406972

Code:

@if not "%~1" == "$" start "%~nx0" /min cmd /c "%~f0" $ %* && exit
@shift /1
taskkill  /IM "pvrx2.exe"
start /wait /max "c:\yourpathto\Videolan\vlc.exe"
start "c:\yourpathto\npvr\npvr.exe"

and the thing about making it all in one batch file is correct, makes everything wait and process in order..

[stustunz]

Have you tried this batch file
seems to close nexpvr fine but then goes full screen and doesnt continue

[stustunz]

Code:

@if not "%~1" == "$" start "%~nx0" /min cmd /c "%~f0" $ %* && exit
@shift /1
taskkill  /IM "NextPVR.exe"

cd "c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC"
start /wait /max vlc.exe

cd "c:\Program Files\NPVR"
start NextPVR.exe

ok fiddled with it now it works for me thanks PBS
Place in Program Files\NPVR