GB-PVR

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GB-PVR

Default GB-PVR main menu.
Developer:	Devnz
Latest release:	0.98.13 / October 19, 2006
OS:	Windows XP, Windows 2000
Use:	Personal video recorder
Website:	www.gbpvr.com

GB-PVR is a free Personal Video Recorder (PVR) software program for Microsoft Windows that allows a computer's TV tuner card to be used to record and pause live TV, much like a PVR box such as TiVo. It can also be used to play music, watch DVD's, view pictures, and listen to FM and Internet Radio.

The software is very stable and complete, even though at the time of this writing it is still a 0.9x version. Multiple tuners are supported and the Hauppauge Media MVP is supported as a networked client. Only tuner cards that use a hardware encoder are supported. These include:

Hauppauge PVR250, PVR250MCE, PVR350, PVR USB2, PVR150, PVR150MCE and PVR500MCE, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 and DTV2000, ATI Theatre 550 Pro, Dvico Fusion5 ATSC, DVB-T and DVB-S devices with BDA drivers, and GO7007SB based capture devices, such as Plextor PX-M402U, Plextor PX-TV402U and Lifeview TV Walker.

There is a very active development community that has produced a wealth of plug-ins to expand the feature set of the software, but the application itself is not open source.