GB-PVR

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GB-PVR
Latest release 1.2.9 / March 8, 2008
OS Microsoft Windows
Genre Personal video recorder
Website http://www.gbpvr.com/

GB-PVR is a home media center application, running on Microsoft Windows, allowing you to watch TV, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos. A large user base of PVR enthusiasts contribute to its support and further development with various plugins and utilities, making GB-PVR customizable.

GB-PVR is freeware, but it is a closed source, proprietary application:

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Is this project open source?

No sorry. GB-PVR supports open interfaces, but the core engine code is not publicly available. You are able to develop your own plugins to extend GB-PVR, and there are several examples available to get you started. Plugins can be developed in C#, VB.NET or C++. Visit the forum and the wiki for more information.

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GB-PVR is mostly an MPEG recording and playback system, that may also play other non-MPG content such as AVI (DivX/Xvid), WMV, and other formats that are supported by your computer's installed codecs.

It requires a TV tuner card (many hardware encoding cards and some software encoding cards supported), a VMR9 capable display adapter (video card), and a supported MPEG2 Decoder. Other requirements are listed on the GB-PVR web site.

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[edit] Features

  • Integrated graphical user interface to manage all functionality
  • TV Guide for scheduling of recordings
  • Support for season recordings
  • Support for automatically converting recordings to DivX/Xvid/WMV/ipod etc
  • Support for manual recordings on a specified channel at a specified time
  • Timeshift television allowing for pausing live TV etc.
  • Multidec support enabling the use of a wide range of softcams and other DVB plugins.
  • Teletext
  • DVB Subtitles
  • SRT Subtitles
  • Access to your music, videos and photos
  • Net radio
  • FM radio
  • Support for HDTV
  • Multi-lingual support, with language packs available for many languages.

[edit] Playback

  • Playback of many video formats, MPEG, AVI, DivX, Xvid, TS, etc.
  • Extensible playback mechanism allowing additional file types to be added with correct codecs installed
  • Automatic aspect ratio control
  • DVD playback from either DVD drive or DVD image on hard disk.
  • Supports VMR9/VMR7/Overlay video renderers
  • VMR9 Fullscreen Exclusive mode
  • Music visualizations.

[edit] Client/Server or Media Extender support

  • PC client support
  • Hauppauge MVP client support

Some content on this page is attributed to originate from www.gbpvr.com. Other content was contributed by members of the GB-PVR forum community. Any comments or criticisms should be directed to forums.gbpvr.com

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