GB-PVR 1.2.13 is a Digital Video Recorder product from gbpvr.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, GB-PVR is a fully featured home media center application, allowing you to easily use a remote to watch tv, schedule recordings, watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos etc. Click here to visit the Feature List page..
GB-PVR is developed by welltonway.com, consultants and engineers, mostly on sparetime for your enjoyment.
What do I need?
You need to be running on Windows 2000 or higher. Your machine must also have the Microsoft .NET v2.0 runtime installed. You must have a supported video capture device.
If you're running Windows 2000, you'll also need to install MDAC2.6 (or higher).
GB-PVR is a fully featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR), allowing you to schedule TV recordings and view and pause live TV. In additional to this PVR functionality, it also acts as a media center allowing you to watch movies, listen to music, view pictures and listen to FM radio. GB-PVR also supports specialist hardware decoders including Sigma Designs XCard, Hauppauge PVR350 and Hauppauge MediaMVP. GB-PVR also supports multiple tuners, allowing you to record more multiple channels at one time.
TV Tuner cards currently supported are:
Hauppauge PVR250, PVR250MCE, PVR350, PVR USB2, PVR150, PVR150MCE and the dual-tuner PVR500MCE
ATI Theatre 550 Pro
Emuzed Maui-I, Emuzed Maui-II, Emuzed Maui-III
DVB-T and DVB-S devices with BDA drivers including:
Hauppauge Nova-S
Hauppauge Nova-T
Hauppauge Nova-T USB2
Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i
Twinhan DVB-S
Twinhan DVB-T
Dvico Fusion DVB-T
V-Box DTT-150
Blockgold GDI DVB-T
Lifeview FlyDVB-T
...and lots of others
GO7007SB based capture devices, such as Plextor PX-M402U, Plextor PX-TV402U and Lifeview TV Walker
GB-PVR Features:
General:
Easy to understand and control user interface
TV Guide for easy scheduling of recordings
Support for season recordings, including
Support for automatically converting recordings to dvix/xvid/wmv/ipod etc
Support for manual recordings on a specified channel at a specified time
No-delay live preview tv, with the fastest possible channel change 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
Stable operation with Recording Service running independently to ensure recordings always happen
Online searching and viewing of YouTube
Easy access to your music, videos and photos
Net radio
FM radio
Support for HDTV
Multi-lingual support, with language packs available for many languages.
Playback:
Playback of all popular video formats, MPEG, AVI, divx, xvid, TS, etc.
Extensible playback mechanism allowing additional file types to be added with correct codecs install
Automatic aspect ratio control
DVD playback from either DVD drive or hard disk.
Supports VMR9/VMR7/Overlay video renderers
VMR9 Fullscreen Exclusive mode for the best possible picture
Music visualisations.
Hardware:
Supports a wide range of analog and digital cards
Supports all prevalent digital standards, incl DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C and ATSC.
Support for mixed combinations of different types of capture device
Support for different channel lineups on each capture device if required
No GB-PVR limit on number of capture devices
Built in support for USB-UIRT, Hauppauge, Actisys IR200L and MCE IRBlasters.
Native support for Hauppauge and MCE remotes.
Native support for any remote via USB-UIRT.
Plugin support for a wide variety of other hardware, from remotes to LCD readouts to different types of recording devices.
One of very few apps capable of full using PVR350's tv out or XCard, though no longer offically supported.
Client/Server or Media Extender support
PC client support
Hauppauge MVP client support
What does it cost?
Nothing, but the project is accepting donations. Donations will used to buy new hardware that you'd like to see supported in GB-PVR, and help pay for the web hosting. A lot of effort goes into this project, and its nice to get something in return. The license of this video & dvd software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Video & DVD software.