Downloads: GB-PVR

What is GB-PVR?
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.
Features :

Spoiler:

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

GB-PVR is developed by welltonway.com, consultants and engineers, mostly on sparetime for your enjoyment.

Minimum PC specs:

A 1GHz PIII class CPU or higher is recommended, with ideally 512MB of RAM or more.

A supported video capture device. Analog capture devices must have an onboard hardware MPEG2 encoder. Digital ATSC or DVB devices must have BDA compliant drivers.
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Software requirements:

Your machine must be running Windows 2000, or higher. It will not work on Windows 95 or Windows 98 .

You must have the Microsoft .NET 2.0 runtime installed before installing GB-PVR.

You must also have installed the updated Microsoft runtime files from http://www.gbpvr.com/vcredist_x86.zip before installing GB-PVR.

If you're running Windows 2000, you'll also need to install MDAC2.6 (or higher).