GB-PVR is a fully featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR) that allows 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.

For TV Tuner cards, currently supported are:
· Hauppauge PVR250, PVR250MCE, PVR350, PVR USB2, PVR150, PVR150MCE and the dual-tuner PVR500MCE
· ATI Theatre 550 Pro
· 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

Here are some key features of "GB PVR":

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


Requirements:

· 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. A full list of devices can be found on the wiki.

Software requirements:
· Microsoft .NET 2.0 runtime
· You must also have installed the updated Microsoft runtime files from before installing GB-PVR.
· If you're running Windows 2000, you'll also need to install MDAC2.6 (or higher).


Note: Free for personal, non-commercial use.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· added CI support for watching DVB pay TV channels outside of north america. Devices supported include Hauppauge WinTV-CI, and CI capable devices from Twinhan, FireDTV and TechnoTrend. You can enable CI support on a per capture source basis, using the new 'common interface' checkbox in the digital capture source settings.
· improved compatibility with Windows 7
· added logic to auto correct the tuning request of any already mapped channels at the end of each scan. Basically if your broadcaster had changed any audio/video pids, you can go into the config app and hit the 'rescan' button, then any channel mappings that match the same frequency and program number will be automatically updated to have the correct PIDs/PMT/PCR etc.
· DVB Subtitles now working again for live preview tv. When you're using the TS Mux it'll also work for timeshift mode tv, and for playback of recordings.
· streaming client mode is now compatible with 'TS Mux'
· updated channel digital channel scanning screen. Showin...