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GB-PVR is a free, closed source media center software running on Microsoft Windows that acts as a front-end for watching and recording TV signals, listening to music, and viewing DVDs; providing the same functionality as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR).

Although the core software is closed source, it is possible to make plugins for GB-PVR, expanding its capabilities.

Features:

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.

Client/Server or Media Extender support:

For more information, visit: GB-PVR

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 * Easy to understand and control user interface
 * TV Guide for easy scheduling of recordings
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 * 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
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 * Music visualisations.
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 * PC client support
 * Hauppauge MVP client support