GB-PVR

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

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

Is this project open source? No sorry. GB-PVR supports open interfaces, but the core engine code is not publically 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

(From www.gbpvr.com)

offeredfully featured home media center application, running on Microsoft Windows, allowing you to easily use a remote control to watch TV, schedule recordings,  watch videos, watch DVDs, listen to music, view photos, and much more...

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
• 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
• SRT Subtitles
• Stable operation with Recording Service running independently to ensure recordings always happen
• 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 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 for the best possible picture
• Music visualisations.

Client/Server or Media Extender support:

• PC client support
• Hauppauge MVP client support

For more information, visit: GB-PVR

See also

• Silent PC
• Digital video recorder
• Hard disk recorder
• Home theater PC
• Media PC
• Comparison of PVR software packages
• Windows XP Media Center Edition
• MyTheatre
• Dvbviewer
• MediaPortal
• ProgDVB
• MythTV
• SageTV
• Elgato
• Apple TV

External links

• GB-PVR Official site
• GB-PVR wiki
• GB-PVR forums