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My GBPVR box use a Hauppauge PVR350 card which dont do DVD’s.

This is a sort of a sollution:

I’ve got another (partial) solution for people with PVR-350′s who want to also play DVDs and don’t have room to add a PCI XCard to their small form factor PCs (these typically include one PCI and one AGP slot)…

I have my sff htpc system setup with the 350 in a pci slot and a graphic card with svideo out capability in the agp slot. My TV is connected to the RCA ports on the 350 for normal TV watching, and the SVideo out of the vid card for DVD movie watching. I have winDVD setup to auto play (in full screen) the DVD when it is inserted in the drive… after doing this, I also programmed the irremote.ini file to do the play/ff/rew/skip/pause/etc functions of the winDVD software.

So, when I want to watch a DVD, or see the output from my video card (instead of having an additional monitor in my living room too), I put
the DVD in, Windows loads winDVD, and winDVD is configured to autoPlay it. I can control the DVD navigation using the Hauppauge remote, and as long as I switch the TV input over to the svideo input, and am not trying to watch a recording or livetv through gbpvr, it works like a charm… and the audio output comes out of my surround sound speakers too. Finally, i have programmed the remote to close the winDVD app with a button on the remote, and so it comes right back to gbpvr when I press the button, closing winDVD…
Now, if we could somehow get a plugin programmed that opened up an external dvd playing program to do this automatically through gbpvr, it would be even slicker… but for now, this works well, without having to but extra hardware, etc.

Read the support thread here.

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