I use schedules direct. I know my account is active as I can log into their web site and verify that my account expires 2-11-11.
I noticed tonight that there are no recordings pending and nothing listed in teh TV guide. When I went into the config tool - I see my EPG listed but when I try to update I get this error (not tyoing the whole thing here but did include a screenshot - see attached file):
"Your EPG source does not appear to be configured correctly. PLease ceck the EPG source...System.Net.WebException: the remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error"
This sounds like the problem isn't with GBPVR - or is it?
I have quite a number of shows (e.g. 16 in one instance) that record regularly and AFAIK to Archive these in XRecord you have to go into each one and acrhive them seperately, sixteen times, which ends up being quite a few keystrokes. Would it be possible, with not too much trouble, to request a feature under the first XRecord Screen (e.g. in "Ready" where the Icons show), to add an Archive option which Archives the whole bunch of shows at the same time, in one go?
I finally dug out my old PVR-150 and installed it for GBPVR use. We only get 3 channels OTA here, but this would add some selection to the stuff we watch.
I made a folded dipole for the center of freq range of the available channels. They came in fairly well, but the one channel that the wife really wants was having color problems.. the reds are sorta flashing in and out. So, I cut the antenna down to the exact freq (189 Mhz for channel 9 in this case), and the pic is perfect with no snow .. but the red flickering is still there.
I tried older drivers (yes, used hwclear), tried other apps (Wintv2000 and VLC both flicker the same). Output to my MVP flickers the same as on the pc. I tried another TV on the antenna and it was perfectly fine !
If my PVR150 is bad, wouldnt all channels be doing the same thing ? (isnt colour stuff after the rf/if stage ?).
Could it be something in my pc ? Where the heck would ya start tuning in there ?? This pc only has 2 PCI slots, one has my Nexus, the other has this PVR150. There is nothing on the other 3 pci-e slots and then the video card is in the long pcie slot.
Id get another tuner card, but it seems anything better than a pvr150 is about $160+
I got a new problem.
After watching live tv for about 5 minutes it just freezes.
If I switch to another channel, it runs again for about 1 minute.
Then I switch again and it freezes again.
Any chance you can help me out? As the title states, I select Live TV (or a current show from the guide), and it hangs for a second with blank screen then just kicks back to the menu. I have been running gbpvr for months now with no issues. A few months back I did a clean install of Windows XP on my HTPC and got everything set back up just fine. Now recently (the last few weeks or so), I can no longer watch Live TV. I have also had an issue with new one time only recordings failing, while all my series recordings continue to record just fine and are watchable with no issues.
I had figured that I had a error in my config file or somewhere else, so this morning I went and unistalled gbpvr (found that windows wasn't completely uninstalling so I renamed directory), and then reinstalled a completely clean install (in the normal directory). I am still getting no Live TV at this point, I have checked and I am pretty sure I have the tuner setup exactly as it was before. I have attached my logs....
My only thought is that somewhere outside of my GBPVR directory I have a file missing or corrupt. I have tried searching for this issue but have not found anything similar to my issue.
After looking a lil further before posting I found that in pvrx2.exe.log I am seeing this error at a point where it looks to me like Live TV is attempting to load "Unexpected error: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:7968".
When I found that, I assumed it can be anything, including firewall, the latest Windows XP update, etc. So I did go and disable my Ad-Aware Live protection, I also allowed PVR2.exe full access thru my McAfee firewall. I have not intentionally made any recent changed to gbpvr's access, but thinking an update to a program could have automatically blocked something I need open. One last note, when I allowed pvr2.exe full access, I then attempted to open Live TV and the blank screen pause was longer before returning to the menu, but I still did not get sound or picture.
If I am on the right path, please let me know what the minimal access gbpvr needs so that I am not opening up access to or from the HTPC that isn't needed.
Also I can still access some of my older logs and settings if needed. I figured trouble shooting the clean install would be the best. I am on a Win XP machine that I believe is currently up to date (all SP's and what not), when doing the clean install I also removed my C++ files and reinstalled vcredist_x86.
On Friday (19Feb), two Thursday night shows (CSI, Survivor) had not been recorded. Recordings/Pending still had them listed to be recorded the previous day. I restarted the recording service and they dropped from pending to a failed recording.
Quick look at the logs show a gap between the 17th and 19th. Logs show the service stopped the 17th.
GBPVRRecordingService.exe-2.log shows
2010-02-17 18:40:22.578 INFO [4] GB-PVR Recording Service stopping
2010-02-17 18:40:22.765 INFO [5] RecordingManager has been signalled to shutdown
2010-02-17 18:40:22.765 INFO [5] RecordingManager has finished
2010-02-17 18:40:23.921 INFO [4] GB-PVR Recording Service shutdown complete
Looks like the recording service shutdown occurred about the same time as when I installed the big XP system update that started off with the C++ update. I saw a few posts about VISTA updates affecting the recording service, but nothing about this.
My system's Service Control Manager (computer management/system tools/event viewer/system) shows:
18:40:22 he GB-PVR Recording Service service was successfully sent a stop control.
18:40:24 The GB-PVR Recording Service service was successfully sent a start control.
18:40:24 The GB-PVR Recording Service service entered the stopped state.
18:40:27 The GB-PVR Recording Service service entered the running state.
18:46:21 The Windows Installer service entered the running state.
18:46:21 The Windows Installer service was successfully sent a start control.
18:46:28 Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed the following update: Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (KB973924)
I upgraded from analog to digital cable and also from the Hauppauge PVR-350 to HVR-1600 tuner card. The new card works great, but the new *.ts files are too large to download compared to the old *.mpg files that were recorded at "Medium Quality".
What command I can use with "ffmpeg" or "ffmpeg_MPGMUX" to transcode the new *.ts files to the same (or similar) quality and filesize as what I used to get with analog TV recorded at the default "Medium Quality"?
(For reference, the default medium quality settings from GBPVR are: NTSC 720x480, Variable bit rate, Bit rate: 3500 kbps, Bit rate PEAK: 7200 kbps, Audio bit rate: 224, Audio sample rate: 48 KHz.)
I have been trying for weeks, but can't seem to figure it out.
