I'm trying to get a client / server setup running smoothly. But I've hit 2 major show stopping problems.
1) Client cannot schedule a program to be recorded. Record or quick record simply does nothing. Using the web interface, programs can be recorded no problems.
2) Stuttery playback. I made a recording of a program that was smooth but then started stuttering for no reason... opening the file in media player classic showed the video to break up a little like the TV signal wasn't strong enough, but it was perfectly watchable. Playing the file in PVRX2 (using the same codecs) just stuttered constantly and was completely unwatchable. Most channels play smoothly, but BBC stutters most of the time. It must be more susceptible to interference.
I'm having problems logging in to the EWA with IE8.
I get the login-screen, but I can't get past it. After pressing the login-button, I get the 'Waiting for http://....', but I never get to the guide.
This is working fine on the same PC with Chrome and on another PC with IE7.
This problem only appears when going over the internet. On my local network, the guide opens fine, but I don't need to login in then.
Any ideas?
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When I open the EWA locally, and go to the config-tab, it asks me to log in. Logging in locally appears to be working just fine...
gbpvr works fine however I can't work out how to change the apect ratio for live tv on screen. The picture is vertically elongated. the aspect ratio appears fixed as changing the window shape doesn't help. I have all settings as default and have tried altering the configuration setting on the general tab for TV between 16X9 and 4X3 but this makes no difference. It records fine in.ts at widescreen which is the correct size for the freeview signal.
* Added batch mode. From command line, type WizMetadataGrabber /h for syntax
* Improved caching for TheTvDb lookups
* Better alternate lookups for TheTvDb entries
* Ability to output metadata both in embeded and external formats with same search
* Added button to only Show files without metadata (ie remove files with metadata from display)
* Fixed bug with logfile processing.
* Use channel found in db. If not found, set channel to WMDG-1.
I have GB-PVR 1.3.7 installed on a Windows XP SP3 HTPC that has run well for many months. Over the last month I've had seemingly random occurrences where recordings are coming up short. Example: a 1-hour program only plays for 40 minutes, although the duration displayed is normal (1 hr). Example 2: a 1 hour program shows up after recording as 35 minutes duration and is indeed only that long.
Unfortunately I had logging set up only to report errors. Looking over the logs for the date of the last occurrence I see only the error "2009-03-24 19:52:33.500 ERROR [5] Found expired lease. Stopping recording." I saw others mention this error in forum posts, but in no case was there a reply as to just what this error means.
I'm really stumped. This has been a very stable system, and it is still very capable of performing full-length recordings. This problem appears randomly, and other than the aforementioned logged error I can't correlate it with anything. I've checked the Windows XP error logs too and see nothing.
Any suggestions as to where to look, what to check/test? Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior? Could my system be going to sleep in the middle of a recording? It normally goes to sleep with inactivity, but GBPVR's recording service should prevent this from occurring during a recoding, right?
Here you go sub, any way we could make TV3 and TV3+1 appear as the same channel to deal with conflicts on TV2, or the logic there just to much, or too little benefit?
Ideally if setting something to record off tv3 when there is a conflict then it gets pulled off the tv3+1 if the conflict if resolved later on in the night...
If you'd like a semi-working reminder system, then have i got a couple of files for you...
just something i was playing with the other day..[boy am i easy to amuse..lol]
using nothing more than the remnants of the old reminders still in the program, [which Sub says will work more fully in next ver,but just channel changes,nothing more] and a couple of batch files and the task scheduler, i've made a working reminder util...
basically it sets up a task in scheduler that checks for reminders every 20 mins [configureable] and if any are found in db, adds a batch file for that show in third party\, adds a task in scheduler to run it ad it's start time, and waits.....
in the batch file are reg cmds to set last watched channel for gbpvr to desired channel, and a F2 to start livetv if you're in the menus...[it will start on correct channel] and also sends the channel number to pvrx2 so if you're in livetv it will change for you...
when each batch file is run, it removes it's reminder entry from db table, the scheduler entry removes itself, and the batch files deletes itself...no leftovers..
you have to set reminders 'on' in config.xml, to test, hit play on future show in guide,should turn blue...
then place these batch files in gbpvr\third party\, a working sqlite3.exe in gbpvr\, and run the install bat to setup the watch for new reminders.....
it's very beta but to work for me...it won't mess with recordings at all, but will start livetv if you're in menus, unlike the future implementation in next version..
not sure if it can wake machine or not yet, and sched. entries that don't run would need manual cleanup for now tho i might be able to fix that...
and hopefully he'll add reminder self-cleanup in next gbpvr version..
also, the blue display only works if you don't exit pvrx2, when you come back in, no reminders show back up, tho that may change also...
Hi sub, any chance when you get a spare couple of minutes you could hunt around and find out where the EPG for Comedy Central lives. This is for dvbtoxml.
