Posted by: zed - 2009-03-15, 02:55 AM - Forum: Hardware
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I have an MVP that I no longer use...I've gone all digital...so I'm offering it for sale. Includes MVP (wired), remote, power supply, and some cables if you need them. I was thinking $35 shipped USPS priority mail to U.S. address only. PM me if interested.
All of a sudden I am recieving all sorts of freezes in GB.
When ever I open GBPVR and mouse over LiveTV the error below occurs and it will lock up GB and I will need to kill each process.
I was testing a recording and it does seem to record but the wrong chanel (prob my problem in setup)
I have tried giving it direct access with no restrictions from the firewall etc but problem still exists (i am unsure if gb directly records the logs, i do see a log file but it has alot of logs and they seem to be related to working of the program so I wont touch them)
*Debug error below, its odd as it only appears when I mouse over LiveTv - The guide seems fine and it will record albeit the wrong channel
UPDATE: I changed all settings back to system default and reset most of my card connections and it seems to be up and working now, I will keep testing to ensure it was not a one off success.
Quote:See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item(Int32 index)
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x1c55deafde32e1eb.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xf11d09f6e9e3e55b()
at GBPVRX2.xdd215986d9a64c86.ReturnToMainMenu()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
I haven't seen other reports of this on the forums, but I set up a GBPVR PC Client a few months back and all was well at first, until the Guide and Recordings started taking an excruciatingly long time to load. At this point it takes about 2 minutes after pressing TV Guide, Search Guide or Recordings before the menu finally comes up. (This happens on the client, not the server). I'm using GBPVR v1.3.7.
For a while I assumed it's the time it takes to transfer a larger database over the network, but I tried copying the database file over the network and it takes less than 15 seconds. I experimented with Streaming/Windows Share methods for the client, and it made no difference in the time required to load the menus.
I've tried temporarily replacing the gbpvr.db3 file with empty.db3, thereby clearing the database. The menus load instantaneously again. Putting my database back again, the menus take 2 minutes once more.
I'm using a 54G wireless network, and I recognize it's not supported, but streaming video works flawlessly (the client is directly above the Access Point, one floor up) and as I said, the database file can be transferred in 10 seconds, so it seems that network speed is not the bottle neck. It's just these menus which take forever to load, the ones which require the database. I'm preparing to wire my house with Cat5E, so it will be networked at 100Mbps (or even gigabit if I splurge on the hardware), but that doesn't even seem to be the problem.
At this point I'm stumped as to what is holding up these menus.
Thanks in advance for your consideration and your help,
Michael
I am running GBPVR and have had slight issue with the picture I'm getting from my PVR card. I am wondering if my refresh rate would have anything to do with this. I am running XP pro with a PVR-150 & a STB (through s-video). I am viewing this on a panasonic 27' flat tube tv.
I am not having problems with playback of dvds or stuff I have converted to X-vid from DVDs but when I am watching live or recorded tv I am getting a slight combing effect when there is quick motion on the screen (UFC fights).
i am just playing around with gnpvr. but i don't understand why i can log in to my server and read an mpeg over wireless fine no problims at all. but if i use gvpvr to stream an mpeg to me it will play and stall and play and stall.
if i look at the bit rate it is never more then 25% of the bandwidth on the wireless cad. and on the server it is not even 6% and at that time i thank that it was streaming to two computers.
i just was wondering. it is my curiosity
i guess this in not relay a support question, rather just trying to learn things.
Okay, so I've looked around here a bit before asking about this card and haven't seen much about them. I'm in USA using Comcast Digital Cable on an XPPro SP3 machine, MSI MB W/AMD 64 X2 6000+
I've used All in Wonders for quite a few years and have always liked them despite their driver quirks. Vista killed the old AIW's and GBPvr needs the software encoder plugin so I'd kind of given up.
Anyway, I've settled into a very comfortable setup with GBPvr (It is THE program and way more stable than BeyondTV or any of the others I've tried - in my experience) and have a working HVR1600, a Kworld 115 ATSC and a WinTV USB . Never being satisfied or comfortable with being comfortable, I picked up one of these All-In-Wonder HD PCIe cards on sale at Best Buy thinking that with the 650 pro chip would work fine with GBPvr and I could get back to using All In Wonders. I didn't read enough of the fine print that said the QAM on these is only being supported in Vista Media Center. But who wants to read all that fine print?
So, I put in the card, installed the drivers that came with it, as well as the Catalyst Media Center and went straight into GBPvr Config. Digital Plugin showed ATI 650 PRO (ATSC & QAM). I tried both and hit Blue Screens. So I went to the Catalyst Media Center (No QAM option) and scanned and got several OTA Digital Channels.
I downloaded the latest ATI drivers (9.2 packages) still no luck in GBPvr. So I backed up and re-installed a clean GBPvr (1.311) and added the patches from the survivor's guide. That kept the dreaded Blue Screen away but still locked up Config when I tried Scanning.
So THEN I opened up Total Media 3 that came with a Kworld card and picked the 'ATI BDA Digital Tuner'. It then gave me the option for Cable or Antenna. Choosing Cable, TM3 found about 130 (2/3 were locked) QAM Channels and seems to function very well moving from channel to channel, w/clean picture and sound. So the drivers are working and the card seems to have Clear QAM tuning capabilities in XP. Now I REALLY don't want to give up on getting this to work since I know it WILL work - somehow - maybe.
BTW, I did try copying some of the QAM tuning settings from the Kworld 115 to the EPG settings of the AIW w/o scanning for channels but I got nothing - just black screen.
So, I'm really hoping someone give me some ideas what to try next to get this working. The Analog cable input option works just fine in GBPvr. But comcast's Straight cable selection just got cut back to only a few channels and the Clear QAMs are way better. I just need something to point me in the right direction. I don't really have any ideas about what to check or adjust in GBPvr to get the card to play nicely.
The card itself only has 3 connectors: HDMI, DVI, (Output) and a Coax input for capture. It's in a PCIe slot, not PCI or AGP. There's also a daughtercard that has Svideo and Audio input as well as Component and Svideo output. So, from what I gather, this is different from the various flavors of the ATI HD capture cards that are out there. But as I said, the chip is the 650 Pro.
Anybody got any ideas about what direction to go next? Or anybody have QAM working in XP w/one of these?
Earlier this week another machine gave me trouble recording, giving me 0 file sizes and not showing live tv. I thought it was the firewall and removed then readded gbpvr and it worked.
Now a second machine is doing this as well but this time, nothing I do, reregister filters, remove and add to the firewall, turn off firewall, turn off antivirus etc. will allow the HDHR to show live tv or record. Again, works just fine in Media Center. The channels mapped perfectly as well.
Logs enclosed.
I am using graphrecorder to define my unsupported Avermedia Bravo Hybrid card as an analog device. I am using a firewire connection for channel changing. I also want to be able to record via firewire.
I have a couple of questions about this setup:
Can I have separate EPGs as the firewire connection will only pick up unencrypted channels?
Can I randomly choose which device to use for LiveTV and recording?
Currently, it appears as though it is using firewire for preview and I lose audio after a few seconds. It plays fine in GraphEdit.
