Hi

I have added a HVR-1700 tuner to my HTPC. The analogue portion works fine, but I can't select it's DVB-T tuner within GB-PVR config. I have attached an image of the available options if detected hardware only is selected. I also have a HVR-2200 which shows up on the list. Don't know why the other cards are displayed??

Any help appreciated.

I can't get to the search screen. Everything else works. I see the torrents set up manually directly through utorrent. As soon as I select SEARCH, however, I get a momentary glance at the search screen and it immediately drops back to the main menu. Any suggestions?

I’m having problems recording channels.

Whether I do a quick record for a current or future program or do a manual recording, PVRX2 does not seem to change channels. When looking through the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log it appears to try to change channels but it does not change the channel on my STB. Also it says that it starts recording but it’s recording the wrong channel. (Below are a couple of lines from the log file.)

Any ideas on why it would not be changing channels?

Also, should I be able to use the number keys on the keyboard to change channels in the TVGuide or LiveTV? Or does it have to be done through the remote?

Thanks.


2009-02-12 20:30:36.843 VERBOSE [5] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.ExeChannelChanger): 212
2009-02-12 20:30:36.843 VERBOSE [5] Running: C:\Program Files\IR Server Suite\IR Blast\IRBlast.exe -host localhost -pad 3 -channel 212
2009-02-12 20:30:36.859 VERBOSE [5] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: C:\Temp\Manual Recordings\212 CFTO_20090212203036.mpg
2009-02-12 20:30:36.859 VERBOSE [5] start recording @1
2009-02-12 20:30:36.859 VERBOSE [5] start recording @2
2009-02-12 20:30:36.859 VERBOSE [5] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:212
2009-02-12 20:30:37.421 VERBOSE [5] recording started
2009-02-12 20:30:37.421 VERBOSE [5] start recording @3
2009-02-12 20:30:37.421 VERBOSE [5] start recording @4
2009-02-12 20:30:37.421 VERBOSE [5] Programme is now recording
2009-02-12 20:30:37.421 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()
2009-02-12 20:30:37.765 VERBOSE [5] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
2009-02-12 20:30:37.765 VERBOSE [5] Adding C:\Temp\Manual Recordings\212 CFTO_20090212203036.mpg to parallel processing queue
2009-02-12 20:31:19.624 VERBOSE [10] RecordingFactory.loadScheduleRecordingByOID()
2009-02-12 20:31:19.671 VERBOSE [10] About to start transcode of: C:\Temp\Manual Recordings\214 CITY_20090212202000.mpg
2009-02-12 20:31:19.671 VERBOSE [10] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/AutoConvertMpgToFormat
2009-02-12 20:31:19.671 VERBOSE [10] getValue: /settings/AutoConvertMpgToFormat : No Conversion

There are some shows I record that I like to keep, like Lost and 24. I record them in high quality, clean them up, and then burn them to DVD. Most stuff I just watch and delete.

Now that I have an HD tuner, I prefer to record those keepers in HD. I manually remove commercials, by demuxing (using tsmuxer), cutting (using cuttermaran), remuxing (tsmuxer again), and compressing (using mediacoder) to xvid.

Now I'd prefer to use AutoGK for compression, but for some reason, one of the above steps makes it so autoGK cannot find the audio stream in the edited .ts. It's there, my media players and mediacoder have no trouble finding it, but autoGK can't, despite the fact that it has no problems with the same show's .ts before I begin messing with it.

I'm in no hurry to change anything since my current solution works well enough, but I am curious what might be causing the snafu. Any ideas?

I'm experiencing high CPU utilization using PVRX2 v1.3.11.

When I start PVRX2 my CPU usage goes to 99%. This is when I start the application before I do anything else.

When I try to go into the TVGuide it is very slow at display the channel listing. It takes about 3-5 seconds for each channel to be listed in the guide.

Has anyone else experienced this and if so how was it corrected?

My computer is a Dell Optiplex GX260 P4 2.26 GHz with 1 GB Ram.

Is this what I can expect out of this computer or should I be seeing something more usable?


I have attach the pvrx2.exe.log and pvrx2.exe-native.log log file for anyone who can help me out.

Thanks for any help.

Martin,

Is there anything special I need to do to get the Wireless MVP to load the mvpmc dongle?

My wired MVPs load fine but the wireless one loads it's internal default Hauppauge dongle.

Although it's wireless, I don't actually use the wireless and it's connected hard wired to my network. The XP firewall is disabled.

Regards,

Ray.

1.3.11 - Nova-T500 - MVP - mvpmc dongle...

I've been having problems with the recording service stopping without any error messages (that I can see) in the logs - for instance tonight...

19:51 switched on MVP - tuned to STV3 (Pie in the sky)
20:00 STV3 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes begins
20:25 BBC Four scheduled recording starts 5 min pre-pad (Alison Krauss)
21:00 STV3 Numb3rs begins
21:08 BBC Four scheduled recording finishes 8 min post-pad
21:28 tuner 2 changes to Sky 3 (I didn't touch anything - honest gov)

around about then recordingservice seems to have stopped...

I don't have a clue where to start looking... unfortunately, I had 2 MVP servers started on this machine (and there was another MVP sitting on screen saver), so the MVP-PVRX2.exe.log looks like it's worth zilch - I've changed it to 1 now.

I did have ADplus running attached to gbpvrrecordingservice.exe - would the logs from that be of any use?

The title says it all really. I discovered recently that when I try to copy a new version of the DvbrLib.dll into the plugins\DvbRadio folder, Windows tells me the file is 'in use' by another person/process. I found out I have to stop the GB-PVR recording service to allow the file to be copied.

I'm not sure what I've changed in my code or how this can possibly be happening. The dvbr solution consists of the plugin itself, the dvbr service (Windows Service) and the DVbrLib.dll which is purely for shared classes (collections and datasets etc. which both the plugin and service use).

What's really odd is that simply restarting the gbpvr rec. service still won't allow me to copy the dvbrlib.dll in - as if the rec. service stops/starts and regains its lock. I have to stop the rec. service, copy the dll then restart the rec. service.

What is there in the rec. service that would maintain an open handle on a plugin's class library.

Cheers,
Brian

For the moment I have the config set to store recordings on a network share (tons more space than the internal HD) As I continued recording shows I would see the list of avail. recordings grow, watch a few and delete, and so on, but a couple days ago I noticed that the list was almost empty! Files are still there, but the refference to them is missing.

Now thinking along the network side, the server I am using for storage has always been up so no loss of connectivity should be an issue.
Is there a process which goes through and cleans out the the DB entry for recordings?

This is also reflected in the EWA manage recordings screen.
Thanks!

I've got my machine set to hibernate after 30 minutes of inactivity. My wife will often pause while watching a recording and not get back to it until after it hibernates. I'm guessing it updates the resume location in the database when you actually stop rather than pause. I think it'd be nice if it updated it on a pause too.