Hi, I'm sure this is a commonly-addressed problem, but I searched and couldn't find any relevant threads.
Pretty much, my issue is that the default font size often times seems bigger than the program expects. Even on the main menu in the default skin, the words "Search Guide" must omit the "e" to fit, and "Photo Library" just reads "Photo Libra."
I could live with these, but the biggest issue is when a show's name doesn't fit, or worse yet when the description of the episode gets cut off half way through.
Is this font issue normal? Is there any way to fix it?
OK, here is the problem that I am having: When trying to view Live TV on a client PC, all I get is a blackscreen and then PVRX2 goes to "Not Responding" and has to be forced closed.
Here are the details:
Server: Windows XP, Athlon XP 2400+, 1.5 GB DDR RAM, etc. 100 LAN Hard Wired to Router
Client: Windows Vista Home Premium, Athlon Core Duo 1.9 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, etc. 802.11g Wireless
Now, here is the kicker, I have previously had this combination working with GBPVR and client/server mode. Recently, I decided to move my server upstairs and turn it into a HTPC. So, I removed GBPVR from the client computer and actually rebuilt the server machine. Also, the HTPC got a fresh install of Windows XP and fresh install of GBPVR. Additionally, I reinstalled GBPVR on the old client machine.
The client can schedule recordings and the like but when I go to watch live tv on the client, I get a black screen and note that data is being transferred when looking at the networking tab of Task Manager. Then the PVRX2 window flashes white, transparent and black. After another minute, the PVRX2 window goes to "Not Responding" and the data transfer rate goes to zero shortly after. Watching the server, you can see the recording service start up and remains running after the PVRX2 window is forced closed because of the "Not Responding" lockup. I have to force the server Recording Service to stop. The server appears to operate as it should with viewing Live TV and making recordings.
When performing the installs and configurations, I had a couple of oddities that did not occur with my previous, first installations of GBPVR. On the server side, after the fresh Windows install and GBPVR install, I added several plugins, MusicLibrary2, etc. I decided not to use them and uninstalled them. I then started reciving NET unhandled exception errors. So, I uninstalled and reinstalled GBPVR and all seemed/seems to be working just fine on that side.
As far as the client reinstall of GBPVR, everything went fine with the isntall. However, when I went to run the Live TV command on the client for the first time, I received a popup box asking whether or not to allow the use of ffdshow. It noted that the requesting application (PVRX2) was not on the blacklist or whitelist for the use of ffdshow. I chose to always allow the use of ffdshow. However, the Live TV did not work on the client, after reboots on all machines and changes to the decoders and even streaming/file sharing changes, nothing helped. My issues continue to be just like described above.
I am not a programmer but tried to look over the log files and didn't find anything. I would be happy to post the logs of this if it would be helpful.
What would cause the live tv directory to hold a show that is 3GB and another show that is 9GB in size? I have my live tv on the windows drive and a separate drive for recordings. I did not think that the live tv buffer would hold more than two hours. I tried to watch live tv tonight and it said I was low on disk space and this is what i found. It also appears that comskip ran on the live tv directory, there are log, logo, and txt files along side the mpg files for each.
I just upgraded to the new version (1.1.5) after not having touched GBPVR in awhile. I am getting just a black screen when I select the TV show I want to watch. Recorded videos display fine, and Hauppauge WinTV app plays fine. I have a HVR1600.
I noticed this error in the logs (when I attempt to play LiveTV):
2008-02-24 21:16:48.686 VERBOSE [1] About to play LiveTV File: C:\Users\kent\Videos\Temp\Dirty Jobs_5_20080224_21002200-2.mpg Channel: 2 DSC
2008-02-24 21:16:48.688 VERBOSE [1] Before LiveTV Play
2008-02-24 21:16:49.904 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.Exception: Failure playing back file
at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
at GBPVRX2.Players.x6a72974b4271f25b.xe3563ac7f5bb9558(String x555fc8ac0bf47dac)
at GBPVRX2.Players.xbe83d16b02243330.x4276385f71addb51(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVRX2.x4a212861656a24dd.x3852f96f8dab4cab(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.handlePopupCallback(Object popup, String command)
at GBPVRX2.Popups.xce4851a7361cb73d.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.xd2a3a83a17aec615.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
This release replaces the Ajax processing library with the ASP.Net Ajax library which is now become a very robust development platform that EWA will take advantage of in the future.
NOTE:Do not delete the AjaxPro.2.dll file from your bin directory....otherwise you will invoke the wrath of the GBPVR installer repair process and overlay EWA with the shipping version of EWA (Build 66). The next GBPVR release will not have the AjaxPro2.dll file in the install so you won't need to worry about this following the next GBPVR release.
Date: 2008-02-24 Build Number: 74 Changes:
UncleJohnsBand: Moved AJAX processing library from the AjaxPro library to ASP.Net Ajax library.
UncleJohnsBand: Added the display of selected recording days for Season Recordings when displaying the Manage Recordings page in Table view mode.
UncleJohnsBand: Added the display of selected recording days for Season Recordings when displaying the Details pop-up.
UncleJohnsBand: Changes only in CSS based pages:
Correct Season Recording issue that caused Manage Recording screen to crash in Treeview mode.
Correct Season Recording issue that prevented the channel from being displayed in Treeview mode.
Correct Season Recording issue that was showing an Aire Date (ad) for season recordings instead of the wording Season Recording.
Correct Season Recording issue that prevented the display of Season Recording details which allows the updating of Quality and Padding for Season Recodings.
Correct issue that did not honor the users selection of Icon only or Text only for the channel info in the Guide.
UncleJohnsBand: CSS General Notes:
CSS Note: To access CSS based screens use guide2.aspx as your start page.
CSS Note: CSS screens are coded in strict standards mode. This will make future updates easier and provides the best cross-browser (Firefox / IE) compatibility. However, this also means that the CSS sceens will only be fully supported by IE 7 and FireFox. Some screens will not work correctly in IE6. Sorry.
CSS Note: CSS screens are optimized for screens with 1024x768 resolution or higher. Lower resolution will just cause more scrolling on some screens.
CSS Note: Please post feedback/bugs in the EWA CSS Guide sticky thread located in the EWA support forum.
Build 74 of EWA has been released. You can download it here or on the wiki.
This release replaces the Ajax processing library with the ASP.Net Ajax library which is now become a very robust development platform that EWA will take advantage of in the future.
NOTE:Do not delete the AjaxPro.2.dll file from your bin directory....otherwise you will invoke the wrath of the GBPVR installer repair process and overlay EWA with the shipping version of EWA (Build 66). The next GBPVR release will not have the AjaxPro2.dll file in the install so you won't need to worry about this following the next GBPVR release.
Date: 2008-02-24 Build Number: 74 Changes:
UncleJohnsBand: Moved AJAX processing library from the AjaxPro library to ASP.Net Ajax library.
UncleJohnsBand: Added the display of selected recording days for Season Recordings when displaying the Manage Recordings page in Table view mode.
UncleJohnsBand: Added the display of selected recording days for Season Recordings when displaying the Details pop-up.
UncleJohnsBand: Changes only in CSS based pages:
Correct Season Recording issue that caused Manage Recording screen to crash in Treeview mode.
Correct Season Recording issue that prevented the channel from being displayed in Treeview mode.
Correct Season Recording issue that was showing an Aire Date (ad) for season recordings instead of the wording Season Recording.
Correct Season Recording issue that prevented the display of Season Recording details which allows the updating of Quality and Padding for Season Recodings.
Correct issue that did not honor the users selection of Icon only or Text only for the channel info in the Guide.
UncleJohnsBand: CSS General Notes:
CSS Note: To access CSS based screens use guide2.aspx as your start page.
CSS Note: CSS screens are coded in strict standards mode. This will make future updates easier and provides the best cross-browser (Firefox / IE) compatibility. However, this also means that the CSS sceens will only be fully supported by IE 7 and FireFox. Some screens will not work correctly in IE6. Sorry.
CSS Note: CSS screens are optimized for screens with 1024x768 resolution or higher. Lower resolution will just cause more scrolling on some screens.
CSS Note: Please post feedback/bugs in the EWA CSS Guide sticky thread located in the EWA support forum.
My setup has been super stable for months! GBPVR has changed our TV lives. I would encourage all new-comers to stick with it. Cheers!
I am thowing a party where the GBPVR will be on the center stage; first with watching the Star Wars trilogy *all six movies, then finishing the night off night with drinks and dancing.
My question is...
Where are the visulations in the music player? That would really be cool to see at the party.
I'm using the ffdshow audio decoder & when watching Live Tv I have no problems getting 5.1 audio out. When I play back a recording that I know is recorded in 5.1 I only get 2 channel audio out.
I can play back these same recordings with Media Player Classic & I get 5.1 audio out.
My HTPC is hooked up to my Yamaha receiver via spdif only. Why am I not getting 5.1 audio playback via GBPVR for my recordings? I tried the NVidia audio decoder instead of the ffdshow decoder & got the same results; no 5.1 audio on recordings playback.
Today I've just changed from a Nova-T (singal tuner) to a dual tuner Nova-T 500 card and have trouble getting it to record tonight. With the single tuner card I had a 99% reliable system, now it doesn't work at all.
I've have my PVR 350 set as "Capture Device #1", The fist tuner is called Nova-T1 and set up as "Device Number 3" and the second Nova-T2 as "Device Number 2".
After some toil I am now getting an error message which ends with (Reason: Failed to locate configured BDA capture Device).
Can somebody have a look at the attached logs and give me a clue why I can't get it to work, I've been on this nearly all day and have run out of ideas.
The splitter has one of the outputs designated for power passthrough for the amp and LNB.
I've noticed that the card connected to the non-powered output will only pick up a signal when the one connected to the power output is being used. This seems to mean that when the Nova S Plus card is not being used, it does not send power to the amp and LNB. This is regardless of whether or not I enable the Power (?) in the config settings for the card. I've also got a Avermedia A700 card which does not exhibit this behaviour... i.e. it always sends power whether it's in use or not.
I don't know if there is something specific to the Nova S Plus cards, or if there's something I'm missing in the configuration of these cards. I guess a way around this is to purchase on of those "Diode" splitters where both outputs can provide power. Any suggestions?
