I have the system tray icons for GBPVRTray and IR blaster disappearing on each reboot. Searching the posts here gave some good general links to this known issue in WindowsXP. Most I tried did not work (and I do not want to have to log in which does fix it; or diable UPNP which fixes it too).
However...
If I disable the GB-PVR Recording Service, the icons show up when I boot. As soon as I enable the service and reboot, the icons are lost. The problem in windows is believe to be sequencing of tasks and their interaction with systray.exe.
Anyway, does anyone else have this issue and how did you fix?
What is the recording service doing on boot-up such that it would hang or otherwise slow down the boot sequence to bugger up the loading of these icons?
this removes the problem i found changing from 511 to 101 (sky sports to bbc1!) which i think was caused due to the 1 at the end of first channel, then 1 at the start of the next. works 100% of the time now (so far...)
As requested, here is my review of the RC1 for Microsoft Server 2008.
Background:
Me: 18 years of PC experience going all the way back to DOS days. Currently a CISSP & CCNA.
System: Dell XPS 410
Core 2 Duo 2.2 CPU
2 GB RAM
8600 GTS Nvidia GPU
SATA II System Drive
Why: I wanted to get access to the software RAID 5 feature in Windows Server. I also wanted to familiarize my self with the latest version of Windows. I work with folks from MS who recommended it (imagine that)
If I can sum up my experience in a couple of words, I would say "blown away". After all my years of working with Windows, I can honestly say this is the first one which exceeded my expectations.
I ran vista on my machine prior to deciding to move to WS08. Before taking the plunge, I backed up my data, program files & users directories. I download the beta from MS after signing up for the product key. Burned it to DVD & booted to the installation. This is when I ran in to the first issue. When prompting me which disk to install to, it kept informing me that it was unable to "determine if this computer contains a valid system volume." After a bit of googling I found that this was related to my USB drive (which I had configured for ReadyBoost). Once I unplugged it, I was able to proceed. The installation was fairly straight forward after that. Didn't take too long & very similar to Vista in that it didn't as too many questions.
When I booted in to the OS, I was pleased to discover all my devices had drivers installed & working. I decided since it was beta, I would only update crucial drivers. I loaded the latest Nvidia drivers (for Vista) as well as the driver for my network attached printer (also for Vista). As I downloaded & reinstalled drivers & applications, I noticed 2 things right away - the improved networking capabilities & the speed of the OS. I was able to completely fill my ISP allocated bandwidth with a single download & multiple connections were easily handled. My applications were able to install with not problems after replacing the program files & associated files from the previous installations on Vista. Thanks to DirectX 10, I can play my games with no problem.
All this joy was somewhat subdued after I ran in to an issue with my capture card. ( See http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=32805 )
Hopefully the drivers issues will be addressed by AverMedia in the near future.
In summary, I like the new OS so much that I'm forgoing use of my capture card for now. With SP1, Vista is supposed to incorporate the new WS08 kernal, but my Microsoft buddies say it's not as good as WS08 yet. Now that I have RAID 5 & a system I love, I can't see going back.
I want to use my Skystar2 DVB-S card with the BDA drivers within GBPVR. So I switched to the BDA drivers. Scanning, EPG, Channel Mapping works fine. But everything I record has blocks and stutters. It's not a GBPVR problem, because recordings of ProgDVB (using the BDA driver) show the same effect.
I tried the Cyberlink and the ATI mux, but there is no difference.
With the native Technisat drivers all recordings were perfect.
I am using an MCE-compatible remote from Hauppage (closest to Microsoft MCE Remote 2005 version 2a) with EventGhost, and some of the functions are working but others aren't. I can start GBPVR with the power button and use the arrow keys and the OK/Enter key, but I cannot use any of the other keys like pause, FF/Rewind, skip, etc. EventGhost is capturing the keystrokes correctly and displaying them in the log, and they are mapped to the correct keyboard equivalents in the configuration file, but the actions just don't seem to be occurring. I am using the EventGhost XML file from the Wiki, MSMC2005ver2-GB-PVR.zip. Any ideas on why this is happening and how to fix it?
At one time I had GBPVR set up and working pretty well, but when I went to record a program earlier this week, I just got static, and I discovered that the channel mapping with the TV Guide was completely messed up. Some channels were just static, while multiple other channels were all mapped to the same one (I got the same program even when I was changing channels). I went through the Config and checked the mapping for the QAM tuner, and it was all fine there. I used the preview to verify that it was tuning to the correct stations. So I updated the EPG again, and rebooted the PC and restarted GBPVR again. Now I find that Live TV is tuning to the correct channels, but when I use the TV Guide to watch shows, I am still getting the wrong channels sometimes. What could be going on here? I thought Live TV and TV Guide would use the same channel mapping, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Any ideas on how to fix this?
There were two changes that I made to my system since the last time the TV Guide was correct. One was that I moved the directory for the EPG (I'm using YApi2XML). The EPG update failed a few times until I remembered that I needed to change the directory for the XML file, but now it's working correctly. The other change was replacing the video card in my PC. I don't think either of these should have caused a problem with the channel mapping, but who knows?
I'm in Canada on Shaw cable, if that matters... and I'm new to PVRs... I have a Hauppauge HVR-1600 and am having issues getting the channels to "tune" correctly. The picture isn't bad I don't think... but the audio portion has a bunch of static. The behavior exists in the Hauppauge "WinTV" application as well.
However, when I test drove SageTV, I didn't have any issues... it was clear. Other TVs etc on the same cable are fine. In WinTV, there seems to be a way to fine tune each station. If I offset the channel by either + or - "6" (they don't say 6 what... MHz? who knows) it cleared up... much further than that and the picture started to get static as well.
Because going above and below the standard frequency helped, I'm wondering if I need an attenuator or something, but I'm just randomly guessing.
I've got a weird problem (well to me anyway). I can put my computer int0 hibernate manually (and it'll wake up to record), but the computer won't go into hibernate automatically. I've got it set to 5 minutes, but even after an hour it doesn't hibernate. Any suggestions?
I'm thinking it's the dreaded norton antivirus causing the problems...
Also, I've read that scheduled tasks cannot wake from Hibernate. Can anyone verify this as it seems to be holding true for me.
