I have Vista and I am getting the an error message concerning a "dongle.bin". What is this and how do I fix it?

I have been using GB-PVR for a while now but the last few versions I have been having trouble getting shows to record. The program will just stop changing channels until the recording service is restarted. I have the USB-UIRT to control my Motorola cable box and thats what it is getting stuck on. A show was set to record this evening at 7:30pm and all I saw in the log was it saying switching to channel 24, then you see it saying "sending 2" but never gets to the 4 and enter.

I do have NOD32, and I mention that only because I've seen something saying it can cause problems but I can't use something else as it is the only good Antivirus out there and I cannot go without it and the logs did not indicate the error it was supposed to have been causing. It seems to be something related to the channel changer.

So after the show passes and it does not record, it does the same thing for any coming shows, and does not even try to change the channel, it just gives up on the first one. The recording service has to be restarted before things start working again. The shows that were supposed to record still show up in the list even when its past their time until the service is restarted. Any ideas why it gives up so easily when the old versions worked fine? I have attached my logs.

Thanks
~Ben

[INDENT]I'm experiencing a annoyance exiting from the video library back to the main menu with v1.08. I recently patched PVRX2 because of the channel change problem (link), I didn't notice this before. Now, when I exit from video library I don't go directly to the main menu, instead the program displays the next directory up, the folder that video library points to.

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All of a sudden I'm getting a lot of stuttering using gbpvr and/or pvrx2 on both my host (main) gbpvr server and my pc client. I've never experienced this problem until today. I haven't done anything on the host except install Homeseer 2.

When I try to watch live tv on my client pc it takes an awful long time for the video to start IF gpvr or pvrx2 are running on the host machine. If neither is running, the client machine is fine and the video plays flawlessly.

When gpvr or pvrx2 are running on the main gbpvr machine, their cpu usage is in the high 90s. This is even if the gui is just sitting at the main menu waiting for user input.

I'm attaching my logs in the hopes that some kind soul can take a look and tell me what's causing my frontend to eat all of my clock cycles.

Many thanks!

As one can start watching a recording while it is still recording (something which I find myself doing fairly often), It'd be nice if they showed up in the ready and new lists as soon as they started recording.

I see that the Intel CPU's just had a big drop and the Quad core Q6600 is under $300 CDN which doesn't seem bad at all. However is there anyway that can GBPVR taken advantage of this or should I stick with a dual core.

I have seen this in the config.xml so it doesn't seem that GBPVR can take advantage too much

<ForceSingleProcessorAffinity>true</ForceSingleProcessorAffinity>

Martin

Just installed 1.08. I appreciate all the work.

I use this exclusively to watch TV on my PC (not on a TV). The new interface seems more designed for a TV. (The main menu is prettier, but harder to use on a PC.)
I no longer see a Toggle Force-Foreground menu option when I right click the title bar. I am hoping I can default that somewhere in the config file? (But I cannot find any reference to it in config.xml)
The fwd/rev navigation buttons no longer appear when I mouse over the window while watching shows. That was how I got accustomed to skipping forward / backward.
Is there a way to get the mini-guide to show in a grid format again? I found that useful for seeing what was coming on next or even setting shows to record while I was watching tv. Now it just seems to show what is currently on each channel... no way to look forward.

Hi all just a quicky.

I bought the wrong card (hauppage Nova s-plus) for what i want to achieve i.e.
watch freeview satalite channel and watch terestrial through my ariel and be able to watch/record different channel at the same time. (i figured the s-video input would allow me to watch TV through my video recorder and allow me to back up videos on to dvd, but can't get it to work)

So I need to get another card namley the Hauppauge 3000. this is a triple tuner but i need to know if it will do the above at the same time, so only one card needed?

Many thanks in advance

I have 1.0.8 on my main PVR machine (see sig). Now I installed a client machine on an old (P3) PC.

I have two issues:
1) on the client, I can watch recordings from the main GB-PVR, and also can watch other media stored on other PCs over shared folders.
But the LiveTV stutters terribly. Any idea why (yes, I know, it's over a WiFi, but still, recordings are fine).

2) This is a more general thing: GB-PVR is sometimes too "sensitive" to network connectivity. Two things I noticed:
a) Client PC: if the server is not active, the client will not start. Why? it should be possible to start it, while not having the functionality the server delivers, but still allowing it to perform as a local media center machine
b) Net Radio. Many times, after working fine for a while, the music will stop. I can click on the same Station again, and it will resume. I think it should do retries every so often when the connection is lost.

I set up my HDHomerun tuner per the instructions on the Silicondust site, and could see video while mapping channels in the GB-PVR config interface, but attempting to watch live TV in the applications results in a black screen for a moment, and it then returns to what it was doing prior.
Any ideas? (I couldn't stop the record process, so its logs are in the attached zip.)
Thanks, John
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