I had difficulties installing the Music Library 2 plugin from the MusicLibrary2.zip file, despite following the posted instructions. Various problems relating to the skin.xml file and the Common Dialogs folder prevented the Library from starting. I eventually resolved matters by unzipping and installing the files from the zip archive manually. If anyone wants a detailed description of how to do that, please post and I'll happily provide the info - although, as you'll see below, I may not have installed correctly. However, I still have a problem as I cannot get any music files to play from this plugin. I can see the 3 windows, move between each and select indivdual tracks but then nothing happens. I tried creating a smaller music folder (only around 30 tracks) in case the size of my music folder was the problem but no joy. The full collection plays happily on the default Music Library screen. I've rummaged through the short and verbose log files but can't see anything obvious. I presume that, as I have not yet set up a remote controller, selecting an individual track and hitting Enter should play that track? Of course, there's always the possibility that my manual installation of the zipfile is flawed. Any suggestions welcome! (Apart from that - I'm very impressed with the whole package and will be recommending it to Forum Users on the Freecom website.).

The Techie from Sneckie

Over the next few years the analogue TV service in the UK will be switched off and all terrestrial transmissions ( i.e. not satellite or cable ) will go to the digital DVB system ( freeview ). The DVB freeview system has the capacity to broadcast in High Definition ( HD ), but only if the frequencies freed up by the analogue switch off are dedicated for this use.

The move that allows HD on freeview is threatened by the government office OfCOM proposing to sell off the freed up frequency spectrum to any highest bidder.

If this sell off of our frequency spectrum goes ahead then the provision for HD television in the UK will be entirely in the hands of a few private for-profit companies with no possibility of competition from BBC channels. Thus the ONLY option for HD will be via commercial channels probably operating pay-per-view or subscription services.

The chance of general public benefit allowed by the advances in broadcast technology will have been taken away from us and put in the hands of a few private companies.

Don't forget we have already paid for the Set-top-boxes ( including VAT tax on the purchase and Income Tax on the money earned ) that allows this sell off to go ahead.
Shouldn't we get something back from this ?.


Please sign the government e-petition to stop this sell off at
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CitizensSpectrum/
( Urgent Deadline 19th March )

More information can be found at the campaign website
http://www.hdforall.org.uk/

or from the BBC at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6451041.stm

Please pass this on to anybody you think is interested. We need as many signatures as possible on the petition if we are to avoid another government disaster.

Thanks
Andrew.

Psycik,

I was playing a random stream on my mvp as usual last night, but it crashed when I suspect a new set of random tracks were about to be requested from the db, at the same time the daily scan for new tracks had just started.

below is an extract from the gbpvr log and I have attached extracts from the musiclibrary2 log as well

I'm using latest versions of gbpvr and musiclibrary2

Tkgafs


2007-03-16 03:03:07.843 VERBOSE [25] MVP request processed
2007-03-16 03:03:07.843 VERBOSE [26] Request 20000 bytes (file size:5018325 file location: 5018325)
2007-03-16 03:03:07.843 VERBOSE [26] Not all bytes read. Got:0 Filesize now:5018325
2007-03-16 03:03:07.843 VERBOSE [26] End of stream
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [25] MVP data read: 1 (9)
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [25] MVP request processed
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [26] MVP Streaming Server received STOP message
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [26] Song ended. Checking if there are more songs to play.
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [26] Playlist size: 39 current index: 37
2007-03-16 03:03:07.875 VERBOSE [26] About to start playback of Q:\Music\Include\Hugh Banton - Goldberg Variations\11 - Variation X (Fughetta).mp3
2007-03-16 03:03:08.843 ERROR [26] Media stream thread caught exception: System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: Library used incorrectly
library routine called out of sequence
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Close()
at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteConnection.Close()
at MusicLibrary.MediaLibrary.GetTitles(String primary, String secondary, Boolean checkMissing, Boolean orderByTrack, Boolean keyByFilename, Boolean random)
at MusicLibrary.MediaLibrary.RandomPlaylist(String primary, String secondary, Int32 minutes)
at MusicLibrary.MediaLibrary.Notify(EventTypes eventType, String eventText)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.x85b8d963f05ddf09(EventTypes x4f04899de3605e17, String xbc19b591abc4848a)
at GBPVR.x62b73fb0db4f3947.x826e5d374a1e5ab9(String x8b449efd64797843, Boolean x859a785ef30c9007, Boolean xe1ea8da9364d6bfb)
at GBPVR.x62b73fb0db4f3947.x2cf8d59067433309()
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()
2007-03-16 03:03:08.843 VERBOSE [26] MVP Streaming Thread shutting down...
2007-03-16 03:03:08.921 VERBOSE [26] MVP Streaming Thread shutdown finished
2007-03-16 03:03:10.640 VERBOSE [1] videoInsetVisible = false
2007-03-16 03:03:10.718 VERBOSE [1] MusicPlaybackManager.stop()
2007-03-16 03:03:11.109 VERBOSE [25] MVP data read: 1 (7)
2007-03-16 03:03:11.109 VERBOSE [25] Got ACK
2007-03-16 03:03:11.375 VERBOSE [25] MVP request processed
2007-03-16 03:03:11.375 VERBOSE [25] MVP data read: 1 (3)
2007-03-16 03:03:11.375 VERBOSE [25] MVP request processed

I've just reinstalled GB-PVR on my system and plugged it into my new 50" Pioneer Plasma (which looks absolutely amazing!). I'm running 99.12 using an MCE150 TV card. My problem is that using the standard VMR9 option no matter what MPEG decoder I try (Nvidia, GPL, Dscaler) I get a black border down the left hand side of my screen when playing live TV or recorded TV. This does not happen playing back other video files.

I can solve the problem by selecting the VMR9 Custom option which removes the border and solves the problem for both live video and playback. My problem with doing that is that I lose the ability to use my MCE remote (using standard MCE settings) when I play back and "non gbpvr" files, ie avi's or divx. Recoeded TV works fine. If I press any of the buttons nothing happens however moving the mouse or alt-tab brings the GB-PVR windows to the front and allows the remote to work fine. Somehow the GB-PVR window is obviously moving to the back while the video is being decoded.

Is this a bug of some sort or is there something I have missed? I never had the problem of the black border down the left using my old system and have tried reinstalling video drivers and numerous other things but to no avail. Using VMR9 Custom solves the problem - I just can't use my remote!

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/HipGuide

Can anybody point me as to where I can obtain a copy of this version of the mux which I am told is a good one.

Hi

I had to perform a system restore today and at the end of this all of my recording information had dissappeared from the gbpvr.db3 database. Only Drive C was subject to the restore so I now have a mismatch between the Recording database and the Recordings folder. Of course, all of the recordings are still present in the Recordings folder but no entries exist for them in the database.

I wondered if anyone had developed a program to trawl through a specified folder and create a Recording database entry for each MPG file based on the details in the filename. If not, Sub - can you provide some default values for the columns in the Recording table that cannot be generated from the MPG filename and I can recreate the entries by hand.

Cheers Mike

I certainly don't think this is a GBPVR or a EWA issue, but seems the most likely to get some experienced opinions.

I'm going to throw out some of my experiences, and see what bites i get.

First, When i start a stream, I would see VLC kick off.. and then after a couple seconds die. I troubleshot this forever, thinking it was a setting. Eventually.. it just worked. I never figured out what I did, and I reverted all my settings.

Next, and this is a big one. After I connected to the stream, all I heard was audio. I did not get any video playback (From a TV channel). I moved an AVI I made years ago (divx) into the Videos folder, streamed it, and it worked.

Lastly, after listening to the streaming audio for a minute, the streaming server would just die. I did this a couple times, and now I'm back at issue #1 (It wont start.. after this post, I'm rebooting)

I'm running the latest VideoLan, GVPVR and EWA.. Any advice, or insight is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

"Error: The type initilizer for 'GBPVR.TVListings.Listings' threw an Exception."

I get this error when using the skin.xml file supplied in the FBHV - Classic Icon\tv listing directory.

Can this be updated? Or what changed in the TV Listing plugin that would cause the skin.xml file to need updating? I can try and modify it myself.

I bought Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 yesterday and I am completely new to TV tuners. Last time I had a USB tuner for laptop but in order to make it work, I had to install various drivers, s/w etc. I am not sure what all is really required to work with TV tuners. But all the junky drivers and other s/w were loaded into my laptop.

Well, I do not want to use any of the s/w that comes with Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 but could you provide me a checklist of all the items required to get start using HVR 1600?

After installing, what drivers do I really need?

Thx