Are the numbered buttons supposed to work as advertized in the MVP Manual when using GB-PVR? They don't do anything for me.

I'm a newbie here, but been lingering around for a little bit. I downloaded and started using GBPVR about a month ago just on my desk top with a pvr250 card. Everything worked great on the computer. The other day, I upgraded to a PVR 500 card and it is working perfectly. Yesterday, I added an MVP 1000 to my system in order to connect my desktop to the TV to watch the recorded content.

Well, to begin with, the MPV takes about 3-4 minutes to connect to the GBPVR software on the desktop. When it finally does come up, I can see all the menues and what I have recorded, but when I go to play it, or even live TV, all I get is a black screen. I can get pictures to show up, and it can even connect to You Tube content, but I can't get live TV to play or get any of my recorded TV shows which will play fine on my computer.

I am running version 0.99.05. I did not load any of the MVP software (I did, but then read that I don't need it and uninstalled it before using it). Other than that, I have no idea. Any thoughts?

I'm having difficulty getting my EPG to update from Zap2It. I'm running v0.99.5, I've downloaded and installed the patched .DLL. I've attached a .log file that shows the error. OK, I couldn't figure out how to attach a file (the paper clip icon doesn't respond). So the contents of the log file follow {with portions SNIPped to fit max thread size limits}...

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2/23/2007 5:00:32 AM.140 VERBOSE [9] Will run EPG update soon...
2/23/2007 5:00:32 AM.140 VERBOSE [9] Initiating EPG update...
2/23/2007 5:00:32 AM.140 VERBOSE [9] exporting backup of recordings data...
2/23/2007 5:00:32 AM.531 VERBOSE [9] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2/23/2007 5:00:32 AM.531 VERBOSE [9] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
2/23/2007 5:00:34 AM.953 VERBOSE [9] updating EPG...
2/23/2007 5:00:34 AM.968 INFO [9] Auto-Updating EPG
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.031 VERBOSE [9] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/Zap2itListingDays
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.031 VERBOSE [9] getValue: /settings/Zap2itListingDays : 7
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.031 VERBOSE [9] getValue cached value: /settings/CompleteEPGReload : true
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.031 VERBOSE [9] Zap2it full EPG update required.
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.437 VERBOSE [9] Processing zap2it channels using SAX parser
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.453 VERBOSE [9] Requesting listings for the period: 2007-02-23T00:00:00Z to 2007-03-02T23:59:59Z
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.515 VERBOSE [9] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/Zap2itPreferGzip
2/23/2007 5:00:35 AM.515 VERBOSE [9] getValue: /settings/Zap2itPreferGzip : true
2/23/2007 5:00:39 AM.171 VERBOSE [9] Error updating EPG Source (ATI Tuner as Source): System.Net.WebException: An exception occurred during a WebClient request. ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed.
at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBitsState.RetrieveBytes(Int32& bytesRetrieved)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBits(WebRequest request, Stream writeStream, CompletionDelegate completionDelegate, AsyncOperation asyncOp)
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadDataInternal(Uri address, String method, Byte[] data, WebRequest& request)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadDataInternal(Uri address, String method, Byte[] data, WebRequest& request)
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadData(Uri address, String method, Byte[] data)
at System.Net.WebClient.UploadData(String address, String method, Byte[] data)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.x7174d5399cba81ee(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback x421ce789b9741187, DateTime xdc88f59e43b65f7f, DateTime x33db96d2cea26583)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.LoadChannels(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback callback)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.xa9e17cce0eee6a7a.x52e8ddd0b9bc8c68()
2/23/2007 5:00:39 AM.171 VERBOSE [9] Skipping EmptyEPG, since not all EPG updates were successful...
2/23/2007 5:00:39 AM.171 VERBOSE [9] handling any season recordings

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I was looking at a HAVA network device (just for the svideo input to mpeg - I don't care about the analog tuner)..

It appears that these devices will not currently work with GBPVR - Is this wrong? Should these devices work with GBPVR?


Following is some info from the HAVA forum:

"The HAVA driver complies with the WDM Tuner model and will work with any software application that can interface with MCE compatible WDM analog tuners."

I've had this error for a while now. Today I reloaded gbpvr 99.5 and downloaded the XRecord 46c. After install I tried to go to XRecord and select a program, then click on a title to play. And this error pops up: XRecord System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection threw an exception


Any clue?

Also, closing gbpvr always pops up a crash window. I'm enclosing the log file for gbpvr.

Thanks in advance,
N

I bought two ATI TV Wonder 550 cards and they produce significantly better looking cable TV than my PVR 250 and PVR 500 (which is broken). The problem is Comcast channel 5 and 59 (ABC and Comedy Central) are inexplicably incompatible with the card. 5 has pulsating white lines through it, and 59 repeatedly drops in brightness then over-brightens quickly before leveling out. These two channels do not do this on the PVR250, or when cable is connected to the TV. Both the ATI 550's do this. I tried reinstalling drivers, using only one card, swapping cards, different PCI slots, different PVR software, MPEG2 decoders, and beer. The beer was the only thing that helped, but only because it made me feel better about it all.

Comcast in my area is poor quality so I place all the blame on them, but it is still strange that all the other channels look fine. I messed with the 2d and 3d comb filter for the ATI card, and turned off noise control and neither fixed the problem.

I guess the Hauppauge cards handle poor quality cable TV better.

I am running v0995 on both the client and server. Playback of both live TV and recording are great on the server machine. I have everything working on a client machine but the video is very jittery to where it is un-watchable. I am setup to use streaming mode but I get the same results from file sharing mode too. If I just connect to the server and play the mpg file it looks great. I have tried every one of the DBA Mux's with the same results. Attached are my log files, can you take a look and point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Whenever I try and cancel a certain reoccuring program, I get the following message:

Error: The added or subtracted value results in an un-representable DateTime. Perameter name: Value


The other shows that I had all cancelled fine, it's just this one. I've never had any problems with Gb-pvr until this.

Setting up a new server. Running Small Business 2003. Picked up an Asus My Cinema P7131. Drivers all look like they have been installed okay. DirectX 9 installed. WMP9 Installed. GBpvr installed.

Cannot select see the car in the config. Selecting 'only show devices on this machine' tells me no know cards detected.

Any assitance would be greatly appreciated.

If I put the system in standby or hibernate mode from GB-PVR and then I awake the system, the Hauppauge pvr-usb2 drivers stop working. A system reset won't solve the issue. What I have to do is to uninstall and reinstall the drivers.

If the computer were to go into standby and hibernate on its own (whatever setting I have set up under power-management), i can wake it up to work properly. It's probably more of a driver issue rather than a gbpvr issue...