Ok, there seems to be an on going issue here with GBPVR. At one time, possibily last week GB-PVR seemed to be fairly stable. Now I dont have any Live TV (just a black screen) with the OSD present. It will record but it justs records a blank screen. I'v3 reinstalled GB-PVR, .Net, Direct X, my card drivers and hell, I even installed XP agian.. I've tried 3-4 different video decoders and I still can not get a live image. My music videos do play, however.
After I try to play LIVE TV and I exit the program then GB-Pvr crashes.

Attached are my logs.

thanks again for the help.

Cannot run GB-PVR on Vista 5744, reports that the Runtime cannot be found but doesn't say which version is missing?

I normally use Reven's My Videos, but I'm in the process of upgrading to the latest version and will have to fall back on Video Library for the time being due to skinning issues.

In the default Music Library plugin, there are the usual icon/list/preview modes - and some of my album covers are displayed automatically without me actually having downloaded or done anything. Does the Video Library plugin have similar capabilities? what can I do to see cover art in icon and preview modes?

Regards
Dave

I know I've had this problem before and fixed it but I can't remember what I did. For some reason if I try to play a video in windows media player it plays the audio but no video. Also, it seems to play them fine from within gbpvr I don't know if this helps. The only reason this is a problem is if I'm trying to watch some streaming video from a site I can't because it will only play the audio otherwise I wouldn't even worry about it. Has anyone had this problem before?

Hi,

I'm new to the forum (have been using MythTV for a few years but my wife found it hard to use) so thought I'd try something different.. Impressed so far.

Anyway, thought I'd share a small success I've had with getting an Avermedia Aver TV DBS- Pro (also called an A700) DVB-S tv card to work with GBPVR. This is a commonly available card in NZ. A snippet from my bda.ini is below in case it's of use to someone..

[AVerMedia A700]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-S
FILTER_TUNER=AVerMedia BDA DVBS Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=AVerMedia BDA Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

So far card has worked perfectly, I'm able to get the EPG data via the card and channels come thru crystal clear (I'm in Akl NZ). Had a bit of an issue with my LNB settings (couldn't be bothered climbing on roof) but once I'd sorted that out it was sweet. For anyone that's interested the lnb settings for my card are 11300 for all 3 of the LNB settings, power is yes and the diseq is none. satellite I'm pointing at is Optus B1 with the free to air NZ channels. This is for a standard Sharp LNB that came with most Sky installs in NZ a couple of years ago. Not sure if new ones are like this as I don't have Sky, I'm only using an old dish that happened to be with the house when we bought it.

Anyway hope this is helpful. I look forward to getting to grips with the rest of the system..

I did not see this documented elsewhere, but if you are using Windows MCE 2005 with GBPVR, you need to disable the Media Center Receiver Service.

This can be done from the Administrative Tools | Computer Management control panel applet.

I changed the service startup option from Automatic to Manual. After that, manually stop the service or reboot.

After this is turned off, you will not be able to use MCE to receive TV -- but you WILL be able to use GBPVR.

I did not see this documented in the wiki, and I spent may fruitless hours trying to make this work.

Thanks to sub, who responded to my troubles in a different thread that pointed the way to a solution. Would like to see this documented in the wiki though...

In my case, I turned off all the Media Center services -- MCE can still be used to browse recordings, music, pictures, etc.

I listen to This Week in Tech, and I cannot get their mp3 to play back with GBPVR. Here is a link to the podcast:

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?...T0071M.mp3

When I play it in GBPVR, it is just silence. I can play it in Windows Media Player. When I switch the UseWMPforAudio to false in config.xml, I can here audio but when I try to skip to the next song I get an Object Not Referenced error.

Has anyone had similar issues that can give me a clue? I'd like to leave the WMP option to true in the xml as it seems to work better.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul

Is there a way to lengthen the RecTracker.mdb title & subtitle field lengths (in my existing rectracker.mdb) to allow more characters? Or is the 50-character limit hard coded in rectracker.exe?

The 50, 100, 255 character field lengths worked fine with the older versions of gbpvr, but the new sql database allows much(!) longer title / subtitle / description fields. I’m finding that RecTracker fails if any of its maximum field lengths are exceeded.

TIA
Jim

It seems that I've somehow lost my ability to see live TV.
Just a black screen with no error present.
attached are my logs.
I've tried different Decoders too.

Even after reinstalling GB-PVR, I'm still having the same prob.

Im thinking maybe i should reinstall my card drivers.

I wanted to know if it's possible to set up the hauppauge remote to control the volume of the video that is being played. Right now when I push volume up or down, it doesn't do anything. Thanks.