Hi Forum,

I recently installed the advisor skin on my machine and set the MVP to use it. It worked for a while. I tried changing themes a couple of times, and at first it worked. Now all I get is that is "failed to locate GUI server" and keeps "contacting serves" it stays in that loop until I switch back the skin in the config to the traditional blue skin or something else like the community skin as far as the advisor skin it does not work. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance forum,

Writebac

OK. First off, I am a complete n00b here, so go easy. When I go to LiveTV, there is no TV! Just a black screen. I can flip through channels, and the OSD tells me the channel I am on, but the screen is just black.

Now, if I load up the Tuning Assistant, it can find all the channels just fine!

I am using the ATI Wonder Elite, if that makes any difference. What am I doing wrong?

I have had instances where I did a complete reinstall of gbpvr. When that happens i've noticed that I loose all the comskip info of my old files. When I go to play them on my MVP nothing shows up for the comskip section just one long green line with 1 second on it. If I try and skip forward the show stops and I get a black screen and nothing happens. I loose all functionality of my remote and my MVP. I have to turn the power off and on again from the remote in order to have the skin show up with the functions on it. If I just let the program play, it will play the whole program I just have to watch it in it's entirety with all the commercials. Is there a way to manuelly run comskip on previously saved MPG's so you can restore the ability to skip through the commercials again.

Thanks in advance to the forum for their responses!

Writebac

I got this problem ever since upgrading to 98.8

attached is my gbpvr.exe-native.log

ive tried using many types of codecs
before i upgraded, i found that NVIDIA codec works the best to give me best performance/picture quality
back then i had it set to overlay in config.exe and VRM9 in nvidia codec setting

now it gets out of sync no matter what video and audio codec i use
ive tried almost all combinations
ive tried Nero video codec, DScaler, Intervideo and Nvidia
ive tried setting to Overlay Manager, VRM7, VRM9, and VRM9 custom renderer

i know that before i upgraded, it used to work great with overlay manager in config.exe and VRM9 in nvidia
now i get the sync problem + if overlay manager is chosen, the EPG text font gets really blocky and ugly

thank you sub in advance

Hi, has anyone had problems installing the 98.08 install package? I get so far and then I get an error. The error is "ERROR 1904. Module: C:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\GBPVRWriter.ax failed to register. HRESULT -2147010895. Contact support personnel."

Any suggestions?

I've got an interesting problem I ran into. I recently recorded a one hour show. It looks like it recorded ok, except that when I try and play it back the time bar only shows 5 minutes and 24 seconds. I can fast forward and rewind anywhere i want within that 5:24, but past that the video keeps playing but I can't skip around in the file.

When I copied the file off of the PVR and onto a PC with some video processing software I got the same results. Opening the file in Media Player shows 5:24 as the length of the file and if I try and skip around past that 5:24 then Media Player kind of hangs for a few minutes, then finds it's way and continues. If I try VLC media player the time shows 18:25 and the same behavior occurs. If I load the video into Pinnacle Studio it can only see the first 5:24. I looked through the GBPVR logs but I didn't see anything that complained about anything during that time frame. I know the drive is good, so I'm not sure what got messed up.

I'm assuming the MPEG headers in the video file got screwed up somehow. Anyone know how to fix them?

Thanks
Marc

Hello there. I am fairly new to this forum and have been using GB-PVR for about 3 weeks now. Just today I am getting the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object " error when I try to watch live TV. Also, when I try to view a recording, i get the "Fairlure playing back File" error. Both of these features have worked and just stopped today. To my knowledge, nothing has changed. I have attached my log files.

Rich

Hi,

I seem to be stuck on 96.12 as any later release causes DVB-T to stutter.

I've tried moving to 97.x releases but no luck

I just tried updating to 98.08 (via 97.13 to convert the database) and noticed the following.

Some channels stuttered really badly straight away, but if I went and re-did the channel tuning, the performance improved dramatically.

Watching or recording a channel was fine for 5 to 10 minutes, then the stuttering would begin.

Going back to 96.12 these problems disappeared.

I have a Twinhan (DVB-TV 878 Digital Tuner Driver - Version 1.2.3.5) using Cyberlink mux 5.0.0813 and Nvideo Decoder

Machine is a P4 2.8Ghz 512MB RAM

I wondering if the channel tuning issue might have something to do with it. SCAN-1.cache ends up with hundreds of entries, most of which are unknown.

I'm running out of ideas...

Thanks for any suggestions
Hayden

Hey guys,

As far as I can tell, everything (save remote which I haven't configured yet) works as it should.

Except Windows reports an error from GBPVR when it starts. If I drag the dialog away, I can still use GBPVR etc. It's not a .NET error, it's a windows error:

AppName: gbpvr.exe AppVer: 1.0.2445.27502 AppStamp:00000033
ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 ModStamp:00000000
fDebug: 0 Offset: 00000000

I've had GB-PVR for about a year now, and have never taken the time to figure this one out:

Looking at the DvdPlayer.XML in the KeyMappings folder, it lists the DVD menu button as <command name="DVD_MENU" key="Home"/>. However, using the default Blue skin, pressing 'Home' while watching a DVD simply brings up the GB-PVR main menu and puts the DVD in windowed playback, but does not return it to the disc's selection menu.

What I get when I push 'Home':


Of course I can get up from the couch & move the mouse onto the Menu button on the OSD when I want to skip the previews, but there simply must be a way to configure the controls differently. Have I completely missed something this whole time?

Thanks,
-Wren

2.6Ghz P4 1Gig Ram GB-PVRv97.9 MCE Remote