Hi

I have recently upgraded to the latest GBpvr and Enhanced WebAdmin. All was going fine until the weekend.

On the weekend i noticed that my server (where GBpvr is) was maxing out the processor. The process in question was DW20.exe (MS debugging tool).

DW20.exe was making a report of GBpvrrecordingservice (must have crashed previuosly) and kept making the service stop. I stopped the debugging tool through control panel and now the service keeps stopping intermitently.
There is nothing in the system or application logs apart from the service unexpectingly stopping and starting again.

(I have a schedule thats runs every 15mins to start the service now)

Has anyone else seen this since the upgrade?

I can post logs if nessecary.

cheers
Rich

OK, this is a perculiar one, and not really GBPVR related - but I thought someone might have thought this through before.....

Is there a way to VNC (or similar) 'behind' GBPVR. i.e. can my girlfriend watch TV, while I work on the same computor by remote controlling behind the live video window from my laptop.

I have a dual output graphics card (but only one monitor), so I thought there might be some way of tricking the card into thinking it has two monitors attached - so I can work on one 'screen' while GBPVR shows on the other.....

any ideas....?

just tried vista with gbpvr. it did not work out so good. but media center in the beta 2 did not even work.

I have GBPVR set to autoconvert to xvid at 6pm, but it's not doing it (I have also checked the taskmanager to make sure).

My GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log will just keep going like this without the conversion actually happening:

I was messing about with MediaPortal and it seems like something went screwy with my GBPvr settings in respect to my analog cable tuning. I can see the channels through a lot of snow and the sound is very distorted. This appears to only be affecting the PVR150 MCE and not the PVR150 NonMCE that I have.... The problem appears on most channels, but not all.

I tried running the tuning assistant, and the channels come in crystal clear. The same holds true for autoscanning the channels in Dscaler. Unfortunately, I don't know where I can a) check the current GBPvr frequency values for these channels, and/or b) modify these values if necessary.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..... Thanks.

I've been using this software quite happily for some time now. The other day I decided its time to check the website for updates and install the latest version. I don't remember the version number of what I was using, but it was about a year old. Anyway, I upgraded to the latest version of GBPVR and now the IR-Blaster built into my PVR-150 card is not working...well, not with GBPVR anyway. I can still use the cheap program included with the card to watch TV and it changes the channels just fine. I've attached my log files and screenshots of my configuration. Can anyone help?

I recently did a clean install of .97.9 and am having trouble playing some of my old recordings from 96.12 (which had been converted to WMV and renamed to MPG, outside of GBPVR).

These old recordings will play in Windows Media Player 10, but will crash GBPVR and leave a log message of


21:02:08.857 INFO Log started
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(ShowClosedCaptions)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(UseFFDSHOW)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(ForcedGraphTeardown)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalZoom)
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE Horizontal Zoom: 1.050000
21:02:08.857 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalZoom)
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE Vertical Zoom: 1.050000
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalOffset)
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE Horizontal Offset: 0
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalOffset)
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE Vertical Offset: 0
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
21:02:08.867 VERBOSE getSetting(TeletextRect)
21:02:08.887 VERBOSE MinimumFilePlaySize=200000
21:02:08.887 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerOverlay() initialising...
21:02:08.887 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
21:02:42.825 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(G:\My Videos\Gilmore Girls\Rory's Birthday Parties.mpg)
21:02:42.835 VERBOSE Creating new graph
21:02:42.835 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
21:02:42.946 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: Default DirectSound Device
21:02:43.016 VERBOSE detected FPS as 30.000000
21:02:43.016 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
21:02:43.066 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo NonCSS Audio Decoder for Hauppauge
21:02:43.066 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
21:02:43.096 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge
21:02:43.096 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredMpegPlaybackDemux)
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - InterVideo NonCSS Audio Decoder for Hauppauge
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - Windows Media Audio Decoder
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - ASF ACM Handler
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE - Windows Media Source Filter
21:02:43.386 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
21:02:43.426 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
21:02:43.436 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:etPlaybackRate(1.000000)
21:02:43.486 VERBOSE Restoring audio
21:02:44.528 VERBOSE Failed to get colour key value
21:02:44.868 VERBOSE Failed to get colour key value
21:02:45.830 VERBOSE Failed to get colour key value
21:02:46.851 VERBOSE Failed to get colour key value
21:02:47.823 VERBOSE Failed to get colour key value

Had to do a wipe and load of XP, now my TV guide is sorted by channel name, andI can't figure out how to get it back to sorted by channel number! Extrememly hard to navigate this way!:confused:

I've been running v 0.95.16 since early this year and did an upgrade to 0.97.09 and had the following problem:

- When running config, my capture sources setups for 250 card are gone; attempt to recreated seems to save; but on start up again, they disappear.
- I pick hauppauge 250, and zap2it configuration and it doesn't stick.

Just peaking at some of the logs during install/upgrade I noticed in config-exe-3.log:

A few SQL upgrade statement errors:
6/11/2006 3:10:54 PM.390 VERBOSE [1] error executing upgrade statement (create table REDRAT_CHANNEL_CHANGER(capture_source_oid int, zero_pad TEXT(1), three_digit TEXT(1), send_enter TEXT(1), device_file TEXT(255))) : Table 'REDRAT_CHANNEL_CHANGER' already exists.
6/11/2006 3:10:54 PM.390 VERBOSE [1] error executing upgrade statement (create table BDA_RECORDING_SOURCE (capture_source_oid int, board int, card_type TEXT(255), transponder_filename TEXT(255), lnb_lof1 int, lnb_switch int, lnb_lof2 int)) : Table 'BDA_RECORDING_SOURCE' already exists.
...

and also

6/11/2006 3:10:56 PM.296 VERBOSE [1] Loading DirectRecordingSource Configuration : 2
6/11/2006 3:10:56 PM.343 ERROR [1] Error int SourceConfigurationContainer::LoadAll(): System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xda34526142ca690b.x1f966edc637a8924(Boolean x81c765f11f40b327)
6/11/2006 3:10:56 PM.375 VERBOSE [1] CustomTaskSettings.loadAll()

* Attached 1 of 4 upgrade attempts from 95.16 to 95.09

- I ended up recovering
1) uninstall the lastest version (0.97.09)
2) re-installing the last version of v.95.16
3) and just swapping in denz\gpbvr with my last working snapshot
to get back running

I've done the upgrade attempt twice and hit the same error and thus had to re-covery steps.

Has anyone come across this error/issue?

Post note:
I just did an upgrade to v96.08 instead and that preserved the capture sources settings. - Looked like a better upgrade. I'll be try that out for a while and see if there are any issues with running.

Still perhaps others who upgrade directly to the latest may have this issue.



Benson

I am at my wits end getting things set up and would appreciate any assistance. I have read forum items on the subject, installed the software recorder plugin and the GBPVRBackendCommon patch but have got nowhere. I cannot seem to get the device recognised because the software recorder plugin does not appear as a recording source. It is present however if I run RecorderTest.exe. Is there a simple explaination as to what is wrong?

Sapphire Radeon 9200 VIVO
Athlon XP 3100+
1GB RAM
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