I am having frequest connection drops from my MVP. When I start up the MVP, everything connects and seems fine, the menu pops up and I can move between the options. However, when I try to select Recordings, the connection drops. After a few seconds, the connection picks back up and I am at the recordings menu. When I select a set of recordings, I have no problems getting to the list of recorded shows. Likewise, selecting a show brings up the summary and play/delete/back options without a problem. Selecting play brings up a black screen, but no play icon. No show starts. Hitting the pause button pulls up the time display and the summary for the show. Hitting play or pause does nothing.
I am running gbpvr off a PC, but I am using Apple hardware to do the networking. I have an 802.11g wireless router connecting to another 802.11g wireless node that has a direct ethernet connection to the my MVP. The Huppage software rund without a hitch for me.
On occasion, everything works fine. Gbpvr shows up and I have full functionality. This seems to happen more often if I delete shows from the drive via the PC. This is a 250 gig drive though, and it only has around 40 gigs of space being used.
Well let me be as detail oriented as possible here.. I'm not much for the inner workings of codecs, or filters, or anything like that. But I know a small bit of general knowledge.
Anyways. I have a Hauppage WinTV PVR 150 (mod: 26032 rev: C199) and it generally works very well. At any rate, wintv tunes in channels perfectly. However one night while playing around with the buttons on my remote (45 button remote) I messed something up.
It happened when I went to live tv mode without being on any channels. I hit the "prev chan" button (ctrl + w) and all of a sudden the channel went staticy. For a few days it was just the one channel (cartoon network, god help me) so I was using wintv2k to tune it. Now, however, it seems as though there are blocks of channels that are showing the symptom ... I tried the tuning assistant to see if maybe I lost the exact frequencies, but they're showing the same in the preview window as they do in gbpvr.
As I said, wintv2k tunes everything fine. So I uninstalled gbpvr, removed all the registry entries I could find, and reinstalled. Same thing. It can't be a driver problem because if it was, wouldn't wintv2k not bother working?
Does *anyone* have any suggestions?
Oh yea, I tried different decoders and filters and whatnot, changed them around and nothing worked. Also, the system has a 2.2ghz processor, and 1gigabyte of ddr. So... It's not hardware related (I would think.)
OK, I think I narrowed it down
I installed the software while logged in as administrator.
I can view LiveTV in timeshift mode when I'm admin
However, when I switch to any other user, even a user that is part of the administrator group like my domain admin account, when I try to watch LiveTV on the PC, GBPVR stays stuck in "starting timeshift mode", jumps up to 100%CPU and then does nothing, until I kill the task
I gathered clean logs in both cases, and I think the error is towards the end of the gbpvr-native log, where it says it can't find a "GBPVR parser" when I'm logged as any other user.
Hi, I recently got an Avermedia A180 HDTV card for the system in my sig. It works fine playing HDTV on some other programs. However, on GB-PVR, it is extremely jerky and unusable (however when playing lower-definition programming, such as weather sub-channels, it works fine.) I'm using the PureVideo decoder. Is there any way I would be able to fix this? Thanks
Up until recently, I had my setup working pretty well. I used an old 800Mhz processor with a PVR350 and a PVR150. Things work great except that about half the time, if both tuners were recording and both shows ended at the same time, the computer would hang up tight. I tried several different drive combinations but it never went away, but I managed.
And then the mother board died.
So I went out and bought a small formfactor box and a new mATX motherboard with a dual core AMD 64 bit processor and then the real problems began. After lots of driver gymnastics to get the proper drivers for the two tuner boards and support DLLs installed, it was up and running. But now, after I watch a prerecorded show or so, I the playback hangs. The computer is still responsive and I can watch the GBPVR app respond to the remote but the playback is either frozen or blank. If I restart the GBPVR app, it will sometimes reset the display and the OSD menus will work but if I try to play a video, the screen simply goes blank and I get no audio.
Checking the GBPVR.exe-native log, I see the following:
I have my MVP up and running - everything works great. One question though is when watching live TV, the remote will not allow for direct channel number entry. Is this normal. The only way I can change channels is by using the channel up/down buttons.
