Thanks for taking the time to read this and I apologize in advance if some of these questions are ignorant since I'm a complete newbie and also that this post is rather long.
The error message I keep getting: Error: Unable to load DLL (hcwIRblast.dll)
I set up the TV Tuner card following Hauppage's guide, except that I have not yet hooked it up to my regular TV set using the supplied composite cable. I have installed all the software updates from Hauppage and its affiliates.
The WinTV 2000 seemed to work okay, but when I scheduled 4 programs to record, it only recorded 1 of them, so I decided to try GB-PVR since it was suggested in a user review for the hardware on amazon.com.
Anyway, as the user stated, there's a lot of tinkering to get GB-PVR to work and this is where I run into trouble. I set it up by following the Documentation section, and it seems to work except for the Live TV button. I also noticed that WinTV Remote Controller loads at startup in the system tray and whenever I right-click it and try opening a program from it (i.e., WINTV2K.EXE, WINTV32.EXE, RADIO.EXE), I get an 'Application Not Found' error message.
I have even uninstalled and reinstalled GB-PVR, but with no luck. I did notice that GB-PVR had the same settings as it did before I uninstalled it, so is there a registry key I need to delete if I want to reinstall it so the program has the default settings?
Finally, it seems to me that since everything else seems to work except for the Live TV function and the WinTV Remote Controller, that the problem lies within Hauppage's WinTV Remote Controller, comments please!
If you have any suggestions/comments or can answer any of the following questions, I'd be most appreciative:
1. Do I need to have any/all of Hauppage's software installed for GB-PVR to function properly?
2. Is it possible that my nVidia card with TV-Out is causing/has something to do with this error message?
"Resources not loading from resource file. Please check setup file". This error message follows any attempt to install GBPVR09413.msi on my system. I have pre-installed DirectX9, and Microsoft .Net v1.1, and running XP Service Pack 2. I've attempted installation with and without Norton AV, and windows firewall enabled and disabled, and all running programs shut down. I had previously enjoyed the program before RAM failure eventually led to a forced re-format of the hard drive. All of my attempts at installation of the newer version have failed, and have also tried to re-install the older version (same result). There's got to be something I'm missing but it escapes me. Help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Perhaps I am slow but I haven't been able to find a digital TV capture card for use in the USA. Most of the local TV stations (All of the good ones) now broadcast in Digital as well as Analog. What card do you recomend that will work with GBPVR and receive digital terrestrial broadcast signals?
Like everything else that comes out of Mac, it looks very hot and slick. However, Steve Jobs is probably going to be very protective of the product. The nice thing about GBPVR is that a community continually looks for ways to create a better product, more features, etc... I seriously doubt that Jobs would allow this! Nevertheless, it looks hot!
I am tring to find out why the MyVideo plugin refuses to load. It wont load with no matter what skin I use. I have the current MyVideo installed.
I have made sure that MyVideosPlugin.dll is in the plugin directory and the current skin (Xmedia) is loaded.
If someone can take a look at this log and see if they see what is wrong, that would be great.
By the way, after about a day tring to figure it out, i wiped the drive and installed fresh, only to get the same thing
thanks!
Here is a clip of the error log.
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.052 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosTask created
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.312 VERBOSE [2] first update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.352 VERBOSE [2] second update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.392 VERBOSE [2] third update not needed
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.522 ERROR [2] Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\MyVideosPlugin.dll
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.522 ERROR [2] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
at xd426863f4d052758.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xb77fa95273e0c228()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] Inner exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: .\skin\X M E D I A\My Videos\..\images\popup_dialog4.png
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Image image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 ERROR [2] at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Image image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor()
10/17/2005 8:11:01 PM.532 VERBOSE [2] MyVideosEvent created
First let me say that GBPVR is really, really awesome. The commercial skip works flawlessly, the recordings look great, and the customization features are sweet as hell.
That said, I'm having a hard time getting anything to work that's supposed to be automated. The downloading of the program guide doesn't do its magic in the middle of the night like it should, but updates just fine when I run it automatically. Also, the re-encoding of recordings into DivX/Xvid/WMV doesn't work at all. No error message or anything... it just sort of ignores that I asked it to do it.
The settings all look right in my Configuration. Any ideas?
I live in Bulgaria, but 60 of my chanels are PAL_B (Denamark) and the other 3 are PAL_D (Czech Republic). I want watch all 63 chanels, but I must make a choice between 60 PAL_B chanels or the other 3 (PAL_D)
Is there a way to watch chanels with different video system with GBPVR?
Ok, so my recurrings seem to be working just fine. However, now I am unable to play any of my video recordings, even the old ones that previously worked. I can select to play the video, it sits for a sec, then goes back to the listing of videos.
I setup GB-PVR to record to a network drive. Unfortunately, it didn't work and I didn't really know why so I took a look into the log files and found this:
10/17/2005 6:16:34 PM.000 ERROR [23] Error starting recording: Could not find a part of the path "\\SERVER\Videos".
10/17/2005 6:16:34 PM.031 ERROR [23] Error starting recording: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str)
at System.IO.Directory.InternalCreateDirectory(String fullPath, String path)
at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.RecordingManager.GetFileNameAndCreateDirectories(ScheduledRecording xe41d2b9d98dc1269)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.RecordingManager.WorkerThread()
I tried it with a mapped drive letter (ie "Z:\") but that still didn't work. Since I have a server called "SERVER" that has a much bigger hard drive (but not enough CPU to run GB-PVR) I wanted a way to make this work.
After searching, I found out that I needed to create a new account on the server account and another account with the same name on my gb-pvr machine (the client machine). I then changed the GB-PVR recording service to run as this account and it worked!
To summarize, the steps I used to get GB-PVR to successfully record on a network share were:
- Create an account on both the network machine and the local machine with the same password
- Change the GB-PVR service to run as that account (in Control Panel -> Services)
If you are using a domain then you need to add the service account for the client computer to a domain share (not entirely sure about this but it shouldn
't be too hard).
I wonder if a detection routine could be built into the GB-Config util that would alert the user if a network path were selected that it won't work unless you take the above steps.
