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.
I want to preface this by saying I am very satisfied with GBPVR, I bought a whole bunch of hardware with the intention of using mythTV, turns out the hauppauge drivers for my VIA KM400 chipset don't work on linux, thankfully there is GBPVR.
Unfortunately my SK43G's internal s-video OUT only fills up about 95% of my screen, giving it a thin 5% border, I hope to buy a new card when I have some money to fix this problem, but I noticed that as of yesterday there are three white dots that appear in the top right hand corner.
After doing some searching I heard mention of closed caption hidden by overscan, but I don't believe that this is the case, because they appear both during television playback, and the playback of DVDs, but only inside of GBPVR.
I have my playback settings to use the default decoder and player for all instances....anyone have any ideas?
Thank You -
Danny.
Also, I hope to get a picture of my setup online for you guys, is there a thread where people have done this? I'm actually pretty proud about how everything looks.
Could anyone tell me how i can get the full file name displayed in the videos menu & the music menu. At the moment only one line is displayed the second line has been cut off somehow.I have tried different skins but this has no effect. I get this problem on the pc & the mvp. I am using the latest gbpvr.
