Hi All,

I'm a new user of GB-PVR, with a MediaMVP and a Hauppause 350. Things work pretty good, except that the MVP seems to crash too much. Certainly too much for my taste. I think this is related to the dongle.bin file of the MediaMVP, and NOT an issue with GB-PVR because I don't have any such problems when using GB-PVR on my PC.

Symptons: These crashes seem to occur when doing different things, but always end up with the MVP changing to "Contacting Server..." and hanging there. It's only resolved after I restart the GB-PVR service, sometimes twice. As far as I can remember, these problems occur when hitting the "Back" button on the remote after watching part of a movie (consistent), when skipping or FF/RWing (intermittent), and several other situations which escape me at the moment.

Any answers to the following questions would be greatly appreciated.

1) Can I even replace dongle.bin, or does GB-PVR require a certain version to work right? I don't care about the volume bars or stop buttons that apparently disappeared in more recent dongle.bin's (so I hear). I just want it stable.

2) How do I "install" new/different dongle.bin files for use with GB-PVR? Can I just take that one file out of the self-installing MVP .exe files and put it in GB-PVR's dongle directory (after renaming the old file)? Or are any other files from those Hauppauge Media MVP releases necessary for GB-PVR?

3) How do I find out what MediaMVP "version" I have? Like D1a or D3 or whatever?

4) Could this also be a problem with the renderer (ie. VMR9, VMR7, or Overlay) or mpeg decoder, or would I then experience problems when using GB-PVR on my PC too?

5) Any other possible causes for these crashes that I might be overlooking?


Oh, a separate issue... some of my recordings are screwed up (on both the PC AND over the MVP)... the picture rolls a bit, like the vertical sync is off for a traditional signal. Could this have something to do with the computer being too overworked at the time of the recording?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Jim

I have GP-PVR running and have a NVIDIA GeForce MX 4000 video card. I use the S-video cable to attach to my TV. When i 1st installed GP-PVR and hooked it to the TV it worked perfect right out of the box. I am running at a resolution of 640X480. When I was watching a recording it locked up and when I Ctrl-Alt-Del to close the program the picture was stuck partially off the screen in all directions. It is probably missing 3 to 4 inches of viewing(maybe more) on each side. I Cant seem to find any way to get the view back to fit in the tv view.

I can however if i have the PC monitor hooked up it will view perfectly. Any ideas? I can give you some specs if you need any. I tried resetting the resolution and checked all kids of options in NVIDIA properties. I am at a loss how to fix this shy of formating the computer.

thanks for any help!

Why are the channels limited to channel 99? My account at zip2it shows hundreds of channels, but the GBPVR software only shows details for channels up to 99 - the rest are blank.

I know this has been mentioned before, but I didn't see it in the wishlist. If channel number was passed to PostProcessing.bat, we'd be able to:

• skip comskip processing on files we know have no commercials
  
• have comskip process files differently based on the channel number
  

Hi all,

Bit of a newbie, but hopefully I won't appear so for long

System Details - In case it matters
Shuttle SN95G5V2 - Win XP SP2
1Gb RAM
2 x 160Gb 7200rpm HD's
GeForce 5200 FX
Hauppage MediaMVP (got it on Saturday)
Hauppage Nova-T-USB2 (got it today so not even out of the box)

I've installed GBPVR and configured it to do most of the basics running the interface locally (I'll call this machine Host) as well as via the MediaMVP so I'm quite happy with all that.

In addition, I have a medium spec PC upstairs (I'll call this Client) connected via a 54MBit Wireless LAN (running @ 48Mbits) which I wanted to stream to (video/music/films/TV pretty much everything if possible). The machine has no TV capture card and the hard drive only has 1Gb spare so not much room for storing media.

I installed GBPVR on Client and configured a shortcut on the desktop to c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe with the 'Start In' pointing to the Host ("\\host\c$\program files\devnz\gbpvr" for example).

I then reconfigured the Host video and music library directories to point to shares I created called \\host\films & \\host\music respectivly so that the Client would recognise the directories on the network.

Surprisingly (to me anyways) this works! :eek:

I was wondering if anyone else had come across this kind of configuration and if there was a 'preffered' method for running in a PC Client -> PC Host configuration?

Any other comments would be appreciated.

Cheers

J

I run XP Home Edition and I have F-Secure installed. All of the installations are standard.

When starting any of the TV services, I get error messages that are triggered by the GBPVRRecordingService not being started. In the Service settings in the Control Panel, this service is marked as "automatic", but when restarting the machine the service is stopped. If starting the service manually or if I manually update the EPG, the TV and recording functions will start and work fine, but this is quite cumbersome of course.

I assume that either F-Secure or a security setting in Windows prevents the service from autostarting or running continuously?

Does anyone have any tips on how to make sure that this service starts automatically?

Thanks! Joakim

I want to run xmltv radio times every day, update epg, and then run priorty recordings.

I have no idea how to create that - could one of you guys either advise or point me to where I can learn how to do it?

Thanks

Hi everybody,

Let just start by saying that GB-PVR is an excellent program and I want to say to the author: keep up the good work!

I get the unable to "update EPG" in the Config program. I already checked my firewall and disabled it. I also disabled my Anti-virus just to be safe. I still get the error. I also check my Zap2it account and it is not expired. It is active. Here is my log below:

Garek

9/6/2005 8:22:45 PM.627 INFO [162] Auto-Updating EPG
9/6/2005 8:22:49 PM.273 ERROR [162] Error UpdateEPG()'ing: File or assembly name jfwo3od1.dll, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
9/6/2005 8:22:49 PM.283 ERROR [162] at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Boolean isStringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Boolean stringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity)
at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerResults.get_CompiledAssembly()
at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerResults.get_CompiledAssembly()
at System.Xml.Serialization.Compiler.Compile()
at System.Xml.Serialization.TempAssembly..ctor(XmlMapping[] xmlMappings)
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.FromMappings(XmlMapping[] mappings)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapClientType..ctor(Type type)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol..ctor()
at Zap2itDataDirect.xtvdWebService..ctor(String username, String password)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.a(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_0)
at cw.a(c1 A_0, IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_1)
at s.b()
--------------------------------------------------------------------
9/6/2005 8:24:22 PM.106 INFO [307] Auto-Updating EPG
9/6/2005 8:24:23 PM.548 ERROR [307] Error UpdateEPG()'ing: File or assembly name dnbr56qu.dll, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
9/6/2005 8:24:23 PM.548 ERROR [307] at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Boolean isStringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Boolean stringized, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity)
at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerResults.get_CompiledAssembly()
at System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerResults.get_CompiledAssembly()
at System.Xml.Serialization.Compiler.Compile()
at System.Xml.Serialization.TempAssembly..ctor(XmlMapping[] xmlMappings)
at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.FromMappings(XmlMapping[] mappings)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapClientType..ctor(Type type)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol..ctor()
at Zap2itDataDirect.xtvdWebService..ctor(String username, String password)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.Zap2itEpgReader.a(IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_0)
at cw.a(c1 A_0, IEpgUpdateProgressCallback A_1)
at s.b()
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Since upgrading to the most recent release I've been having every second recording fail. I have this error message pop-up on screen: Recording Service Error Message

I don't see any errors in the logs that would indicate anything of interest, but I have finally figured out what seems to be happening. Every second recording the recording fails to stop at the ending time but instead just keeps on going until the disk drive fills up. Once it fills up, the above error is displayed and the service fails. If I restart the service, it works fine for the 1st recording, but fails on the next.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tim

Am having an object reference not set when traversing beyond my tv guide. Has anybody encountered this. The only recourse was to close the app and restart.

Any ideas? I have ver 0.93.10

thanks