Well, I've reinstalled GBPVR yet again, and got rid of one message the "No Tuners are available with the requested Channel" one, only to get a new message the same one as reported in the thread below, i.e. "Failed to communicate with the recording service"
While I have not yet found a solution to my own error, I trust sub does not mind me summarising the past solutions (to this error) of others in one place, hopefully it will help someone else. Apologies to sub if one or more have been fixed in a recent release.
There appears to have been the following resolutions to this particular error:
1. The recording service isn't running. Try rebooting.
5. There is a Firewall (Windows or Norton) or even Norton Antivirus's WORM Script Blocking where you have to allow "Permit" GBPVR.exe and the GBPVRecording Service.exe permissions
7. In a very early incarnation of GBPVR, it appeared that unless WinTVCap (the capture driver) was in the same DIR as sub's. In Jan '04 Sub noted "tranquil's final problem seem to be WinTVCap was misconfigured. The link above should be find those with windows installations in different locations from mine...By default GB-PVR doesn't know where WinTVCap is installed, so it always starts out blank in the configuration. You need to use the browse button and find the executable". I am not sure if this is still an issue but it is likely this been fixed.
My own windows folder is C:\WINNT. I thought this could be the problem, but sub noted "You dont have to use WinTVCap. The other option is to select Direct Record instead. This uses a recorder that is built into GBPVR." However Direct Recording does not work with GO700..devices.
8. You were trying FM radio. "When I try to play a station i get "Failed to communicate with the Recording Service". Not sure what the solution is to this? No LAME codec?
Cheers
k.
p.s. I notice someone else with a TVWalker has had this error too. Perhaps it's time to go the Hauppage Route...
i'm wanting to to be able to see my pc desktop on the TV. the pvr-350 card doesn't allow that. when i hook up the radeon up it does a great job of viewing liveTV. i've hooked it via a S-video to RCA cable. by doing this it allows me to go without a monitor so i can make this a dedicated box like you would a mythtv setup. the redeon has a Svideo output but my TV doesn't have that input.
the problem is the desktop computer stuff looks like crap.
1.would a vga to rca cable work better?
2.is there any other way, hardware or software to break the ties to the monitor so that i can have a real dedicated PVR box?
3.would buying a tv with Svideo input fix this problem?
You guys have probably been thru this before....I have seen it before...it comes and goes, but its here to stay now. Some of my MPEGS "skip" or play back "jerky" on my MVP...using either the Hauppauge software or the GBP. These are files that played fine before. I was having the problem without the GBP code - so I decide to try it - but I get the same result. I have a feeling its something happening on the network because (a) I have seen other comments to that effect (b) I can find any evidence its caused by other programs running on my PC or the disks or the particular file.
How do I troubleshoot this? There is nothing else going on on my home network. If I take it down to my PC and MEdiaMVP, I suspect I will see the problem.
Plus, this is something that used to work fine.....it just started cropping up about a month ago. I was also using "old" Hauppauge code. I now have the new code....same problem. I also have a new HDD and new WinXP install. The only thing I havent done yet is let MS upgrade the OS over the net.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. With my new HDD load, I figured I would give the GBP stuff a try again. Last time I tried I couldnt get the EPG to work so I stuck with the WinTV/TitanTV stuff. Of course then, my MVP was playing back fine!
Hi i was wondering if there is a way to view recorded show with program minimized? I can do it with watching live tv but while watching recorded shows it has to be on top and not min. thanks
It might be nice to have a "compressed" TV-Guide view of the scheduled recordings...that is, a view like the TV-Guide view, but with all the empty channels and timeslots removed. Not sure if it'd work or not, but it might make it easier to resolve scheduling conflicts visually.
