Hello all,

as long as my computer running gbpvr is not always connected to the Internet I wrote a batch file that checks for a network connection first and than runns the xmltv program to get the EPG data. Afterwards the command "gbpvr -OnlyUpdateEPG" is executed

This batch file is started via autostart folder at boot time. So every time the computer powers up and is connected to the web, I receive fresh EPG data.

But I also start gbpvr via autostart folder. As long as the EPG update takes about halt an hour gbpvr is already running with the old EPG data. The new one is not displayed after the update is finished because I assume that the internal database still got the old EPG data.

My question now is if there is a possibility to up update the "internal" EPG information while an instance of gbpvr is running?

Thanks and regards,
martin

Hi

I've just installed GBPVR and an MVP, and I have a Hauppauge Nova-T 9002 installed. I've got it working as far as seeing the GBPVR menu on the MVP, but when I select Live TV I get the following error on the screen:

Failed to communicate with the Recording Service.

In the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log file I have the following error:

8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.322 VERBOSE [34] RecordingFactory.LoadNext24HourEvents()
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.342 VERBOSE [34] Starting LiveTV for captureSource: 1 channel oid: 1 filename:
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.372 VERBOSE [34] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LiveTVDirectory
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.372 VERBOSE [34] getValue: /settings/LiveTVDirectory : D:\video\live
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.452 VERBOSE [34] Temporary live TV filename: D:\video\live\A Question of Sport_1_20050808_19001930.mpg
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.472 VERBOSE [34] BDARecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.572 ERROR [34] Unexpected error: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
8/8/2005 7:02:35 PM.592 ERROR [34] at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, String tuningRequest, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, String tuningRequest, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.BDARecordingSource.a(IRecordingSourceConfiguration A_0, Int32 A_1, String A_2, ChannelTuning A_3, Int32 A_4, Boolean A_5)
at cj.a(Int32 A_0, Boolean A_1, Int32 A_2, String& A_3, Int32& A_4)



If I try and record a show in the background it appears to start correctly, but I have this error in the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log file:

8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.656 VERBOSE [17] checking pending recordings
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.656 VERBOSE [17] - checking A Question of Sport
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.656 VERBOSE [17] pending: A Question of Sport
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.877 INFO [17] Found new programme requiring recording: A Question of Sport
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.887 VERBOSE [17] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 33
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.927 VERBOSE [17] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: D:\video\recordings\A Question of Sport\A Question of Sport_20050808_19001930.mpg
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.937 VERBOSE [17] BDARecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.937 ERROR [17] Error starting recording: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
8/8/2005 7:07:23 PM.937 ERROR [17] Error starting recording: at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, String tuningRequest, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, String tuningRequest, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.BDARecordingSource.a(IRecordingSourceConfiguration A_0, Int32 A_1, String A_2, ChannelTuning A_3, Int32 A_4, Boolean A_5)
at cj.g()

The above errors occur when trying to control GBPVR through the MVP. If I try and watch Live TV on the machine where GBPVR is running I get the following message:

Channel Tuning information not known.

Not really sure where to go nxt with this, any help would be appreciated.

Neil

Hi,

I have come up against a problem - Ireland is not listed in the Config program or in the Tuning Assistant. I can download all the UK & Irish channels from XMLTV ok but I cannot tune to the channels!

I am using NTL cable which transmits between 48MHz and 488MHz (eg The Discovery Channel is on 48MHz). How do I set up my PVR350 to tune to these frequencies? It works OK with the Hauppauge software.

Thanks.

I have installed ffdshow and checked off the option in the config to use ffdshow if installed but I don't know if it's working or not. In fact I'm not even sure what ffdshow is supposed to do.

Can someone help me out with my n00bie questions?

Does anyone have any experience with using one of the movie download systems such as "www.FreeDVDDirect.com" or "onlinemovieaccess.com" with GBPVR?

Supposedly these systems download in MP3 so it ought to be possible to just save them into the GBPVR videos directory and have them available in GBPVR.

Hi,

I would like to be able to record two DVB-S programs at the same time when they are on different transponders. Like Sky+ manages to do.

Are there any DVB-S cards out there that can do this? Or can you put two DVB-S cards in one machine? Anyone got any experience of this?

My ideal would be to do this with a single Common Interface - say two (or more!) Huappuage Nexus-S cards both using a single Common Interface, so that encrypted programs on two different transponders could be decrypted using one smart card in a CAM on the Common Interface. Is that practical?

Any advice gratefully received - I've been googling for days now without finding an answer to these questions! I'm bemused that no-one else seems to want to do this...

Thanks for the help.

I have just add more channels to my EPG. when i view the guide i see the channels and their info. WHen i click on the channel in the guide it usually gives me the option to "exit, quick rec., rec. or watch". When i look at any of the newly added channels i only have the option to exit. ALso, when i key in the number of any of the newly added channels in just skips to the closest number. one more thing. How do i arrange the newly added channels in proper numerical order as they are scrambled.

THanks so much for your feedback.

Matt........

I've been trying to look online and can't find an update to gogetemall. It seems like Apple may have changed some of the way that videos are loaded. Some videos are not downloading and i'm wondering if there is a work-around. (For example, it says that it found a redirection rather than a video and it's not going to chase it anymore)

Hi guys - I have a lot of instabilty with my system. I've noticed that I often get a blue screen (with a jackhammer like audio loop output) at the very end of a file playback. Does something unusually taxing happen at that point in time in the program?

I rememeber sagetv users running a happ 350 had a similiar issue thsat ended up being tempature related. I am a gbPVR user with a single happ 150, win XP system. But I wonder if some stress on the system at the end of file could also be causing me problems. *** I know my cooling is NOT great, but system doesn't crash except w/ gbPVR.

I also appear to have lost all my epg info last night, that I suspect that's a different issue - or maybe all the crashes corrupted that portion of the program.

Since the DB for My * can get pretty big w/ everything it holds, it may help to have a maint panel to have it clean out some dead enties. Easy ones would things like video & cast info for shows/movies that have been deleted/removed. Something like a scan that the photos & music CPs do, maybe.

I was in there and could have doen some manually, but also didn't want to start tearing through and maybe messing things up, since they aren't big space pigs, anyway.

Also, is there harm in just blanking the actor gallery/info tables? I don't use the panels for those.