I have the shuttle SB52G with a PVR 350. GBPVR wont start if I select it as the decoder. GBPVR states that the PVR 350 is not found. WINTV 2000 works (although I'm getting random 0xC5 errors). Any clues? I have XP Pro SP1a with all the updates from Hauppage.

I'm having difficulty getting GB-PVR to start on my media machine. I've tried it on 2 other machines with no problem, but my media machine just won't run it.

Basic stats:
Shuttle mini-atx (Shuttle SN41G2)
Athalon 2400
256 MB RAM
160 + 40 GB drives

Windows 2000 + all patches
.NET platform v1.1
Java platform
MS Office + patches
Typical utility software load

I'm using the S-video output from the NForce to the TV for my monitor, which is about the only difference between my three home machines. The only other difference is NForce vs NVidia AGP cards. I chose the NForce platform to save space & fan noise, since it already had TV-out, 6-channel audio, and 3D-acceleration.

There are three problems I'm running into:
- When in config, and applying new changes, the software throws an exception when restarting the server. This occurs on ALL my machines.

- When starting the config on the media machine, it throws an exception because the Access DB is not the right version (but still appears to work).

- After configuration (tried many options, including different window managers), I launch GB-PVR. On the media machine, it simply doesn't launch. It doesn't show up in the task manager, nor produce any exception dialogs. Just doesn't start.

Anyone else encountered these errors?
--Bryan

I had a 1/2hr show scheduled to record. I was watching it at the same time (Live TV). It ended up only recording 10.5MB of it, needless to say which was basically NONE of the show. What happened??

Ok, one more then I promise I'll leave you alone

How about favorite channels? I know you can manually take out the ones you don't want (and believe me, I have) but generally there's only about 6-8 channels I watch all the time. It would be cool to see "at a glance" what's on my 6-8 channels, then if there's nothing, switch it to all channel mode.

Thanks again.

Here I am again with yet another suggestion, am I a pain in the azz or what?

How about an autopad per program? The standard 1 min in/out actually kinda screwed up some of my stuff I recorded back-to-back and that all ended on time. However there's usually programs that always run over by about 5-10 mins, it would be great on a case-by-case basis if you could somehow tell it to add xx minutes to the recording.

Thanks.

I thought I saw the per-recording idea mentioned somewhere but I couldn't find it. There are some shows I'd like to record in a lot lower quality than others. Like a show I'm just going to watch then blow away, VCD or SVCD quality would be more than enough, why waste so much space on DVD quality (and yes, I know, I'd just blow it away afterwards anyway, but that's not the point).

The other thing I've seen brought up is the behavior of not recording the same show twice. Some networks re-run their shows a LOT before the next new episodes come along (Comedy Central is a prime example). In other words, an option such as "season record only new episodes" would be a good idea.

First things first, great program Sub.

I have a quick question, my MSOH won't take my HTPC into use until she can play her radio stations all day on it. It just so happens that none of the stations that she listens too are on the internet which means I must give her a nice easy page where she can select her FM stations. I was wondering how to make another page for FM radio transmissions which mimics the Net Radio page but instead lists her 4 or 5 stations instead. I have a PVR USB2 in the post (PVR250 for me & FM Tuner for her)! Is there an easy way to set this up?

Thanks in advance,

Shappers...

"Unable to schedule recording. No capture source available."

This is what happens when I try to schedule recordings that overlap. Obviously it's erroring out because of the overlap, but I would expect something more intuitive rather than just erroring out? Maybe, maybe not?

I'm surprised this hasn't come up before (I searched).

Working mediaMVP documentation and trying out all the functions, I can repeatedly crash the mediaMVP server when using the fast forward 1 min.

Here is one of errors reported by the .net framework:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.InvalidOperationException: The object is currently in use elsewhere.
at System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(Image image)
at b.a()
at b.g()
at ag.b(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr idEvent, IntPtr dwTime)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
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GBPVR
Assembly Version: 1.0.1569.24116
Win32 Version: 1.0.1569.24116
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/GBPVR/GBPVR.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
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GBPVRPublic
Assembly Version: 1.0.1568.16767
Win32 Version: 1.0.1568.16767
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/GBPVR/GBPVRPublic.DLL
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0b77a5c561934e089/system.xml.dll
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GBPVRBackendCommon
Assembly Version: 1.0.1569.17692
Win32 Version: 1.0.1569.17692
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/GBPVR/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL
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System.Data
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.data/1.0.5000.0b77a5c561934e089/system.runtime.remoting.dll
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

I am working on an xml grabber for the Chinese satellite TV programs here is the State. Before that could happen, the xmltv parser in GBPVR needs to be able to support unicode characters.

If I take any xmltv generated files (english only), open it up in notepad and save as unicode. GBPVR will refused to load it.

On the same note, the music and video library does not support unicode either. An music file with a Chinese character in the files name will not be player by GBPVR, and if the id tag field is Chinese, junk is display on the screen.

I would expect other unicode language would have the same problem, anybody has similar problem?