New issues

[sachin]

After a few days of rebooting, reinstalling I finally got the basic PVR functionality going. I would like to share two issues:
1. After booting p the PC on of the days, the GBPVR icon was missing both on the desktop and the start menu. On opening the configuration file, I got an mdb error (see the attached files). I had to uninstall and reinstall GBPVR to get it running again. Has not recurred again (yet). I do not know if this is a bug, but i thought that the developers may be interested.
2. After a few minutes of use, the interface used to become very slow, the channel changes taking 15-20 seconds. The entire system used to hang up frequently requiring a hard reboot especially after pause play. I read somewhere about heating issues with PVR 350, so i got a slot cooler fan from circuitcity (11.99 $) and installed in the slot adjacent to the PVR card. The system now works without the hangups. Last night, just to test things, I had it on for the entire night (recorded a Everybody loves Raymond episode and a movie from TBS). It was still runnng in the morning, with only little delay in the interface.

Finally, i think the mpg editor which came with PVR 350 is superb. I could edit the ELR episode (remove the pre and post padding and the commercials) and have it ready to watch as an uninterrupted file in less than 2 minutes.

cheers

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1. After booting p the PC on of the days, the GBPVR icon was missing both on the desktop and the start menu. On opening the configuration file, I got an mdb error (see the attached files). I had to uninstall and reinstall GBPVR to get it running again. Has not recurred again (yet). I do not know if this is a bug, but i thought that the developers may be interested.

Access databases are bit prone to this happening if your machine crashes during writing to the database, or if you turn the power off during this same activity.

2. After a few minutes of use, the interface used to become very slow, the channel changes taking 15-20 seconds. The entire system used to hang up frequently requiring a hard reboot especially after pause play. I read somewhere about heating issues with PVR 350, so i got a slot cooler fan from circuitcity (11.99 $) and installed in the slot adjacent to the PVR card. The system now works without the hangups. Last night, just to test things, I had it on for the entire night (recorded a Everybody loves Raymond episode and a movie from TBS). It was still runnng in the morning, with only little delay in the interface.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach your gbpvr.exe.log and gbpvr.exe-native.log and I'll take a look.