gbpvr.exe dying and recorded shows no longer available

[unixdude]

A few points to make here at the start.

1. Thank you! This is an awesome project and I know a ton of work has gone into it.
   
2. I am new to gbpvr and this is my first install (I love it)
   
3. This is my first post to the forum, so be please be gentle...
   

I accomplished with gbpvr in less than 4 hours, what I couldn't with mythtv after several days... and I am a unix guy... there I said it! Again, great job to all who have contributed to this project!

The build went great and worked perfectly right from the start with no plugins... then I started adding things, tweaking things, and eventually broke the whole thing. :o

OK, so here is the deal.

After adding the My Videos plugin (and all the related software), everytime I stop playing a video gbpvr.exe crashes.

After downloading and running from the command line the RenameRecording utility, I can no longer access any recorded shows.

So here are my questions:

Should I try to work through these issues or start a fresh?

If I do start again, what is the best way to clear out all the previous work, short of reinstalling Windows?

Finally, I would like to play with comskip, but every link points to the same site (http://mk.kaashoek.com/comskip/) which doesn't seem to be up... can someone point me to a working link?

Thanks again,
UnixDude

[reven]

After adding the My Videos plugin (and all the related software), everytime I stop playing a video gbpvr.exe crashes.

can you post your gbpvr.exe.log file after a crash.

[unixdude]

Here is the log file:

2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.406 VERBOSE [2] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.406 VERBOSE [2] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\config.xml
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.421 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.421 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.421 VERBOSE [2] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.421 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
2/28/2006 6:37:03 PM.421 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error
2/28/2006 6:37:04 PM.296 WARNING [2] User requested startup on second monitor, but Screen.AllScreens indicates only one monitor is available
2/28/2006 6:37:04 PM.843 ERROR [2] Unable to locate specified key command file: OnScreenKeyboard.xml
2/28/2006 6:37:05 PM.718 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="ForegroundTransparency"]
2/28/2006 6:37:05 PM.796 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="MenuType"]
2/28/2006 6:37:05 PM.875 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="CloseButton"]
2/28/2006 6:37:08 PM.187 ERROR [2] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:08 PM.187 ERROR [2] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:08 PM.203 ERROR [2] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:17 PM.171 ERROR [2] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="ForegroundTransparency"]
2/28/2006 6:37:27 PM.250 ERROR [118] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:27 PM.250 ERROR [118] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:27 PM.265 ERROR [118] Could not delete from specified tables.
2/28/2006 6:37:43 PM.921 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x230262 wparam=0x1b lparam=0x1 result=0x0 : System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Operation must use an updateable query.
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextErrorHandling(Int32 hr)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextForSingleResult(tagDBPARAMS dbParams, Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText(Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommand(CommandBehavior behavior, Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderInternal(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at xd426863f4d052758.x38d54e470ed17baf.x8d76ac89b9dab854(String x8b1d9e3189e6e73d, Int32 x113e47efaf01feb0)
at xae10db17d26ba033.x977e0aa739bd29d7.x215891cf5184b129()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x977e0aa739bd29d7.OnKeyDown(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& x5f8f2c40c000ab2c)

[unixdude]

I haven't heard back from anyone regarding my questions... but I came up with some answers that work for me. Here they are in case anyone else is interested.

1) You can rebuild your gbpvr box simply by copying the gbpvr.mdb file from the old box to the new assuming that all of your recorded files are still available and in the same location.

2) I fixed the gbpvr.exe crash problem by re-installing my video codecs. I used the XP_Codec_Pack1.3.0 from http://www.free-codecs.com

3) I found a copy of comskip on the SageTV forum, since the main site seems to be down

[unixdude]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot...

I recovered my missing recorded shows by manually editing the gbpvr.mdb file with MS Access. It seems that RenameRecording had renamed the files, but somehow misseded changing their names in the gbpvr database, so gbpvr couldn't find them. However, this was probably due to some mis-configuration on my part because since then I have been using the RenameRecording utility regularly without any issues.