DVB-T Radio kills PVRX2 After Installing Weather Plug-in

[Lao Pan]

GBPVR with DVB-T Radio was working OK until I installed the Weather Plug-in.
Now when I open DVB -T Radio, PVRX2 stops responding and has to be shut down with Task Manager. I have tried un-installing the Weather plug-in and un-installing & reinstalling DVB-T Radio, GBPVR, Community Skin, .net framework, vcredist etc.
Only thing that fixed it was a format and reinstall of Vista.
- Thats when I found out that the Weather Plug-in was the culprit!!
I don't really want to reinstall Vista this side of Christmas, so any pointers as to the problem would be much very welcome.

DVB-T Radio Logs attached

[bgowland]

To be honest I haven't got an answer to this.

I've looked at the Weather plugin source code and can see it uses HTTP to grab weather information. It is possible that it's interfering with the DVB-T Radio plugin using localhost TCP communication with the DvbtrService, but I'm not sure how likely that is.

Simply removing the Weather plugin DLL from the plugins folder should cure the problem (possibly needing a reboot). I can't see how it could continue to interfere with things once it has been removed.

I'll have a word with the Weather plugin developers to see if they can shed any light.

Cheers,
Brian

[Lao Pan]

Problem Sorted
After your assurance that it was not a coding conflict I started looking in other directions - the (connection forcibly closed by the host) rang a bell as a possible Firewall problem. I had previously allowed permissions for the Radio Service & PVRX2 and even tried (allow all traffic) without success. Finally I bit the bullet and un-installed Eset Smart Security Suite and that did the trick! DVB-T Radio back to normal. (Blue & Community Skins)
It would appear that even after permission for internal loop-back TCP traffic have been set in the Eset Firewall, if then external permissions are granted (HTTP for the Weather Plugin in this instance) all internal permissions for that program are revoked, even with the firewall disabled! I suppose thats one way to stop Trojans - very Secure but definitely not Smart.
I've now put Eset Anti-virus and Comodo Firewall on the computer and all seems well - just got to summon up the courage to put the weather plug-in back on.
Next problem - remove the Chipmunks from the Talk Radio channels - it must be a Bit-rate - Decoder incompatibility. Got any Ideas?
Thanks for the prompt response and excellent plug-in

[bgowland]

Problem Sorted

Good news.

Next problem - remove the Chipmunks from the Talk Radio channels - it must be a Bit-rate - Decoder incompatibility. Got any Ideas?

Very possibly decoder related - I use the MPA Audio Decoder which works fine for me on talk and music channels. If you install it, it should become the default (you can check which is used by viewing the Dvbtr.grf file in GraphEdit).

I think I built in the ability to specify audio decoder by name but I'll have to check my code to remember how to do that (it was a long time ago :o ).

Thanks for the prompt response and excellent plug-in

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Brian

[Lao Pan]

Update
I finally summoned up the courage and put the weather plug-in back on the computer. - aagh - back to square one:mad: DVBT-Radio shows for an instant then kills PVRX2 (not responding) with similar logs to before.
Removing the weather plug-in - reinstalling DVBT-Radio using different firewall and finally clean install of GBPVR + DVBT-Radio all were to no avail
Finally I un-installed Nod32 Anti-virus reinstalled it and recopied DVBT-radio back on and all was back to normal = scanned for channels and away.
Guess I will have to for-go the weather plug-in for now
I think there may be a conflict between nod32 or eset smart security and these 2 plug-ins - or possibly un-installing the anti-virus rebuilds the tcp/ip stack to a previous state.
Has anybody used Vista, GBPVR 1.2.13, DVBT-radio, Weather Plug-in together? What Anti-virus + Firewall can be recommended to work - Preferably Free if I've got to Ditch Nod32 / Smart Security.

[bgowland]

I downloaded and installed the Weather plugin myself and I don't understand quite what it could be doing to interfere with the dvbt radio plugin. Admittedly I'm using XP and I don't use NOD32 or eset Smart Security.

The anti-virus software shouldn't have anything to do with your problem - if anything it's going to be the firewall. I'm not sure what the Weather plugin would trigger in the firewall software to break the dvbt radio comms though.

You could try switching to the built-in Windows firewall and perhaps try the free version of AVG if you still think that NOD32 is causing trouble.

For reference, the dvbt radio plugin uses localhost:3112 for communicating with dvbt radio service. As for the Weather plugin, it seems to just do a standard HTTP request to get the weather info.

I've PM'd the authors mentioned on the Weather plugin wiki page but haven't heard back yet.