GBPVR just started randomly crashing

[Guy]

Hi Sub et al,

I have been using GBPVR for around three years. For the last year or so without any major problems (it is a great product). Completely out of the blue (I don't remember loading any new software or changing any configs), last week live tv has stopped working and pvrx2 has been maxing out the CPU usage. I can still watch movies and existing recordings, but it will no longer record anything or let me watch tv.

At first I thought it might be a problem with the tuner card (nova T 90xx) which was really old. So I used the problem as an excuse to buy a new dual tuner card (nova T 500). I then completely uninstalled GBPVR and did a fresh install with the latest version. Although the new Nova T card appears to work absolutely fine running the hauppauge winTV software, I am experiencing exactly the same problem with live TV as before. I've tried various other things, but I am now completely and utterly stuck. Help!


The symptoms are:
- on boot up I run 2 mvp clients. whey they load they immediately go to 70% CPU usage and stay there (I have an intel quad processor). If I use config to tell them not to run, then pvrx2 doesn't hog bandwidth, but still no live TV;
- pvrx2 won't run live TV or make any recordings.

The following line appears in the log when I try to go to live TV:

2009-09-13 15:54:45.546 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 127.0.0.1:7968

I have attached the log files for information. I look forward to any help you can give me,

cheers
guy.

[sub]

2009-09-13 15:54:45.546 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 127.0.0.1:7968

That sounds like some firewall software is getting the way of communication between the various components on your machine.

[Guy]

BINGO - you're a star. Thanks Sub.

I'm a fool. I didn't think I had made any changes to my computer. But, of course, I had let Mcafee load a new version of itself last week.....it didn't carry through the firewall settings in the new version - didn't even think of looking there.

Anyway, now all fixed and working again!

Many thanks Sub!

best wishes
g.

[sub]

Great.