veteran GBPVR user needs immediate help :P (w7 x64 + w2k8r2 x64)

[lif]

Hello!

I've been using GBPVR for ages now (from 2003 or 2004 till now) and I feel like I've been contributed into GBPVR development a lot also from user "hack" side (multiple net client usage scenarios; automated transcoding etc.), but today I'm stuck in mud and need your help as Vancouver Olympics is arriving and after my OSs' upgrade GBPVR won't work at all and I really can't find out why...

My successful setup already for about 4 years: now windows 2008 x64 r2 (previous w2k3 x86; 8GB RAM on ASUS M2NPV-VM; AMD X2 5200+) utilizing Hauppauge HVR-1300 (for national Estonian h.264 DVB-T) and X3M-TV TU1100L USB-stick (for Finnish MPEG2 DVB-T) (sorry, my old analogue PVR-150 retired about 6 months ago fighting against some lightening storm) + ASUS Pundit-R (P4 3.2GHz 1GB RAM; XPSP2 x86; from year 2003) + IBM T42 + relevantly new Lenovo x200 (x64 w7 enterprise).

Previously I was running w2k3std x86 on server side for years and everything was just fabulous. Just some weeks ago I upgraded server to w2k8r2 x64 (legal one, of course) and the problems started. First of all, Hauppauge drivers installed from web ok, but WinTV 2000 didn't start. After Googling for hours, found BDA for R2 x64 .msi package, which still didn't provide sufficent success, even VLC didn't tune to DVB-T. After reading tens of forums, found that some tens of .dll's are needed from w7 to be hacked into w2k8r2 - fine, did it and VLC tunes all right! ...and also shows TV... Installed Visual C++ x64 sp to server and enabled .NET feature, Desktop Experience and DirectX at server 2008 R2 x64 and GBPVR installed ok and Config runs ok... Channel mapping works, EPG update works... but GBPVR web service doesn't even show up on "netstat -an"... connecting to tcp port using http times out. Windows firewall is disabled. Am I still missing some features on w2k8r2? Do I need to install also .NET 2.0 (as I remember, GBPVR used it?) along with .NET 3.5? Despite GBPVR http service doesn't run, I was successful recording shows using my antique GBPVR setup on ASUS Pundit-machine (XP SP2). I was quite happy. But after DVBLink installation onto server (for second USB tuner, which is not included in GBPVR setup) and couple w2k8r2 mandatory updates, my client machine does not record any more shows. TV guide is ok, pressing "quick record" marks show as red, but immediately it goes into "recordings" as green and ready and when looking onto server share, no .TS file nor directory is created. My T42 and X200 behaves the same way. All shares and permissions are "777", so nothing could prevent this, but still I can't figure out why my clients are not any more able nor to record or show any shows.

If you have w2k8r2 x64 setup, please write here what features / add-ons are installed on top of OS and with what permissions and firewall rules are you sucessfully running GBPVR networked setup???

Thanks in advance!!!

BR,
Liivo Liivrand

[sub]

but GBPVR web service doesn't even show up on "netstat -an"...

If the web server isnt starting then you might need to view the properties of the "GBPVR Recording Service" service, and enable the 'allow service to interact with desktop' setting.

TV guide is ok, pressing "quick record" marks show as red, but immediately it goes into "recordings" as green and ready and when looking onto server share, no .TS file nor directory is created.

I would try recording on a local drive first.

[lif]

Thanks Sub, 50% success, as "interact with desktop" enabled web service. But this proved that recording issue is on server side not on w7 client side as scheduling recordings from web are also "ready" without .TS creation. Going to debug now more. What could DVBLink and w2k8r2 updates screw up...

[sub]

Try doing a recording, then zip and attach the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log and GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log and I'll take a look.

[lif]

If the web server isnt starting then you might need to view the properties of the "GBPVR Recording Service" service, and enable the 'allow service to interact with desktop' setting.

I would try recording on a local drive first.

Try doing a recording, then zip and attach the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log and GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log and I'll take a look.

Thanks Sub, but seems like I got it working. I had couple of things wrong(?). First of all turner initialising in w2k8r2 is amazing slow (compared to w2k3), but if it is eventually working, doesn't mind....

a) from some instance, I did put on client side and on server side in config.xml recordingservicelocation 192.168.0.101:7968 and did disable GBPVR service on w7 client, if I remember correctly, I did have it working this way on my XP... but replacing with 127.0.0.1 on server and client it is working...
b) recordingsdirectory was on both \\sky\pvr, but should have been on server D:\PVR and on client \\sky\pvr
c) after upgrade from w2k3 x86 to w2k8r2 x64, microsoft guys thought that it would be nice to abondon all permissions on my D: drive and default them to "administrator" and leave some ghost owner "s105-.......", taking ownership of the directory to present one enabled .TS files to be written there, it didn't help that administrator had full write access... strange...

but it is still now one issue up, when from web clicking on TV-guide and then on the running show it will show only "close - take no action" button, but not "record" in IE8 on w7. As I remember, I did have same issue with IE8 that some times it shows "record" and some times not, but on Firefox it will always show "record" button (besides if show has past ending time of course). Any hints?

PS. Sub, you are having nice weather there? We are having on this side of Earth -17C currently