Can no longer watch Live TV! :(

[joshley]

Hola all!

I have a weeny problem that when I try to access Live TV, all of a sudden I get the following message:

"Error: Failure playing back file"

Now, the last thing I changed was the Live TV buffer dir, but tele worked the first time I tried after that, and from then on it doesn't. Even if I uninstall and reinstall GB-PVR, nothing. I changed the buffer dir to "C:\LiveTV Buffer", perhaps it doesn't like spaces?

Anyway, here's my "GBPVR.exe-native-1.log" log:

01:19:10.203 INFO Log started
01:19:10.203 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard()
01:19:10.203 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(OutputMode)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(TVStandard)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(ForceHDTV)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE Using vertical resolution: 576
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginLeft)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginTop)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginBottom)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDMarginRight)
01:19:37.578 VERBOSE getSetting(XCardOSDHighQualityOSD)
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Original flags: 00000003
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Setting PAL mode
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE New flags: 00000003
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE Setting CVBS mode
01:19:37.656 VERBOSE mode: 00000003
01:19:37.781 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:19:37.875 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:19:56.500 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100.mpg
01:19:56.906 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:19:56.906 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:19:56.968 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:19:57.250 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:19:57.343 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:21:20.593 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100-2.mpg
01:21:21.015 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:21:21.015 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:21:21.046 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:21:21.296 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:21:21.390 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:22:17.234 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard::playFile C:\TV-1-120050313_0100-2.mpg
01:22:17.656 VERBOSE Stopping previous graph
01:22:17.656 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:22:17.671 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()
01:22:17.937 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap()
01:22:18.031 VERBOSE DirectShowHelperXCard::BlendBitmap() done
...
01:22:46.734 INFO DirectShowHelperXCard:top()


And heres (what I assume is the relevant bit of) my "GBPVR.exe.log" log:

13/03/2005 12:40:03.265 VERBOSE [2] HideMouse ref=-1
13/03/2005 12:40:06.437 VERBOSE [2] RecordLiveTV: 1
13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] About to play LiveTV File: C:\LiveTV\TV-1-120050313_1200.mpg Channel: Galaxy 102.2 (Birmingham)
13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] Before LiveTV Play
13/03/2005 12:40:09.140 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x5013c wparam=0xd lparam=0x1c0001 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
at aw.a(Channel A_0)
at aw.k()
at bk.d()
at al.e()
at cc.a(KeyEventArgs A_0)
at cc.a(KeyEventArgs A_0)
at p.a(Object A_0, KeyEventArgs A_1)
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 p.a(Message& A_0)
13/03/2005 12:40:09.187 VERBOSE [2] StopLiveTV()

I assume it's something to do with the live tv buffer, but I don't know what, or how to fix it! :S

Thanks in advance for any ideas

josh

[Darx-starz]

Hi. Have another look at your logs:

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13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] About to play LiveTV File: C:\LiveTV\TV-1-120050313_1200.mpg Channel: Galaxy 102.2 (Birmingham)
13/03/2005 12:40:08.656 VERBOSE [2] Before LiveTV Play
13/03/2005 12:40:09.140 ERROR [2] Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x5013c wparam=0xd lparam=0x1c0001 result=0x0 : Failure playing back file : at

Your answer is there

[joshley]

lol Thanks..! I kinda figured that! But what am I supposed to do about it? That file doesn't exist. I posted the rest of the logs in case it might provide any useful info as to why the file cannot be opened/created. I tried creating a blank file and naming it that, but no use.

[Darx-starz]

You have created a dir with a space in it.

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"C:\LiveTV Buffer",

The log suggests it is looking for a dir that is c:\LiveTV. That is your problem. Looks like gbpvr has chomped the dir name and stop parsing once it sees white space. It thinks your dirname is "LiveTV". Not "LiveTV Buffer"

Dos makes two file names every time you create a dir or a filename. dir /x will show the 8.3 name. In this case it would be "LIVETV~1". This represents "LiveTV Buffer" the LFN name. Try putting the 8.3 name in gbvr config or change the name to something without a space in it.

[joshley]

My bad, I should have mentioned that as I thought the problem might be with the space, I changed the dir to "C:\LiveTV" and the logs shown above are as such... so it's actually supposed to be that now! I've tried putting it back to just "C:\" aswell, but no avail...