MVP drops connection playing MPEG

[jksmurf]

groover_km

I am still getting regular dop-outs watching live tv on the MVP and was wondering what else to try and if you had had any success?

It wouldn't be so bad if it JUST dropped the connection, and restarted the service. But when the MVP drops the connection, GBPVR merrily keeps recording LiveTV, so I have to keep going upstairs and restarting it. Grrr...

I have the thing on a wireless (G-only) connection with one router set up as a bridge and the (WDS connection) other hooked to the GBPVR PC (also the main PC connected to the internet). I don't think I need a switch (as proposed as a solution earlier this week) as the Bridge router is a switched router anyway AFAIK, and the MVP is the only device on the router.

For anyone else looking, some solutions seem to be:
1. Revert to an earlier dongle.bin (the earlier ones comes with 94.13 anyway) but you need to unplug/replug the MVP to load it.
2. Increase the MVP pre-play delay.
3. Use the MVP via a switch (to isolate it from your network).
4. If all else fails, "Go Wired".
5. Get a beefier (or separate) HTPC that doesn't interrupt the GBPVR Video/Audio Stream when someone is using it or e.g. NAV runs.
6. If wireless, watch microwaves and cordless phones.

The above solutions are all contained in various MVP threads.

k.

[groover km]

Just to update all, with some help frm sub I now have everything working fine. I have also added another MVP to the setup (thank you radio shack), so I now have the existing wired unit and a new unit in the bedroom that I am running wirelessly.

To the good advice that jksmurf posted above, I would add the following - some of it may be specific to me, but it is worth checking....

I have had gbpvr on my system for around 12 months and used it every day; adding every possible plug-in, trying different skins, etc. Finally I saw that my gbpvr.mdb database was a staggering 300MB, and using 120MB RAM when idle - no wonder it took forever to load, the MVP was sluggish, and live TV on the MVP was a non-starter. I compacted the database using Access, which reduced it to 90MB which improved the situation but didn't fix it completely.

In the end, I bit the bullet and uninstalled the whole lot and reinstalled it from the ground up, only adding the plugins that I use and checking everything worked after each addition. I also switched skins to the Blue MCE2 skin which IMHO is usually supported, has a smaller memory footprint (loads quicker), and looks good on the TVs and the monitor.

Now everything works fine*, my gbpvr.mdb is 8MB, memory usage is a respectable 40MB, MVPs typically start up before I've got to the end of the first 'contacting servers' screen and WAF is up to 11.

(*probably put the kiss of death on it right there)

Hopefully this will be of help to others.

Cheers,

al.

[jksmurf]

H,mm.. I still get the MVP drop out changing channels in LiveTV. If I exit out, go back to TVGuide, then in again to the channel I want to watch, it works OK. If I just channel surf, it hates me...

7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] getValue cached value: /settings/DefaultSkipSecondsForward : 60
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] getValue cached value: /settings/DefaultSkipSecondsBack : 30
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] getValue cached value: /settings/ManualSkipTimebase : Minutes
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] MVP not sending frame
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] MVP request processed
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 VERBOSE [115] MVP data read: 1 (8)
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..406 ERROR [115] handleMVPConnection() exception: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..476 VERBOSE [116] waiting for livetv data! File size is: 50980800
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..476 VERBOSE [115] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.x3d75adb3418c5c9e()
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..486 ERROR [115] handleMVPConnection() exception: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..506 VERBOSE [115] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.x3d75adb3418c5c9e()
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xd3faf5962405de4e()
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..506 ERROR [115] MVPWorkerThread - Connection lost, waiting a new one
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..576 VERBOSE [116] waiting for livetv data! File size is: 50980800
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..576 VERBOSE [116] Not all bytes read. Got:0 Filesize now:50980800
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..576 VERBOSE [116] Detected file switch condition
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..576 ERROR [116] Media stream thread caught exception: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
7/11/2005 11:57:46 p.m..606 ERROR [116] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xf9d81bb81f7c2ff0()