GBPVR stability issues?

[twinfrey]

Hi. I just downloaded GBPVR this week and it seems like a really nice program. I would love to use it as my PVR software of choice, but after last night I'm a little concerned about the stability. I was watching Live TV (which looked great). I then decided to record the current program for 15 minutes. I then went back to the main menu and went to the recordings and began watching the Pending Recording. It looked great and worked flawlessly. I cancelled the recording and went to the DVD player. When it started the video was weird (It started off moving as if it were in slow motion, then I was seeing ghosting artifacts). I exited the DVD player and went back to Live TV which was also playing very slowly at this point (It looked like you would expect slow motion to look). I exited GBPVR and restarted it, and all of the issues went away.

Has anybody else seen this and is there a way to fix it? I love the idea of the program and when it was working, it looked GREAT!!!

I'm using a Hauppuage 150 card with Dish Network.
My Computer is has a 3.4 Ghz processor with 1GB of RAM.

Thanks in advance for any help that can be given.

[stefan]

GBPVR doesn't do any playback of any files by itself, but relies on the installed decoders to play back files. If one of your decoders decide to act up, then...

[twinfrey]

What decoders are generally good ones to use? I believe that I decided to use the Cyberlink Decoder. Are there better alternatives?

[stefan]

This has been discussed throrughly in the past. You'll get as many answers as there are decoders Search the forums for a bit and you'll get a hint what people think.

That said, cyberlink decoders should be fine to use; they shouldn't act up the way you describe. But you might have gotten a werid version... try and see if you can install another version and see if anything happens. Or, it was a one-time thing... can you reproduce it?

[twinfrey]

I'll have to see if I can reproduce it tonight. It wasn't until I switched to the Cyberlink Decoder that I could get anything stable at all (it would be in this weird state all of the time).

In your experience with GBPVR are you able to trust it or are there occasionally times where it crashes and won't record your program? I love the program and I really want to use it. Is it useable reliably?

Thanks again. You're being a big help.

[stefan]

I have used gbpvr for... 2½ years, I think. I have problems now with my new computer (but that is due to hardware problems (computer not waking up correctly) and me not having time to sit down and figure out what is wrong). With my previous computer I have never had gbpvr miss a recording.

[gEd]

stefan: Obviously I don;t know the root-cause of your wake up problems but take a look at my wake.cmd that I use to check whether my nova-t usb2 has woken up correctly

http://forums.gbpvr.com/attachment.php?a...1158438380
wake.cmd.txt

[stefan]

Thank's... but the problem I have is that my bios sometimes decides to boot from my secondary HD (when waking up from hibernate only)...where I have an old installation of windows... I don't know whether the fact that I *have* an old version of windows on that drive is the reason for my bios to boot from there or not. One of these days I'll remove it from the hard drive and see what happens

Edit: the bios actually permanently (until I manually change it back) changes the boot order between my hard drives when this happens.

[peterh]

Is everything OK with your main drive? Perhaps it isn't ready early enough so the Bios won't 'see' it ? Some of these boards with modern bios are really infuriating when you're doing a bit of disk swapping and the bios takes a dislike to something and sits there trying to boot from the network

[stefan]

Is everything OK with your main drive?

I don't know... I mean, when it works, it works really great. And when the above happens, all I have to do is enter the bios and switch boot order, then everything is fine again... I just can't be darned to explain how to do that to my wife and kids