Sudden restarts NOVA-T USB and PVR350

[Dom]

It's a window titled "ActiveWindow" that GB-PVR has triggered before when it's gone wrong. It's not a MediaPlayer / NeroPlayer / Cyberlink player window - just a frame with video running in it, and the title "Active Window".

In fact - from another thread:

there is an incompatibility between the Cyberlink Mpeg2 decoder (which you may have selected, or is your system default) and the VMR renderer. This combination will cause a separate ActiveMovie window to popup. To correct the problem, either choose a different mpeg decoder, or change from VMR to Overlay.

I'll have to try some other settings tomorrow...

[Dom]

I came home from work today to find GB-PVR eating up the CPU cycles - and claiming that it was recording Jamie's Great Escape - which was on last night

the logs seem to show the right things happening:
GBPVRRecordingService.exe-Native.log
03:14:00.295 INFO BDARecorder:::StartRecording(Twinhan Alpha USB DVB-T, 1, E:\GB-PVR video\Jamies Great Escape\Jamies Great Escape_20051114_03150400.mpg, T:C57,762000,0,0,8~P:8442~V:590~A:591~PMT:270~N:>More 4)
03:14:00.529 INFO Initializing DVB-T tuning request.
03:14:00.529 INFO tuning@1
03:14:00.545 INFO tuning@2
03:14:00.545 INFO tuning@3
03:14:00.576 INFO tuning@4
03:14:00.607 INFO tuning@5
03:14:00.669 INFO tuning@6
03:14:00.669 INFO tuning@7
03:14:00.685 INFO tuning@8
03:14:00.997 INFO tuning@8
03:14:01.059 VERBOSE getSetting(BDAMultiplexer)
03:14:01.901 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'MPEG2 Transport' to 'MPEG-2 Stream'
03:14:01.932 VERBOSE getSetting(EPGProcessingMode)
03:14:01.994 VERBOSE Mapping Video PID 590
03:14:02.041 VERBOSE Mapping Audio PID 591
03:14:02.368 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Video' to 'Input0'
03:14:25.420 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed!
03:14:25.420 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Audio' to 'Input1'
03:14:25.420 VERBOSE ConnectPins failed!
03:14:25.420 VERBOSE ConnectPins: 'Output0' to 'Input'
03:14:26.963 VERBOSE locked=0 present=0 strength=0 quality=0
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Writer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MainConcept (Nikon) MPEG Video Decoder
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG Audio Decoder
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - InterVideo Multiplexer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Twinhan USB2 DVB-T receiver
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBT Network Provider
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
03:14:28.880 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StartRecording() finished
04:02:00.180 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording()

but it clearly did still think it was recording...

and GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log had:
14/11/2005 03:14:00.046 INFO [23] Found new programme requiring recording: Jamie's Great Escape
14/11/2005 03:14:00.046 VERBOSE [23] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 11
14/11/2005 03:14:00.093 VERBOSE [23] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: E:\GB-PVR video\Jamies Great Escape\Jamies Great Escape_20051114_03150400.mpg
14/11/2005 03:14:00.108 VERBOSE [23] BDARecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:T:C57,762000,0,0,8~P:8442~V:590~A:591~PMT:270~N:>More 4
14/11/2005 03:14:28.880 VERBOSE [23] Programme is now recording
14/11/2005 03:14:28.880 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.save()
14/11/2005 03:14:28.880 VERBOSE [23] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
14/11/2005 03:14:28.942 VERBOSE [23] Adding E:\GB-PVR video\Jamies Great Escape\Jamies Great Escape_20051114_03150400.mpg to parallel processing queue
14/11/2005 03:14:28.942 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(7)
14/11/2005 03:14:28.942 VERBOSE [23] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
14/11/2005 04:02:00.180 VERBOSE [23] Recording has passed endtime+padding. Stopping.
14/11/2005 04:02:00.180 VERBOSE [23] Stopping recording oid:1

which sounds OK again...

As I said - I need to do some playing to find out what's going on. Oh - and there was another ActiveWindow floating about. I wasn't using the Cyberlink MPEG2 decoder, either...

Of course, I wasn't doing any decoding at all.

[sub]

Its something to do with the way a filter called "MainConcept (Nikon) MPEG Video Decoder" is installed on your machine. I recommend finding where it is installed on your machine, and uninstalling it.

03:14:27.727 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Writer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MainConcept (Nikon) MPEG Video Decoder
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG Audio Decoder
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - InterVideo Multiplexer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Twinhan USB2 DVB-T receiver
03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - Microsoft DVBT Network Provider

[sub]

03:14:27.727 VERBOSE - InterVideo Multiplexer

Also, you seem to be using the InterVideo mux, which I would recommend. It does a crap job. Try installing a Cyberlink one instead, or use the Microsoft DVR-MS one.