Enhanced Web Admin

[normanr]

Your recording source is failing to load. What recorders are you using?

[angryant]

Xrecord.. seems to work fine otherwise, can record shows and xrecord through the tv, but agreed, looks like a problem when web admin tries to load the plugin, maybe I should reinstall xrecord?

[angryant]

Have deleted and reinstalled xrecord, also removed all plugins from web\plugins.. tested xrecord, still get xrecord startup error:

25/07/2005 21:00:53.750 ERROR [49] Error initializing plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\plugins\recordPlugin.dll
25/07/2005 21:00:53.750 ERROR [49] One or more of the types in the assembly unable to load.
25/07/2005 21:00:53.750 ERROR [49] at System.Reflection.Module.GetTypesInternal(StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at a1.e()

Would this plugin directly impact web admin as it seems to work okay when invoked through the gbpvr tv interface.

[angryant]

Have removed ALL but the standard plugins and reverted to the original Recordings plugin. Still no EPG guide. See attached log, obviously not containing the recordplugin.dll problem anymore, but there is this error:

25/07/2005 21:12:20.406 VERBOSE [76] creating DirectRecordingSource
25/07/2005 21:12:20.406 VERBOSE [76] Loading DirectRecordingSource Configuration : 1
25/07/2005 21:12:20.421 ERROR [76] Error int SourceConfigurationContainer::LoadAll(): Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
25/07/2005 21:12:20.421 ERROR [76] Stack:
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at cw.a(Boolean A_0)

Is this impacting web admin?

[normanr]

It's failing to load your recording sources. How many and of what type do you have in the database? Do you have MSAccess? How big is your gbpvr.mdb file? This doesn't seem to be a web interface, or Xrecord issue.

[angryant]

I have a single source, a PVR-350 as Device #1, Svideo, this works perfectly at all times through the TV interface, recording always works, on-screen guide still always works.

MS Access is not installed on the machine, it was a fresh dedicated build of the machine specifically for GBPVR so I didn't bother installing Office etc. I'll install Access and see if it helps.. perhaps a JET driver issue? Copied the MDB to another machine, CAPTURE_SOURCE table has 1 row:

oid name recording_source_class epgsource_class channel_changer_class
1 PVR-350 GBPVR.Backend.Common.DirectRecordingSource GBPVR.Backend.Common.XmltvConfiguration GBPVR.Backend.Common.RedRatTunerController

DIRECT_RECORDING_SOURCE table has 1 row:

capture_source_oid board constant_channel recording_source country_code profile_name_HQ profile_name_SQ tuning_type card_type
1 1 0 4 44 DVD Long Play DVD Long Play 0 Hauppauge PVR350

If you like I can empty my EPG and mail my database to you? Unusual that the web plugins need to load the capture sources for viewing the guide. I guess it's part of loading the API interface, I guess it initializes all the plugins and sources even if you're not going to be using them in your plugin. Anyway, as I said, gbpvr and recording functions perfectly through the on-screen interface and the source is usable. Also checked the normal gbpvr logs and don't see the source error, it only appears in the web logs.

Should I completely delete gbpvr and start again? Not convinced this will fix my problems, it certainly sounds like a specific function when accessing epg data fails through web admin, while working fine on-screen.

Thanks for your help on this, really appreciate it.

[normanr]

Ahhh, RedRat ---> try coping the RedRat.dll file into the gbpvr/web/bin folder.

[angryant]

My gbpvr.mdb is 20MB in size.

[angryant]

RedRat indeed! The little bugger! It's working now! So, what's the rule, what dll's should we copy across to \web\bin and \web\Plugins? Rather than maintain .dll's between the web and gbpvr directories, should I just add \gbpvr\Plugins and \gbpvr\bin to my path? Thanks again, much appreciated.

[normanr]

good, good, glad to hear it. Idealy I'd like to shuffle things around so that you don't have to have these 'copies' lying around - busy chatting to sub about it.