GBPVR as client having trouble

[mkenyon2]

Do you use GBPVRRecordingService.exe to serve streams? Because all I have running on my server are that and GBPVRTray.exe (that is, all for GBPVR apps.)

[sub]

Do you use GBPVRRecordingService.exe to serve streams?

Yes, but the logs for the recording service are never showing a connection being made. It does show the server is waiting for a connection.

Did you check firewalls at both the client and the server? Can you temporarily disable the firewals at both ends?

[mkenyon2]

Disabled firewall on both systems. I get the message:
Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

What object? What instance? Gotta love vague .Net error messages. Here are the logs from the client. Want the server logs too?

I've got VS 2005 Pro if you want me to debug.

[mkenyon2]

BTW, I have been trying shows recorded from the server. But Live TV doesn't work on the client either.

[mkenyon2]

Here's the logs from the Server. I found that if I start Live TV mode from the client, the server starts Live TV mode in the GBPVR status window. But the client stays black.

[sub]

Those logs still look the same. The server never gets a connection and it all goes downhill from there.

[mkenyon2]

Should I put an IP address instead of the servername?

[mkenyon2]

Weird... ok... I tried the live TV with the firewalls off... Client said starting Timeshift mode TV... then gave a message 'Error: Failure playing back file'.

From the client, I can browse to the \\ghz\Video\ folder on the server, and see a file with the name of the show I was trying to watch. I double click on the file (from the client) and it comes up in Nero ShowTime. (Nero is what I use to watch DVDs on this system.) The show plays.

So, from the client, I can see the EPG data. When I start GBPVR on the client it even shows 'Recording Soon' correctly. I can tell the server to start Live TV. But I can't view the shows in GBPVR.

FM doesn't work on the client either. There is a tuner that works on the server, but doesn't pass through to the Client.

In the Capture Sources section of the client, I have streaming, not File Sharing.

Any of this help?

[mkenyon2]

I think I see something.
In this .zip, the file... 'GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log' shows that the show 'Friends' started to be recorded. Then there is an error:

12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.854 VERBOSE [7] File length currently: 8982464
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.854 VERBOSE [7] READ: 49152 bytes from offset 8474560
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.854 VERBOSE [7] READ: complete
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.854 VERBOSE [7] File length currently: 8982464
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.854 VERBOSE [7] READ: 49152 bytes from offset 8523712
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.885 VERBOSE [7] READ: complete
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.885 VERBOSE [7] File length currently: 8982464
12/25/2006 10:50:01 PM.885 VERBOSE [7] READ: 49152 bytes from offset 8572864
12/25/2006 10:50:02 PM.244 VERBOSE [17] OOB Streaming Thread exiting...
12/25/2006 10:50:02 PM.244 ERROR [7] Unexpected exception in Streaming Handler thread: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
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 GBPVR.RecordingService.x84645f84ebe04256.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
12/25/2006 10:50:02 PM.244 VERBOSE [7] Media Streaming Thread exiting...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.166 VERBOSE [14] Media Streaming Thread started...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.166 VERBOSE [14] Streaming media handler starting
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.166 VERBOSE [14] getValue cached value: /settings/ClientModeExtendedLogging : true
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.182 VERBOSE [13] OOB Streaming Thread started...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.182 VERBOSE [13] getValue cached value: /settings/ClientModeExtendedLogging : true
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.182 VERBOSE [13] Streaming media handler starting
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.291 VERBOSE [14] OPEN request received, but no filename supplied
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.291 VERBOSE [14] OPEN: failed...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.291 ERROR [14] Unexpected exception in Streaming Handler thread: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at GBPVR.RecordingService.x84645f84ebe04256.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.291 VERBOSE [14] Media Streaming Thread exiting...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.307 VERBOSE [10] Received request to stop livetv: 1
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.307 VERBOSE [10] Stopping live tv recording...
12/25/2006 10:50:08 PM.307 VERBOSE [10] Stopping recording oid:1
12/25/2006 10:50:12 PM.182 ERROR [13] Unexpected exception in OOB Streaming Handler thread: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
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 GBPVR.RecordingService.x84645f84ebe04256.xa214808a50743496()
12/25/2006 10:50:12 PM.182 VERBOSE [13] OOB Streaming Thread exiting...
12/25/2006 10:54:35 PM.979 VERBOSE [9] Checking if GB-PVR can remove: C:\Video\Friends_1_20061225_22302300.mpg
12/25/2006 10:54:35 PM.979 VERBOSE [9] LiveTV file removed: C:\Video\Friends_1_20061225_22302300.mpg

[sub]

Thats definitely looking closer now, and seems to be correctly receiving connections and streaming video back to the client, but still something wrong. I'm not sure what exactly, but I'll think about it some more.