PVR350 owner that gets system lockup?

[Guest]

Quote[/b] ]You can use the -tvguide command line parameter to go straight to the tv guide.

Sweet. :-)

Quote[/b] ]If WinTV2000 is running when GB-PVR needs to perform a recording then the recording will fail, so you'll need to be careful to only run wintv2000 when no recordings are due.

No script that runs when the recording starts, so that I can force wintv to shutdown first? Or, for that matter, if I could get control whenever the recording is being scheduled, then I could add a  windows scheduled task to shutdown wintv a minute or two before the recording starts.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]No script that runs when the recording starts, so that I can force wintv to shutdown first?

Nope.

[jsouza]

Update: I have narrowed down the cause of the lockups on my machine, and I have now been able to complete several recordings without the machine locking up.

The lockups seem to only occur if GBPVR.EXE is running when completing a recording. I use the TV out of the PVR-350 with GBPVR. The PVR-350's TV out support is really nice and I like being able to both navigate GBPVR's menus and watch recordings via this high-quality output (much better than watching either via the VGA port through a scan converter to S-Video, plus the hardware decoder of the PVR-350's TV out requires less system resources than using a software decoder through the standard VGA connector). However, since GBPVR uses the overlay functionality of the PVR-350 to display its menus via the TV out, the code in the driver which supports this overlay functionality is active while GBPVR.EXE is running, which was the case for me whenever a recording was occurring (since I was leaving GBPVR.EXE running all the time). Now, if I run GBPVR.EXE only when I am actually at the machine and not when the machine is idle, GBPVR.EXE is not running when recordings are made and thus the machine does not lockup.

I really like being able to use GBPVR via the TV out, without having to switch my TV to the input from the VGA output of the machine first, in order to launch GBPVR.EXE, and then switch back to viewing the TV out of the PVR-350. I also like GBPVR's built-in support for the Hauppauge remote without running the IR.EXE utility. So, and I fully realize that the lockup bug is actually in the driver for the PVR-350, I was wondering if in a future release of GBPVR that perhaps the recording service could be modified to launch GBPVR.EXE when the power button on the Hauppauge remote is pressed? I realize that this may not be entirely trivial as code to handle reading the remote events would then have to be added to the recording service itself, and there then might be contention for the remote in the cases where GBPVR.EXE is running (the recording service would probably have to monitor when GBPVR.EXE starts and stops, and then handle the remote accordingly).

Anyway, I apologize for the long winded reply, but I just wanted everyone to know that there is a workaround for those of you who have lockup problems with the PVR-350 (use driver version 22254 or 22266 and don't leave GBPVR.EXE running while recordings are occurring).

P.S. Note that I don't think that there is any workaround for lockups when exiting live TV, but I only use my PVR-350 for recording and then playing back recordings, so I can live with this limitation.

[HarR]

You can already do that yourself, but you'll need ir.exe to run.
In the default section of the iremote.ini file you can assign the startup command for gbpvr.exe to any button you want. Nice thing is you can use this butten again to make gbpvr the active app again once an other app is in front.

[Guest]

Quote[/b] ]You can already do that yourself, but you'll need ir.exe to run.
In the default section of the iremote.ini file you can assign the startup command for gbpvr.exe to any button you want. Nice thing is you can use this butten again to make gbpvr the active app again once an other app is in front.

Was this a reply to my problem? In that case I don't quite get it :-)

[HarR]

Sorry, was an anwser to jsouza's question about the power button.

[stefan]

That's ok. Not your fault, rather mine, for thinking any or all posts are for me ;-)

(wow, now registered, finally

[stefan]

I just can't let this topic go =)

I've finally got all my channels the way I want them, so now I'm playing round a little. I have a question regarding these freezes that keep occuring. I get them almost immediately (like, at the latest the 10th time the OSD shows on the screen) when watching live TV. However, when I watch a recorded show, I can't get the system to lock up no matter how much I try. Have I just been "lucky" when I watch the recorded shows, or are recorded shows and live TV to different things when talking about the freeze bug in the drivers? Could it be so that recorded shows are safe to watch even though the system freezes on live tv, or should I expect lockups any minute now? =)

[jsouza]

That's my experience as well. I cannot watch live TV without the occasional lockup, using the TV out of the PVR-350. So I don't use GB-PVR to watch live TV, just to record shows and playback recordings.

[stefan]

And that works without problems for you? So, now I basically need a foolproof way of not hitting the "live tv" button ;-)