3 separate problems: EPG causes crash, power DVD launches itself, audio issue

[pg1981]

Hi,

I recently installed the latest version of GBPVR (0.97.9) and after deep consultation with this forum have managed to get it working fairly well and iron out most of the issues I was having.

System is as follows:
Win XP SP2
Intel P4 Mobile 1.7Ghz
ATI X700
1 Gb RAM
WinTV Nova-T USB 2 with 45 button remote
Cyberlink Muxer (cant remember which version but will check when I get home, its the one from one of the other threads here)
Power DVD6 Deluxe which I have selected in all the dropdown boxes in Config (video decoder, audio decoder etc)

I have three slightly weird problems that I have not been able to solve (no apparent relation between them so I will go through 1 by 1)

EPG crashes GBPVR
I am using XMLTV GUI to download EPG data from radio times. This seems to work ok and channels appear in the TV guide as expected, I can select them and it will record them correctly. If I press the tv guide button when watching TV it opens the onscreen display showing the grid at the bottom and I can navigate through the listings. When I click on a program the channel changes to that station (as expected) but occasionaly it freezes the computer and the only way to get out is to do a force quit in task manager or in some cases restart the computer. After this, I have to unplug the TV card and reinstall the drivers to get it to work again. It only happens occasionally and only when using the on screen EPG whilst watching TV (i.e it doesnt seem to do it when I select a channel from the main menu). I will try to recreate it this evening and attach logs if that will help.

PowerDVD launches by itself
Sometime when I am flicking channels, the PowerDVD splash screen (the one with the woman in shades that shows when no DVD is loaded) flashes up on screen for a split second in between changing channels. This doesnt bother me particulary but occasionally the PowerDVD application itself launches and completely fills the screen but GBPVR is still running in the background. So I have to close it manually on the computer and GBPVR is visible again (more annoying especially if it involves having to get out of bed to do it ) Again, it seems to happen at random and infrequently but I will try to recreate and post logs.

Audio delay when resuming recording from pause mode
When I watch a recording from the beginning it plays fine. If I pause it and then resume the video continues to play but there is no sound. After about 10 seconds the picture will jerk slightly and the sound will kick in again. This happens every time I pause and then unpause. Doesnt seem to be a problem with the recording because if I watch it all the way through without stopping it's fine. I get a similar problem when wathcing TV in timeshift mode.

Again sorry if I have not described the bugs very well, they are really strange and I have no clue what could be causing them. I will try to and provide more info when I get home, but in the meantime any help would be hugely appreciated - its great software and so close to making it work perfectly.

Cheers

PS Is there any extra information that I should specifically include to help diagnose the problem.

[gEd]

welcome!

1&3)What drivers are you using for the nova-t? They should be >=2.4

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=6041

2) Perhaps Powerdvd is associated with mpeg files so that everytime one is accessed, it launches itself. Do your mpeg files have the powerdvd icon associated with them in windows explorer?

This could also possibly cause the crash you experience.

extra info?

Set error loggin to debug and when you have a crash, have a look in the .log files in the gbpvr folder and post any errror that you see. If in doubt, zip up and attach the logs to your post.

[sub]

1) could also be related to the version of the mux you're using. Post the output of MuxChecker.

[pg1981]

Output from muxchecker is:

GB-PVR has detected the following multiplex filters on your machine:

Found: CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILE: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MpgMux.ax
VERSION: 5.0.0813

mpg files are associated with windows media player and they seem to play fine if I open them with that - I can seek to different parts and there is no delay, jerkiness, loss of sound

I am starting to think that my first problem (EPG crashing) may not actually be due to GBPVR but rather something else, although what I'm not entirely sure. This evening I was watching TV fine, shut down GBPVR but left the computer on, came back an hour or so later (computer was in screensaver), fired up GBPVR and got the "object not referenced to object" error when I tried to watch live TV.

It seemed as though the tv card had deactivated itself or gone to sleep or something and its listed as "unknown device" in device manager. Unplugging the USB cable and plugging it back in does not work - no little balloon saying device connected, no light on the unit. Ended up having to run hcwclear and installing everything again from scratch.

This happens at least once a day, but as I said it might not be GBPVR but perhaps something else going wrong whilst GBPVR is running and then it is not able to access the cards, causing crashes, error messages etc. Very strange, I am stumped.

I have enabled logging and will post the next time it happens.

Thanks for the input.

[pg1981]

forgot to add that I am using driver version 1.13.24069 for the nova-t

[gEd]

ah , you could be experiencing a problem with the nova not waking up from standby correctly. This happened to me all the time and now i run gbpvrwake.exe (which runs wake.cmd).

Does this sounds like a possibility?

driver is fine.

[pg1981]

Maybe that's it

But what is GBPVRWake.exe, I dont seem to have this application?

[gEd]

Maybe that's it

But what is GBPVRWake.exe, I dont seem to have this application?

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ght=devcon

if you search the forum, you should be able to find the file to download.

fyi, my wake.cmd looks like this. the "process" command was downloaded from here and copied into the gbpvr folder.

http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/pr...ssutil.htm

you also need to download devcon and copy it to gbpvr (for my wake.cmd to work_
WAKE.CMD
=======


process -k Ir.exe > nul
process -k GBPVR.exe > nul

SET checkfile=r:\temp\wakingtvout.txt
IF EXIST %checkfile% GOTO EXIT
echo waking started > %checkfile%

set logfile=r:\temp\syslog.txt

echo %date% %time% >> %logfile%
echo ===================== >> %logfile%
echo >> %logfile%

echo Wake from hibernation >> %logfile%

net stop "GB-PVR Recording Service"
Echo GBPVR Recording service stopped >> %logfile%

REM Check to see if Nova-T status is OK
devcon.exe status "USB\VID_2040*"
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO EVOK

Rem The actual VID number will vary between systems
Echo Restarting Nova-T device >> %logfile%
devcon.exe restart "USB\VID_2040*"

IF ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO SYNTAX
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO FAILURE
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO REBOOT
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO SUCCES

:SUCCES
echo Nova-T restarted succesfully >> %logfile%
GOTO END

:REBOOT
echo The Nova-T could not be restarted. Reboot required >> %logfile%
shutdown -r -t 0

:FAILURE
echo Nova-T could not be restarted succesfully >> %logfile%
shutdown -r -t 0

:SYNTAX
REM Syntax error.
echo There is a syntax error in wake.cmd >> %logfile%
GOTO END

EVOK
echo Nova-T status OK no restart required >> %logfile%

:END
net start "GB-PVR Recording Service"
echo GBPVR Recording service started >> %logfile%

START C:\Progra~1\WinTV\Ir.exe /QUIET
echo IR.exe restarted >> %logfile%
start gbpvr.exe /max
del %checkfile%

:EXIT
REM Commands below are performed, even when another wake.cmd is busy.