Setting up Twinhan 102g with new release

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Attached are log file sets for 3 different crashes. As for switching between FTA channel, the satellite that I am scanning only has 1 FTA channel but I will try to scan another sat if possible.

logs1.rar
logs2.rar
logs3.rar

Cheers.

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There is no indication of any errors in the logs. Everything looks ok.

Given your description of the error, and the lack of a caught exception in the logs, it sounds to me like its occuring in native code somewhere (rather than the c# managed code which composes the bulk of GB-PVR). The native code that executes when you watch live tv is the video decoders, video renderer (overlay vs VMR make any difference?), and Agarwals multidec layer or the actual multdec plugin.

If we dont think of anything else, it would be worth trying the FTA test I mentioned. If the error still occurs, this would allow us to eliminate the multidec layer from the investigations.

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Can you check to see if there is a crash message in the Windows Event Viewer? Sometimes these messages identify the offending module (DLL).

If not, can you post a screenshot of the crash message?

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There were 2 msgs in application event viewer log around the time it crashed. Both of them had the same details. Below r the snapshots:

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Unfortunately thats not really identifying the cause, its more of a generic message.

I wonder if we can produce a minidump file some how, which I could then load in the debug to check the callstack. I know this is possible when a machine bluescreens, but I'm not sure if it can be done for a regular application crash. It should be possible with DrWatson or something, but I'm not sure exactly how you do it. I'll do a google on the subject to see if I can find out.

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Can you see if a file gets created in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump when this error occurs?

If not, we might be able to try the utility from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350. The relevent section on how to use this seems to be:

ADPlus -crash -pn myapp.exe
This command runs ADPlus in crash mode for the process named Myapp.exe. ADPlus waits for an exception to occur, or for a user to press CTRL+C in the minimized debugger window, to generate a memory dump file and to detach the debugger.

Of course substituting myapp.exe with gbpvr.exe...

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I checked the Minidump directory, there r some dmp fles but none from last few days. I am attaching the screenshot of the crash.. its also a generic msg so won't be of any use :




In the meantime I will try the other method u described above.

Thanks. Cheers.

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Ok, I think you might need to try the above to generate a dump file.

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I ran the debug utilty as mentioned. When running gbpvr with this utulity, I didn't even get any video. Just blank black screen and then after few seconds gbpvr just crashed without any error msg. I did change channels even though I could not c anything. The log size is almost 600mb. I have zipped it and the resulting size is still 140mb. Do u want the file?

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I just found out that the reason I was getting blank screen and no video was that nvidia codecs were unregistered or uninstalled by the debug utility. After installling the utulity I tried gbpvr and I didn't get any video and it crashed. After that i tried to start MyTheare and there was no video there too and I checked the available codecs and no nvidia codecs were found. Not sure what the utility did. I will try again. Lets c.