Vista seems to work now!

[daneo]

Dear All,

I've been doing some testing & tuning on my MVP setup, and seem to have found a combination that works.

1. Dongle 11520.bin
2. Vista Firewall disabled
3. Hauppauge TCP Optimisations
[INDENT]"TcpWindowSize"=dword:000f4240
"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000001[/INDENT]
4. GBPVR 99.12 (need to fix my sig!)

I did need to pull the MVP power plug to get the dongle to take. The dongle alone got the MVP working beyond a few keypresses, and the TCP optimisations seems to have gotten video streaming properly.

I'll do some more testing and let you know what else I can find.

Regards,
Dane

[Lindsay]

You don't need to disable the firewall. Add exemptions for gbpvr.exe and recordingservice. A safer proposition.

Interesting that you needed to change those tcp parameters. I haven't done that. Might try it but I get such good Internet download speed with Vista I don't want to upset that!

A question:- do you have video inset (sub-windows for video in menu screens) enabled?

Speed test - now 2.9Mbs from a nominal 2Mbs account! Xp was 1.8 and Vista was typically 2.6 before. Might run with this!

[snowmanaxp]

After reinstalling GBPVR as an administrator on Vista and using the beta 1.1.52 dongle.bin, I seem to be getting a very stable MVP.

Granted it has only been less than 2 days since I installed it this way, but last night I used the MVP for over 3 hours without having to soft power it off at all. And that was playing Live TV, recordings, YouTube recordings. I did a lot more skip\rewind\pause than I had done in the past due to that causing me to have to restart the MVP. In the past I have had to soft power it off several times in that kind of time frame if I was cruising the TV guide and using FF/RW like I did last night.

I do have video inserts on, but I don't have it on in the TV Guide screen. But it is on for the recordings screen and main menu screen that I was using. I will turn that on in the TV Guide and see if it causes problems.

I did not make any registry changes and I have my windows firewall active but allow GBPVR through.

I will keep you all updated if this changes.

To insure that I installed GBPVR as an administrator I opened a Command Window by right clicking on it and selecting run as administrator. I then navigated to the directory with the GBPVR09912.msi file and ran it from the command window. I then applied all of the GBPVR patches in the 99.12 survival guide.

I don't know if this makes a difference, but I had the MVP unplugged during the install.

[jim08127]

How do you get video inset on the tv guide screen? I want that...

[sub]

The default blue skin doesnt device an inset window on the TV Guide screen. It does for the other screens. You can add it though in the "tv guide\skin.xml" file.

[jim08127]

The default blue skin doesnt device an inset window on the TV Guide screen. It does for the other screens. You can add it though in the "tv guide\skin.xml" file.

I guess its time I gave skin editing a try...should be interesting. Off to the wiki.

[shanks]

Dear All,

I've been doing some testing & tuning on my MVP setup, and seem to have found a combination that works.

1. Dongle 11520.bin .......

Could you please let me know where you got that dongle from. The Taiwan site referred elsewhere seems to be down

Shankar