HD records are blank, but Analog records fine....

[Pochrist]

I'm trying to re-set up GB-PVR on XP Pro (after a nightmare trip through Vista) I have the Happague WinTV 250 set up and running fine, I also have 1 of my 2 HDHomerun tuner set up. On both I can watch live TV, but when I run a test record only the Analog channels record, the HD channel records only create 0kb files in the directory.

I'm posting my logs with the last attempted HD record. TIA

[sub]

If you configure it to use the DVR-MS mux, do these recordings work?

[Pochrist]

No, which is why I changed it, the olny differance is that using th DVR-MS Mux gives me a 6 kb file as opposed to the 0 kb file.

Everything worked fine before I formated the drive and messed with Vista.

Now that I formated and went back to XP things are funny - something is not installed, but I can't figure it out.

[Pochrist]

Well I found this post from April and although I haven't did it yet I have a strong suspicion that this is the root:

Found out what was going on...

Evidently the GBPVRRecordingService.exe was being blocked by Windows Firewall (although I never saw a pop-up warning saying that it would be blocked). I manually added GBPVRRecordingService.exe to the exceptions list and now my files are no longer 0KB. I'm able to record and to play back the recorded files. I would have never thought that the Windows firewall would be stopping me, since I was able to watch live TV, and I never got a warning or anything from the firewall. Plus it appears "GB-PVR" and "GB-PVR Config" were already added to the exceptions list, although I don't recall ever seeing a warning about these or adding them to the exception list. Actually I see quite a few other programs in there that I never added... doesn't seem like much of a firewall if applications can add themselves to the list without telling the user.

Oh well... I have a working setup now... now it's time to start checking out those plugins and skins.

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I normally disabled all the MS pop junk (when I was running the Bootleg version) but haven't got around to it. I'll check tonight to confirm and post back. I assume this is already in a Sticky right?

[Pochrist]

Too whom it may concern the above fix was the source of my problem.

[sub]

Great - good to hear you found the cause.