No tuner available - dont watch tv

[lez]

Ok I may have done something really stupid, so please feel free to answer in kind etc.....

I have not used my tuner card or gbpvr in about 6 months, so I donwloaded the new one, installed, ran config, found my tuner (tevion alternate, correct as that whats is was before) I tuned, I scanned, I got channels, I downloaded the EPG via the tuner, I have vision, sound, and an epg.....

I run gbpvr, I have a tv guide (from the epg) but I cant watch TV, it says no tuner card available.

I set a recording, nothing records via the recording service, in fact that shows no tuners.

I run config again, I still have card listed, I can still go to the search screen and see the sorted stations/names and can click on them and watch then, but only in the config program.

What have I done?



windows xp+sp1+sp2+all hotfixes+mce remote+mce keyboard+fixes

Tevion pci dvb-t100 card on its own, onboard sound, matrox g400+adis xp drivers

[sub]

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[lez]

lol to reproduce wont I have to fix and then break it again

would you want the entire directory .exe's and all ?

just uploaded a quick vid of its odd behaviour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfcLtW8BkBA

[martint123]

would you want the entire directory .exe's and all ?

I suspect just the "log" sub directory would do. Ensure logging level is set to debug in config beforehand.

[lez]

Logs.

Viewed in notepad saw no glaring error but then I'm not an expert on this stuff, I just came back to this after a long break as my dvdr/hdd player is showing signs of age, and I thought maybe it was time to resurrect my HTPC project

Since I had used gbpvr moths ago with no issues (Except after about a week the OSD failed to display and I never got it back) I thought it would be plain sailing.

[martint123]

On first glance (I'm no expert) there are a great deal of errors in GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log to do with being unable to open the database file.... Might be worth a peek?

[gEd]

you didn;t copy the old database back over the top of the new one did you?

There is a utility called changedatabase.exe that can migrate from the old mdb to db3 database but this should have happened automatically during the upgrade.

[lez]

no this machine has had a few formats and re-installs of XP since then etc, I just ran the install as is

[lez]

you didn;t copy the old database back over the top of the new one did you?

I just looked at the database file in notepad, it has the ''disney channel'' in it, I dont even have access to a disney channel via my tuner...

Also one time I noticed when the tray scheduled recording service started, it listed around 8 capture devices, all of which said ''mycard1'' which is what I had called it when I set up the BDA drivers etc, it was on screen about 1-2 seconds, then went off just leaving the recording status with no cards listed.

[fb67]

You don't have the 'use as client' box ticked per chance? One of my XP clients acts just like that when I start it up.