MVP crashing when starting video

[ecorbin]

Yesterday I upgraded from 0.99.12 to 1.0.16. I upgraded only because of the zap2it shutdown and had a few problems arise. I then uninstalled GB-PVR and all plugins that had an installer, renamed the gbpvr folder, and installed 1.0.16 from scratch. I can now watch videos on the PC, but not on the MVP. When I try to watch a video on the MVP, the MVP reboots. Strangely, I can watch Live TV without problems, but cannot play a video through either the Recordings screen or the Video Library screen.

I installed all patches in the survival guide sticky, as well as one more patch (that I can't find right now) that enabled NetRadio.

I installed the test version of Video Archive and am also having problems with that on the MVP. When I try to launch that plugin at all, the MVP reboots. Sometimes it works on the PC and sometimes it hangs pvrx2.exe (PVRX2 shows "Not Responding" in Task Manager).

Attached is a zip of my logs folder from just after trying to watch a video (twice).

Any help will be MUCH APPRECIATED! My family loves GB-PVR and my little girl is missing her VeggieTales!

Thanks!

[zehd]

Yesterday I upgraded from 0.99.12 to 1.0.16. I upgraded only because of the zap2it shutdown and had a few problems arise. I then uninstalled GB-PVR and all plugins that had an installer, renamed the gbpvr folder, and installed 1.0.16 from scratch. I can now watch videos on the PC, but not on the MVP. When I try to watch a video on the MVP, the MVP reboots. Strangely, I can watch Live TV without problems, but cannot play a video through either the Recordings screen or the Video Library screen.

I installed all patches in the survival guide sticky, as well as one more patch (that I can't find right now) that enabled NetRadio.

I installed the test version of Video Archive and am also having problems with that on the MVP. When I try to launch that plugin at all, the MVP reboots. Sometimes it works on the PC and sometimes it hangs pvrx2.exe (PVRX2 shows "Not Responding" in Task Manager).

Attached is a zip of my logs folder from just after trying to watch a video (twice).

Any help will be MUCH APPRECIATED! My family loves GB-PVR and my little girl is missing her VeggieTales!

Thanks!

Are the videos MPG or non MPG format?

Native MPGs should play just fine... and that might be a problem we can work on. If It's a non-mpg, then there will be some form of on-the-fly transcoding involved, which would probably be a different style of troublshooting...

[ecorbin]

All videos are MPG, recorded by GB-PVR. Some were recorded by this version and some by previous versions.

[zehd]

All videos are MPG, recorded by GB-PVR. Some were recorded by this version and some by previous versions.

LiveTV on the MVP is always timeshifted. That means that it generates a temp MPG and then it the MPG plays. But I have heard that there is a slight difference between the LiveTV temp MPG and standard MPGs recorded by GB-PVR (really any version in the last few years)

I wanted to sort this out. I would have tried if there was non-mpg on-the-fly transcoding. I know that there are others with better troubleshooting on your issue...

Good luck.

[mvallevand]

It might be crashing on the short name. Did you move the locations to any new drives?

Martin

[ecorbin]

It might be crashing on the short name. Did you move the locations to any new drives?

Martin

I'm not sure what you mean by "the short name" but no locations were changed. GB-PVR is installed on drive C and my recordings are on drives D and E. None of that changed.

Thanks

[mvallevand]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the short name" but no locations were changed. GB-PVR is installed on drive C and my recordings are on drives D and E. None of that changed.

The short name is an old DOS method of naming files. This is where it seemed to be missing a log entry on one of your files. I will assume that if nothing changed this isn't an issue, but if you want to see what I am talking about you can see them at the command prompt with the dir /x command.

Martin

[ecorbin]

The short name is an old DOS method of naming files. This is where it seemed to be missing a log entry on one of your files. I will assume that if nothing changed this isn't an issue, but if you want to see what I am talking about you can see them at the command prompt with the dir /x command.

Martin

Yes, I remember DOS short file names now. I had intentionally forgotten about that! Is this possibly a dongle issue? I'm thinking maybe this is a different dongle from before. Should I try the mvpmc dongle, or is this a different issue?

Edit: I'll answer my own question. I tried the mvpmc dongle and am getting almost the same results: when trying to open Video Archive on the MVP, the MVP reboots. When trying to watching a video file recorded by GB-PVR, the MVP hangs and has to be restarted.

I also tried changing to the old interface on the MVP and that didn't help, either.

[mvallevand]

Yes, I remember DOS short file names now. I had intentionally forgotten about that! Is this possibly a dongle issue? I'm thinking maybe this is a different dongle from before. Should I try the mvpmc dongle, or is this a different issue?

I can't see the issue, so sub probably needs to jump in on that, but it doesn't look like something that mvpmc can help. On the other hand it doesn't cost anything to try.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Edit: I'll answer my own question. I tried the mvpmc dongle and am getting almost the same results: when trying to open Video Archive on the MVP, the MVP reboots. When trying to watching a video file recorded by GB-PVR, the MVP hangs and has to be restarted.

If mvpmc reboots (I assume you mean restart) it's because the server dropped the connection. You might have a problem with the Video Archive Plugin

Martin