v1.1.5 survival guide

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I've made this sticky (closed) thread to post useful information about problems that may arise, or to get useful tips out there. I'll add more information to this thread as we start to get feedback from this new release. If anyone has info they feel should be included here, please PM me.

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Recording service crashing
NOD32, Panda Antivirus, WebRunner and Net Limiter (and some other software) are known to be incompatible with .NET 2.0 Remoting, which is used by GB-PVR. If any of these apps are installed on your machine, they will cause the Recording Service crash, so they may need to be uninstalled before installing this update. Its possible you may just be able to set an exclusion of the GBPVRRecordingService.exe process - but I'm not sure if this is possible with all these apps.

To help you identify if you have this problem, when the recording service crashes, the following message is at the end of the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log file:

Code:

9/4/2006 3:02:39 PM.625 ERROR [7] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:: [b]System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory[/b]. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.WSAGetOverlappedResult(SafeCloseSocket socketHandle, IntPtr overlapped, UInt32& bytesTransferred, Boolean wait, IntPtr ignored)
at [b]System.Net.Sockets.BaseOverlappedAsyncResult[/b].Compl etionPortCallback(UInt32 errorCode, UInt32 numBytes, NativeOverlapped* nativeOverlapped)
at System.Threading._IOCompletionCallback.PerformIOCo mpletionCallback(UInt32 errorCode, UInt32 numBytes, NativeOverlapped* pOVERLAP)

UPDATE: Microsoft now has a hot fix available for this common incompatibility between firewall software and the .NET 2.0 Remoting. You can read about here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923028/en-us and download the hotfix from http://www.gbpvr.com/Hotfix_Net2_KB923028.zip

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Choice of MVP dongle.bin on Vista
This release includes the Hauppauge 1.1.47 dongle.bin, which will work well for Windows XP and Windows 2000 users, but unfortunately has issues with Vista. Hauppauge are currently investigating these issues. While Hauppauge tries to sort this out, the best option for Vista users is to use the mvpmc dongle from: http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/donglex2a.zip

Download this file and extract the file to the "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\dongle" directory, then briefly remove the power from the MVP to force it to reinitialise itself.

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CT TV Listing
Unfortunately there was a bug in the 1.1.5 release which was causing the application to only download one day of CT TV Listings. The attached patch will resolve this issue.

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Odd aspect ratio problems with EVR renderer
While EVR is officially a Vista renderer, some people are also using in on Windows XP, but many of those had reported the aspect ratio was well broken for them. Whurston has found a patch on the Microsoft website that corrects this issues. See http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=59

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Scheduling problem in multi-tuner setups
A bug has been found in multi-tuner environments that can cause the first of recording in back to back recordings to cut short. Its resolved by applying the attached patch.

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DVD playback with EVR
There was a bug in 1.1.5 that stopped DVD playback from working with the new EVR renderer. This is resolved with this patch: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=2

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Problems playing multiple music tracks
If you're having difficulties playing multiple music tracks, and find it stops after the first or second, then you'll need to install the patch from here: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=2

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On screen OSD TV Guide staying on screen after selecting to 'watch another channel'
There is a bug where the user brings up the OSD version of the TV guide and then presses the play button on a currently air show, or selects the 'watch' button from the show details, it switches channels but leaves the TV Guide active on the screen. The patch at http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...ostcount=6 corrects this and will remove the TV Guide when either of these happen.

It also makes the 1.0.x style mini guide accessible using the Ctrl-G while watching TV.

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QAM support for the VistaView Saber DA-1N1-I/E devices
If you have a VistaView Saber DA-1N1-I/E device, you can apply the attached patch to enable QAM support.

You will also need to have QAM enabled drivers installed.