v1.2.9 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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Crash while scanning a satellite
If you find the app crashes while scanning a satellite, giving a message like "System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.", then is due to a bug I introduced while adding DVB-S2 support. It only occurs on small subset of satellites, but if it effects you, then you'll need to apply the attached patch.

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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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High Definition UI support for the Popcorn Hour client, and a speed boost
Previously if you ran martin's mvpmcx2 client on the Popcorn Hour, you'd get a standard definition 4:3 UI that (depending on how you ran it) would either be stretched to fill the screen, or would be displayed in a smaller with in the middle of the screen. It would look pretty average on a high definition widescreen panel.

I've attached a patch that can now give a full high def UI on this setup. It also adds a significant boost to the responsiveness of the mvpmcx2 client. The UI looks a whole lot better in this highdef widescreen format, so if you're a PCH owner, I really recommend you try it...

To get it working, you need to apply the attached patches, and add a MAC address section for your PCH to the <MVPSpecificSettings> section of config.xml. You can find the MAC address on a sticker on the bottom of your PCH device.

Code:

<MAC-0006DC41DF9A>
      <MVPClientType>PCH</MVPClientType>
      <MVPWidth>1280</MVPWidth>
      <MVPHeight>720</MVPHeight>
      <MVPOffsetX>0</MVPOffsetX>
      <MVPOffsetY>0</MVPOffsetY>
      <MVPSendIncrementalUpdates>true</MVPSendIncrementalUpdates>
    </MAC-0006DC41DF9A>

For this to work, you need to also be running the latest version of mvpmcx2: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=33790