w7 -- GBPVR will not install -- Installation could not complete because of error.

[cotodd]

Performed a clean install of W7 on a virgin partition (removed disk with previous W7 ), loaded the Tuner drivers, installed GBPVR without vcredist_x86. Operation was identical to the previous installation. Everything works except MUSIC and PICTURES. Selecting Music and the Data/music folder closes the Music Skin immediately. Selecting C: (the default) and navigating to a copy (not a shortcut) of Music then clicking causes the skin to exit back to the main menu. Pictures operates identically. Live TV, Videos and Movies play normally. Music plays normally with WMP. Logs are identical to the previous installation with the COM error being the only entry of note.

I believe that I can say with certainty that vcredist_x86 2005 is not needed with W7 and that music can NOT be played using gbpvr with W7 nor can Pictures be displayed. Will wait for a new W7 compatible update.

[sub]

Performed a clean install of W7 on a virgin partition (removed disk with previous W7 ), loaded the Tuner drivers, installed GBPVR without vcredist_x86. Operation was identical to the previous installation. Everything works except MUSIC and PICTURES. Selecting Music and the Data/music folder closes the Music Skin immediately. Selecting C: (the default) and navigating to a copy (not a shortcut) of Music then clicking causes the skin to exit back to the main menu

Reproduce this, then post the pvrx2.exe.log and pvrx2.exe-native.logs and I'll take a look.

I believe that I can say with certainty that vcredist_x86 2005 is not needed with W7 and that music can NOT be played using gbpvr with W7 nor can Pictures be displayed. Will wait for a new W7 compatible update.

GB-PVR is developed on Windows7, and there is stacks of people using on Windows 7 here. Music and Pictures work fine for me. and I've not heard any other reports of this - so I think blanket statement is far from correct.

[whurlston]

I'm running GBPVR on Win7 x86 and also on Win7 x64. It's definitely Win7 compatible as my wife listens to all her music with it.

[cotodd]

I believe that I can say with certainty that vcredist_x86 2005 is not needed with W7 and that music can NOT be played using gbpvr with W7 nor can Pictures be displayed. Will wait for a new W7 compatible update.

[whurlston]

Have you tried all these installs without the VC++ redistributable package? If so, that would explain the COM component error. GBPVR absolutely works on Windows 7. I and many others have been doing it for months. It's even developed on Windows 7 as sub pointed out.

Here are the Music and Picture Libraries running on Win 7 Ultimate X64

[sub]

Looking at the logs, I can tell its still having a problem with a *.lnk file in your music library directory. I'm sure if you remove these .lnk files your problem will go away, and the music library will work for you.

[cotodd]

Using Notepad, I searched for .lnk in all 4 logs. "not found". Since the last try was with a "clean" install of w7 and gbpvr, where would these links have come from. It is true that in the upgrade version there were links created and then later deleted.

The upgrade re-installations all had vcredist_x86 from the gbpvr website installed. The "clean" version did not.

I noticed that the logs indicate that the music library is busy -- I can't imagine why that would be, as there is nothing running that would use this folder. I have killed all WMC services just to be sure there is no interference from it.

Thx for looking. Can't imagine how a fresh os install with a fresh gbpvr install could create a problem that is user driven. I'm a long time user of gbpvr and the upgrade to w7 was from Vista SP2 where gbpvr ran perfectly.

[sub]

I can tell from the error message stack trace in the logs that it is definitely finding at least one .lnk file. In itself, .lnk files are not a problem, and the app usually treats them as virtual directories. In this case though, its having some problem parsing the .lnk file its finding on your machine. (resulting in the 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' message in your logs).

You have two Music Library directories setup:

"Default" pointing to C:\
"Music-1" pointing to E:\Music-lib

One of those two contain the problem .lnk file.

If I were you, I'd temporarily remove the "Music-1", then see if you've still got the same problem.

Can't imagine how a fresh os install with a fresh gbpvr install could create a problem that is user driven.

It wouldnt matter if it was a fresh install of Windows, if you've still got a media directory pointing to your media files, and that directory contained the problem file.

[cotodd]

Sub -- The problem was indeed a link. I never found the actual problem since there are 1000's of pictures and over 800 albums of music. I created a new folder on the same data drive and copied 1 album. Edited config and deleted all previous references and added the new folder. Gbpvr worked fine. I then "dragged" all the other folders (genre -- artist --- album) to the new folder deleting the original folder. Gbpvr no longer worked. WMP and WMC worked fine. Created a new folder and "copied" (not dragged) all albums (groups of about 20 at a time) tested gbpvr each time. Gbpvr worked fine even after all folders were copied and the source folder was deleted. Suspect that there was a circular link that was being preserved during the dragging as opposed to copying.

The pictures folder contained not only my photographs but sample jpegs that came with the W7 installation. Fixing this required the creation of a new folder and copying (not dragging) the pictures to the new folder. If I Included the W7 samples then it broke gbpvr. Again I suspect a circular link but can't imagine how it was created.

An even bigger mystery is why gbpvr had a problem with these folders and WMP and WMC did not.

The virgin w7 install WITHOUT vcredist_x86 2005 and the w7 upgrade from Vista with vcredist_x86 2005 are both working fine with Gbpvr.

Thanks for your help.

[sub]

Great.