Recoding doesnot start with IR Blaster On

[ssky]

Hi guys, well I got some problem with the IR Blaster that came with my PVR-150 card. To start with I am using Win XP SP2 with my firewall disabled. I have pvr-150 card. I installed the latest GBPVR a couple of days ago. I also have dish network dp301 receiver.

Everything works fine I mean downloading epg, watching live tv and so on. I was also able to schedule recording. Everything was cool until I turned on the IR Blaster in the config utility. After that whenever I schedule a program that is on a channel different to the one currently tuned then the IR Blaster successfully changes the channel to the correct one (I confirmed that) but then somehow the recording services crashes and no matter how long I wait the Pending section keeps saying the recording is scheduled. Although the folder and files are created in my hard drive for that program but the file is of 0 length which means nothing is recorded.

And as soon as I turned the IR Blaster off, everything's working fine again. that is I can schedule a recording as long as the program is on the same channel which is tuned in.

I have tried the IR Blaster program that came on the cd with the card and also downloaded the latest one from the hauppage.com web site I think they have version 1.3.23033. None worked.

So anyone can help me here?? Please.. :confused:

[sub]

I've just tried to reproduce this, but it seems to be functioning fine for me.

Can you email your logs to me at support@devnz.com and I'll take a look.

[Darx-starz]

Sounds like the IRBlaster.exe is hanging and taking the CPU to 100%. What does taskmgr say when you do this? However even if the cpu was this busy i would expect it to record still. If you do this with live TV does it do the same thing?

[ssky]

When I have IR Blaster On, I can watch live tv. But after the recording crash, if I try to watch live tv, I get the error that says the machine is actively refusing the connection. Then I have to close GBPVR, restart the recording service and then I am again able to watch Live TV.

Thanks Sub for the reply. I saved all the logs before I installed the IR Blaster and then I again made a copy after recording crashed. Will send you both as soon as I get home from work..

Again, thanks for looking into it.