The occasional "Failure playing back file"

[andlju]

Hi,

First of all let me tell you how much I like GBPVR! A few days ago, I installed Media Portal just to get something to compare by, and GBPVR is like 25 times more stable (maybe not as pretty, but really - who cares..)!

I am however now and then having some issues with my WinTV PVR USB2. From time to time it seems to record invalid MPEG-files..? It has happened both when trying to start a timeshift and when it's doing a scheduled recording. Rather annoying since the only episode of Gilmore Girls I couldn't find on bittorrent ended up as a 1Gb large chunk of unusable bits.. :eek: The error message I get is (if I remember correctly) "Failure playing back file".

I'm not sure how the recordings are done, but I reccon GBPVR actually has very little to do with it (more than starting/stopping etc..)?

Anyway, I just wanted to know if this is a common problem? Otherwise I'll see if I can reproduce it again and find some log files for you.

[petersonz]

I to am getting the error "Failure playing back file" during live TV.

I never get it while recording, or viewing a recording in progress.

Once it happens the first time, it repeats on almost a timed interval.

After fully rebooting my XP box, then it goes away for sometimes several hours or a few days before coming back.

I tried BeyondTV3 and MythTV .18 and neither of those have issues with live tv on the same hardware.

GBPVR beats them both IMHO for ease of setup and picture quality

[reboot]

Change the playback mode from overlay, to VMR9 (make sure you have updated to DirectX 9.0c).
Update to the latest Intervideo codec from hauppauge.com (actually, update everything except WinTV2000 if you no longer use it).