v0.96.8 (21 February)

[sub]

Hey sub, when fast forwarding a recorded show why not display x2, x4, x8 back to x1? Just a suggestion.

I'd like to have multispeed FF/RW, but this is out of my control. Its managed by the Directshow components I used, but were not written by me.

[al1suarez]

Another suggestion, while watching live tv sometimes I want to save the show but there is no way to record the show straight from "Live TV". How about adding a "Record" button with option to pick recording duration.

I love gbpvr!!! The only other thing missing is having gbpvr waking me up in the morning, brushing my teeth, flushing the toilet and heading me to work.

Thanks sub!

[sub]

Dont place suggestions here. Post them in the wish list forum.

[groover km]

I've installed the new release and played around a bit with the new MVP dongle. (gbmvp.bin)

I must say i love the new features, i love the performance increase.

But unfortunately i'm also having some problems.

The worst of them being LiveTV not working correctly.
I can watch, but as soon as i change channels in LiveTV Preview Mode, one of the following happens:
- Sometimes the change won't work and i get a stuck piece of the original program (about 0.5 secs) looping until i press back or stop on the MVP (also using dongle.bin, btw), or a message box saying "could not play file" on the PC.
- 20% of the time the change itself works, but the video from the new channel contains short stutters every 1-2 secs.

If i watch the LiveTV Buffer directory i can see the second file appear with 0KB in size, but in some cases it never gets bigger.
This is also written in the PC-logs then, when it waits for 10 secs and then gives up.
I can see the file often starts to grow very late and stops growing very soon (about 100KB f.e.).
I tried increasing the LiveTV delays, but with no success.
I never had LiveTV problems with version 0.95.16. :confused:

This is pretty much exactly what I am experiencing / tried to describe. Did you get it resolved?

[soccerdad]

So far so good. Flawless upgrade. I have not had a lot of time to play yet but so far so good. The MVP works of both dongles. The windowed view is awsome. The gbmvp dongle works but is a little shakey. It stumbles sometimes moving between menus, and sometimes I get the 4 boxes, but they usually tick to green and it pops back up. It kind of acts like it is fighting to keep alive. Great job on your first MVP dongle! All of us, especially the MVP crew really appreciate the fact that you will go to that extent to give us all the functions. Thanks again. I will post again after I play with it some more.

[daphatty]

Re: Large Databases
The problems I have seen with a large GBPVR database most often exhibit themselves when using the web interface. In my experience when the database grows to even 10MB opening the web interface while live TV is playing causes the video and audio to "stutter" for several seconds. Any episode searches in the webe interface cause the same "stuttering" in my system. The effect is present even at the minimal size of my database ~4-5MB but becomes pronounced at ~10MB and essentially unusable above ~20 MB or so. But this has nothing to do with this upgrade, this has been true for me since the advent of the web interface.

Just a note on my system configuration. I have a Athlon 3000 XP and one GB of main memory on a Asus A7V880 MB. I have three disks configured:
1. a 250GB 7200 RPM WD PATA drive that has the OS, applications and database (this drive is this large because it used to also have the recorded data but that's been moved. There is only about 25GB in use right now) Default sector size.
2. a 40GB 7200 RPM Maxtor PATA that is used for the TS buffer, temporary space and the swap file. Default sector size
3. a 250GB 7200 RPM WD SATA that is used exclusively for the recorded videos. 64K sector size.
I don't know what more I can do to enhance the performance with existing hardware and/or configuration.

jsteele - Where do you have your LiveTV buffer pointed to? I took mine off of the default C: drive and have noticed a performance improvement.

[jsteele]

daphatty

The Live TV buffer is on the 40GB Maxtor, separate from the application and the recorded library.

[thadguidry]

After doing a clean install in a new folder with new version I'm getting an error with AXWMPLIB. Fatal Exception happens right after BLUE skin menu comes up and I click with mouse or remote on any menu button in GBPVR. (Wave file plays here for CLICK sound maybe ? and causing it ?)
SEE ATTACHED LOG OF GBPVR ALSO.

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer from assembly AxInterop.WMPLib, Version=9.0.0.3095, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.HideInset()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.x5337203f86c34517(String x2022b5e8d76ee693)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& x5f8f2c40c000ab2c)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
GBPVR
Assembly Version: 1.0.2243.24809
Win32 Version: 1.0.2243.24809
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/gbpvr/gbpvr.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
----------------------------------------
GBPVRPublic
Assembly Version: 1.0.2243.24761
Win32 Version: 1.0.2243.24761
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/gbpvr/GBPVRPublic.DLL
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.xml/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.xml.dll
----------------------------------------
GBPVRBackendCommon
Assembly Version: 1.0.2243.24798
Win32 Version: 1.0.2243.24798
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/gbpvr/GBPVRBackendCommon.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Data
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.data/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.data.dll
----------------------------------------
System.ServiceProcess
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.serviceprocess/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.serviceprocess.dll
----------------------------------------
NativeUtilities
Assembly Version: 1.0.2168.28045
Win32 Version:
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/gbpvr/NativeUtilities.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.runtime.remoting/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.runtime.remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
AxInterop.WMPLib
Assembly Version: 9.0.0.3095
Win32 Version: 9.0.0.3095
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/devnz/gbpvr/AxInterop.WMPLib.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.


SEE ATTACHED LOG.

[bolacha]

************** Exception Text **************
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer from assembly AxInterop.WMPLib, Version=9.0.0.3095, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.HideInset()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.x5337203f86c34517(String x2022b5e8d76ee693)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& x5f8f2c40c000ab2c)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

do you have WMP 10 installed?
i got a similar error with WMP 9.

[HtV]

Don't wether this is a bug or a feature.
In the config I choose my language (Dutch), I guess that put the right language.xml in the gbpvr-dir. I make a few adjustments to language.xml, everything works fine!
But when I open config to make other changes and I click OK to save the changes and restart recording service, the original language.xml is put back, overwriting the new one. I made language.xml readonly that seems to do the trick.
Is it meant to be like this?
Btw, upgrading went fine!!!