MVP reboots on LiveTV and Video playback (96.12)

[Troy]

Thanks for the quick reply Jim! Of course, I can't try it out yet, 'cause I'm recording Miami Ink , but will do so when I can! (thanks for the fix too, Sub... and congrats on the new family edition!)

[TuckerTFT]

I've stop using the My Series one of the reasons and just use the default Music, Videos and Picture Library instead and also for video Recordings and Video Archiver very stable on the MVP.

TIPSTIR ... What is the default "Picture Library"? Where do I get it?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Can someone try the patch at http://www.gbpvr.com/mvp-related-patch.zip to see if it helps? Only apply this patch to a v0.96.12 setup

You'll need to put the gbpvr.exe in the gbpvr directory, and gbmvp.bin in the dongle directory. Even if you're not using gbmvp.bin, I've supplied it because it matches the protocol used by this gbpvr.exe, and you'll need this specific version if you decide to use gbmvp.bin.

Not sure how I missed this post....Might have been the deceptive title of Live TV problem....when in fact it was live TV and Recordings....

I have been having reboots with this release and have been trying to figure out what was happening....never thought it would have been the last release....I am one of the fortunate ones that never really has any problems upgrading....I will try to load this up tonight between recordings.....but based off of the other feedback I am guessing it will fix my problem.

This thread may warrant a sticky status....at least until the next release of GBPVR comes out....

[UncleJohnsBand]

Just had to report back.....two full nights of watching recordings and no reboots on the MVP.

sub....just curious as to what the fix was.

Also....it sounds as though we should begin migrating to the gbpvr.bin at some point in the near future....is that accurate?

[Jim_]

Since this thread is a sticky until the next update.

The latest v0.96.12 MPV patch I’m aware of is in post #2 of the thread below.
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=14679

It includes the MPV reboot patch, and also fixed a problem where the remote would FF/RW even when Skip was selected in config.


For other people reporting intermittent auto-skip problem in this thread.
On my system, using the patch above.
Commercial auto-skip is now 100% reliable playing files from the library, and when using “resume” from recordings. “Play” from recordings is still intermittent.

[Jim_]

Here’s the fix for the intermittent MPV commercial auto-skip problem.
1. Install the patch from the post above.
2. In config.xml, the default value for <UseMenuResumeButton> is “true”, change it to “false”.

<PromptForResume>false</PromptForResume>
<StoreResumeStartExclusion>0</StoreResumeStartExclusion>
<StoreResumeEndExclusion>0</StoreResumeEndExclusion>
<UseMenuResumeButton>false</UseMenuResumeButton>

[Jim_]

Hi tipstir,
It puts a resume button in the recording playback menu.
On the rest I can only guess….

If memory serves, 95.16 had a bug where the resume overlay would appear even when resume was selected from the playback menu.
The first thing I noticed after installing 96.12 was that the video would start, then jump back, then play normally. If the video started without the jump-back, commercial auto-skip would fail every time.
I’m guessing that GBPVR plays the video until the resume overlay would normally appear, forcibly blocks the overlay, then auto-selects “Restart” when <UseMenuResumeButton> is set to true.

With <UseMenuResumeButton> set to false, the initial video skip-back doesn’t happen and auto-skip works every time.

[pgreenland]

Hey everyone!,
Haven’t posted anything here before, just started using GB-PVR - brilliant piece of software btw especially with the nova-t however im having a few problems.

Works fine on the pc, recording, live tv ect but on the mvp I’m having a lot of intermittent problems with live tv. Sometimes (about 1 in 10) live tv works perfectly and i can watch a whole show until it does the file change over, then if I’m lucky i can continue to watch the next show but most of the time it will let me watch the first 30secs to 1 minute of live tv then it closes and drops back to the main menu where ever i happened to be. The pc seems to still continue recording even when the mvp drops its connection, I’ve applied the patch which made it slightly more reliable, but it's still pretty unusable. I’ve attached the log files generated when it did its last cut off, i started the recording service, played 20secs of tv, dropped it, and I stopped the recording service and saved the logs. If anyone has time to look at them i would really appreciate it as ive tried everything i can think of.

[sub]

You need to be using the Cyberlink mux if you're viewing on an MVP. The DVR-MS mux produces files that cant be played on the MVP without transcoding.

[pgreenland]

Thanks Sub!

Fixed it straight away - never really liked the microsoft dvr-ms file format anyway!

keep up the good work!