2006-01-11, 11:21 AM
Hi,
I am using TV Out ona PVR 350, but bear with me here - I think this might be a bug with GBPVR and not with the card or the fact that I'm using TV Out.
When I am watching live TV, and a recording kicks in on another channel, my CPU goes to 100% and stays there and the picture on the TV screen freezes. The computer has not hung, and I can get out of GBPVR and back to the main menu. The only way to get the CPU back down from 100% is to close GBPVR and restart it.
I can see why this is happening. I only have 1 tuner, and I was using it to watch a channel, but now the tuner is needed for recording on another channel. So I can see why the picture freezes. I'm not quite sure about the reason for the 100%, could be something to do with encoding. On the GBPVR systray program it still says it is recording live tv so maybe there's a race condition.
Anyway, now that I know what it is I can get around it by exiting the main menu and restarting GBPVR. But I think it should really handle things more gracefully. The recording service should stop recording live TV and the TV screen, instead of freezing, should change to the other channel that is being recorded, or else display a message box with a choice to change to the other channel or return to the main menu. That's just a suggestion, I'm sure other people have better ways.
I can replicate this on demand, by scheduling a show and watching live TV on another channel when I know the show is about to begin.
It would be nice if this was resolved, as I don't want to keep a monitor / keyboard / mouse with the system just to restart GBPVR, and I don't want to have to remote in either just to restart GBPVR.
Other than that, my system is now rock solid and it's great.
Eoghan.
I am using TV Out ona PVR 350, but bear with me here - I think this might be a bug with GBPVR and not with the card or the fact that I'm using TV Out.
When I am watching live TV, and a recording kicks in on another channel, my CPU goes to 100% and stays there and the picture on the TV screen freezes. The computer has not hung, and I can get out of GBPVR and back to the main menu. The only way to get the CPU back down from 100% is to close GBPVR and restart it.
I can see why this is happening. I only have 1 tuner, and I was using it to watch a channel, but now the tuner is needed for recording on another channel. So I can see why the picture freezes. I'm not quite sure about the reason for the 100%, could be something to do with encoding. On the GBPVR systray program it still says it is recording live tv so maybe there's a race condition.
Anyway, now that I know what it is I can get around it by exiting the main menu and restarting GBPVR. But I think it should really handle things more gracefully. The recording service should stop recording live TV and the TV screen, instead of freezing, should change to the other channel that is being recorded, or else display a message box with a choice to change to the other channel or return to the main menu. That's just a suggestion, I'm sure other people have better ways.
I can replicate this on demand, by scheduling a show and watching live TV on another channel when I know the show is about to begin.
It would be nice if this was resolved, as I don't want to keep a monitor / keyboard / mouse with the system just to restart GBPVR, and I don't want to have to remote in either just to restart GBPVR.
Other than that, my system is now rock solid and it's great.
Eoghan.
