Annoying Newbie Problems

[KS4UA]

Hello, another newbie here....

- I have had a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 in my computer for over a year and it works great both with the stock software (WinTV and Schedule) and with GB-PVR.

- My media server PC is an Athlon XP 3000+, 512MB DDR, Asus A7N-E MB, 320GB disk (160x2) running Win 2kPro SP4. For the regular PVR stuff, it's been solid for over a year now.

- For Christmas, I bought myself one of the Radio Shack "closeout" MediaMVPs (rev. D3A) and finally got it wired up just a few days ago. The MVP is on a 50ft. cable, wired into a Netgear router/switch. The media PC is on the same switch. The Netgear is providing DHCP for the MVP.

- Running the standard Hauppauge MVP servers, the MVP seems to be working great.

- I recently downloaded the latest release of GB-PVR and disabled the Hauppauge MVP servers, to try out the GB-PVR MVP server. It's booting fine, running the main menu, etc.

- However, when switching channels while watching live TV or whenever I press the "pause" button, the MVP often "crashes" while running the GB-PVR MVP software. It then automatially "reboots" and starts the "contacting servers" all over again.

- Unless I go to the media PC and close/restart the GB-PBR MVP server, the MVP will never reboot.

I have tried a couple of the tricks on this forum (concering the network adapters and editing the registry key to remove the remote task scheduling thing.) Still no luck.

Can anyone give me some pointers on what else to start looking for?

Thanks

[SFX Group]

Ive asked another question about something that might answer this, basics is how does GBPVR know which MVP is which. WIll keep you posted.

Many Thanks
Ashley

[KS4UA]

After learning more about MVP support (through forum searches) I realised that I should be using the general GB-PVR config to setup my MVP server, not running it as a separate process. (I had been clicking the shortcut on GB-PVR MVP server before now.)

By turning on the MPV server through the Config menu and rebooting, that seems to have helped a bit right there. The MVP is not crashing nearly as much. Also even though I thought I had my Zone Alarm properly configured, I turned it off entirely to see if that was causing a problem. Not certain, but that may have helped a bit.

Response time on the MVP still seems a bit slow, while watching Live TV or browsing the TV guide. It's probably just a matter of me learning how to tweak it now.

GB-PVR is great !