the target machine actively refused it...

[frumbert]

About 70% of the time I press "Live TV" I get the message :

[INDENT]no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it[/INDENT]

There's nothing I can do that will fix this - it seems to fix itself over several hours. Restarting gbpvr or even shutting down the whole PC and starting up again doesn't help. Just seems random as to whether or not it will do it.

I'm using 0.97.13 on a single machine (not doing any remote server stuff). I have a Haupphage PVR 150 card.

[sub]

When you get this, if you look at the task manager, is the GBPVRRecordingService.exe listed as a running process?

[frumbert]

huh - no!

well, doing a "re start recording service" does the trick. I wonder why it doesn't start up sometimes, or why it crashes/isn't there...

[sub]

It does autostart, but there could be some reason for it crashing. If so, there will usually be a message in the Windows Event Viewer saying why it crashed.

Do you also have NOD32, Panda Antivirus or NetLimiter installed? These apps can crash the GB-PVR recording service.

[frumbert]

no, no firewalls or antivirus stuff on this machine

The live tv service obviously doesn't start without the service running, however I sometimes cannot start the service itself.

The system log has this message:

[INDENT]Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 24/07/2006
Time: 8:07:30 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PVR
Description:
The GB-PVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 4 time(s).[/INDENT]

And the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log looks like this:

[INDENT][SIZE="1"]24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.890 INFO [4] GB-PVR Recording Service starting
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.940 VERBOSE [4] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.940 VERBOSE [4] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\config.xml
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseIdentityQuery
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/DatabaseIdentityQuery : select @@identity
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseProviderFactory
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.950 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/DatabaseProviderFactory : System.Data.OleDb.OleDbFactory
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.960 VERBOSE [4] Installed ADO.NET Provider: System.Data.Odbc.OdbcFactory
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.960 VERBOSE [4] Installed ADO.NET Provider: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbFactory
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.960 VERBOSE [4] ...using System.Data.OleDb.OleDbFactory
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.960 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
24/07/2006 8:07:27 AM.960 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error
24/07/2006 8:07:30 AM.474 ERROR [11] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.x92f6085038c83bb7.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
[/SIZE][/INDENT]

[sub]

Set the logging level back to debug, then reproduce the problem and zip and attach the logs.

[frumbert]

Everything was ok yesterday. Last night I left the machine running as usual after schedulling some recordings, and just recently have tried to watch tv. Nothing else has happened afaik on the machine. But the original problem is back. I've attached all the logs in the gbpvr folder in the zip file attachment.

[sub]

I cant see the exact cause, but it relates to the automatic file conversion and some of the data in your database. I've changed the app to protect against it in the next release. If you disable automat file conversion it should solve this problem for now.

[frumbert]

hmm how odd. Ok i'll do that for now and see what happens in the next release.