Firefly weirdness

[jmontana]

I've got the Firefly remote working with GB-PVR ... mostly.

Sometimes, the buttons stop controlling GB-PVR. Actually, I should say "most of" the buttons stop controlling GB-PVR. For some weird reason, the stop button always works.

So, I'm watching Live TV. And the channel +/- buttons stop functioning. But if I click stop, it gets me back to the main menu.

Or, I'm watching a video from my video library, and nothing works. But if I alt-tab out of GB-PVR and back to GB-PVR, everything magically starts working again.

I know about the potential problem with divx:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ight=focus

When I tried to install that, it couldn't find the executable it was trying to disable. In any case, that executable isn't running, so it's not stealing focus.

In all cases, when I click a button, the Firefly displays "GBPVR Play" or whatever the button was, indicating that I'm in the right window.

I can't believe it's a problem with the GBPVR profile, since it works perfectly once things get sorted out. (In other words, if the profile was bad, I would expect that Channel Up would never work.)

Firefly's AppIdentifier indicates the same window class when I switch from main menu to video library or live TV, but I'm wondering if there's another hidden class I should be referencing?

[sub]

Could you be using the Cyberlink video decoder with VMR9? This combination is known to swallow keypresses unless you add some Cyberlink registry settings. It also results in a lack of OSD graphics.

[jmontana]

I'm using VMR9 custom. And my video decoder is set to "System Default." Cyberlink (ATI) is definitely one of the choices in the Video Decoder menu, though. (I'm using an All-in-Wonder 9000.)

Can you point me to the registry settings I need to add?

OSD seems to be working for me.

[sub]

add the following dword values to registry

HKLM/Software/Cyberlink/Common/CLVSD/EnableVMR9=1

if does not work then add here to

HKCU/Software/Cyberlink/Common/CLVSD

[jmontana]

add the following dword values to registry

HKLM/Software/Cyberlink/Common/CLVSD/EnableVMR9=1

if does not work then add here to

HKCU/Software/Cyberlink/Common/CLVSD

Thanks, sub. The first one already existed. The second one did not, and adding it had no effect. But I did manage to fix it in another way.

I was specifying the commands like this:

Code:

<Actions Button="Pause" Description="Pause">
  <KeyAction ActivationState="DownRepeat" Keys="^Q" Sleep="0" />
</Actions>

The fix was to use the <SpecialKeyAction> tags instead. (This may not be verbatim, as I'm working from memory since the PC is at home right now):

Code:

<Actions Button="Pause" Description="Pause">
  <SpecialKeyAction Type="Down" Key="ControlKey" />
  <SpecialKeyAction Type="Down" Key="Q" />
  <SpecialKeyAction Type="Up" Key="Q" />
  <SpecialKeyAction Type="Up" Key="ControlKey" />
</Actions>

I still seem to have an issue with Live TV, where the channel +/- keys suddenly stop working.

Also, it seems that a lot of functions won't work in Live TV mode until I first hit Pause to engage timeshifting. In particular: program info, the mini guide (F1), etc. Is that by design?

[sub]

Also, it seems that a lot of functions won't work in Live TV mode until I first hit Pause to engage timeshifting. In particular: program info, the mini guide (F1), etc. Is that by design?

They usually work from live preview mode also.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the gbpvr.exe-native.log and I'll take a look.

[sterlicious]

I'm having this same problem with my Firefly now.

[jmontana]

Did you try the SpecialKeyAction fix I mentioned earlier? That's what did it for me.