Shut Down and RestartGB-PVR

[johnnybonzo]

I have a problem that others on the forum have posted about. When I resume from standby, the video is choppy. The solution seems to be using the wake.cmd batch file to shut down and restart GB-PVR. Problem is I can't find what commands to put in wake.cmd to do this. A little help would be appreciated.

[sub]

I'm not aware of anything like this requiring GB-PVR to be restarted. I have seen a few posts in the past where people have used wake.cmd to restart their capture device (with the help of devcon.exe utility).

[johnnybonzo]

If I had to guess, it seems to have to do with my ATI video card (probably drivers), since scheduled recordings work fine - only playback is affected.

[johnnybonzo]

That being said, the only thing that fixes it is shutting down and restating GB-PVR when resuming from standby. What commands can I put in the wake.cmd file to do that?

[sub]

I'd have no idea.

[K.S.]

get psshutdown from sysinternals/microsoft and copy pskill to i.e. gbpvr dir, put the following lines in wake.cmd

%programfiles%\devnz\gbpvr\pskill gbpvr.exe
ping localhost -n 3
start %programfiles%\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe

[Slice]

Hi all,

Actually I've been having the same problem for a while now, I'll try what's posted above and see as well!

[johnnybonzo]

Thanks to everyone for there replies!

Just for the sake of accuracy, the wake.cmd file needs to contain the following (or the command prompt throws errors, doesn't like the \Program Files\ directory):

"%programfiles%\devnz\gbpvr\pskill.exe" gbpvr.exe
ping localhost -n 3
"%programfiles%\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe"


But now I have another issue - GB-PVR is not executing the file upon resume from standby. The wake.cmd file is in the ..\devnz\gbpvr\ directory. Help?

[sub]

GB-PVR doesnt run wake.cmd by default, but there was some utility posted a while back called GBPVRWake that run this. If you fo a forum search for this I'm sure you'll find a download.

[madcat]

I dont know if helps, but I use AutoIt3 as a scripting tool for many of these tasks. Those scripts can be compiled by AutoIt3 into .EXE files.

The AU3 script I have for this purpuse is:

Code:

$GB_title = "GB-PVR"

$exists = WinExists ($GB_title)
if $exists == 1 Then
    ;MsgBox(0, "", "Exists")
    WinClose($GB_title)
    run("pskill gbpvr", "")
Else
    ;MsgBox(0, "", "Does not Exist")
    run("c:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\gbpvr.exe", "c:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\")
    WinActivate("GB-PVR")
EndIf

This script actually "toggles" GBPVR. So I can use the same script (and same button on the remote) to open/close GB-PVR.
It is useful for me for when I want to stop GB-PVR from remote (or start it if it's not running).
If you just want restart, you could use both sections of the "if" statement.
The "WinClose" should take care of closing, but the "run(" statement after it is just in case.

It does happen from time to time that GB-PVR will get into a corner, and give me the popup messege ("Object something something") and will not play anything from that point. Then two clicks on the remote and I'm back online (wife knows that button too).

Sub - this is not to complain about those cases. It could be issues with my setup, and unless I pick the specific scenario and logs, I don't mean to complain about it or report it. I'm OK with it.