Errors when recording ATSC programs

[nippywiffle]

Hi, I hope you can help me with some problems I'm having switching to timeshift mode in GBPVR 99.12.

When I push pause (either by keyboard, mouse or remote) while watching an ATSC broadcast, it works fine the first time after the PC has started up.

If I stop recording this show, and then try to push pause on another ATSC show, it seems to be working, even gets as far as displaying the image, with the timeshift bar for a second, then I get the error: "error: object reference not set to an instance of an object"

If I then try to even watch another ATSC channel (no recording), I get the error: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt".

If I keep trying to watch ATSC channels, the program becomes unstable, and then crashes with one of those generic windows error windows "Gbpvr has encountered an error and needs to close".

Throughout all this, I can watch and record Analog channels fine - until the very end when the program is unstable, and watching anything makes it crash.

Only rebooting the PC resets this all back to normal.

The first ATSC show that I record works fine though, if I set a recording to happen in the background, it works fine, but if I set 2 to happen, the 2nd one seems to continue "recording" after it's finished, according to the recording service, but it's not actually recording any more. That file is then unreadable.

I've attached my logs, and also another error message that has appeared when I closed GBPVR after the "attempted to read or write protected memory" error.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

PS. I have : Athlon 3200+, 768MB, 100GB free hard disk space, nvidia 6800gt agp, Hauppauge hvr-1600, Windows XP SP2. I installed all the patches that sub posted in the survival guide post.

Thanks,
Dan.

[nippywiffle]

Just wanted to add that I'm using the latest Nvidia purevideo decoder, and using Overlay mode, since VMR7 or 9 don't work correctly on my video card.

[sub]

Hi, I hope you can help me with some problems I'm having switching to timeshift mode in GBPVR 99.12.

When I push pause (either by keyboard, mouse or remote) while watching an ATSC broadcast, it works fine the first time after the PC has started up.

If I stop recording this show, and then try to push pause on another ATSC show, it seems to be working, even gets as far as displaying the image, with the timeshift bar for a second, then I get the error: "error: object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Does this only happen when you use the mouse button to click pause? If you press Ctrl-Q instead, does it work correctly?

If it is that - some people have reported this in the past, but I've never been able to reproduce it myself. I had a tried a couple of things to fix it, but never seem to get the right thing, since the occasional report still comes in.

[nippywiffle]

I'll try that tonight, and let you know.

Thanks for the response.

[nippywiffle]

Does this only happen when you use the mouse button to click pause? If you press Ctrl-Q instead, does it work correctly?

If it is that - some people have reported this in the past, but I've never been able to reproduce it myself. I had a tried a couple of things to fix it, but never seem to get the right thing, since the occasional report still comes in.

Sub, the errors do not occur if I use Ctrl-Q. As soon as I use the remote it happens again. I have a Hauppauge 45 button remote.

Is there anything I can do to fix or get around this?

Thanks,
Dan

[sub]

Is there anything I can do to fix or get around this?

As I said above, some people have reported this in the past, but I've never been able to reproduce it myself. I had a tried a couple of things to fix it, but never seem to get the right thing, since the occasional report still comes in.

[nippywiffle]

Do you think it's a GBPVR, .net, decoder or drivers issue? Or something else?

Would some more specific logs help? I could clear my log files, make the error happen, then send just that to you.

[sub]

This one will be a GB-PVR bug, but I dont really have time to look into it at moment, so just use the keyboard or the remote for now to avoid the problem for now. I'll try to look into it again before the next release.

[nippywiffle]

Actually, the error happens mostly when using the remote, the only time it didnt happen, is with ctrl-q on the keyboard.

I just played around with some settings, and I switched on the "use direct access to hauppauge remote" option under "misc". It seems to be working better now. I'll keep testing it though.

What does this setting do exactly?

[sub]

Actually, the error happens mostly when using the remote, the only time it didnt happen, is with ctrl-q on the keyboard.

Post the logs showing it generated from the remote and I'll take a look. The problem I'm thinking of specifically relates to the 'OnClick' handler.

I just played around with some settings, and I switched on the "use direct access to hauppauge remote" option under "misc". It seems to be working better now. I'll keep testing it though.

What does this setting do exactly?

That setting only does something for users of the PVR250 and PVR350. All newer Hauppauge devices use a different remote interface.