2005-08-15, 08:37 AM
I have a new dual-head display running since Friday. The primary display is an Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 AGP (great card, works fine) and a Radeon 7000 VE PCI (older but has S-Video out). I've been able to get GB-PVR running on the second display and on the TV with some hassle allowing me to use my desktop while things are playing on the TV (although I've decided I won't do this for reasons not relevant here).
At some point while screwing around with this setup this weekend, I somehow lost the live preview, not only for GBPVR but also WinTV. Figuring this was a driver issue, I went to http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...vr150.html and updated *everything*. This restored live preview mode for both programs and I assume all was well. All was definitely not well.
When it came time for GBPVR to record a program, it changed the channel, created the directory and file (of zero size) and then the recording service terminated. There were no errors in any of the logs, and there were no error dialogs. Restarting the recording service succeeded only to have it terminate when it tried to begin recording again.
At first I thought this was a bug with the new version (the new new version) and I tried to revert (which started a battle with windows MSI installer which I barely escaped alive.)
I eventually was able to revert and found the problem persisted across the previous version as well. Having gained nothing, I upgraded again and still encountered the problem. I downgraded again, and was getting no where.
I'll note here that live preview mode DID work at this point for both GBPVR and WinTV. Only recording with GBPVR caused the service to die, and unfortunately I was too focused on getting this problem fixed to check and see if recording with WinTV still worked.
I finally decided to uninstall the new video decoder (http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/...wsmd05.exe) and found there was no uninstall method for it. I just (as in minutes ago) reverted my entire system to a restore point the system created when I first installed the newest GBPVR which should have been before I revamped the WinTV suite of crap. This seems to have worked, as a test (finding anything and setting it to quick rec from the guide) resulted in this:
08/15/2005 04:19 AM 20,694,976 The Real Da Vinci Code_20050815_04000600.mpg
and the recording service did not terminate.
Now since I lack a JIT debugger for C# (I'm a Java and C guy, I have debuggers for those but not this) I can't even begin to tell you where things went wrong, only that the recording service was consistently terminating without logging any errors (yes I set the error level to Debug) after creating the file on disk, and that my best guess is that the video decoder update was responsible. Either that, or one of the most recent driver updates (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...r150.html), I had installed them all.
I strongly urge that no one go to that hauppauge site and update their drivers until this has been investigated more fully.
Good luck figuring this out.
At some point while screwing around with this setup this weekend, I somehow lost the live preview, not only for GBPVR but also WinTV. Figuring this was a driver issue, I went to http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...vr150.html and updated *everything*. This restored live preview mode for both programs and I assume all was well. All was definitely not well.
When it came time for GBPVR to record a program, it changed the channel, created the directory and file (of zero size) and then the recording service terminated. There were no errors in any of the logs, and there were no error dialogs. Restarting the recording service succeeded only to have it terminate when it tried to begin recording again.
At first I thought this was a bug with the new version (the new new version) and I tried to revert (which started a battle with windows MSI installer which I barely escaped alive.)
I eventually was able to revert and found the problem persisted across the previous version as well. Having gained nothing, I upgraded again and still encountered the problem. I downgraded again, and was getting no where.
I'll note here that live preview mode DID work at this point for both GBPVR and WinTV. Only recording with GBPVR caused the service to die, and unfortunately I was too focused on getting this problem fixed to check and see if recording with WinTV still worked.
I finally decided to uninstall the new video decoder (http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/...wsmd05.exe) and found there was no uninstall method for it. I just (as in minutes ago) reverted my entire system to a restore point the system created when I first installed the newest GBPVR which should have been before I revamped the WinTV suite of crap. This seems to have worked, as a test (finding anything and setting it to quick rec from the guide) resulted in this:
08/15/2005 04:19 AM 20,694,976 The Real Da Vinci Code_20050815_04000600.mpg
and the recording service did not terminate.
Now since I lack a JIT debugger for C# (I'm a Java and C guy, I have debuggers for those but not this) I can't even begin to tell you where things went wrong, only that the recording service was consistently terminating without logging any errors (yes I set the error level to Debug) after creating the file on disk, and that my best guess is that the video decoder update was responsible. Either that, or one of the most recent driver updates (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/s...r150.html), I had installed them all.
I strongly urge that no one go to that hauppauge site and update their drivers until this has been investigated more fully.
Good luck figuring this out.