As you may have read elsewhere on this blog, I’ve been using a customised tswriter for the EPG data - it essentially reads the data that Sky broadcast.
Recently however, some channels started going wrong. Most annoying was Channel 4- I just had no data for it! Running TVServer config showed several Channel 4’s so I [...]
Today I’ve managed to do a little more browsing of the Mediaportal forums and it looks like this problem is one that’s been around for a while. There is a possible fix (well, i’d call it a workaround) where disabling the EPG grab when the TVService is idle stops the hang.
I’ve set this option, so [...]
RC3 is going OK, but since the update there seem to be a lot more instances of the TV server hanging, and recordings not being made.
The log files aren’t giving me many clues unfortunately, so I’ve put a post into the Mediaportal forums here to see if anyone can advise.
One thing I might try is [...]
A new problem I came across is that the Hauppauge remote supplied with the Satellite cards didn’t seem to control anything outside of MediaPortal (asides from the green power button, which simply loaded the Windows Media Centre software!). Clearly this would be a problem - particularly as I am using external applications such as PowerDVD [...]
Oh no!
So, Mediaportal is all installed (at least in an initial sense…!) so I tried playing some of my music and a couple of .mkv files I’d had for a while. They worked, but every minute or two there was a horrible slowdown/stutter in the audio. It would last for maybe 4 seconds. Not a [...]
So, Vista installed fine. Next problem, the default 800×600 looked ugly on my 32″ LCD (as expected) but the ATI Catalyst drivers didn’t offer 1360×768 which is the native for my TV (a Samsung LE32T5). I was using DVI at this point, so figured I’d try VGA. Same problem. Hmm, this could be a showstopper!
I [...]
