So, I’ve not updated this blog in quite some time. Why is that?
Well, after some time with Mediaportal, I moved to using Windows Media Centre instead. So why switch? Well, the key reason was reliability. Whilst MP was certainly fully featured and looked great, there were a few too many reliability niggles which had a [...]
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 [...]
The Mediaportal team recently released version 1.0.2 - this contains a host of new bugfixes (many of which were around the installation area of 1.0.1) so it’s well worth updating.
Visit the Mediaportal site to download this update.
I’ve just finished setting up the My TV Series plugin, along with the StreamedMP skin.
The new skin is very slick looking, with lots of nice dark grey and some nice animation touches. The WAF is diminished slightly due to the lack of MePo and it looking like “some executive loft apartment” but she’s ok with [...]
Up till now, i’ve been using the XMLTV EPG. This basically downloads tv listings from the Radio Times and formats them in the open XMLTV standard for import into MediaPortal. This works ok, apart from the fact that a lot of channels don’t actually get listings in the Radio Times (albeit some of the more [...]
The Mediaportal team have today released RC4! I’ll try and get it installed shortly.
Thanks in advance to all the team for their hard work!
I’ve recently started playing around with another great looking Mediaportal plugin - the Last.FM Radio plugin.
If you don’t know what Last.FM is, then in essence, it is rather similar to “Pandora”. You listen to music, tell it what you like, and it will recommend other artists and tunes you might like. The first thing to [...]
Spotted on a couple of forums, channel 5 (”Five”) is now broadcasting FTA so can be picked up on the PC at long last!
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just tuning to the FIve i’d already added to my EPG in preparation though, as it’s on a different frequency!
So to get FIVE working, I had [...]
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 [...]
