TV server 1.0 RC2 crash

[underpool]

TV-Server Version: 1.0.0.0 RC2
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0 RC2
MediaPortal Skin: Monochrome
Windows Version: Windows XP Professional SP3
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 4850e 2500MHz
HDD: Western Digital WD5000AACS 500GB
Memory: 2x Corsair 1024MB DDR2
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Video Card: Integrated ATI Radeon HD3200-based graphic
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: Integrated ALC889A HD Audio 7.1 Channel with DTS Connect
Sound Card AC3: Optical Out (SPDIF)
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: FloppyDTV S2
1. TV Card Type: DVB-S2
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Hauppauge WINTV Nova-HD-S2
2. TV Card Type: DVB-S2
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Astra 19.2°
HTPC Case: Antec FUSION V2 silver
Cooling: Boxed AMD Cooler, 2x 120 Case Fans
Power Supply: Integrated Antec 450 Watt Supply
Remote: Auvisio VRC-1100 Ro
TV: Philips Aurea
TV - HTPC Connection: TV to HTPC via HDMI


Hello everybody,

a few weeks ago I reinstalled MediaPortal and TV Server on my machine. I did it because I want to have RC2.
I also installed the latest available SVN, but that was a catastrophe. Nothing worked correctly and MP crashed permanently. So I decided to take an earlier SVN.
After several reinstallations I finally went lucky with MediaPortal 1.0 RC2 (no SVN) and TV Server 1.0 RC2 (SVN mediaportal-svn-09-06-2008--11-16-Rev20143).

All is working fine now, except the TV Server. The server crashes often when I want to watch TV.
When I click on My TV in MediaPortal, normally after a few seconds the TV menu appears and the TV runs. But randomly it happens nothing. I only can see that on my external display the "TV" sign disappears. Then MP hangs completely. I have to exit it via the TaskManager. I also have to restart the TVService.exe, otherwise the TV wont work. When I restarted both, TV works wonderful until the next crash.

The crashes come randomly, so they have nothing to do with standby reasons or so, I think.

I attached the Logfiles generated with Watchdog. In the TVserver errorlog there is a "System.Net.Sockets.SocketException", but I really dont know what to do.

It would be great if someone yould help me, because my family is not very happy with that.
The old install with RC1 worked perfectly and it would be great if I could fix that as well.

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english,

Greetings, underpool

[samo_yea]

Hi underpool!

Firstly you have to install the same version of MediaPortal and TvServer (the same svn) to prevent incompatibility issues. The last svn version is very stable for me. Then try to disable the "Grab EPG while idle", becouse many people report this as the cause for the random TVServer crash.
Hope that this would help!

Samo

[underpool]

Thank you!
Your solution works well.

But beside that Iam going to upgrade to RC3 as soon as it becomes available.

Greetz,
underpool