Question "Windows could not start the tv service on local computer" and 64 bit tribu

[deekarma]

Ok, first off hi all.

I ignored the sticky at the top of this thread and am now in the middle of a 64 bit nightmare!

My first words of advice in this forum are to say that if you are running 64 bit Vista/XP, forget about installing MP/TV3, it just aint worth the stress. I am totally peaved with myself for getting into 64 bit too early, and even more peaved that I can not let go when things aren't working out for me.

Thing is I have spent a fortune on my kit to get the ubiquitous all in one system and finally say goodbye forever to $ky. I was so nearly there until I made the awful decision to go 64 bit. Since getting my new 6 tuner Black Gold Card, my life has been nothing but work arounds. The DVB-S hack doesn't work in WMC, the card isn't recognised by MP, PowerCinema only recognises analogue. So far the only fault free program is DVB-Viewer and its gui almost makes DOS seem state of the art.

I was hoping that TV-Server would be the panacea to my woes, but the installation process has been like nothing I ever knew. Every single step of the Wiki requires a google search for the 64 bit hack. Example - SQL Server Express requires a 64 bit installation package supplied by Microsoft that just installs as a 32 bit program anyway. The 32 bit requires IIS 6 to be installed on your system, and Vista 64 is native IIS 7 so you have to install a shed load of components to get it working and then run a scrip to tell Vista to report to the SQL Server that you do have Framework 2 installed since Vista will only report Framework 3 by default. And this is for an MS program - I mean come on!

So there we are, words of warning to all 64 bit wannabees. If I can get through this traumatic period in my life and end up with TV-Server working on this damn HTPC, I will do a clean install and produce a 64 bit tutorial with all the work arounds.

ANYHOW - what a lot of steam to let off in a first post, my apologies and thanks for sticking with me. Now can you help me?

I've finally got to install TV Engine and have reached something I can't get an answer to despite searching high and low. It connected to the database fine and I got to the management console fine. Low and behold the console picked up all six tuners. When I scanned for channels with my DVB-S tuner though, it crashed. So retried and it crashed again (this time after I tried to group the tuners). I then retried but the management console would not appear after the request to start the service. I have since reinstalled, rebooted and cleaned the registry after a further uninstall - grr still no console!! I have tried to manually start the service, but Windows states error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. Can you think of a reason/solution for this?

for such a long first post, but I am losing it!

[metropolis]

Hi Deekarma, I would be really interested in knowing how you got SQL up and running in Vista 64 please...

Regards.

Update, all installed and running OK, EXCEPT on channel scan 'No Signal'. This is with Nova T-500 DVB-T and Technotrend S2-3200 DVB-S. The Nova T-500 works fine in MCE. Any way of getting this working?

Regards.

[Priet]

Try setting TV server to another IP address: that worked for me! Or better said: the service couldn't start when using the IPv6 address. I manually changed the MySQL database via Command Line and change the HostName setting in the 'server' table to my computer name.

Running on Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. It works fine on my laptop (Windows XP) but on Vista I can't get pass the message 'Connection to TvServer lost'

[fredflintstone]

Try this:

Scanning for channels hangs again -> Post from snowman (using corflags)

and my post:

No DVB-T Signal under Vista x64

Originally Posted by deekarma

Ok, first off hi all.

Every single step of the Wiki requires a google search for the 64 bit hack. Example - SQL Server Express requires a 64 bit installation package supplied by Microsoft that just installs as a 32 bit program anyway. The 32 bit requires IIS 6 to be installed on your system, and Vista 64 is native IIS 7 so you have to install a shed load of components to get it working and then run a scrip to tell Vista to report to the SQL Server that you do have Framework 2 installed since Vista will only report Framework 3 by default. And this is for an MS program - I mean come on!

You haven't install nothing of them and no "hack" is requiered using the a.m. treat and mysql ;-)

Just fuck MS use freeware :-D