Only some FTA channels works in MediaPortal

[bluebear]

TV-Server Version: mediaportal-svn-09-14-2008--15-54-Rev20227
MediaPortal Version: mediaportal-svn-09-14-2008--15-54-Rev20227
MediaPortal Skin:
Windows Version: windows xp sp3
CPU Type: AMD BE-2350
HDD: SAMSUNG 200GB
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Video Card: 3200/ integrated
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 8.8
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: TT-1501
1. TV Card Type: DVB-C
1. TV Card Driver: Latest BDA
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
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: Standard Mediaportal
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Standard Mediaportal
h.264 Video Codec: Standard Mediaportal
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Local provider KOMMUNICERA
HTPC Case: None at the moment
Cooling: Standard
Power Supply: FSP 350W
Remote: none
TV: none
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

I have a really odd behavoiur with Mediaportal. It seems that some unscrambled, free to watch, channels ends upp with no picture. Something is ticking cause the system feels slower. It does not freeze the program itself, but also no picture. To make it more odd. The channels on one of the transponders works fine, but the other two stands short. We are talking 10 channels lost, what can I do? To make it more interesting, they all work fine with linux mythtv, same setup otherwise. They also play well under windows and Progdvd, all of them. I´m just puzzled, do I have to retreat to mythtv or have anyone heard anything like this before?

Here is the logs showing first on free channel working as it should, and later switching to one that doesn´t. Sorry if I post to much but I had to have someone, other than my lazy eye, look at this.

previous logs removed, attached in files for readability.

[bluebear]

Bumping question.

I have now tried with RC3 and a floppyDTV-C card to no avail. My local cabel provider sends FTA channels on 3 mux:es.
Freq: 410,418,426 Mhz with QAM64.
Mediaportal scans and finds all channels thats delivered on them, but I can only watch the channels on Freq 418 Mhz. The others won´t start and
ends up with a crashed TV server.

All channels works flawless with fireDTV viewer, progdvb or with linux mythtv. Why not with Mediaportal?

Happy for any suggestions, I´m stranded anyway.

[Topstar]

Got the same problem here, also using floppydtv (s2) I can use the fta channels but can't open the scrambled ones.
FireDTV works however...

Found out I had to read TFM... cam's are disabled by default since RC3, just enable them acording the setup wiki

[bluebear]

Topstar are you saying that you can see FTA channels, but can´t see scrambled ones? If so, it is not the same problem I´m afraid. I can only see some unscrambled channels from MUX 418, 1/3 of the hole package of 15 unscrambled channels. The others either crashes TV-Server or ends up with no picture. This is strange. All channels are green, they should be watchable.

Here are two cut outs from tswriter logs for working and none working channels.

Working channel:

14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 analyzer: set video pid:76d
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 analyzer: set audio pid:76e
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT paused=yes
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Received from TvService: pmt pid:0xd50 serviceId: 0xd50 pmtlength:103
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Old pids cleared
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT got pmt - tableid: 0x2 section_length: 103 sid: 0xd50
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT PMT parsed - Pid 0xd50 ServiceId 0xd50 stream count: 5
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT pcr pid:0x76d
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT SetPcrPid clear old PIDs
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT determine new start pcr
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add video stream pid: 0x76d fake pid: 0x30 stream type: 0x2 logical type: 0x2 descriptor length: 0
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add audio stream pid: 0x76e fake pid: 0x40 stream type: 0x4 logical type: 0x4 descriptor length: 6
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add teletext stream pid: 0x76f fake pid: 0x62 stream type: 0x6 logical type: 0x56 descriptor length: 7
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT stream rejected - pid: 0x770 stream type: 0xc0 logical type: 0xc0 descriptor length: 49
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT stream rejected - pid: 0x771 stream type: 0xb logical type: 0xb descriptor length: 3
14-10-2008 21:11:36.515 Recorder: TIMESHIFT paused=no
14-10-2008 21:11:36.718 Recorder: TIMESHIFT start of audio detected
14-10-2008 21:11:36.953 Recorder: TIMESHIFT start of video detected
14-10-2008 21:11:36.953 Recorder: TIMESHIFT clear TS packet queue
14-10-2008 21:11:36.953 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Next broadcaster program clock reference rollover : 0 days 03:16:57 416
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Stop 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer'
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Reset
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pVideoAnalyzer
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pPmtGrabber
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pRecorder
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pTimeShifting
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pTeletextGrabber
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del m_pCaGrabber
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 del done...
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 CMpTsFilter:ause()
14-10-2008 21:11:48.546 CMpTsFilter:top()

Not working channel:

14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: set video pid:3e9
14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: set audio pid:3ea
14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: set audio pid:3eb
14-10-2008 21:06:39.828 analyzer: reset
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT set filename:C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT transport stream mode
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT paused=yes
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Received from TvService: pmt pid:0x1658 serviceId: 0x1658 pmtlength:106
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Old pids cleared
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT got pmt - tableid: 0x2 section_length: 106 sid: 0x1658
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT PMT parsed - Pid 0x1658 ServiceId 0x1658 stream count: 7
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT pcr pid:0x3fb
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT SetPcrPid clear old PIDs
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add video stream pid: 0x3e9 fake pid: 0x30 stream type: 0x2 logical type: 0x2 descriptor length: 3
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add audio stream pid: 0x3ea fake pid: 0x40 stream type: 0x3 logical type: 0x3 descriptor length: 0
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add audio stream pid: 0x3eb fake pid: 0x41 stream type: 0x6 logical type: 0x81 descriptor length: 12
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT stream rejected - pid: 0x3f4 stream type: 0xb logical type: 0xb descriptor length: 31
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT stream rejected - pid: 0x3f5 stream type: 0xc logical type: 0xc descriptor length: 3
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT stream rejected - pid: 0x3f3 stream type: 0x5 logical type: 0x5 descriptor length: 2
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT add teletext stream pid: 0x4b3 fake pid: 0x61 stream type: 0x6 logical type: 0x56 descriptor length: 7
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT paused=no
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Start 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer'
14-10-2008 21:06:40.93 Recorder: TIMESHIFT SetVideoAudioObserver observer ok
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) b, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) b, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) b, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorder: TIMESHIFT start of audio detected
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) c, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) c, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) c, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) d, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) d, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) d, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) e, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) e, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) e, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorder: TIMESHIFT start of audio detected
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) f, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.125 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) f, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.140 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) f, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.140 Recorder: TIMESHIFT start of video detected
14-10-2008 21:06:40.156 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) 0, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.156 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) 0, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.156 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) 0, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.156 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) 1, PayLoadLen : 184
14-10-2008 21:06:40.156 Recorderid 4b3 Same ts packet...( removed ) 1, PayLoadLen : 184

the log contionues like this untill it swallows a whopping 2Mb after a few seconds, probably why TV-Server later crashes.