Testbuilds for Native MP2 TV - Updated for Winter Release!

MediaPortal 2 Native TV solution - Test builds


This thread is intended for testing the latest developments of both TVE35 and the MP2 integration.

All work for a native MP2 solution is based on @gibman's rework of the MP1-TVengine 3. Many features of @mm1352000 (hardware plugins) are already merged into this build. A lot more ideas and work in pending...

This build of MP2 does not require any components of MP1 to be installed, nor MPExtended as connection.

What you need to know

• You need all MP2 requirements
• You don't need to have MP1-TvServer installed
• It does not interfere with MP1-TvServer if it is installed
• This "new" TV engine runs inside MP2-Server as a plugin.
• In principle there are multiple databases supported (MSQL, MySQL, MSSQL-CE). This build uses the MSQL-CE, with provides DB functions without installation of other services.
• This build does not use MP1 database, so there is no risk of corruptions!
• The first builds are still to be seen as "very experimental" and will probably show some issues.

How to install

Run the .msi, it installs a MP 2 Alpha 1 Winter Release including the NativeTV plugins. This version works with the SQL-CE and also with the MySQL database plugin. No further configuration is required, the NativeTV plugin detects everything by itself.

How to run

• Stop MP1-TVService if installed! You TV card will be locked otherwise...
• Run the MP2-Server
• Run the contained SetupTV, do a channel scan. SetupTV is located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Plugins\SlimTv.Service\SetupTv\SetupTV.exe"
• Run MP2-Client, enter SlimTvClient

Features that are expected to work

• Loading channel groups, channels, program guide
• timeshifting
• PiP
• scheduling of recordings (only simple, single programs)

Features that will not work
All TvServer plugins won't work inside MP2-Server yet. Simple reason is the version check of host (2.0.0.0) vs. TvServer libraries (1.2.x.x)

Known Issues

• Channel scanning is very slow currently (ongoing changes under the hood, more detailed channel scan). This will be improved later.
• No link to SetupTV.exe in start menu currently, requires manual run from explorer

Finding errors
If something does not work as expected, there are two places where to look for required information. Please look for:

• C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Server\Log\*.log

Reserved

Reserved

Hi jehe,

You already have MySQL ? Does not matter
The db used by this build is not the full blown MS-SQL db. It is only a MS SQL-CE, which does not need any installation at all. Everything is included inside the zip-file. So give it a go

If you have MySQL because of an installed MP1-TVServer only important thing is:

Seems like we need to merge the win8 commit of MP1 into this branch soon. I will take a while, because we are currently cleaning up the branches

logs are always good Without logs nobody can help you^^

There are NO hardcoded paths, so if your system drive is E or F just copy the contents of the archive there

If you see much blocking this could mean that you have a bad signal. You can also change the video codec inside settings.