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Streams and Sharing Hi DaveyB, Yesterday i heard Luke talking about a possible maybe on a location to share MP related files in the future. In the meanwhile; if you have any webspace available to place aprrox. 150MB of streams on, Then you can get them all ! Otherwise, a good location to look for streams would be...
Streams and Sharing Hi DaveyB, Yesterday i heard Luke talking about a possible maybe on a location to share MP related files in...
:D I'm not sure if somebody did a post on this allready. If so, i was not able to find it. How to play your streams...
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run async hide "C:\Program Files\SnapStream Media\Firefly\Firefly.exe" run "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MediaPortal.exe" the above is the logon.txt file I use with scriptedlogon, gets my firefly operating.
run async hide "C:\Program Files\SnapStream Media\Firefly\Firefly.exe" run "C:\Program Files\Team...
well this one would be interesting for all the owners of a real HTCP, thus those where MP should be the only meaning of usement...
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Within the MediaPortal main program to to Settings --> Settings ---> Screen Calibration. DMAN
Within the MediaPortal main program to to Settings --> Settings ---> Screen Calibration. DMAN
Frodo helped me with this one, but here's how to do it: 1. Use NVidia drivers 61.12 (can be downloaded here...
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Here a little help to you to config Pinnacle PCTV cards click START panel -->MEDIAPORTAL --> click CONFIGURE go to TELEVISION then click CAPTURE CARDS click ADD in this menu select a TV CAPTURE CARD IS this a software Versiony you must enter your soundcard and the line In you connectet to you tv-card select TAB CODECS und...
Here a little help to you to config Pinnacle PCTV cards click START panel -->MEDIAPORTAL --> click CONFIGURE go to TELEVISION...
Remote is ok, com1 port is ok. But can't get Media Portal to learn the commands. Perhaps someone here has the remote.ini for me or...
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Hey, am I glad I have this fixed! I've been puzzling over a problem with my new mediaportal PVR for sometime. I have a PCTV card from Mira running with MP and it's been failing to record after the first successful record (after a reboot). i.e it does it once and then never again until a restart. I had errors along the...
Hey, am I glad I have this fixed! I've been puzzling over a problem with my new mediaportal PVR for sometime. I have a PCTV...
Hey, am I glad I have this fixed! I've been puzzling over a problem with my new mediaportal PVR for sometime. I have a PCTV...
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I think this is also a good one. It's used in VideoLan. http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmpeg2/
I think this is also a good one. It's used in VideoLan. http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmpeg2/
Out of the box windows doesnt support MPEG2 playback. If you want to playback mpeg2 files take a look at this free mpeg2 codec...
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Also, dont forget Girder
Also, dont forget Girder
When you adjust your audio volume you can have a bar on your screen, just as you do on your TV. Also Caps, Num, scroll locks and...
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The XMLTV "Clone" O2 Grabber does not work these days... but here is the work-a-round ;-) . Download "Paros" http://sourceforge.net/projects/paros 2. Install it. 3. Run Paros, and choose the "tools" menu, and under there the "options". 4. Choose "Local proxy", and pick a port you want to use. I use 8080 for my webserver, so...
The XMLTV "Clone" O2 Grabber does not work these days... but here is the work-a-round ;-) . Download "Paros"...
The XMLTV "Clone" O2 Grabber does not work these days... but here is the work-a-round ;-) . Download "Paros"...
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This all works great, but do you think you could make a list of what all the buttons do? It's kind of a pain to look up each thing individually.
This all works great, but do you think you could make a list of what all the buttons do? It's kind of a pain to look up each thing...
Hi Guys I Am New Here i really liked mediaportal, i've been using it for 2 weeks now, its perfect with my skystar2.... I did a...
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ivankurac3 Hi, lost my system tray icon after upgrading to the latest version, but used graphedit to prove still useing nvidia codec. Strange about the name change, but if it works will give it a go. Thanks for the TIP. 8)
ivankurac3 Hi, lost my system tray icon after upgrading to the latest version, but used graphedit to prove still useing nvidia...
This is the most weird thing I have ever seen. I don't know how it works, but it worked for me. I used to have the tray icon only...
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All you need is the stream address, I belive. Old post, but still very useful :D Perhaps this can make IP-radio more attractive? http://www.hardware.no/nyheter/programvare/norsk_nettradio_blir_gratis/32686
All you need is the stream address, I belive. Old post, but still very useful :D Perhaps this can make IP-radio more attractive...
Here are some radio playlistfiles for norwegian radiochannels. Just put them in your radio playlist folder, or specify folder in...
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If you start using the My Trailers plugin but the content never streams you may have a problem with WMP. Have a look at the log and look for the mms:// reference copy the URL and then paste that into WMP and see if it plays. If you get this error... "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is...
If you start using the My Trailers plugin but the content never streams you may have a problem with WMP. Have a look at the log...
If you start using the My Trailers plugin but the content never streams you may have a problem with WMP. Have a look at the log...
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Don't forget: http://www.mealmaster.com/recipes.htm
Don't forget: http://www.mealmaster.com/recipes.htm
Just thought we gather some nice sites to start off for the my recipes plugin :) English: http://www.ffts.com/recipes.htm...
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For Taiwan and Asia users, I have just added some nice 400x430 static-linked satellite images to the MP wiki. These are provided by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/satellite/Data/s3p/s3p.jpg http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/observe/satellite/Data/s1p/s1p.jpg...
For Taiwan and Asia users, I have just added some nice 400x430 static-linked satellite images to the MP wiki. These are provided by...
0.0.0.5 intoduced the functionality of showing a satellite image for weather. http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/...
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OK, I'm a new to SF.NET how do i do? And how do i Notify the DEVS?
OK, I'm a new to SF.NET how do i do? And how do i Notify the DEVS?
Here is the new Carrier Frequence for Udevalla Herrestad in Sweden. It's for Mux5 (Kanal Lokal,BBC World,BBC...
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I leave in Austria, and the built-in search only find a few cities ( should be a limitation from weather.com) The solution is very simple : Choose a location, save it. for me it was Vienna, Austria AUX000025 then go to weather.com, there you will probably find a city nearer from you ( for me it was scheibbs (only 10 KM from...
I leave in Austria, and the built-in search only find a few cities ( should be a limitation from weather.com) The solution is...
I leave in Austria, and the built-in search only find a few cities ( should be a limitation from weather.com) The solution is...
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Mytrailers Dual Display Clone Mirror I have the same problem but cannot apply your fix. I have two displays a touch screen and a projector, both configured in Nvidia's Clone Mode (i.e. mirrors the two screen). This solution works for most all video in MP except for MyTrailers. The video shows up on the touchscreen which is the...
Mytrailers Dual Display Clone Mirror I have the same problem but cannot apply your fix. I have two displays a touch screen and a...
Wierd one, MyTrailers suddenly stopped displaying video but played sound ok. After various messings about I established that WMP...
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How can I release the CD drive??? I tried to install mycdrip with mediaportal [0.2.0] and then I tried with the latest CVS. It doesn't work, it would seem that mediaportal is keeping the CD drive and not releasing it. So mycdrip cannot access it. Mycdrip doesn't work well on my windows XP: it rips the 1st song, then skips all the...
How can I release the CD drive??? I tried to install mycdrip with mediaportal [0.2.0] and then I tried with the latest CVS. It...
My CD Rip : MP3, Ogg , CDDB, Coverart, Originally a plugin for myHTPC GUI is quiet the same as MP, easy to use with remote...
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Whoo...I have to resurrect this really old thread since I ran into the same issue on the current build (1.2.2.0) running on a Windows 7 Home Premuim 32Bit edition (fully patched and no Anti Virus software running). Sometimes MP took a really long time to start up or the TV ran out of sync. The mentioned WMI service was blocking one...
Whoo...I have to resurrect this really old thread since I ran into the same issue on the current build (1.2.2.0) running on a...
Hi there For a long time i have been having major problems with MP's MY TV. Whenever i ran it the bda graph(DVB-T card) would...
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No prob.
No prob.
This is my guide to how I eventually setup my system for Mediaportal. My aim was only to have full screen TV-Out where all...
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Hi All If anyone installing PCI card read motherboard Specs first as they will point out shared IRQ's to avoid conflicts. If youve got something you hardly use as in modem for Fax/answering it dont matter if it shares IRQ but main ones to avoid are TV card, Graphics Card for obvious reasons and yes AGP share IRQ's with PCI slots...
Hi All If anyone installing PCI card read motherboard Specs first as they will point out shared IRQ's to avoid conflicts. If...
Symptom: Stuttering and freezing during tv playback, and to some extent video playback. Seems to be the result of hard drive...
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Hi, Since I've got about 4000 artists in my music database I got kind of tired of manually downloading thumbnails for each artist so I wrote a quick and dirty perl script that grabs artist images from last.fm. To run the script do the following: 1) Download and install ActivePerl from activestate.com, the script has been tested...
Hi, Since I've got about 4000 artists in my music database I got kind of tired of manually downloading thumbnails for each...
Hi, Since I've got about 4000 artists in my music database I got kind of tired of manually downloading thumbnails for each...
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Hi, if someone is still looking for a way to control MP via remote (Technisat TS35, SS2 official remote control), I've updated a gml file I've found around and it is working perfectly (together with Winlirc). Which is the best way to share it?
Hi, if someone is still looking for a way to control MP via remote (Technisat TS35, SS2 official remote control), I've updated a...
Hi, if someone is still looking for a way to control MP via remote (Technisat TS35, SS2 official remote control), I've updated a...
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hehe, gärn gscheh! :-)
hehe, gärn gscheh! :-)
If your TV-Plugin work do...... --- Download TV-Movie Clickfinder --- http://www.tvmovie.de/clickfinder/clickfinder.html...
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My solution is the following: I installed UltraMon and made the following display profiles: "Primary - Primary" - In here the only thing you'll have to do is filling in the name and "Primary - Secondary" - In here you'll have to select the secondary screen check the 'primary' checkbox - Fill in the name Next I made...
My solution is the following: I installed UltraMon and made the following display profiles: "Primary - Primary" - In here...
hey, i know this is a reaccuring topic, but none of the other methods have ever worked for me, however i finally got around to...
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MP1 MP2 Most used codecs DE
It helped a newbee, Me.
It helped a newbee, Me.
Tips & tricks. VOBSUB VOBSUB is a filter for Media Player, which can load and show subtitles (vobsub, ssa, srt, sub, ...)...
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Hi, I did implement today the two levels into my Hauppauge remote control file Irremote.ini and realy love the result. I now can switch with the FUNC-Key between navigation (left-right-up-down) and volume & channel control. I did also differentiate the green power button to be either the terminate application (alt-f4) or the...
Hi, I did implement today the two levels into my Hauppauge remote control file Irremote.ini and realy love the result. I now...
Hi, I'm trying to get the most out of my silver Hauppauge remotecontrol and found, that it is possible to work with more than one...
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But with MCE remote control?
But with MCE remote control?
It is possible to minimize MP when in Full screen? Thank you
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:( No luck. It crashed at the splash screen. Had the foresight to back up the original so everything's working again. That's OK, I can wait for 0.2.0
:( No luck. It crashed at the splash screen. Had the foresight to back up the original so everything's working again. That's OK...
A very nice feature of this keyboard is that you can program your TV or amplifier's volume buttons while retaining the ability to...
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Hi Chris, thanks for that list. One hotfix I am looking for but have had no luck searching the forums is an issue with USB devices and power saving. Apparently there is an issue with USB TV Tuners that this patch can fix. The issue is that it has brief freezes with 100% CPU usage for a second or two at random intervals. I am...
Hi Chris, thanks for that list. One hotfix I am looking for but have had no luck searching the forums is an issue with USB...
In our manual, you will find hotfixes from Microsoft which will fix issues, many ppl encounter. You can find them ::here::
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