Recent content by CyberSimian

I think that codecs need to be registered with Windows, in order for MP2 to be able to use them. If installing LAV did not register the codecs, you need to do this manually. Try typing How to register codecs in Windows in the Google search field, and follow the instructions resulting. -- from...

My guess (and that is all that it is) would be that either: The audio codec used by that VOB file is not installed on your system, or The codec is installed but it has not been selected for use during playback. In MP1's "Config" utility, there is a panel where the user selects which audio...

onfocus Recently I tried coding this: <onfocus>#(iif(eq(#skin.search.id,0),skin.setstring('#skin.search.id',10)))</onfocus> Unfortunately this does not work. It seems that for <onfocus> the skin engine treats the iif condition as true, even when it is false. The workaround for this is to...

Yes, that is the case. Some years ago the situation arose where members of the team had different ideas about how the product should progress, and as a result the team split into two, rather like the split that resulted in the creation of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. For whatever reason, the MP2...

I regret to say that MP no longer has an expert in EPG transmission formats, so unless the change is trivial, this may not be fixed for some considerable time. One workaround would be to use "Schedules Direct". It is a paid service (around 30 US dollars per year), and they do provide EPG info...

I am no expert, but the above suggests to me that something has changed in the way that your HTPC accesses the internet. Perhaps there have been recent Windows updates that have affected the firewall rules that are being applied. The Windows log of updates should indicate whether there have been...

There seems to be some sort of problem with Trakt. At the very end of "MediaPortal.log": [2026-05-26 09:23:10,989] [Error ] [Scrobble ] [ERROR] - MediaPortal: Unhandled exception occured [2026-05-26 09:23:11,330] [Log ] [Scrobble ] [ERROR] - Exception: System.Net.WebException: Unable to...

That is the configuration that I recommend, and which I use myself. (y) My HTPC is setup to grab the EPG at 06:00 hours each day, using idle grabbing. I have just checked my EPG to see if the channels that you mention are missing some EPG: The "U&W" and "U&Eden" channels both have a full EPG...

Is this true? Because JPG files can be several hundred MBytes in size, I would be surprised if they were stored within the MP2 database. I would instead expect them to exist as separate JPG files in the same folder as the video file to which they relate. Have you looked? Unfortunately, all of...

I have also had this problem in the past. There are two components to this problem: Your internet router is pinging the HTPC at regular intervals in order to see if the HTPC is still present on the network. The network adapter in the HTPC has "Wake on Lan" enabled. So at the end of a recording...

I have not seen that error before. As you have a minidump file available, you might find that "BlueScreenView" gives you more information about the device or driver that is causing the problem. On my HTPC, I very occasionally get a blue screen, and "BlueScreenView" indicates that it is the...

Have you enabled the "PowerScheduler" plugin in "TV Server Config" and also in "MP Config"? (Most settings are in "TV Server Config".) When you use the remote control to sleep the system, the system will sleep immediately (assuming that there is nothing else that requires the system to remain...

If you use "Manual Booking" (left side menu on the "Recording Schedule" panel), you can schedule a recording duration of up to 24 hours. However... That is using the "conventional" TV sources, i.e. a DVB-T tuner, a DVB-S tuner, or an analogue tuner. You stated in your other thread that you are...

I made some updates to the Wiki page describing the <import> and <include> tags, including adding a couple of new xml examples. For the first example, I highlighted the example text and eventually found the location in the menus where I could select the CODE macro to have the example text...

As Alexander Pope said: A little learning is a dangerous thing, and Dr Google explains this as: The quotation warns that superficial knowledge of a subject can make people arrogant or foolish, suggesting one should either learn deeply or not at all. "Superficial", and "arrogant or foolish"...