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<blockquote data-quote="osksa" data-source="post: 1155712" data-attributes="member: 155144">Hmmm, maybe the theory is incorrect. But what I did when I collected the logs was to start MediaPortal and wait for a long time, and the kill it. What I'm saying I did later was to let the settings application run without killing it. I'm thinking that maybe if I kill the settings app when it's not ready it will end up in some bade state.I am saying just that. Multiple restarts of the tv-server and the computer, still working. First time after I tested without preload, it took a long time for the card to start producing image, but it did after a minute or so.Ok, yes few people use analog TV these days, I would like to not have to too, but I'm too cheap to start paying for channels I already get included in my rent in analog format.One thing that sounded strange about your initial theory is that one card, the PVR-150, has an on board hardware mpeg2 decoder, but the HVR-1100 uses software decoding. So it seems a little strange that the HVR-1100 tries to use the other ones encoding software, since according to my understanding there are none?Just posting to try to understand what was/is going on here, seems a little bit like vodoo problem solving I did =)Oh, and by the way another theory I had was that when it started working, I was fiddeling with some settings regarding codecs, like changing the merits of ffdshow and other codecs using shark007:s gui. I thought that some decoding codec merit change could have fixed the problem. I tried the theory by setting all settings back as before thinking that it would stop working again, but it did not so I discarded the theory... Maybe coincidence, but maybe something was not right there that got set right when I fiddled with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="osksa, post: 1155712, member: 155144"] Hmmm, maybe the theory is incorrect. But what I did when I collected the logs was to start MediaPortal and wait for a long time, and the kill it. What I'm saying I did later was to let the settings application run without killing it. I'm thinking that maybe if I kill the settings app when it's not ready it will end up in some bade state. I am saying just that. Multiple restarts of the tv-server and the computer, still working. First time after I tested without preload, it took a long time for the card to start producing image, but it did after a minute or so. Ok, yes few people use analog TV these days, I would like to not have to too, but I'm too cheap to start paying for channels I already get included in my rent in analog format. One thing that sounded strange about your initial theory is that one card, the PVR-150, has an on board hardware mpeg2 decoder, but the HVR-1100 uses software decoding. So it seems a little strange that the HVR-1100 tries to use the other ones encoding software, since according to my understanding there are none? Just posting to try to understand what was/is going on here, seems a little bit like vodoo problem solving I did =) Oh, and by the way another theory I had was that when it started working, I was fiddeling with some settings regarding codecs, like changing the merits of ffdshow and other codecs using shark007:s gui. I thought that some decoding codec merit change could have fixed the problem. I tried the theory by setting all settings back as before thinking that it would stop working again, but it did not so I discarded the theory... Maybe coincidence, but maybe something was not right there that got set right when I fiddled with it. [/QUOTE]

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