TV-Server Version: 1.0 Final
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 Final
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3 Wide
Windows Version: Vista Home Basic (32b)
CPU Type: AMD 2800+
HDD: ?
Memory: 1.5GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G, AM2+ mATX
Video Card: ATI HD3200 (bult in on MB)
Video Card Driver: ATI Catalyst 8.11
Sound Card: Leadtek
Sound Card AC3: Leadtek
Sound Card Driver: Leadtek
1. TV Card: FloppyDTV
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T + CAM
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Leadtek DVB 1000s
2. TV Card Type: DVB-T (no CAM)
2. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: PowerDVD8 HW Accelerated (doesn't matter the error is there independent of codec)
MPEG2 Audio Codec: PowerDVD8 (doesn't matter the error is there independent of codec)
h.264 Video Codec: PowerDVD8 HW Accelerated
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Boxer (Sweden)
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote: MCE
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI+SPDIF
Hi, as I wrote in another thread (that was closed, see the messages included below) that I have problems with the screen going black at channel change. It is not happening every time, but often and I think it is related to the problems some people have with MPEG4. In my case it is ordinary MPEG2 DVB-T and it always works after restarting the MP application. I never had this problem until I made a clean install of 1.0 final..
Yesterday night I thought that everything was working fine, since it worked for a couple of hours after removing the CCCP codec pack and rebooting. However this morning the problem suddenly appeared again (after the client had been in standby over the night, but I tried standby yesterday without any problems also). I have activated restart after standby because I have problems reconnecting streaming
Before (that worked):
- Vista Home Basic
- CCCP codecs (in practice FFDshow was used both for audio and video, but I changed FFDshow video to MPV because I had problems with audio for some TV-shows and that problem disappeared when changing video codec)
- dual seat client/server TV with MPEG2 only
- Mediaportal 1.0RC4
After (that is not working):
- Vista Home Basic
- PowerDVD8 codecs and/or CCCP codecs
- dual seat client/server TV with MPEG2 only
- same HW
- Mediaportal 1.0
I have tested to have a lot of different codec combinations, e.g.:
- MPV for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- MPV for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
- PowerDVD8 for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- PowerDVD8 for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
- FFDShow for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- FFDShow for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
I have also tried to completely uninstall all other Codecs when using FFDshow codecs only (both audio and video) and the same for PowerDVD8, but that didn't help either...
Nothing helps. I have no issues when not watching TV, so I am pretty sure that the problem lies in the built in TS-reader. Whenever the screen has gone black, the only way to get video-decoding to work is to restart Mediaportal (client application only).
The next step will tonight be to try to install RC4 again and see if that resolves things...
On my other HTPC client (my childrens TV) that is running MP1.0RC4 on XP, I have no problems...
Please help me - If you can...
...my wife is soon going to killing me because the TV isn't working any more...
br/ jhb
Initial post
Hi,
I have exactly this setup in my HTPC client and have the same problems with ffwd/rew. Furthermore after the official 1.0 release I've started to get a lot of problems when switching TV channel. I had everything working just fine with RC4, but last weekend I had to re-install the computer after a harddrive crash and with 1.0 I can't get it to work. Most times when doing a channel change the screen goes black and sound continues.
I've tried several different codec combinations for video and audio and no progress. Neither with ffwd/rew problem, nor with channel switching problems...
I have a dual seat configuration with a dedicated TV server and two dedicated clients. The XP-based client is still running RC4 towards the 1.0 final release server without any problems. The failing client has Windows vista home basic (that worked with RC4).
Next post
This drives me crazy. Now it seems to be working. What I did was to uninstall the CCCP-codec pack entirely, including the ffdshow codecs. I then set MP to use the Powerdvd codecs for both audio and video and now everything seems to work...
...but it didn't immidiately...
...when I uninstalled ffdshow it seemed like the SPDIF out configurations were lost in the audio config. Before I changed that, I still had problems with video disappering. Now I can't reproduce that problem...
...what is happening???
I'm continuing my quest for truth. Now I'm going to reinstall CCCP, but not change anything and see if it works then...
Edit: OK, so now I tried to add CCCP again. Everything works fine. I can even use the FFDSHOW codecs, unless for MPEG2, where there seems to be some issues, but when reconfiguring PowerDVD everything works again. There must have been some issue regarding that CCCP was installed before PowerDVD? Or something that had to do with the MPV codec being installed twice (MP & CCCP, but only one showed). After removing CCCP, I had only the PowerDVD-codecs for MPEG2...
I don't know, but now I can't seem to reproduce the problems. In my previous installation I had exactly the same codecs except for another free MPEG2-codec that I was not using...
...strange, but symptom solved at lest (even though the problem isn't).
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 Final
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3 Wide
Windows Version: Vista Home Basic (32b)
CPU Type: AMD 2800+
HDD: ?
Memory: 1.5GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G, AM2+ mATX
Video Card: ATI HD3200 (bult in on MB)
Video Card Driver: ATI Catalyst 8.11
Sound Card: Leadtek
Sound Card AC3: Leadtek
Sound Card Driver: Leadtek
1. TV Card: FloppyDTV
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T + CAM
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Leadtek DVB 1000s
2. TV Card Type: DVB-T (no CAM)
2. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: PowerDVD8 HW Accelerated (doesn't matter the error is there independent of codec)
MPEG2 Audio Codec: PowerDVD8 (doesn't matter the error is there independent of codec)
h.264 Video Codec: PowerDVD8 HW Accelerated
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Boxer (Sweden)
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote: MCE
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI+SPDIF
Hi, as I wrote in another thread (that was closed, see the messages included below) that I have problems with the screen going black at channel change. It is not happening every time, but often and I think it is related to the problems some people have with MPEG4. In my case it is ordinary MPEG2 DVB-T and it always works after restarting the MP application. I never had this problem until I made a clean install of 1.0 final..
Yesterday night I thought that everything was working fine, since it worked for a couple of hours after removing the CCCP codec pack and rebooting. However this morning the problem suddenly appeared again (after the client had been in standby over the night, but I tried standby yesterday without any problems also). I have activated restart after standby because I have problems reconnecting streaming
Before (that worked):
- Vista Home Basic
- CCCP codecs (in practice FFDshow was used both for audio and video, but I changed FFDshow video to MPV because I had problems with audio for some TV-shows and that problem disappeared when changing video codec)
- dual seat client/server TV with MPEG2 only
- Mediaportal 1.0RC4
After (that is not working):
- Vista Home Basic
- PowerDVD8 codecs and/or CCCP codecs
- dual seat client/server TV with MPEG2 only
- same HW
- Mediaportal 1.0
I have tested to have a lot of different codec combinations, e.g.:
- MPV for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- MPV for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
- PowerDVD8 for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- PowerDVD8 for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
- FFDShow for mpeg2-video, FFDShow for audio
- FFDShow for mpeg2-video, PowerDVD8 for audio
I have also tried to completely uninstall all other Codecs when using FFDshow codecs only (both audio and video) and the same for PowerDVD8, but that didn't help either...
Nothing helps. I have no issues when not watching TV, so I am pretty sure that the problem lies in the built in TS-reader. Whenever the screen has gone black, the only way to get video-decoding to work is to restart Mediaportal (client application only).
The next step will tonight be to try to install RC4 again and see if that resolves things...
On my other HTPC client (my childrens TV) that is running MP1.0RC4 on XP, I have no problems...
Please help me - If you can...
...my wife is soon going to killing me because the TV isn't working any more...
br/ jhb
Initial post
Hi,
I have exactly this setup in my HTPC client and have the same problems with ffwd/rew. Furthermore after the official 1.0 release I've started to get a lot of problems when switching TV channel. I had everything working just fine with RC4, but last weekend I had to re-install the computer after a harddrive crash and with 1.0 I can't get it to work. Most times when doing a channel change the screen goes black and sound continues.
I've tried several different codec combinations for video and audio and no progress. Neither with ffwd/rew problem, nor with channel switching problems...
I have a dual seat configuration with a dedicated TV server and two dedicated clients. The XP-based client is still running RC4 towards the 1.0 final release server without any problems. The failing client has Windows vista home basic (that worked with RC4).
Next post
This drives me crazy. Now it seems to be working. What I did was to uninstall the CCCP-codec pack entirely, including the ffdshow codecs. I then set MP to use the Powerdvd codecs for both audio and video and now everything seems to work...
...but it didn't immidiately...
...when I uninstalled ffdshow it seemed like the SPDIF out configurations were lost in the audio config. Before I changed that, I still had problems with video disappering. Now I can't reproduce that problem...
...what is happening???
I'm continuing my quest for truth. Now I'm going to reinstall CCCP, but not change anything and see if it works then...
Edit: OK, so now I tried to add CCCP again. Everything works fine. I can even use the FFDSHOW codecs, unless for MPEG2, where there seems to be some issues, but when reconfiguring PowerDVD everything works again. There must have been some issue regarding that CCCP was installed before PowerDVD? Or something that had to do with the MPV codec being installed twice (MP & CCCP, but only one showed). After removing CCCP, I had only the PowerDVD-codecs for MPEG2...
I don't know, but now I can't seem to reproduce the problems. In my previous installation I had exactly the same codecs except for another free MPEG2-codec that I was not using...
...strange, but symptom solved at lest (even though the problem isn't).