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[Lotsofjazz]

Hi Lie,

I am not an expert but will try to assist you.

1) Make sure that you are logged in as local admin and that you have internet connection
2) Uninstall MP from add or remove programs
3) Delete folders:
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal
4) Reboot PC
5) Uninstall MS SQL or MySQL from add or remove programs
6) Reboot PC
7) Delete contents of the following folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp (you might not be able to delete all of the files, so don't worry; also you will need to go to tools->folder options->view tab->select "show hidden files and folders" in order to view temp folder)
C:\Windos\temp (you might not be able to delete all of the files, so don't worry)

I would try to install MS SQL as per instructions TV-Server/install-SQL-Server - MediaPortal Manual Documentation ,
sql management studio and configre MS SQL it TV-Server/Configuration/SQL-Server - MediaPortal Manual Documentation.

Now try running setup and select "sql server is allready present and will be used for" when you reach "please select SQL server you want to use" step.
Finish install and click on tv server configuration (or MediaPortalConfiguration if it is single seat installation). At this stage you should be prompted for SQL user name and password, make sure that you press test button first to make sure that you didn't do typo and if it is successfull click on save.

Hope you will succeed with installation.

Sorry for providing you info on how to configure MS SQL and not MYSQL. Here is a link for MYSQL TV-Server/install-MySql5 - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

Thanks for this help but im gonn give up on mediaportal...

is there something else similar to this program??

No there isnt, really

I have looked into the Imon Mediacenter that came with my Antec Fusion case.. what a crap, didnt support HD TV at that time (they do now I believe, it is now called HDMedia).. main issue was that the remote didnt work as it should and that it crashed often.
I have used windows media center for a while, very nice to work with, but no support for HDTV, and it still doesnt.. This is one of the main reasons I went over to Mediaportal, the other is that Mediaportal fully supoorts my FloppyDTV C/CI tuner card, and that the guys from FloppyDTV support Mediaportal.

Take a look here for other Mediacenter softwares, you will see most of the free programs are limited to watching TV. Only MyTheatre and mediaportal can do more, where MyTheatre seems to have stopped in development long ago.

digital everywhere - Windows

Sage TV looks nice too, but is not free and for electronic TV guide you need to be in Canada or USA and for Europ you need a subscription for a TV guide provider. If you want to use clients, you need to buy additional software FOR EACH CLIENT!! So this could be quite costly in the end..look here:

SageTV® Media Center - PVR, Music and Photos for Windows and Linux PCs and consumer electronics devices

SceneoTV seems to be nice as well, but is very Germany region oriented, only consider if you are in Germany, beside that it is not for free and not so feature rich as Mediaportal.

sceneo.tv - Digital-TV am PC mit AbsolutTV, VistaTV und TVcentral

Note that MyTheatre also requires a lot of tinkering, just like Mediaportal, but does not have an active support forum like this.

My sugestion to you is follow the instructions of Vecnar, and you should be good to go. Once you have setup everything correctly it just works fine, it is only in the beginning Mediaportal needs a lot of attention. To get the basics working is a day work I guess. after that you may try exploring mediaportal, like setting up clients in the bedroom and try out all kind of plugins that are available.

Maybe you are a little scared of using the SQL software, well, you know, I do not know anything about SQL as well, and I do not want to know, I just followed the instructions, and it was OK, MS SQL runs now for more then a year without any problems.. SQL is a very solid program that hardly needs any attention. The only thing I have to do once in a while is deleting the database, because its gets corrupted , but if you know how to do that, it is as easy as using windows explorer.

First step for now could be filling out your system specs in your forum profile, and post here what you want to do with your mediacenter. Then we can help you further with some sugestions and good advise.

Lots

Okay what i would like to do is, to just install basic to watch TV that is all... i do not want to stream it online or anything just wann watch it at work.
and why do i need sql thing/

In case you do not need HDTV support, I would just use Windows Media Centre or another dedicated Free Tv program like this:

ProgDVB

or this:

Media Center PC Software - TVedia

But you still havent told us what your specs are, do you have a TV card? If you want to watch IPTV you should have a look at Home - Joost or ★★★★★*TVexe.com Home of TV, Free International Internet Television Download (Broadband)

Lots

 

[lie07]

at work we have cable... my tv card is Angel USB thing came with my sister laptop so im using it.
i have drivers installed,
MP worked for me whn it was in beta but now doesnt work... will have to install sql 1st b/c im getting error everytime

//Installing Again

EDITED:

After new installation... everything worked fine, i had test connection using tv-server config. and it tested good

now is ther fun part... i went to go scan channels what happen is

channel1:cabletest [something like that]

and thn BOOM BLUE SCREEN

Computer restarts...

welcome screen thn i get same error right here:

So now i have no clue, CLUELESS

 

[vecnar]

Please provide mp logs from C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log
Do you get sqldumper error everytime you restart your pc after blue screen? I found many interesting posts on google.

 

[lie07]

Please provide mp logs from C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log
Do you get sqldumper error everytime you restart your pc after blue screen? I found many interesting posts on google.

yes i get it everytime.. let me upload those logs real quick

EDITED: logs have been attached

check it out

 

[Lotsofjazz]

Looking at your logs I think MP tries to "scan" your webcam:

008-12-28 14:12:08.578125 [TVService]: Detected analog card:webcammax, wdm video capture

Turn off the camera and try again, as it seems that the SQL database it built correctly and also the Angel USB TV Tuner card is found correctly and encoders are loaded correctly.. in TV server setup, cant you select the correct (Angel) TV card to scan?

 

[lie07]

Looking at your logs I think MP tries to "scan" your webcam:

008-12-28 14:12:08.578125 [TVService]: Detected analog card:webcammax, wdm video capture

Turn off the camera and try again, as it seems that the SQL database it built correctly and also the Angel USB TV Tuner card is found correctly and encoders are loaded correctly.. in TV server setup, cant you select the correct (Angel) TV card to scan?

i will give it a try... even tho i tried turning off webcam but will try it again..

 

[vecnar]

I do not think webcam would cause it but it is worth trying.
The last entries in the logs before reboot are
2008-12-28 14:16:49.671875 [13]: analog: RunGraph
2008-12-28 14:16:49.671875 [PowerEventThread]: TV service PowerEventThread 537
2008-12-28 14:16:49.687500 [PowerEventThread]: TV service PowerEventThread 537

So it could be that there are problems with running the graph or trying to write to sql database.
Click on start->run->services.msc and verify if sql server vss writer service is there
Please send C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\data\sb89.err file and application and system logs from event viewer, something should be logged around this time.

 

[lie07]

here is my C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\data\

and i dont know how to verify if sql server vss writer service services.msc

plz let me know asap

 

[Phil W]

Hi,
I haven't got an answer for you, but I've just experienced the same message!

Up until the weekend I had a perfect running verion of MP (without the TV Server and hence any SQL stuff) even though I've got a TV Card...(don't ask!). At the weekend everything got corrupted so I decided to reinstall with the latest version of anything (on MCE2005). So I uninstalled MP and reinstalled but this time chose to have the TVServer to try and get that side of it working...and got you SQLDUMPER message.

Thinking it was also due to the corruption I had been facing originally...yesterday I reinstalled from scratch (ie complete MCE reinstall)...and got the same message! (and couldn't get WMP11 on either so completely stuffed!). The only thing I can think of is I haven't got the TV capture cards drivers on (Hauppaige...(spelling!) dual DVB-T one) and that may be causing it some grief...

If I don't get a resolution then I'm going to start again tonight and not go for the TVServer bits (not totally essential but want the MY-TVSeries plugin working again asap!)

Cheers
Phil