Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (3 Viewers)

[yesdup]

mcraenz

Are you using the PVR-150 for sky with an IR blaster?

No. I have a sky dish but not a sky box or subscription..... so i get epg from TV1,2,3,4 via satellite plugged into the Nova s card.
But the pvr 150 is just plugged into the ariel both uhf and vhf so i can get prime... Prime is not transmitted on FTA satellite so no EPG for it.

Does this make my set up clearer???

So can you see my problem trying to get the epg for my pvr 150

thanks in advance for any help...

 

[Bleazle]

...But the pvr 150 is just plugged into the ariel both uhf and vhf so i can get prime... ...So can you see my problem trying to get the epg for my pvr 150...

When you scan for digital channels do you get Sky channels too (listed in red because they're scrambled - if you do one of them should be Prime). Try rescanning on your Nova-S card and see if you get it (I don't use that card so I don't know). If you do, DON'T delete it - you need to go to the "Combinations" tab and combine the 2 Prime channels; Select your PVR150 then "Prime" then "Similar channels" (from memory) and you should see Prime on the right hand side. Select the "EPG only" option (I'm doing this from memory but I think that's right) and you're done. Then make sure you've selected Prime to appear in your TV Guide. Everything should be sweet

Hope that helps...

Bleazle

 

[mcraenz]

Yesdup:

There are more instructions in the wiki manual too:
TV-Server/Configuration/TVChannels/Mapping - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

 

[yesdup]

Bleazle

You are correct about getting other channels and yes they were scrambled.

So are you saying that one of those is prime and carries a valid epg that i can use even though it is a scrambled channel?? Is it listed as Prime though?? Don't remember seeing any channel names on the scrambled ones .....but i shall rescan and see what comes up....

Hope this is true will be SOOOO COOOOL if it works...

Thanks

 

[Bleazle]

...So are you saying that one of those is prime and carries a valid epg that i can use even though it is a scrambled channel?? ...

Yes - you just use the EPG data from it

..Don't remember seeing any channel names on the scrambled ones .....

Like I say I haven't used the Nova-S card but I'd assume you still get the channel names - maybe you're thinking of when you scanned your PVR150 (which just gives you numbers and you have to work out which one is Prime)...

Check out the link mcraenz provided - a picture tells a 1,00 words after all.

Bleazle

 

[mcraenz]

Hope this is true will be SOOOO COOOOL if it works.

It better bloody work. I wrote this code for NZ'ers! If you don't see prime then you might need to update your list of transponders.

Full list of sky transponders here:

Sky New Zealand on Optus D1 at 160.0°E - LyngSat

 

[rcrowle]

Hi there,

I am having problems with watching tv3, the other channels seem ok...I have updated all my drivers i have
Dual Core E6300 1.86GH, using Asus 8400GS 512 graphics card, i have tried different codec (best one is PowerDVD9)

I guess i wonder if i should replace the graphics card or is the processer just not good enough?

 

[mcraenz]

I presume you are talking about DVB-T. I think the 8400 is fine. Can you confirm with graphedit that PDVD is being used that hardware acceleration is enabled. What's your CPU usage at when watching TV?

 

[rcrowle]

Opps sorry

I got Nova T 500, XP Pro sp3, 2gb RAM, Dual Core E6300 1.86GH, using Asus 8400GS 512 graphics card

I thought i have turned on hardware acceleration, but maybe i missing something here, the CPU is really high when watching TV 90+% so i assuming that i not got hardware acceleration on then.

 

[paragon]

Hi folks. I've been playing with a MediaPortal setup using an HVR-2200 on an AMD 780G board and Windows 7 beta. Bits of it are working nicely, others not so much. Is anyone else in NZ using Win7 successfully with an HVR-2200 or would I be advised to drop the machine back to XP or Vista?

The specific problems I'm having at the moment are a complete failure to get the analog side of the 2200 working -- it's recognized and seems to be configured correctly but won't show live TV or record anything. Also the 2200 is a dual card but I only seem to be able to run one Freeview HD channel and it can only watch OR record, not both at the same time. On the plus side I appear to have the hardware accel working nicely and HD content looks gorgeous.

My next move is probably to update my beta of Win7 and try a much simpler install of MediaPortal (for my first go I followed a howto somewhere that has themes and so on, and I don't think that's helping).

Cheers,

Julian.