Channel switsching extemly slow (20 sec.) (2 Viewers)

[meatman12]

Hi all,

I've just set up a new mediacenter with mediaportal 1.1.12.
Operating System: Windows Pro 64 Bit
VGA: integrated Intel HD
Board: Asrock N3150-ITX with Intel 4 core Celeron CPU
Ram: 4 GB
Time for starting the first channel belongs around 20 seconds. The next channel switcing time is a little bit faster, around 10-15 seconds.
I have tested all LAV codec Settings without any success.
can someone help me?

Greetings meatman12

 

[Charlie TV]

Non technical answer. Do you have a high number of seconds on the GUI->On-Screen Display->Zap Delay ?

 

[mm1352000]

@meatman12
Please try to use the LAV Video codec instead of Microsoft DTV-DVD.

 

[mr viggo]

Antivirus, win defender? Turn them off and try.

 

[meatman12]

Non technical answer. Do you have a high number of seconds on the GUI->On-Screen Display->Zap Delay ?

1 sec at the moment. Playing around with this setting => no change[DOUBLEPOST=1445610344][/DOUBLEPOST]

@meatman12
Please try to use the LAV Video codec instead of Microsoft DTV-DVD.

I have allready installed LAV decoder and toggled between the various HW acceleration methods => unfortunately no improvement[DOUBLEPOST=1445610391][/DOUBLEPOST]

Antivirus, win defender? Turn them off and try.

Thanks for reply. I switches Windows defender off => no change[DOUBLEPOST=1445610723][/DOUBLEPOST]Thanks for all for your replies.
In the meantime I played around mediaportal and i noticed that not only channel switching is very slow but also the complete mediaportal is very slow.
For example switching from homescreen to TV EPG takes around 5-6 seconds. I think this is not normal. Starting mediaportal takes 30 seconds => normal?
I have no other problem with the system. Other programs are very fast.

Greetings
meatman12

 

[mm1352000]

1 sec at the moment. Playing around with this setting => no change

Yes, from the log files, this does not appear to be the problem.

I have allready installed LAV decoder and toggled between the various HW acceleration methods => unfortunately no improvement

In the log files you provided LAV was installed but MP was using Microsoft DTV-DVD video codec for h.264 video:

<entry name="audiocodec">LAV Audio Decoder</entry>
<entry name="videocodec">LAV Video Decoder</entry>
<entry name="h264videocodec">Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder</entry>
<entry name="audiorenderer">Default DirectSound Device</entry>
<entry name="aacaudiocodec">LAV Audio Decoder</entry>
<entry name="ddplusaudiocodec">LAV Audio Decoder</entry>

Please configure MP to use LAV for h.264 video also.

In the meantime I played around mediaportal and i noticed that not only channel switching is very slow but also the complete mediaportal is very slow.
For example switching from homescreen to TV EPG takes around 5-6 seconds. I think this is not normal.

To me it seems like your system is relatively low powered. I mean, your CPU is quad core... but 1.6 GHz Celeron; your GPU is integrated and presumably sharing memory. Maybe this is what you can expect, I don't know.

What does Windows task manager say about the CPU and HDD usage when you're trying to use MP? (note: you can use MP in Windowed mode by pressing ALT + ENTER)
What other software is running?
Aside from Windows Defender, do you have any other security software installed?

Starting mediaportal takes 30 seconds => normal?

MediaPortal 1 has always taken awhile to start. The more plugins you have, the longer it takes.


The log files show the biggest delay in channel changing is in the same place over and over again:
[2015-10-05 15:51:49,803] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - Added filter: Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder to graph
...
[2015-10-05 15:51:49,831] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - TSReaderPlayer: Render TsReader outputs
...
[2015-10-05 15:51:57,459] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - TSReaderPlayer: Cleanup Captions

[2015-10-05 15:52:09,918] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - Added filter: Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder to graph
[2015-10-05 15:52:17,557] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - TSReaderPlayer: Cleanup Captions

[2015-10-05 15:53:44,806] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - Added filter: Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder to graph
[2015-10-05 15:53:54,145] [Log ] [MPMain ] [INFO ] - TSReaderPlayer: Cleanup Captions

This is why I recommended you try LAV instead of Microsoft DTV-DVD.