United Kingdom
I have seen MP at its best, just for some reason over time and several updates, the workability of the application has suffered and I am stressed out with the fact that I can't even seem to get one full recording in a week. In fact 8/10 recordings of late have failed.
OK, I don't know how to go about this, but these are the problems that I am suffering from and I'm hoping that someone will recognise a fault. It's worth saying that I have not done any upgrading or driver changes to cause this.
On MP startup, Windows reports "Media Center Receiver Service" error, listing ehrecvr.exe being the problem. How to I cure this? Is this somehow related to MP issues? It seems to slow down MP and cause freezes if I don't acknowledge the error while MP is starting up. I don't use MCE if that makes any difference. It doesn't seem to affect the memory or use of resources.
Sky Three (UK DVB-T) constantly goes black, but with stuttering audio or I get a 'no signal' error. Generally no other channel gives me this problem and I do have 3 TV cards installed - that is unless MP gets confused and when changing channels whiles recording I do sometimes get "no signal detected'
I cannot and have not been able to play DVDs for almost 6 months. The HDD light comes on and I can hear the DVD-ROM drive working, but nothing (even with changing codecs - currently using Dscaler, which I also use for my tv/videos and appears fine). This then locks up MP (mouse/keyboard inactive) and am unable to mimimise. Only opening the drawer releases the freeze. I can play them independently with ZoomPlayer, Media Player10 & WinDVD7. I cannot work it through these as external players from within MP.
The latest problem is total unrealiablity of recordings. Whilst the hibernate function appears to work and wake-up, the scheduled recordings are failing or stopping during this process. Most recordings appear as 5.48KB files. I have had some record about 300MB (first 10 minutes or so) and yesterday one recording only had the last 40 minutes out of an hour recording. I have also experienced MP putting windows into hibernation during recordings.
Whilst talking about recordings, I do see major audio sync problems when several cards are recording at the same time and I am watching another channel. However on playback, the file is perfectly sync'd and indeed while recording.
Also the EPG will now lock up if you try and scroll across a channel. It is rather difficult to describe, but it will generally lock out after 5 seconds and the video window freezes. This is regardless of whether you are using the EPG or it is just stationary. I have never suffered from this problem in the past. This sometimes extends to MP updating the EPG from the XML file.
Changing channels is quite slow and once changed, it plays and then after 3 or 4 seconds it kind of hangs/stutters for about a second and then it's ok. This is seen when playing back a recording too.
Thanks guys for any info you can throw my way. Apologies for the long msg and I'm sorry if the list looks like a whinge, but I am lost for answers!
Regards,
Darren
ps. If it helps, here are a few settings I am using.
MediaPortal 0.2RC4 MCE skin + svn 2006-05-25
Windows XP MCE + DVB-T & XP patches NET2 framework
Exclusive DirectX. Resolution 1280x720 DVI-HDMI Sony Bravia HDTV LCD (720p) w. ATI Radeon Sapphire 9600 AGP. Catalyst 6.3
OK, I don't know how to go about this, but these are the problems that I am suffering from and I'm hoping that someone will recognise a fault. It's worth saying that I have not done any upgrading or driver changes to cause this.
On MP startup, Windows reports "Media Center Receiver Service" error, listing ehrecvr.exe being the problem. How to I cure this? Is this somehow related to MP issues? It seems to slow down MP and cause freezes if I don't acknowledge the error while MP is starting up. I don't use MCE if that makes any difference. It doesn't seem to affect the memory or use of resources.
Sky Three (UK DVB-T) constantly goes black, but with stuttering audio or I get a 'no signal' error. Generally no other channel gives me this problem and I do have 3 TV cards installed - that is unless MP gets confused and when changing channels whiles recording I do sometimes get "no signal detected'
I cannot and have not been able to play DVDs for almost 6 months. The HDD light comes on and I can hear the DVD-ROM drive working, but nothing (even with changing codecs - currently using Dscaler, which I also use for my tv/videos and appears fine). This then locks up MP (mouse/keyboard inactive) and am unable to mimimise. Only opening the drawer releases the freeze. I can play them independently with ZoomPlayer, Media Player10 & WinDVD7. I cannot work it through these as external players from within MP.
The latest problem is total unrealiablity of recordings. Whilst the hibernate function appears to work and wake-up, the scheduled recordings are failing or stopping during this process. Most recordings appear as 5.48KB files. I have had some record about 300MB (first 10 minutes or so) and yesterday one recording only had the last 40 minutes out of an hour recording. I have also experienced MP putting windows into hibernation during recordings.
Whilst talking about recordings, I do see major audio sync problems when several cards are recording at the same time and I am watching another channel. However on playback, the file is perfectly sync'd and indeed while recording.
Also the EPG will now lock up if you try and scroll across a channel. It is rather difficult to describe, but it will generally lock out after 5 seconds and the video window freezes. This is regardless of whether you are using the EPG or it is just stationary. I have never suffered from this problem in the past. This sometimes extends to MP updating the EPG from the XML file.
Changing channels is quite slow and once changed, it plays and then after 3 or 4 seconds it kind of hangs/stutters for about a second and then it's ok. This is seen when playing back a recording too.
Thanks guys for any info you can throw my way. Apologies for the long msg and I'm sorry if the list looks like a whinge, but I am lost for answers!
Regards,
Darren
ps. If it helps, here are a few settings I am using.
MediaPortal 0.2RC4 MCE skin + svn 2006-05-25
Windows XP MCE + DVB-T & XP patches NET2 framework
Exclusive DirectX. Resolution 1280x720 DVI-HDMI Sony Bravia HDTV LCD (720p) w. ATI Radeon Sapphire 9600 AGP. Catalyst 6.3
