Hello,
Today I installed MediaPortal with TV Server (most current SVN) on a fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate because I had some problems with the TVEngne and my old XP installation. My system has 2 FireDTV-S, one Technotrend 3200-S2 and a ATI 1650 grapic card.
I installed the most current BDA drivers (not the Beta 5.x from Technotrend).
Here are my experiences:
1) My MCE remote did not work as expected. When I use the "Guide" or "LiveTV" buttons, the Vista MCE is started in the background. Switching channels also did not work.
2) The channel "Das Erste" works from the "Preview" button of the server config UI but in the MediaPortal client I get the message "No video/audio" detected". Manual time shifting also does not work. The same happens for other channels from the provider "ARD".
3) The HDTV channels did not work. This was the major reason for trying the new TV Engine. It might be related to the missing H264 codec.
4) When I turn off my Plasma TV and turn it back on again I did not get the picture back so I had to restart. I installed the newest ATI drivers and they work a little bit better. At least I get a picture but in the wrong screen resolution.
I know that not all of this problems are related to Media Portal (especially 3. und 4.) but as a result I turned back to MediaPortal 0.2 and my old XP installation, which runs very stable for allmost a year now.
Unfortunately I have to abandon HDTV because this is not supported in 0.2.
I would appreciate any help to solve the problems because I really want to use the new TV engine.
Is there a time frame, when a stable version of the TV Engine is avalable? I do not want to get a specific date but it would be nice to know if we are talking about days, months or years.
Thanks,
Christoph
Today I installed MediaPortal with TV Server (most current SVN) on a fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate because I had some problems with the TVEngne and my old XP installation. My system has 2 FireDTV-S, one Technotrend 3200-S2 and a ATI 1650 grapic card.
I installed the most current BDA drivers (not the Beta 5.x from Technotrend).
Here are my experiences:
1) My MCE remote did not work as expected. When I use the "Guide" or "LiveTV" buttons, the Vista MCE is started in the background. Switching channels also did not work.
2) The channel "Das Erste" works from the "Preview" button of the server config UI but in the MediaPortal client I get the message "No video/audio" detected". Manual time shifting also does not work. The same happens for other channels from the provider "ARD".
3) The HDTV channels did not work. This was the major reason for trying the new TV Engine. It might be related to the missing H264 codec.
4) When I turn off my Plasma TV and turn it back on again I did not get the picture back so I had to restart. I installed the newest ATI drivers and they work a little bit better. At least I get a picture but in the wrong screen resolution.
I know that not all of this problems are related to Media Portal (especially 3. und 4.) but as a result I turned back to MediaPortal 0.2 and my old XP installation, which runs very stable for allmost a year now.
Unfortunately I have to abandon HDTV because this is not supported in 0.2.
I would appreciate any help to solve the problems because I really want to use the new TV engine.
Is there a time frame, when a stable version of the TV Engine is avalable? I do not want to get a specific date but it would be nice to know if we are talking about days, months or years.
Thanks,
Christoph