General First timer advice (1 Viewer)

[Teebor]

Downloaded the SVN 0104 release of Media Portal and everything was good, for a time.

Recording is fine now that I have worked out how to use WebEPG correctly lol

Problem is that if I try to watch television then it comes up with "No Signal" after about five minutes.

Just after I installed the SVN release of Media Portal everything was working great for a good many hours, which included recording the whole of the F1 in australia this weekend (Bad start really wrecked it for poor Button )

Anyway, I am starting to get the impression that there is some sort of cache which might be filling up and causing the output received from the TV card to eventually stop working or the program to display "No Signal" any thoughts on what I could do to restore the display?

I tried loading up the packaged software that came with the card and I can watch tv on that for hours with no problem at all, so I can confirm its not the card.

I tried deleting the card and putting it back into the tv tuners section in case there was a problem with the old configuration when I updated but that didn't cure it as it came back again after using media portal for a few hours.

Any pointers or advice would be great.


On a side not I did find that the drivers that came with my terratec cinergy 2400i DT card did seem to have a bug. When you attempt to use both tuners together tuner 2 would pack up whilst tuner 1 would work perfectly well. I updated to the latest drivers .255 from their website and this cured the problem. Just in case someone else has any problems.

Since I built this machine mainly for recording programs for me the playback quality is absolutely incredible, despite the problems that I am having (which I am sure are mostly my fault) this program is GREAT!!!!

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Yes this i a known problem at moment. even i'm thinking of using a older version (RC2 cvs1-15-2006) as found much more reliable on the TV side, and also goes in and out of hibernate without problem from remote.
But of course other functionality goes backward as well.

8)

 

[amnw14545]

If you search for "no signal" and "dvb-t" on google you'll see that this also happens with Windows Media Centre.

So this may have more to do with XP/MCE system files than with MP.

 

[Teebor]

I did a search as you suggested and it does seem to be a wide ranging windows problem (surprise surprise LOL) However I did find a kb article that had a fix which may or may not resolve the problem, I haven't tried it yet as I experimented with something else tonight.

I recorded three programs tonight which meant both tv tuners had to be in use, now considering that the tv was not allowing reception with the "no signal" error they all recorded perfectly and play back perfectly well.

So I thought about applying the kb article fix but checked the my tv section and watched about five minutes of tv and it was all fine again.

seems weird, something I did find though whilst rummaging suggested that the problem might be a .net issue? would that be correct?
if so I might see if there are any service packs / tweaks / or updates for .net