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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Koen Zomers" data-source="post: 694622" data-attributes="member: 108135">Things seemed to work pretty smooth on my separate Media Portal box after switching the Smargo SmartReader Plus driver to v2.08.08. So I decided to give it another try to move all the stuff back to my Windows 2008 R2 server a couple of days ago. All runs smooth and no crashes anymore. Guess I can conclude the Smargo v2.08.02 driver was really the cause of all the crashes.MediaPortal even runs pretty well now. I only noticed that when trying to view to some channels, MediaPortal gets stuck. Sometimes it auto recovers after a minute and sometimes I need to restart the TV service manually. Digging deeper into the cause of that I installed MediaPortal on another Windows 7 x64 Ultimate machine with a Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV DVB-C card inside. Because I'm using Windows Media Center 7 on that machine to watch TV, I used the FloppyDTV drivers which simulate a DVB-T tuner since Windows Media Center 7 does not have support for DVB-C cards. This wasn't a big deal for Media Portal. It does also recognize the card as a DVB-T tuner obviously and requires a custom XML with the frequency mappings between the simulated DVB-T frequencies and the actual DVB-C frequencies. Once done, it finds all the channels and works pretty smooth as well. Only, again, I noticed some channels caused problems. Comparing both machines I found out that all transponder streams in the 300 Mhz range didn't pick up any channels while scanning for channels. The ones close to the 300 Mhz range would be flaky or cause MediaPortal to get stuck. That gave me the idea to check the specs of the television signal booster I'm using in my home coax network. And there it was. No boosting of the signal between 300 Mhz and 470 Mhz. Right where the problematic channels reside. Meaning if the television signal is weak, MediaPortal can get stuck. Even starts to sound logical in some way.Time to go out and look for a decent signal booster. This one was only two years old and not even the cheapest brand. Guess I'll play on the safe side this time and go for a quality assured Hirschmann. Later today two guys from the cable company will come to measure the signal strength so I can be sure to create a well balanced coax network in my house.Hope this finally solves the last problems with Media Portal. The guy I bought the Terratec Cinnergy card from a few months back already warned me it wouldn't be an easy job to get it all going. How hard can it be I thought back then. I know now. It's a nice hobby, but time consuming for sure too! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I'll update this topic with my findings after installing the new signal booster.</blockquote>

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