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<blockquote data-quote="Velk" data-source="post: 50513" data-attributes="member: 20249">Actually I would disagree with previous posters in that the problems you see are not necessarily hardware related. For example, I have a X2 4800, 2GB and a 7800GTX, and with the default configuration for mediaportal I encountered frequent drops of channels with 'No Signal' error that blacked out all other channels until it was restarted, long delays, frequent lockups and painfully slow channel switching.Fiddling with it a lot, I found that channel switching time was drastically improved by disabling timeshifting and then improved significantly again by disabling EPG grabbing from DVB. I found I got better results from the nvidia video decoder rather than the default one, and am using that currently.It also seems considerably more stable if you keep it fullscreen - it often crashes or locks up when using it windowed, especially when switching to fullscreen.I do find still though that almost everything about MP is slower than I would expect - right from the configuration utility which takes 30-40 seconds to load and gives no progress feedback up to switching to TV mode from the 'My TV' menu which takes a significant amount of time even with my current settings ( which at least make channel switching timely ).On the other hand, I saw in a support post here a suggestion to try another DBA application like MyTheatre to see if there were driver problems, and my experience with that was that mytheatre worked perfectly,&nbsp; quickly and in a completely stable manner with the same decoders I used in mediaportal. Unfortunately it's not free and doesn't have the functionality of MP, but I'd recommend checking it out to see if your hardware is up to your expectations for tv watching.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Velk, post: 50513, member: 20249"] Actually I would disagree with previous posters in that the problems you see are not necessarily hardware related. For example, I have a X2 4800, 2GB and a 7800GTX, and with the default configuration for mediaportal I encountered frequent drops of channels with 'No Signal' error that blacked out all other channels until it was restarted, long delays, frequent lockups and painfully slow channel switching. Fiddling with it a lot, I found that channel switching time was drastically improved by disabling timeshifting and then improved significantly again by disabling EPG grabbing from DVB. I found I got better results from the nvidia video decoder rather than the default one, and am using that currently. It also seems considerably more stable if you keep it fullscreen - it often crashes or locks up when using it windowed, especially when switching to fullscreen. I do find still though that almost everything about MP is slower than I would expect - right from the configuration utility which takes 30-40 seconds to load and gives no progress feedback up to switching to TV mode from the 'My TV' menu which takes a significant amount of time even with my current settings ( which at least make channel switching timely ). On the other hand, I saw in a support post here a suggestion to try another DBA application like MyTheatre to see if there were driver problems, and my experience with that was that mytheatre worked perfectly, quickly and in a completely stable manner with the same decoders I used in mediaportal. Unfortunately it's not free and doesn't have the functionality of MP, but I'd recommend checking it out to see if your hardware is up to your expectations for tv watching. [/QUOTE]

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