Is it a waste of time to tweak setup before 100% stable? (1 Viewer)

[NickSE]

pre question:
Hello everyone, I just tried to install RC1 and I have problems with my dual tuner floppy dtv DVB-S setup, everything works but the user experience is like when there's only 1 tuner installed (for example if i record a channel almost all other changes to unavailable state and so on)

But over to my main question:

Will a new SVN make it a waste of time to: sort and rename channels, deleting unwanted channels and setting up a central location for logos and so on? Will installing new SVN's revert everything?

I spend ages updating the movies DB with the pre RC1 version and I'm not sure if I can use that anymore too?

Sorry my english isn't the best, but I'm trying to find a way to always keep the time consuming tasks intact while still keeping the system up to date? - Is it possible?

 

[Gixxer]

i can only answer to the logos part. if you name each logo with the correct tv or radio channel and you place it in the correct folder you will not have to configure anything. just copy them again to that location in case they are deleted.

oh and also, i think that there is a file that contains the movies db, if you make a backup of it maybe u can just replace it incase it gets deleted. a forum member wrote a guide on which files to save to backup the configuration.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hello everyone, I just tried to install RC1 and I have problems with my dual tuner floppy dtv DVB-S setup, everything works but the user experience is like when there's only 1 tuner installed (for example if i record a channel almost all other changes to unavailable state and so on)

Have you got the DVBFIX installed if using XP.

Copy the videodatabase and the thumbs folders to a safe backup, these i just restored, remember the paths have changed for config files to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Appdata\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

If you are going to update, please use latest svn, also might be worthwhile trying this version of TSWriter which should be in next svn anyway, just rename to TSWriter.old and copy the new file into the TVServer folder, you do have to stop the TV Service to do this.
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[NickSE]

Hello everyone, I just tried to install RC1 and I have problems with my dual tuner floppy dtv DVB-S setup, everything works but the user experience is like when there's only 1 tuner installed (for example if i record a channel almost all other changes to unavailable state and so on)

Have you got the DVBFIX installed if using XP.

Copy the videodatabase and the thumbs folders to a safe backup, these i just restored, remember the paths have changed for config files to
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Appdata\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

If you are going to update, please use latest svn, also might be worthwhile trying this version of TSWriter which should be in next svn anyway, just rename to TSWriter.old and copy the new file into the TVServer folder, you do have to stop the TV Service to do this.
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Hi thank you for helping me

I have installed the DVBFIX, I'm not totally sure it's done correct but I didn't get any errors when installing it. My setup is running on XP-SP3 and there's been a few of the required hotfixes I haven't been able to install, but I guess it's because they're already included in SP3, it what it's telling me anyways.

I have updated to the newest svn and also tried the new tswriter but my system still acts like there's only access to 1 tuner at the time.

Another weird thing that happens sometimes is that it keeps timeshifting the same channel so if i tuned to bbc food and change to mtv it shows the mtv info from the guide but it still shows bbc food, when this happens I need to go to tvserver config and disable all tuners and then enable them again and then the timeshifting is "reset" and i can change to another channel.

I'm spending alot of time trying to figure out if my two tuners work 100% but that's very complicated for me. I have tried to swap them around and so on and test them individually and they seem to work separately.

When i use the floppydtv info tool it always show tuner #1 has signal strength= 0-5% and tuner #2 =95-100%
if I swap places it's the same output from the info tool. I don't know if it's important.

I feel out of luck.

It would be great with a simple way to find out if the dual tuner setup works so i know if it's a software issue or not, do you have any ideas for a good test? It's hard to identify the tuners in the setup since they're called the same, so i need to guess which is #1 and which is #2 all the time.

When i try the manual test section in the tv-server config and I click on tuner 2 and tell it to timeshift, then it will be tuner 1 that starts and i need to totally disable tuner 1 to timeshift via tuner 2. and so on. is that normal MP tv-server config behaviour?

Thanks again

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

When i try the manual test section in the tv-server config and I click on tuner 2 and tell it to timeshift, then it will be tuner 1 that starts and i need to totally disable tuner 1 to timeshift via tuner 2. and so on. is that normal MP tv-server config behaviour?

No thats not normal, not sure i know of anyone with a dual floppy dtv DVB-S setup, which would be the same.
Might be worthwhile going on the digital anywhere's forum and asking there.

 

[Marcusb]

I found out the hard way that if you install XP SP3 it removes one key fix for DTV issues.
The good thing about upgrading to a newer version of the TV Server is that it will check and tell you if any updates are not present.

I had the same as you. My second TV card always gave very bad results when it tried to record anything.
When I put on a newer version of TV server, it warned me that I had an old dll and after I re-applied all was perfect.

I think it's best to go to the newest version then see if the problems persist. Otherwise, you could be trying to fix something that is fixed in an SVN itself. as Ray says, too. lots of the most time consuming stuff can be mograted across, even after a clean instal.

 

[NickSE]

I found out the hard way that if you install XP SP3 it removes one key fix for DTV issues.
The good thing about upgrading to a newer version of the TV Server is that it will check and tell you if any updates are not present.

I had the same as you. My second TV card always gave very bad results when it tried to record anything.
When I put on a newer version of TV server, it warned me that I had an old dll and after I re-applied all was perfect.

I think it's best to go to the newest version then see if the problems persist. Otherwise, you could be trying to fix something that is fixed in an SVN itself. as Ray says, too. lots of the most time consuming stuff can be mograted across, even after a clean instal.

Hey Marcus,

I already upgraded to RC1 - SVN#2 I did this on a clean XP SP3 install. Do you know what I need to upgrade to get it working again? I didn't get any error messages about DLL's when instaliing.