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<blockquote data-quote="Frodo" data-source="post: 164675" data-attributes="member: 10277"><p>The whole idea of the tvserver is that we have a central server and multiple clients</p><p>The server is responsible for all tv-related tasks and the clients control the server</p><p>to setup recordings, watch tv etc etc.</p><p></p><p>In the future i would like to move this further to a central media server which also includes support for pictures,videos,music , iptv and webradio and perhaps networked devices like the hdhomerun.</p><p></p><p>I don't see anything wrong with this idea. In fact its the same principle as</p><p>many others do? (mythtv, sagetv, windows home server, ....)</p><p>This setup also allows us to write thin-clients and in fact people are already busy with it. If you look in the forums you'll see people working on plugins for XBMC and windows media center.</p><p></p><p>We all know that the tvserver is beta and not 100% finished yet.</p><p>And sure it takes us longer then expected.</p><p>But is this because the tvserver is fat/slow/unstable???</p><p></p><p>I think not. The main problems we are having at this moment are:</p><p></p><p>1) driver issues. </p><p>Many card drivers are simply buggy or unstable or have conflicts</p><p>when used in combination with other hardware (tvcards)</p><p></p><p>2) regional issues. DVB isnt a 'standard' anymore these days. </p><p>Lots of broadcasters are adding their own tweaks, or simply violate the DVB standard. Some examples are the MHW-2 epg introduced in spain lately, or the conditional access of casema here in the Netherlands</p><p>All these 'regional' exceptions must be added to the tvserver to support a large</p><p>user group. And as always you only see the people in this forum who have problems. Users without problems don't post ;-)</p><p></p><p>3) BDA filter issues</p><p>Microsoft's own BDA filter (The MPEG-2 Network Information Filter) crashes sometimes. There are some hotfixes available, but they dont fix everything</p><p>This is a serious issue, but nothing we can do about it :-(</p><p></p><p>4) Mediaportal Filters.</p><p>Some of the filters we use are not 100% yet. </p><p>For example we first started with tsfilesource which is an (opensource) filter developed by someone else. Because of the many problems we now started writing our own filters . (See the 'help us testing the new filter' thread) This new filter should fix all the playback issues we see and improve the zapping speed a lot.</p><p></p><p>So i'm still optimistic and think we're getting closer to a stable release every day</p><p>which has good channel zapping behaviour.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Frodo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frodo, post: 164675, member: 10277"] The whole idea of the tvserver is that we have a central server and multiple clients The server is responsible for all tv-related tasks and the clients control the server to setup recordings, watch tv etc etc. In the future i would like to move this further to a central media server which also includes support for pictures,videos,music , iptv and webradio and perhaps networked devices like the hdhomerun. I don't see anything wrong with this idea. In fact its the same principle as many others do? (mythtv, sagetv, windows home server, ....) This setup also allows us to write thin-clients and in fact people are already busy with it. If you look in the forums you'll see people working on plugins for XBMC and windows media center. We all know that the tvserver is beta and not 100% finished yet. And sure it takes us longer then expected. But is this because the tvserver is fat/slow/unstable??? I think not. The main problems we are having at this moment are: 1) driver issues. Many card drivers are simply buggy or unstable or have conflicts when used in combination with other hardware (tvcards) 2) regional issues. DVB isnt a 'standard' anymore these days. Lots of broadcasters are adding their own tweaks, or simply violate the DVB standard. Some examples are the MHW-2 epg introduced in spain lately, or the conditional access of casema here in the Netherlands All these 'regional' exceptions must be added to the tvserver to support a large user group. And as always you only see the people in this forum who have problems. Users without problems don't post ;-) 3) BDA filter issues Microsoft's own BDA filter (The MPEG-2 Network Information Filter) crashes sometimes. There are some hotfixes available, but they dont fix everything This is a serious issue, but nothing we can do about it :-( 4) Mediaportal Filters. Some of the filters we use are not 100% yet. For example we first started with tsfilesource which is an (opensource) filter developed by someone else. Because of the many problems we now started writing our own filters . (See the 'help us testing the new filter' thread) This new filter should fix all the playback issues we see and improve the zapping speed a lot. So i'm still optimistic and think we're getting closer to a stable release every day which has good channel zapping behaviour. Frodo [/QUOTE]
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