Media Portal coexist with MCE (1 Viewer)

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Hi all,

I've been reading a fair bit about this recently on the forums but I've still not got a concrete resolution to my problem. I have a two machine setup - a server in the loft with a Nova500T running XP and TVServer (latest svn). My second PC in the living room, the HMPC/HTPC runs vista and MediaPortal (also latest svn).

The issue is that whenever I open MP on my HMPC it stops all the services for Windows Vista Media Center - by design I know - but this stops all my recordings local to that machine from working - rather annoying - I understand the historical reason for this but I only use the media portal client on that machine and require absolutely NO interaction with the tv tuner card that is present. Additionally when you close MP, it doesn't start back up whichever service it is that listens for the media center remote so I can't start Media center from the remote which looks to be a media portal bug?

The issue seems to be common to other users with a similar setup including iosub who was developing patches, modifying the source code etc - was the functionality ever integrated into the RC2 release or subsequent svn releases to provide the option to shutdown the media center services or not??

With thanks,
Phil


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TV-Server Version : 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Skin: Monochrome
Windows Version: WinXP SP3 (32 bit) (Server), Vista 32bit (Client)
CPU Type: AMD 64 3000+ (Server), Intel Core 2 Duo (Client)
HDD: 250GB
Memory: 1.25GB (Server), 2GB (Client)
Motherboard: NVidia NForce 3 based
Video Card: 6600GT
Video Card Driver: 7.1.8.9
Sound Card: Onboard
Sound Card AC3: NA
Sound Card Driver: NA
1. TV Card: Hauppage Nova T 500
1. TV Card Type:
1. TV Card Driver: 4.3.26168.0
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote:
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection:

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Re-opening Mediaportal, i use MPTrayMod, just extract to your MP folder and hit the install.bat

As far as MCE is concerned, it could still cause problems with MP, so the chances of this feature ever being added by Team-Mediaportal are pretty remote, but that's not to say it will never happen.

 

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Ok thanks - haven't read much about Media Portal 2 but it would be good if some of the legacy tv server / media portal historic architecture was changed so that media portal can act completely as a client only and the tv server as a server only so you can have a complete client and server setup without the confusion of there being some tvserver elements in the client...

With MP as it is and it's inability to coexist with MCE, it will make my migration from MCE to MP difficult (was going to run them in parallel for a bit to get it in the door, set up and refined before I stop using MCE - then there's getting the Mrs to move over! - wish me luck