mediaportal freezes on non broadcasting uk channels (1 Viewer)

[robcarter]

Hi

I have installed media portal 1.1 beta on a windows 7 system (x64), works really well, thoroughly impressed, however I have one slight problem when watching TV
When changing channels if you come to a channel not on air (say BBC3 in daytime) when i press the channel up/down button mediaportal freezes for about 15 seconds then changes to the next channel.
has anyone else seen this / know of a solution?

regards
rob carter

 

[Baboonanza]

I have a similar problem. It seems to take a long time to determine that there's no audio/video, perhaps there's a timeout that can be decreased somewhere?

In my case when I started the TV it was defaulting to an off-air channel and took ages to get in to let you change it. At first I thought the TV server had stopped working.

 

[Owlsroost]

See TV-Server/Configuration/GeneralSettings - MediaPortal Manual Documentation - as far as I know, go to the 'Timeshifting' tab and reduce the 'wait for unscrambled signal' timeout to reduce the 'no-signal' waiting time.

Tony

 

[Geeza]

Thanks Owlsroost

Makes selecting an unavailable channel tolerable. Do you know how to remove unavailable channels from the EPG ? I've tried from the TV Server configuration but they still show.

Geeza

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Not sure what you mean, remove scrambled or currently not broadcasting, scrambled is easy, just select in tvserver config to remove scrambled channels, for the others ie BBC3 and you are using dvb-t freeview, then make sure that you enable dvb epg grab for that channel, otherwise something like WebEPG gets the sattelite listings which are 24hr transmissions

Don't forget no more than 2 minutes max pre-record, otherwise you will get a failed recording due to no signal on shared channels.

 

[Geeza]

Thank you! I followed your instructions and they worked perfectly - I only see available channels now

If you don't mind I'll pick your brains again...

Would you know why I can recieve ITV, Channel 4, Five and other channels on a DVB-T TV , but not on Media Portal although fed from the same Aerial? Could it be something to do with my Hauppage DVB-T Stick?

Thanks, Geeza