MediaPortal Version: 1.9.0
Description
Hi,
I had some problems with recording tv since my last reinstall. I'm using 2 Anysee tv tuners on Windows 8.1 X64, with Mediaportal 1.9 final installed. The problem is when I started a recording I wasn't able to watch another channel anymore. It said something like "Not able to timeshift". I was also not able to stop a recording anymore since mediaportal freezes when I clicked the record button to stop again. It also didn't stop when the show ended(I had recordings with a lenght of 8 hours where the show was only 30 minutes) and the only way to stop a scheduled recording was to wait till the show ended and restart the pc after this. When I tried to restart tv server from the configuration it did just crash with a "Kernelbase" error in windows event log. When I tried to stop/restart using windows services screen it just hanged on stopping so I had to kill the service using the command line.Today I did a reinstall again since I thought these errors were caused by a corrupt file system or something.
When Everything was setupped(without plugins) everything worked great. After that I enabled ComSkipLauncher(comskip version used is comskip81_069). After this the same problems start to occur again.
So it seems the Comskiplauncher which is included with Mediaportal 1.9 final tv server is not compatible with the newest Comskip version(I can remember older versions worked great).
For me it doesn't really matter since i'm watching hd tv most of the time and don't have the donaition version, so i'm not able to use tomskip most of the time since hd tv is encoded using h.264. So disabling the whole plugin is a good solution for me. But I still would like to mention the error and make you guys aware of this problem. I also saw https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/mp-4210-live-commercial-skip.123855/ so I'm not sure if anyone cares about this bug and if that ticket replaces the current solution.
I've not included logs since I lost them after the reinstall. The mediaportal logs were clean anyway and the only crash which was logged was the crash of tv server stop in tv server configuration(logged in windows error event log).
I know this is a plugin but it's included with the installer so that's why I put the error report here.
Steps to Reproduce:
1 Enable comskip plugin in tv server
2 Use comskip81_069
3 Start live tv
4 record a show
5 zap to another channel -> not possible
6 try to stop the recording(I press the record button again for this) --> freeze of mp(tv keeps playing but controls are not working anymore and windows says the application doesn't respond)
7 kill mediaportal
8 Open tv server configuration
9 try to stop the whole tv server -> not possible, tv server configuration will crash
10 Open windows services screen
11 Stop tvservice -> not possible
12 Stop/start options are greyed out and you have to use taskkill /f /pid [pid] to stop the tv server
Run all these steps without the comskip plugin and there is no problem
Description
Hi,
I had some problems with recording tv since my last reinstall. I'm using 2 Anysee tv tuners on Windows 8.1 X64, with Mediaportal 1.9 final installed. The problem is when I started a recording I wasn't able to watch another channel anymore. It said something like "Not able to timeshift". I was also not able to stop a recording anymore since mediaportal freezes when I clicked the record button to stop again. It also didn't stop when the show ended(I had recordings with a lenght of 8 hours where the show was only 30 minutes) and the only way to stop a scheduled recording was to wait till the show ended and restart the pc after this. When I tried to restart tv server from the configuration it did just crash with a "Kernelbase" error in windows event log. When I tried to stop/restart using windows services screen it just hanged on stopping so I had to kill the service using the command line.Today I did a reinstall again since I thought these errors were caused by a corrupt file system or something.
When Everything was setupped(without plugins) everything worked great. After that I enabled ComSkipLauncher(comskip version used is comskip81_069). After this the same problems start to occur again.
So it seems the Comskiplauncher which is included with Mediaportal 1.9 final tv server is not compatible with the newest Comskip version(I can remember older versions worked great).
For me it doesn't really matter since i'm watching hd tv most of the time and don't have the donaition version, so i'm not able to use tomskip most of the time since hd tv is encoded using h.264. So disabling the whole plugin is a good solution for me. But I still would like to mention the error and make you guys aware of this problem. I also saw https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/mp-4210-live-commercial-skip.123855/ so I'm not sure if anyone cares about this bug and if that ticket replaces the current solution.
I've not included logs since I lost them after the reinstall. The mediaportal logs were clean anyway and the only crash which was logged was the crash of tv server stop in tv server configuration(logged in windows error event log).
I know this is a plugin but it's included with the installer so that's why I put the error report here.
Steps to Reproduce:
1 Enable comskip plugin in tv server
2 Use comskip81_069
3 Start live tv
4 record a show
5 zap to another channel -> not possible
6 try to stop the recording(I press the record button again for this) --> freeze of mp(tv keeps playing but controls are not working anymore and windows says the application doesn't respond)
7 kill mediaportal
8 Open tv server configuration
9 try to stop the whole tv server -> not possible, tv server configuration will crash
10 Open windows services screen
11 Stop tvservice -> not possible
12 Stop/start options are greyed out and you have to use taskkill /f /pid [pid] to stop the tv server
Run all these steps without the comskip plugin and there is no problem
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