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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 778936" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi againNo problem. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Umm, seems a little strange. Are you seeing the same home screen I'd be expecting you to see - it should look something like --&gt;<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/14_Using_MediaPortal/01_Basics/02_Home_or_Basic_Home" target="_blank">this</a>&lt;--.If anything is &quot;chinese&quot; to you then the place to go and figure it out is --&gt;<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com" target="_blank">the wiki</a>&lt;--. To give you a rough idea: when you use analog tuners or capture inputs (s-video, composite etc.) to get TV/video into your computer then the video and audio has to be digitised (converted from analog to digital) so that the computer can understand, manipulate and store it. That is where encoders come in. It is their job to digitise the video and audio. Some tuner cards have dedicated chips for doing the encoding - such cards are generally well supported. Your card (like many other mid-range, cheap or hybrid tuner cards) does not have those chips. Instead, it relies on you installing software to do the encoding. Hence the term &quot;software encoder&quot;. Getting cards that require software encoders to work can be complex and difficult. To make this as simple as possible I'm just going to suggest you install <a href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/WinDVR.shtml" target="_blank">WinDVR 3</a>. This solution is far from ideal though as the trial will run out in 30 days and you can no longer buy the software. I suggest you invest in a tuner with &quot;hardware encoding&quot;...Ummm, again kinda not sure what you're referring to. Debug mode (AKA the watchdog) creates zip files containing all your logs. It looks like you know about that as you've attached logs to your first post.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 778936, member: 82144"] Hi again No problem. :) Umm, seems a little strange. Are you seeing the same home screen I'd be expecting you to see - it should look something like -->[URL="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/14_Using_MediaPortal/01_Basics/02_Home_or_Basic_Home"]this[/URL]<--. If anything is "chinese" to you then the place to go and figure it out is -->[URL="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com"]the wiki[/URL]<--. To give you a rough idea: when you use analog tuners or capture inputs (s-video, composite etc.) to get TV/video into your computer then the video and audio has to be digitised (converted from analog to digital) so that the computer can understand, manipulate and store it. That is where encoders come in. It is their job to digitise the video and audio. Some tuner cards have dedicated chips for doing the encoding - such cards are generally well supported. Your card (like many other mid-range, cheap or hybrid tuner cards) does not have those chips. Instead, it relies on you installing software to do the encoding. Hence the term "software encoder". Getting cards that require software encoders to work can be complex and difficult. To make this as simple as possible I'm just going to suggest you install [URL="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/WinDVR.shtml"]WinDVR 3[/URL]. This solution is far from ideal though as the trial will run out in 30 days and you can no longer buy the software. I suggest you invest in a tuner with "hardware encoding"... Ummm, again kinda not sure what you're referring to. Debug mode (AKA the watchdog) creates zip files containing all your logs. It looks like you know about that as you've attached logs to your first post. mm [/QUOTE]

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