No TV in MP due to PMT Timeout in TV-Server (1 Viewer)

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TV-Server Version: RC3
MediaPortal Version: RC3
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3
Windows Version: Win XP SP3
CPU Type: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz running at ~2192 MHz.
HDD: FUJITSU MHT2040AT
Memory: 522.224 KB
b]1. TV Card[/b]: Cinergy Piranha DVB-T USB-Stick bit BDA-Treiber 3.9.2.0

Hello,

I am trying to get an "old" Inspiron Notebook running with MP. The TV does not work - but everything else does.
The DVB-T USB Stick from cinergy works fine with the software supplied.

The TV-Server preview brings an error message saying that the graph cannot be started. Looking at the logs (they are attached to this post) , there seems to be PMT-Timeout:
"Timedout waiting for PMT"
which seems to result in "subch:0 SetTimeShiftFileName no pmt received. Timeshifting failed"

I have tried increasing the PMT-Timeout - but it just takes longer before the message pops up again.
( I have tried 30 Secs instead of the default of 10).

EPG works, i can scan for the channels in tv-server as well. DirectX seems to be working as well (tested with dxdiag).

Is this a probelm with the BDA-Driver or graphics card?
Can anyone please point me in the right direction.
Thanks.

 

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Im' having the exact same trouble with a digital everywhere Fire DTV DVBS2.
Everything works in the FireDTV Viewer but eny attempt to get MediaPortal to work give this result. Clean RC3 innstall on XP SP3. TV server and Client localy.

 

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Since posting, I found another thread with similar troubles with the card I am using.

The solution here was to buy another card - it seems there is a problem with the piranha driver.

In my case the tuning was the problem - while scanning for channels in the tv-server, the channels were found but the PMT could not be parsed. The channels were then marked as not having any video or audio.

The PMT-Timeout later on was then just a side effect of this.

In your case though, the Fire DTV cards seems to work with other systems - so the problem should lie elsewhere.

Try the latest SVN in the version from last week (the first SVN after the RC3 release) there were some changes made to the PMT parser that might help..
(although it did not help me)

 

[babelfish]

I've allrady installed the latest svn and it did help, sort of. Now i don't get pmt errors, it just say there is no signal But thanks for the suggestion.