Ireland
I don't think I have an angry tone. I'm just being honest! I'm fed up of trying svn after svn for the last 3 months hoping that this svn will fix it. I would rather give these guys 100 euros for a stable media portal because it is the best app around. no one pays them so they can't do it full time. All the apps you said above don't come close to media portal and don't support most cards or mdapi.
Remember that MDAPI is not supported by the team. Also previously it has itself been causing a lot of issues.
Is the new TSReader not enabled by default in the newest SVN?
Ireland
MP is free and it's a great software in fact There are quite a few people developing code and driving it further. (i.e. MP 2 is a great vision, actually more then just a vision)
I have been using MP for quite a while. Yes, I had a few issues every once and a while but it is really worth it to spend some time with it.
This issue here is different then anything I saw before. The thread was created 3 month ago. More and more user were reporting similar issues with TVE. Since I am using MP for my main TV as many other users I can not use it anymore and I believe that's the situation for many of us because of this issue.
So, what can we do to prove this is a bug and to get attention from development? The issue does not seem to get fixed from any portal member.