No video/audio detected (1 Viewer)

[Damandan]

TV-Server Version: tvengine3-10-24-2007--03-13h--Rev16343
MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal-svn--10-24-2007--03-05-Rev16343
MediaPortal Skin: Xface 1.2
Windows Version: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
HDD: Multiple Maxtors and Samsung's
Memory: 2048MB Corsairs XMS Matched Pair
Motherboard: MSI K8N SLI Platinum
Motherboard Chipset: Nforce 4 SLI
Motherboard Bios: Latest
Video Card: GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB
Video Card Driver: 163.75
Sound Card: OnBoard Creative SB Live 24-bit
Sound Card AC3: see above
Sound Card Driver: latest vista drivers
1. TV Card: Twinhan Mantis Cab CI 2033
1. TV Card Type: DVB-C
1. TV Card Driver: 1.1.0.100
2. TV Card:
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2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
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MPEG2 Video Codec: nVidia PureVideo
MPEG2 Audio Codec: nVidia Audio Decoder
Satelite/CableTV Provider: home (Zesko)
HTPC Case: -
Cooling: air
Power Supply: Revoltec? Chromos 2 500 Watt
Remote: as supplied with TV Card
TV: JVC LT26C50BU
TV - HTPC Connection: Component

Since today i have on almost all dutch RTL channels except RTL 4 the "no video/audio bug". Strange thing is, if I uninstall the TV Client so that I only use MP, I can watch the channels. However if I install the TV Plugin I get the error again. This error also shows up when I start a preview in TV Server itself. Most of the other channels seem to work fine so far. I cleared all logs and tried watching RTL 5 from within TV Server because the problem seems to be in here. The results of the constructed logs can be seen in the attachment. Hope this can be fixed since MP itself doesn't setup the TV Channels according to how there are supposed to be (order-wise) and I just like TV Engine 3 better.

 

[Damandan]

Never mind. Apparently something has changed on the dutch RTL channels because a lot of people are complaining about bad reception or no reception at all. So probably not entirely MP related. However it remains a strange thing that I can view the channels with MP stand-alone but not with Single-seat TV Engine setup.

UPDATE: Now the normal stand-alone MP does also not show the RTL 5, 7 and 8 channels, so there is definitely something going on.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Check all your cabling first thought that springs to mind.

 

[Damandan]

OK, maybe "bad reception" isn't the right term. The signal quality is at over 95% so that isn't the problem. What I meant to say is that the channels are allready, from the headstation of the cable company, send as a 'bad stream'. So the problem is not MP related but cable company related. Seems like RTL changed something or the cable company did change something and now a lot of users are complaining about lost of sound and lots of artifacts. Though some of the certified STB's don't seem to be having any problems, while others do. Anyways, something changed in the streams and therefore MP (yes also MP stand-alone now) and TVE can't show them anymore. Don't know if this is a flaw in MP, but I do know that I can still watch the streams via PC-TV (the Twinhan program).

Update: Apparently somebody at the cable company woke up and fixed the problem.