- December 31, 2015
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After much consternation and nashing of teeth, I feel I'm so close to having a working system! Thank you, MediaPortal developers, for saving me from STB hell and my wife from no-DVR-land. )
A little background is in order: I'm new to MP and knew that when I upgraded to Windows 10 my long-lasting relationship with Windows Media Center would end (no flames please, LOL). Thus, I installed MP1 and have toiled over getting it all working with my IPTV box, Colossus capture, and single-seat setup. (I'm not the most efficient at troubleshooting, I'm sure.) I feel I have everything working, well mostly...channels are in, EPG is working, and the strangely cantankerous Hauppauge IR blaster is finally sending all digits and not just dropping some. Oh, and I did the conversion to Win10 without MP problems. (I had LOTS of other problems in the conversion tho, no thanks to Microsoft.)
I only have 1 tuner at the moment, and my wife really just wants a reliable system to allow her to record her shows. I want those recording to be accessible for me to play later in other formats. (I may add a second IPTV box or HDHomeRun for OTA, but I don't see adding much else.)
So what's the problem? My TV picture completely freezes after most channel changes (sometimes it doesn't but that doesn't seem to be predictable or often). MP hasn't died, I can hit stop (killing the ts buffer), wait a few seconds for the system to recover, and then go back to re-enable TV, and I get the new channel, but of course that isn't how it's supposed to go. I'm sure recording will be messed up, too. I have tried hitting Pause at various stages of the channel change to no avail, and waiting out the freeze, but the motion never comes back.
I really have tried to read all the pertinent posts here before posting myself, but so far no luck. I know I likely need to post logs, but I'm not even sure which ones or where there are on my drive.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
P.S. Also, this seems minor, but for some reason the Settings option won't open up at all in MP. I have to use the separate MP Config app.
A little background is in order: I'm new to MP and knew that when I upgraded to Windows 10 my long-lasting relationship with Windows Media Center would end (no flames please, LOL). Thus, I installed MP1 and have toiled over getting it all working with my IPTV box, Colossus capture, and single-seat setup. (I'm not the most efficient at troubleshooting, I'm sure.) I feel I have everything working, well mostly...channels are in, EPG is working, and the strangely cantankerous Hauppauge IR blaster is finally sending all digits and not just dropping some. Oh, and I did the conversion to Win10 without MP problems. (I had LOTS of other problems in the conversion tho, no thanks to Microsoft.)
I only have 1 tuner at the moment, and my wife really just wants a reliable system to allow her to record her shows. I want those recording to be accessible for me to play later in other formats. (I may add a second IPTV box or HDHomeRun for OTA, but I don't see adding much else.)
So what's the problem? My TV picture completely freezes after most channel changes (sometimes it doesn't but that doesn't seem to be predictable or often). MP hasn't died, I can hit stop (killing the ts buffer), wait a few seconds for the system to recover, and then go back to re-enable TV, and I get the new channel, but of course that isn't how it's supposed to go. I'm sure recording will be messed up, too. I have tried hitting Pause at various stages of the channel change to no avail, and waiting out the freeze, but the motion never comes back.
I really have tried to read all the pertinent posts here before posting myself, but so far no luck. I know I likely need to post logs, but I'm not even sure which ones or where there are on my drive.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
P.S. Also, this seems minor, but for some reason the Settings option won't open up at all in MP. I have to use the separate MP Config app.