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<blockquote data-quote="RichieB" data-source="post: 293354" data-attributes="member: 74354">Hi All, Please HelpI've been running MediaPortal (Single TVServer and Client) on a dedicated PC for about four months now without any major problems. Everything work(ed) great until about two weeks ago. At that stage I had v1.0 RC1 installed.After recording a TV program, attempting to view it resulted in no playback (nothing crashed and MP still ran fine, navigation worked - no apparent fault) but it would not play-back the (any) recorded program. Same thing when trying to view other videos. Playing the files in Windows with WMP worked fine, proving that the recorded files are okay. Its only MP that didn't play them.I then attempted to view live TV with the same result - no playback/viewing. I could find no hardware faults and everything else looked fine. MP has no problem recording, proving that the tuner card is okay.Eventually, I re-installed just MP (downloaded v1.0 RC2) and everything was back to normal again. recording, playback, pictures, music, videos - ALL GOOD.Last night (Thursday) it happened again - No playback of any video files through MP. Again, everything else still works normally (navigation, recording, etc). Nothing else has changed on the machine, so why has this happened after four months of perfect operation? I was very happy with MP while it lasted!!TV-Server Version: 1.0 RC2 and RC1MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC2 and RC1Windows Version: Windows XP Prof SP2CPU Type: AMDHDD: 80GB Boot &amp; 500GB Storage1. TV Card: Hauppage HVR-2200Any ideas will be welcome.Richard</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RichieB, post: 293354, member: 74354"] Hi All, Please Help I've been running MediaPortal (Single TVServer and Client) on a dedicated PC for about four months now without any major problems. Everything work(ed) great until about two weeks ago. At that stage I had v1.0 RC1 installed. After recording a TV program, attempting to view it resulted in no playback (nothing crashed and MP still ran fine, navigation worked - no apparent fault) but it would not play-back the (any) recorded program. Same thing when trying to view other videos. Playing the files in Windows with WMP worked fine, proving that the recorded files are okay. Its only MP that didn't play them. I then attempted to view live TV with the same result - no playback/viewing. I could find no hardware faults and everything else looked fine. MP has no problem recording, proving that the tuner card is okay. Eventually, I re-installed just MP (downloaded v1.0 RC2) and everything was back to normal again. recording, playback, pictures, music, videos - ALL GOOD. Last night (Thursday) it happened again - No playback of any video files through MP. Again, everything else still works normally (navigation, recording, etc). Nothing else has changed on the machine, so why has this happened after four months of perfect operation? I was very happy with MP while it lasted!! [b]TV-Server Version[/b]: 1.0 RC2 and RC1 [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 1.0 RC2 and RC1 [b]Windows Version[/b]: Windows XP Prof SP2 [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD [b]HDD[/b]: 80GB Boot & 500GB Storage [b]1. TV Card[/b]: Hauppage HVR-2200 Any ideas will be welcome. Richard [/QUOTE]

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