Hello
I installed Windows 10 Pro N clean on my media server to replace MythTv which broke on upgrade and hoped to use Media Portal in conjunction with Kodi on client machines to recover the mythtv functionality. Unfortunately nothing works in Media Portal 2 even though it appears to have installed correctly. First it only see one of my tuner cards the Fusion HDTV Plus and does not see the ASUS My Cinema U3100 at all which was working fine in Ubuntu and MythTv. I was able to scan for channels on the Fusion however it did not detect any SBS channels even though all other PVR in this location and TVs can see SBS with no problems. As I watch SBS a lot this is a show stopper – single tuner and no SBS, not a good solution. Next I tried to add media sources from the network and it could see the Astone media player and browse its folder structure but on configuration cannot see any of the content getting the message “no content”? Next I connected to another Win10 machine and it could not see any of its shares.
Reading the Wiki I learned you have to set network credentials and reconfigure all your media sources fresh even though I was logged in to both windows 10 machines as the same Microsoft user and the media server in Explorer could see all the shares that the Media Portal 2 could not and VLC could play. Several loops of setting network credentials and full restarts occurred until FINALLY I was able to see the share on my Window 10 machine shared content folders. I set all the sources and found that although in Media Portal I can see the content it can play back NOTHING no matter what format it is. It can’t play WMA, ts, m2ts, avi, vob, mkv, or mp4. I get the message do not recognise the file format!
Live TV show all channels except SBS but plays NOTHING. No matter what channel you chose in Media Portal 2 you get the same message “There is no player registered to play the media item filename.ts buffer”. I configured Kodi on another network client PC to connect to the media server using the Media Portal PVR client and again NOTHING – Connect lost message is all I get. The only content I can access from Media Portal 2 is audio MP# and standard CD.
In the Media Portal server configuration I can run “Test” for every found channel found (except SBS) and see perfect live tv so what is the problem with the Media Portal 2 client and the cryptic “There is no player registered to play the media item filename.ts buffer”. Because others have got this solution working well I am looking for something I might have done wrong in my attempted clean installation as I cannot easily see what else I can check. Are there special considerations for Win10?
I installed Windows 10 Pro N clean on my media server to replace MythTv which broke on upgrade and hoped to use Media Portal in conjunction with Kodi on client machines to recover the mythtv functionality. Unfortunately nothing works in Media Portal 2 even though it appears to have installed correctly. First it only see one of my tuner cards the Fusion HDTV Plus and does not see the ASUS My Cinema U3100 at all which was working fine in Ubuntu and MythTv. I was able to scan for channels on the Fusion however it did not detect any SBS channels even though all other PVR in this location and TVs can see SBS with no problems. As I watch SBS a lot this is a show stopper – single tuner and no SBS, not a good solution. Next I tried to add media sources from the network and it could see the Astone media player and browse its folder structure but on configuration cannot see any of the content getting the message “no content”? Next I connected to another Win10 machine and it could not see any of its shares.
Reading the Wiki I learned you have to set network credentials and reconfigure all your media sources fresh even though I was logged in to both windows 10 machines as the same Microsoft user and the media server in Explorer could see all the shares that the Media Portal 2 could not and VLC could play. Several loops of setting network credentials and full restarts occurred until FINALLY I was able to see the share on my Window 10 machine shared content folders. I set all the sources and found that although in Media Portal I can see the content it can play back NOTHING no matter what format it is. It can’t play WMA, ts, m2ts, avi, vob, mkv, or mp4. I get the message do not recognise the file format!
Live TV show all channels except SBS but plays NOTHING. No matter what channel you chose in Media Portal 2 you get the same message “There is no player registered to play the media item filename.ts buffer”. I configured Kodi on another network client PC to connect to the media server using the Media Portal PVR client and again NOTHING – Connect lost message is all I get. The only content I can access from Media Portal 2 is audio MP# and standard CD.
In the Media Portal server configuration I can run “Test” for every found channel found (except SBS) and see perfect live tv so what is the problem with the Media Portal 2 client and the cryptic “There is no player registered to play the media item filename.ts buffer”. Because others have got this solution working well I am looking for something I might have done wrong in my attempted clean installation as I cannot easily see what else I can check. Are there special considerations for Win10?