Problem with TV Server Configuration. (1 Viewer)

[Brendon Bunker]

Hello there, please bear with me as I have just joined. Firstly I would like to thank the Mediaportal team for providing this software.
A bit of background info.
I am running Windows 8 Release Preview (as part of a dual boot system with Win 7) & I have been unsuccessfully looking for some tv tuner software to go with my tv tuner card until I found MP because as you may know Win 8 does not come with WMC.
As a test I have first installed MP on my Win 7 system & everything is working fine including live TV which is the main thing I wanted.
I then installed it on my Win 8 system & it mainly installed ok, but there is a problem with the tv server set up, the service won't run because of a socket exception. I have already checked the hosts file & the required settings are already there.
127.0.0.1 localhost &
::1 localhost

Any ideas please?

I have attached the error message.

 

[doskabouter]

I assume 192.168.1.65 is the ip address of your win7/win8 machine?
Could it be a firewall issue? Can imagine that the setup isn't (yet) able to correctly configure the win8 firewall.
You can also try (if not already done) disabling ipv6.

 

[Brendon Bunker]

Thanks for the reply. I believe it is the ip address for my machine & according to the Mediaportal setup the firewall was configured correctly. I haven't tried disabling ipv6 yet. It would be interesting if anyone else has tried it on Win8 yet? I hope it isn't a major issue with Win 8 which goes on sale next week as I can imagine a lot of people trying to use this as WMC is not included..

 

[Brendon Bunker]

Have checked Windows firewall on Win 8 & the tv server is definitely allowed. Also tried disabling ipv6, but made no difference. Strange everything else like the main Mediaportal configuration & the extension installer works okay.

 

[doskabouter]

And completely disable the firewall?
Just guessing, actually, I'm out of ideas...

 

[Brendon Bunker]

And completely disable the firewall?
Just guessing, actually, I'm out of ideas...

Still the same unfortunately.

 

[Brendon Bunker]

Bit of an update, also have the same Win 8 installed on a different laptop & I installed Mediaportal on that. The exact the same thing happens on that as well! So must mean it is something to do with Win 8 & not the machine. Not very promising for those who want to use Mediaportal with Win 8 due to the lack of WMC.

 

[mm1352000]

Hello Brendon

So must mean it is something to do with Win 8 & not the machine. Not very promising for those who want to use Mediaportal with Win 8 due to the lack of WMC.

You're right - it is to do with Windows 8.

A quick search of the forum reveals this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/tv-server-and-windows-8.106286/

I think you'll have more luck if you try the patch from the 4th or 9th post.

mm

 

[Brendon Bunker]

Hello Brendon

So must mean it is something to do with Win 8 & not the machine. Not very promising for those who want to use Mediaportal with Win 8 due to the lack of WMC.

You're right - it is to do with Windows 8.

A quick search of the forum reveals this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/tv-server-and-windows-8.106286/

I think you'll have more luck if you try the patch from the 4th or 9th post.

mm

Hi mm,
Thank you very much for the link. Having just come across Mediaportal I didn't realise it was such a known & ongoing problem.
I haven't tried the fix yet, but will let you know the result when I do.

 

[mm1352000]

It isn't so much of an ongoing problem - it is just that we don't claim support for OSes that haven't been released yet. Sometimes that will require a patch. Hence the patches in that thread.