Problems with Installing Media Portal (1 Viewer)

[Peroxide]

Hi guys I'm retrying Media Portal after initially giving it a look a couple of years ago when building my HTPC. I've recently bought a better TV so am looking to play Bluray and HDTV through my PC which VMC will not help me with.

But when installing I get this message:

Is this a common and fixable problem?

I installed standard installation:

Will Watch TV through Media Portal
Will Not Watch HDTV (yet)
Using the default TV server option

The installer will install Media Portal regardless of this message, but will not install MS SQL Express 2005, it just continues to say installing for hours, and doesn't move on.

The full text from the details box is:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: %1 is not a valid Win32 application
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(String fileName, String arguments)
at MediaPortal.DeployTool.InstallationChecks.MSSQLExpressChecker.Install()
at MediaPortal.DeployTool.Sections.InstallDlg.PerformPackageAction(IInstallationPackage package, ListViewItem item)
at MediaPortal.DeployTool.Sections.InstallDlg.GetNextDialog()
at MediaPortal.DeployTool.DeployTool.nextButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3074 (QFE.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
MediaPortal.DeployTool
Assembly Version: 0.9.1.29893
Win32 Version: 0.9.1.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/DAVE%26G~1/AppData/Local/Temp/MediaPortal%20Installation/MediaPortal.DeployTool.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3074 (QFE.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
Interop.NetFwTypeLib
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Dave%20%26%20Gaby/AppData/Local/Temp/MediaPortal%20Installation/Interop.NetFwTypeLib.DLL
----------------------------------------
CustomMarshalers
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.3053 (netfxsp.050727-3000)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_32/CustomMarshalers/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/CustomMarshalers.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

The reason I think this is a problem is that I need Media Portal to IR Blast my Set Top Box and I believe the IRBlasters need the TV Server.

I'm using Windows Vista.

Sorry if this hasn't been too clear.

 

[igalan]

I had a problem on my old HTPC where MS SQL Express 2005 would not install. However I can't remember how I fixed it. I remember that it failed to install even when running the installer directly. But looking at the log of SQL Express and using Google I found the answer, which was a bit of an obscure problem. Sorry I can't give you better clues; I'm not even sure it's the same problem, but try to install it alone and see what happens. Regardless of having fixed the problem I switched to MySQL.

Now I still use MySQL on the new HTPC, and you can use this one, as well. It's lighter on resources and works well for MediaPortal. For me the main advantage is that it's easy to backup the database, although not that easy to manage the data directly if you have the need.

 

[Peroxide]

OK, well I seem to have been able to get it to work with MySQL, thanks for that.



Now I have to figure out how to get the TVServer application to work with an external Set Top Box.

Most of the reading I have done on Media Portal indicates people use it to tune their TV as well, but in NZ to get any decent TV you pretty much have to have sky which uses a STB that I connect using SVideo input on a Hauppage 150.

I managed to get the guide data sorted on an old install, but am struggling to find where to do that now that the configuration is split between Media Portal Configuration and TV Server Settings.