Ok, first off hi all.
I ignored the sticky at the top of this thread and am now in the middle of a 64 bit nightmare!
My first words of advice in this forum are to say that if you are running 64 bit Vista/XP, forget about installing MP/TV3, it just aint worth the stress. I am totally peaved with myself for getting into 64 bit too early, and even more peaved that I can not let go when things aren't working out for me.
Thing is I have spent a fortune on my kit to get the ubiquitous all in one system and finally say goodbye forever to $ky. I was so nearly there until I made the awful decision to go 64 bit. Since getting my new 6 tuner Black Gold Card, my life has been nothing but work arounds. The DVB-S hack doesn't work in WMC, the card isn't recognised by MP, PowerCinema only recognises analogue. So far the only fault free program is DVB-Viewer and its gui almost makes DOS seem state of the art.
I was hoping that TV-Server would be the panacea to my woes, but the installation process has been like nothing I ever knew. Every single step of the Wiki requires a google search for the 64 bit hack. Example - SQL Server Express requires a 64 bit installation package supplied by Microsoft that just installs as a 32 bit program anyway. The 32 bit requires IIS 6 to be installed on your system, and Vista 64 is native IIS 7 so you have to install a shed load of components to get it working and then run a scrip to tell Vista to report to the SQL Server that you do have Framework 2 installed since Vista will only report Framework 3 by default. And this is for an MS program - I mean come on!
So there we are, words of warning to all 64 bit wannabees. If I can get through this traumatic period in my life and end up with TV-Server working on this damn HTPC, I will do a clean install and produce a 64 bit tutorial with all the work arounds.
ANYHOW - what a lot of steam to let off in a first post, my apologies and thanks for sticking with me. Now can you help me?
I've finally got to install TV Engine and have reached something I can't get an answer to despite searching high and low. It connected to the database fine and I got to the management console fine. Low and behold the console picked up all six tuners. When I scanned for channels with my DVB-S tuner though, it crashed. So retried and it crashed again (this time after I tried to group the tuners). I then retried but the management console would not appear after the request to start the service. I have since reinstalled, rebooted and cleaned the registry after a further uninstall - grr still no console!! I have tried to manually start the service, but Windows states error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. Can you think of a reason/solution for this?
:sorry: for such a long first post, but I am losing it!
I ignored the sticky at the top of this thread and am now in the middle of a 64 bit nightmare!
My first words of advice in this forum are to say that if you are running 64 bit Vista/XP, forget about installing MP/TV3, it just aint worth the stress. I am totally peaved with myself for getting into 64 bit too early, and even more peaved that I can not let go when things aren't working out for me.
Thing is I have spent a fortune on my kit to get the ubiquitous all in one system and finally say goodbye forever to $ky. I was so nearly there until I made the awful decision to go 64 bit. Since getting my new 6 tuner Black Gold Card, my life has been nothing but work arounds. The DVB-S hack doesn't work in WMC, the card isn't recognised by MP, PowerCinema only recognises analogue. So far the only fault free program is DVB-Viewer and its gui almost makes DOS seem state of the art.
I was hoping that TV-Server would be the panacea to my woes, but the installation process has been like nothing I ever knew. Every single step of the Wiki requires a google search for the 64 bit hack. Example - SQL Server Express requires a 64 bit installation package supplied by Microsoft that just installs as a 32 bit program anyway. The 32 bit requires IIS 6 to be installed on your system, and Vista 64 is native IIS 7 so you have to install a shed load of components to get it working and then run a scrip to tell Vista to report to the SQL Server that you do have Framework 2 installed since Vista will only report Framework 3 by default. And this is for an MS program - I mean come on!
So there we are, words of warning to all 64 bit wannabees. If I can get through this traumatic period in my life and end up with TV-Server working on this damn HTPC, I will do a clean install and produce a 64 bit tutorial with all the work arounds.
ANYHOW - what a lot of steam to let off in a first post, my apologies and thanks for sticking with me. Now can you help me?
I've finally got to install TV Engine and have reached something I can't get an answer to despite searching high and low. It connected to the database fine and I got to the management console fine. Low and behold the console picked up all six tuners. When I scanned for channels with my DVB-S tuner though, it crashed. So retried and it crashed again (this time after I tried to group the tuners). I then retried but the management console would not appear after the request to start the service. I have since reinstalled, rebooted and cleaned the registry after a further uninstall - grr still no console!! I have tried to manually start the service, but Windows states error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. Can you think of a reason/solution for this?
:sorry: for such a long first post, but I am losing it!
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