After playing around for some weeks now, I'm getting a bit worried about MP if it will ever come to a stable normal workin version.
I used to use MP without the tv server, but since it was a RC1 that was released I was confident that it would work pretty good.
I was a bit wrong there, unfortunately...
TV server 1 is a step back compared to the normal mediaportal, without this tv-server. I had it pretty stable when I used MP 0.2.3.0, now, with a clean install of RC1 I get numerous bugs!
I now get the following bugs:
- Unknown channel. clicking the channel again in the EPG and the channel works like it should.
- No free card available. But the only card that is in use is te card I'm watching tv on...so zapping to another channel should never give this message, but it does an this stays as long as youstay on the channel you are watching at the moment...only when I first go to another channel and than to the preferred channel, it works most of the time...
- Small black bars on top of the screen an on the bottom of the screen. At random, MP adds a small black bar on the top and below the screen. Zapping to another channel sometimes helps, sometimes not. Stopping and starting the channel always helps.
- Stopping a recording is buggy. There is a workaround I found out, but if you do one step wrong, the workaround stops working. You can stop a started recording by going to 'Record', hit the show that needs to stop, say yes, now hit the button that says don't record, choose yes and the recording stops (offcourse this is a stupid, silly way and can't be intended this way). Even the devs says a recording can't be stopped...but it can!
- HD channels still are buggy...running jerky...(framerate too low?)
- The channel now freezes without warning when watching tv and a recording starts.
- Sometimes MP doesn't recognise the correct aspect ratio (small black bars, caused by seemingly 4:3 letterbox screen on 16:9 screen, where "Normal" in aspect ratio is selected). I need to stop and start the channel again to reset it to the good aspect ratio.
- Plenty of random bugs that causes MP not to respond, not to start tv, or just crashes, while I never had this with 0.2.3.0 without tv server.
- Sometimes empty recordings, again, at random...(to be fair, haven't had this for quite some time now)
- One of my HD channels with AC3 (NGC HD) has it's audio out of sync...
- When starting to watch a channel, a black windowed screen comes up with "Media Portal Not Responding". Clicing the screen and it goes white with the message close program or wait for responce...
- Starting a channel from the epg when tv is not playing, MP sometimes asks if I want to watch the channel.
These are daily problems that I can come up with out of my head...
Almost ALL of these problems are newly introduced in RC1.
I've posted almost all of these problems on the forum, but since it is such a vast, unorderly forum, everything you porst gets snowed under and gets lost in all the numerous subforums. There are just way way too much subfurums to be orderly and effective. People find it really hard to find the right subforum, thread or question so it gets poted in several forms in multiple threads ad subforums...this confuses people even more... It shouldn't be this hard to find your own posts or any other in the forum, this really needs to be adressed in my opinion.
I hope there will be a new release soon that is not a big step back compared to the older version... I wish I was a pogrammer and had the time to help you guys, but unfortunatey I haven't. I can only report what I experience. :sorry:
For stability reasons I ONLY use MP (and the needed codecs, etc) on my htpc and ONLY for watching tv and movies, so my system should be as clean as possible. So whatever bugs there are in powerscheduling, plugins, radio or other functions of MP, I don't know. These are only the daily bugs I experience that I've reported.
I used to use MP without the tv server, but since it was a RC1 that was released I was confident that it would work pretty good.
I was a bit wrong there, unfortunately...
TV server 1 is a step back compared to the normal mediaportal, without this tv-server. I had it pretty stable when I used MP 0.2.3.0, now, with a clean install of RC1 I get numerous bugs!
I now get the following bugs:
- Unknown channel. clicking the channel again in the EPG and the channel works like it should.
- No free card available. But the only card that is in use is te card I'm watching tv on...so zapping to another channel should never give this message, but it does an this stays as long as youstay on the channel you are watching at the moment...only when I first go to another channel and than to the preferred channel, it works most of the time...
- Small black bars on top of the screen an on the bottom of the screen. At random, MP adds a small black bar on the top and below the screen. Zapping to another channel sometimes helps, sometimes not. Stopping and starting the channel always helps.
- Stopping a recording is buggy. There is a workaround I found out, but if you do one step wrong, the workaround stops working. You can stop a started recording by going to 'Record', hit the show that needs to stop, say yes, now hit the button that says don't record, choose yes and the recording stops (offcourse this is a stupid, silly way and can't be intended this way). Even the devs says a recording can't be stopped...but it can!
- HD channels still are buggy...running jerky...(framerate too low?)
- The channel now freezes without warning when watching tv and a recording starts.
- Sometimes MP doesn't recognise the correct aspect ratio (small black bars, caused by seemingly 4:3 letterbox screen on 16:9 screen, where "Normal" in aspect ratio is selected). I need to stop and start the channel again to reset it to the good aspect ratio.
- Plenty of random bugs that causes MP not to respond, not to start tv, or just crashes, while I never had this with 0.2.3.0 without tv server.
- Sometimes empty recordings, again, at random...(to be fair, haven't had this for quite some time now)
- One of my HD channels with AC3 (NGC HD) has it's audio out of sync...
- When starting to watch a channel, a black windowed screen comes up with "Media Portal Not Responding". Clicing the screen and it goes white with the message close program or wait for responce...
- Starting a channel from the epg when tv is not playing, MP sometimes asks if I want to watch the channel.
These are daily problems that I can come up with out of my head...
Almost ALL of these problems are newly introduced in RC1.
I've posted almost all of these problems on the forum, but since it is such a vast, unorderly forum, everything you porst gets snowed under and gets lost in all the numerous subforums. There are just way way too much subfurums to be orderly and effective. People find it really hard to find the right subforum, thread or question so it gets poted in several forms in multiple threads ad subforums...this confuses people even more... It shouldn't be this hard to find your own posts or any other in the forum, this really needs to be adressed in my opinion.
I hope there will be a new release soon that is not a big step back compared to the older version... I wish I was a pogrammer and had the time to help you guys, but unfortunatey I haven't. I can only report what I experience. :sorry:
For stability reasons I ONLY use MP (and the needed codecs, etc) on my htpc and ONLY for watching tv and movies, so my system should be as clean as possible. So whatever bugs there are in powerscheduling, plugins, radio or other functions of MP, I don't know. These are only the daily bugs I experience that I've reported.