RC3 - choppy livetv / no signal / on dvb - thread restart (1 Viewer)

[SweMart]

I have managed to resolve my problems by doing the following:

1. Do an uninstall
2. Delete all files in the folder "Team Mediaportal"
3. Reconfig and delete all channels that my subscription doesn't contain. This seem to be the key to success. If I entered a non allowed channel I would receive the "No Signal" and MP would never recover from it.

I do get the "No Signal" once every week or something but it's easy enough to recover from it by switch to a FTA channel and then going to stand-by and start again.

Cheers,
Martin

 

[ohdarklord]

I have managed to resolve my problems by doing the following:

1. Do an uninstall
2. Delete all files in the folder "Team Mediaportal"
3. Reconfig and delete all channels that my subscription doesn't contain. This seem to be the key to success. If I entered a non allowed channel I would receive the "No Signal" and MP would never recover from it.

I do get the "No Signal" once every week or something but it's easy enough to recover from it by switch to a FTA channel and then going to stand-by and start again.

Cheers,
Martin

Im going to give this a go as ive lot alot of channels that i cant receve that are in the channel list.

 

[vbgeezer]

If only I could get this sorted my HTPC would be finished

So my contribution

1. Card Name: Hauppage PVR350
2. Card Type:
3. Country: New Zealand
4. If you restart MP does the signal come back? (Y/N) Y
5. If you change channel does the signal come back? (Y/N) No
6. Do you require a reboot to be able to use TV? (Y/N) N
7. Do you know of any tricks to re-enable TV without restarting / rebooting? Ctrl+Alt + Del | Task Manager | Scroll to MP - observe high CPU usage | wait and MP retasks focus | Turn off TV | turn on tv | yay it's back -

I always use time shift so I can go back to where it stopped using left arrow and carry on.

It's v frustrating though and Wife WON'T use MP if I am not at home.

I don't think it's my setup or drivers etc as I always run latest SVN and they were all that I had changed since it worked and then started having this problem in early Feb?? not sure when as I don't get the problem everyday. Since experiencing the problem I have updated everything except that I should add that until just now I hadn't tried upgrading my PVR350 drivers so although my details list the latest version 22 23070 I haven't yet had the no signal with these drivers. If this fixes it I will post that back here later. Don't know why I never tried that.

Hope this helps any more info I can provide? Please tell me what you want.

Used support tool to gather data as follows

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 RC4 (2006-05-28 )
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: NVIDIA Audio Decoder
Video Codec: NVIDIA Video Decoder
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 511 MB
Motherboard: nForce (Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.)
TV Card Model: PVR350
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: 22 23070
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 (128 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9
Audio Card Model: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Audio Card Driver: -
Synopsis::

NoSignal Detected

 

[flokel]

Im going to give this a go as ive lot alot of channels that i cant receve that are in the channel list.

I don't think that this will help.
I sorted my channelslist (only 10 channels) and nevertheless I got the "No signal" message yesterday.

 

[ohdarklord]

Im going to give this a go as ive lot alot of channels that i cant receve that are in the channel list.

I don't think that this will help.
I sorted my channelslist (only 10 channels) and nevertheless I got the "No signal" message yesterday.

It didnt
but if you get the choppy tv and then it loses signal and you see what media portal was doing in the log you will notice that it was getting the dvb egp. Some people thought it was that it was having problems getting the egp from encrypted channels so it was worth a try. (but it turns out that i had allready tryed it a few months back and forgoten.

If you look at the media portal change log the new svn has

MediaPortal TVCapture
On 29/05/2006 [09:03:04] Broce added the following change: DVBDemuxer back to rev 7400, trying to fix 697

And if you look in the mantis the nosignal problem is 697
Im going to give it a go as i have nothing to lose

 

[Marcusb]

Excellent. I look forward to hearing how this goes.

(I'm away from home at the moment or I would try it myself).

Marcus.

 

[vbgeezer]

so far so good

too early to say as I don't get no signal everyday.

When I got home tonight I saw the SVN update and went into overdrive. Installed before doing anything else. Watched TV all evening - no problems so far.

Everything else seems to still be working so if you have this problem it is probably worth a try.

But please... take a backup

 

[shreddies]

With mPods help here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=15534&highlight= I've tried a pre 7400 revision, based on RC2.

Using this version I haven't had ANY 'no signal' errors in 5 days or so. I suggest that others also try revision 29-01-2006.

I concur that this old build works *much* better - I've had none of the "no signal" problems that I get within an hour of running a more recent build.

I see that the mantis bug was assinged to Frodo last week, hopefully he can get this fixed so I can go back to RC4.

 

[igalan]

Has anyone tried any newer SVN (May 29th or later)? DVB-T is a lot better now here, changing channels is much faster with almost no flicker or signal lost. I read the changelog frequently and it seems that the DVB muxer was changer for an earlier version (or something like tihis ).

 

[shreddies]

Thanks Igalan, I might try a new svn tonight as apparently the DVBDemuxer has been brought back to 7400 (which will be the same version as my RC2 install).

On 29/05/2006 [09:03:04] Broce added the following change: DVBDemuxer back to rev 7400, trying to fix 697