Recent problem with Vista Home Basic and multiple tuners (1 Viewer)

[shog63]

MediaPortal Version: 1.02
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3 WIde
Windows Version: Vista Home Basic SP1
CPU Type: Intel Pentium E2180 @ 2.66GHz
HDD: 3 x SCORPIO 320GB SATA 150MB/S 2.5 LP 5400RPM (RAID5)
Memory: 1GB DDR2
Motherboard: ASRock Conroe 1600 Glan
Video Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 4350HD
Video Card Driver: 7.01.01.821
Sound Card: Realtek HD / ATI HD over HDMI
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: 6.0.1.5645 / 6.0.5840.16387
1. TV Card: Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX
1. TV Card Type: Dual Analog + DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: 1.0.4.1
2. TV Card: Hauppage HVR1300
2. TV Card Type: analog + DVB-T
2. TV Card Driver: 1.3.7.8
3. TV Card: Hauppage Nova-T-500
3. TV Card Type: DVB-T
3. TV Card Driver: 1.0.0.0
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: FFDSHOW beta5_rev2033_20080705
MPEG2 Audio Codec: beta5_rev2033_20080705
h.264 Video Codec: beta5_rev2033_20080705
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Virgin Media
HTPC Case: Unknown
Cooling: Standard Core Duo HS/Fan
Power Supply: eCute 450W
Remote: Windows MCE
TV: Samsung 26" HDTV
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

Hi,

For about two weeks now I have been battling with what I originally assumed were hardware errors with my HTPC following a power supply failure, allied to an increase in ariel distribution around the house (performed by a qualified engineer with a masthead amp, etc). I called the engineer back in suspecting there maybe wasn't enough signal anymore - he checked every ariel lead with a meter and pronounced them all fine.The box has been sitting wide open on the front room floor while I swapped components, reinstalled MP, etc. Tonight I have discovered that with the Pinnacle 3010i dual tuner in the box, it will still only record on one tuner

This is reminiscent of the XP issue that required the DVBfix. Anyone else experienced this, or know of any recent updates that might have caused these issues? I haven't posted any logs because a) I'm not convinced it's a hardware or MP issue and b) I'm pretty knackered at the moment. I will follow up with these if necessary, but I'm hoping someone will say 'yeah there's an issue and here's the fix'... pretty please?

TIA

Julian

 

[Taipan]

Hi Julian,

it will still only record on one tuner

Its not clear to me what you mean by "it"?

Do you mean that MediaPortal will only record on one tuner at a time (I notice that you have 3 TV cards installed), or do you mean that you can only record on one of the tuners in the Pinnacle 3010i dual tuner?

 

[Owlsroost]

I think logs would be good - at least then we can see what TVserver is trying to do....

Was everything working OK before the power supply problem ?

I run MP 1.0.2 on Vista Home Basic SP2 with 1 x dual + 1 x single DVB-T tuners - it works OK.

Tony

 

[shog63]

Well slap me with a wet kipper if it isn't now working....

By "It" I meant MediaPortal. And for a time it was not tuning or recording on either the Nova-T or Pinnacle dual tuners, but would record on the HVR1300. Earlier yesterday it wouldn't tune on either tuner on the Pinnacle, even when the Hauppage was disabled! I did get tuned in, but removing the ariel lead from the Hauppage caused the video to freeze and gave me noise on the audio, so I assume it was tuning from the Hauppage.

This all started a couple of weeks ago with a big blue screen when trying to record BBC, I eventually had to replace the power supply, both sticks of memory and discard an HVR1300 as these were all causing intermittent blue screens (not to mention corruption on the HD!) HD recovered from a ghost of the original disk I'd taken a few days before and chkdsk'd and SFC /scannow'd with no apparent errors.

I did a clean remove/install of MP last night (or early this morning!) with the Hauppage HVR1300 and Pinnacle 3010i and, as of posting here, once recording BBC it then refused to tune ITV claiming no signal. So I assumed that it was declining to use the additional tuners again. It was also decling to show the EPG. I had scanned channels with all three tuners.

This morning, it still wasn't picking up the EPG and still wouldn't tune ITV at all. So I did a rescan and it is now picking up all the channels I have tried so far, recording three different channels on different transponders and managing to grab the EPG.

What is the difference between last night and this morning? I have no idea... unless it somehow picks up channels from an additional transmitter at night and then makes a poor choice on which to tune? Is that even possible? Most of my issues before the thing went bang were down to it not being able to tune ITV at night.

Logs attached...