United States of America
Hi All,
So far MediaPortal has been great - except now I'm having a problem that I put in about 20 or so of my favorite shows to record. In the guide, I chose various shows and in the Advanced Recording options I choose to record the show any time it appeared on this channel. During this process, as I added more shows (and I only have a single tuner), I began to get conflicts. MediaPortal would display a dialog box saying this show conflicted with another scheduled show at a particular date & time. As I'm trying to use it as more of a TiVo season pass type system, I did not want to deal with all of the individual conflicts and instead want the system to rely on its priority of individual shows to decide which to record and which not to.
Not knowing which option to choose, I selected "Ignore conflict" towards the bottom of the list - hoping that MediaPortal would figure it out at the time it needed to record - rather than choosing which show to keep for this particular conflict. This resulted in 2 undesirable problems. First, if say 3 shows are scheduled to record at the same time, it would record approx. the first 5 seconds of 2 of the shows, and then record the other show in full. The second problem is that the system was running great (fast & responsive) before I put these shows in the scheduler, and now its causing MediaPortal to run very slow or even freeze. It can take minutes to stop playing a recording and switch back to Live TV, for instance.
Was I supposed to choose a different option besides "Ignore conflict"? I didn't want it to ask me about every day & time how to handle the conflict - just want it to choose for its self based on show priority. Is there some proper way for me to accomplish my goal without causing MediaPortal to become sluggish/unstable? I would greatly appreciate any help that you can give, because I really want to use MediaPortal but I may have to switch if I can't resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I'm not using the TV-Server because I did not want the overhead of an SQL server. Also, I can attach logs if these are necessary.
TV-Server Version: N/A
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Skin: Default 16x9
Windows Version: XP Pro 32-bit SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 2800+
HDD: Seagate 4x80GB (Striped RAID) = 320GB
Memory: PC3200 1GB
Motherboard: Chaintech 7NJL6
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 5200FX
Video Card Driver: 175.19
Sound Card: Onboard
Sound Card AC3: no AC3
Sound Card Driver: 5.12.1.51
1. TV Card: Hauppauge PVR250
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver: 1.18
2. TV Card: N/A
2. TV Card Type: N/A
2. TV Card Driver: N/A
3. TV Card: N/A
3. TV Card Type: N/A
3. TV Card Driver: N/A
4. TV Card: N/A
4. TV Card Type: N/A
4. TV Card Driver: N/A
MPEG2 Video Codec: Hauppauge Video Decoder ver. 5.0
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Unknown
h.264 Video Codec: N/A
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Time Warner Cable
HTPC Case: Ultra X-Series
Cooling: 2 case fans
Power Supply: Antec 400W
Remote: Sony Universal w/ USB-UIRT
TV: ViewSonic N3235
TV - HTPC Connection: VGA
So far MediaPortal has been great - except now I'm having a problem that I put in about 20 or so of my favorite shows to record. In the guide, I chose various shows and in the Advanced Recording options I choose to record the show any time it appeared on this channel. During this process, as I added more shows (and I only have a single tuner), I began to get conflicts. MediaPortal would display a dialog box saying this show conflicted with another scheduled show at a particular date & time. As I'm trying to use it as more of a TiVo season pass type system, I did not want to deal with all of the individual conflicts and instead want the system to rely on its priority of individual shows to decide which to record and which not to.
Not knowing which option to choose, I selected "Ignore conflict" towards the bottom of the list - hoping that MediaPortal would figure it out at the time it needed to record - rather than choosing which show to keep for this particular conflict. This resulted in 2 undesirable problems. First, if say 3 shows are scheduled to record at the same time, it would record approx. the first 5 seconds of 2 of the shows, and then record the other show in full. The second problem is that the system was running great (fast & responsive) before I put these shows in the scheduler, and now its causing MediaPortal to run very slow or even freeze. It can take minutes to stop playing a recording and switch back to Live TV, for instance.
Was I supposed to choose a different option besides "Ignore conflict"? I didn't want it to ask me about every day & time how to handle the conflict - just want it to choose for its self based on show priority. Is there some proper way for me to accomplish my goal without causing MediaPortal to become sluggish/unstable? I would greatly appreciate any help that you can give, because I really want to use MediaPortal but I may have to switch if I can't resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I'm not using the TV-Server because I did not want the overhead of an SQL server. Also, I can attach logs if these are necessary.
TV-Server Version: N/A
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Skin: Default 16x9
Windows Version: XP Pro 32-bit SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 2800+
HDD: Seagate 4x80GB (Striped RAID) = 320GB
Memory: PC3200 1GB
Motherboard: Chaintech 7NJL6
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 5200FX
Video Card Driver: 175.19
Sound Card: Onboard
Sound Card AC3: no AC3
Sound Card Driver: 5.12.1.51
1. TV Card: Hauppauge PVR250
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver: 1.18
2. TV Card: N/A
2. TV Card Type: N/A
2. TV Card Driver: N/A
3. TV Card: N/A
3. TV Card Type: N/A
3. TV Card Driver: N/A
4. TV Card: N/A
4. TV Card Type: N/A
4. TV Card Driver: N/A
MPEG2 Video Codec: Hauppauge Video Decoder ver. 5.0
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Unknown
h.264 Video Codec: N/A
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Time Warner Cable
HTPC Case: Ultra X-Series
Cooling: 2 case fans
Power Supply: Antec 400W
Remote: Sony Universal w/ USB-UIRT
TV: ViewSonic N3235
TV - HTPC Connection: VGA