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<blockquote data-quote="einstein72" data-source="post: 253358" data-attributes="member: 58165">Well, I started about a year ago with the standalone MediaPortal and was really impressed by it. I still am.But the server/client setup, well, no. It simply is too buggy to be of any practical use. I know it's beta, but it should be of -some- use by now right?To sum up my experience:- Channel swapping impossible (stimeshifting; no free tv-card available) a ramdisk helped but didn't solve the problem.- Image quality not as good as stand-alone version (locally on server), drops and jitter (even with ramdisk)- Image crop settings not the same as stand-alone version- too many lockupsAnd I was disappointed to find that the client version of MP is very different in use to the standalone version. Couldn't find that anywhere in the documentation.Not really something you use to watch your Tuesday evening soccer game on. I tried older svn's, they gave the same result.Besides that, I found that there are a lot of different 'how-to's' on this site about the same subject. Some of them with different content! (for example about the dvb patch for xp). I got it to work, but I can imagine that a newbie would get totally lost.I'll keep my eye on server/client development, but for now I'll go back to good ol' MP. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> :sorry:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="einstein72, post: 253358, member: 58165"] Well, I started about a year ago with the standalone MediaPortal and was really impressed by it. I still am. But the server/client setup, well, no. It simply is too buggy to be of any practical use. I know it's beta, but it should be of -some- use by now right? To sum up my experience: - Channel swapping impossible (stimeshifting; no free tv-card available) a ramdisk helped but didn't solve the problem. - Image quality not as good as stand-alone version (locally on server), drops and jitter (even with ramdisk) - Image crop settings not the same as stand-alone version - too many lockups And I was disappointed to find that the client version of MP is very different in use to the standalone version. Couldn't find that anywhere in the documentation. Not really something you use to watch your Tuesday evening soccer game on. I tried older svn's, they gave the same result. Besides that, I found that there are a lot of different 'how-to's' on this site about the same subject. Some of them with different content! (for example about the dvb patch for xp). I got it to work, but I can imagine that a newbie would get totally lost. I'll keep my eye on server/client development, but for now I'll go back to good ol' MP. :) :sorry: [/QUOTE]

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