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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcsulf" data-source="post: 415240" data-attributes="member: 89714">For The RecordDVDFreak wrote:I have been looking into this, but I just went through a massive hassle (and the aggravation I caused my wife...) by installing MP 1.0.1, and I don't want to create another one.  The list of problems I've had is long:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I was using TVE2, which is broken in MP 1.0.1, so I switched from TVE2 to TVE3</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After the install, nothing I could do would make TVE3 accept my database password.  Many hours later, I decided to uninstall SQLExpress and then reinstall it.  Finally, I got the TVE3 working...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But this caused my IR blasting and EPG to die.  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Switched from MCE Replacement plugin to IR Server Suite and , after a few hours of frustration, that fixed the blasting. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But there appears to be some kind of conflict between IRSS's Input Service and MAME32. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When I first turn on the HTPC, Input Service auto-starts, and if I try to start MAME32 (either stand-alone or through MyEmulators) it errors out.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If I stop Input Service, start MAME32, restart Input Service, then shut down MAME32, then I can start and stop MAME32 all I want to and all is well.  Very weird.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any time Input Service shuts down, I need to start MAME32 before starting it again, or it breaks.  This took several aggravating hours to resolve, and is very annoying.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Also, for some reason, Input Service seems to spontaneously shut itself down a few times per week. I haven't drudged through the log file to try to figure out why yet...</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A couple of hours fighting with the XMLTV plugin for TVE3 resolved the EPG problem.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TVE3 cannot import Recorded TV from TVE2, which is a bit of a pain.  It was simple enough to transfer the TVE2 Recorded TV folder into the MyVideos folder, though, so this really wasn't a huge problem, but now I have to keep track of TV series in two different folders.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The other problem with TVE3 is the rather large lag between what is live and what is shown on the screen.  This isn't an issue for my OTA channels, but I have a video source in another part of the house plugged into my HTPC that is controlled by an RF remote, and the lag makes navigating on that box extremely frustrating.  With TVE2, I could turn off timeshifting and there was very little lag.  With TVE3, there is no ability to turn off timeshifting...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally, of course, there is the issue with the episode name not being available in TVE3, since it does not seem to handle <sub-title> in the TVguide.xml file. This is very frustrating, since it seems obvious that this would be important to people using a HTPC.</li> </ul>Anyway, with all of these issues I've had to fight through in the past few weeks, it will be very difficult to convince my wife that I should mess with the system again by installing For The Record.  DVDfreak, do you have any words of assurance that the transition to For The Record will be smooth and pain free? If not, I think I'll have to wait a while to give it a try, for the sake of my marriage...BTW, sorry if this post seems like an endless list of complaints.  On the whole, I absolutely love MP, and I am very thankful to those who spend their free time devoted to making it even better. Some people say, "you get what you pay for", but in the case of MP, I think we all get a lot more than that.tourettes,Is the MP team actively working to fix the problem with lack of episode name support?  Also, what would you consider to be the drawbacks of using For The Record?Thanks.</blockquote>

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