- November 5, 2008
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Hello,
I'm new to MediaPortal - only really started on 1.0RC2 - and I'm hoping someone can help explain what my problem is...with MediaPortal - I've already had plenty of opinions on a personal level. thanks
After many years of planning, I finally got around to building my HTPC - making it as quiet as possible etc...
(smuggling a PC into the lounge without too much offence to the other half !)
This was around last August...
Anyhow, everything was going "ok" - performance was perfectly acceptable (given my single core processor and only 1 GB of memory at the time)
- SVN upgrades, next RC upgrade etc...
The odd problem solved via the forums - excellent support btw...
And before I had a chance to try RC4, the FINAL v1.0 was released at Xmas.
I upgraded (from 1.0RC3) and have been struggling with performance ever since.
EVERYTHING ran slower - but the "stuttering" on the live/recorded tv/videos became unacceptable after 2 months.
(I've been through the long "stuttering live tv" post, and have tried the RelaxTsReaderForBadReception.txt" file)
It was also impossible to change tv channels by "scrolling" through them - the channel names would take 10-30 seconds to appear... to get into "Recorded TV" from "live TV" could take 5 minutes. Everything was slow...
I doubled my system memory (1GB -> 2GB) with no improvement.
I tried ffdshow/Stand-Alone filters etc...
I'd tried different ATI drivers/Omega drivers...
I'd run out of ideas... (short of spending a lot of cash on newer hardware)
I even started messing with Linux and had some limited success with MythTv....
I thought I'd give Mediaportal another go, so I went back to RC3 and hey presto - everything works ok (as it did before v1.0).
No stuttering, channel changes are possible...
Any ideas what changed in the MediaPortal releases to have this effect ?
As is stands I'll have to stick on RC3 to guarantee performance (and a quiet life from a very angry partner who "only wants to watch TV"), so any advice on what I can safely upgrade would be very much appreciated.
eg. skins... can I just change the version number in the XML file to make them work ???? (Will skins with the improved "red program" highlight in the Program Guide work on RC3 ???)
Given the number of "MediaPortal" and "TV Server" updates between RC3 and v1.0, is there any way to apply any of them (short of re-compiling)? (independently/incrementally etc...?)
Does any have any advice about installing RC4 ? Is it "more stable" but "same performance" as RC3 ? (I've already suffered one of the black screen with channel and time "borders" of the "program guide"(in white) crashes.
I've not had one of these crashes since Xmas with v1.0 but sadly not reason enough to stick with it
Any comments/advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Steve
(I still have both 1.0 and 1.0RC3 installed - on separate disks - so I can do any tests you want ?????)
<<< the hardware specs in my profile are up to date
I'm new to MediaPortal - only really started on 1.0RC2 - and I'm hoping someone can help explain what my problem is...with MediaPortal - I've already had plenty of opinions on a personal level. thanks
After many years of planning, I finally got around to building my HTPC - making it as quiet as possible etc...
(smuggling a PC into the lounge without too much offence to the other half !)
This was around last August...
Anyhow, everything was going "ok" - performance was perfectly acceptable (given my single core processor and only 1 GB of memory at the time)
- SVN upgrades, next RC upgrade etc...
The odd problem solved via the forums - excellent support btw...
And before I had a chance to try RC4, the FINAL v1.0 was released at Xmas.
I upgraded (from 1.0RC3) and have been struggling with performance ever since.
EVERYTHING ran slower - but the "stuttering" on the live/recorded tv/videos became unacceptable after 2 months.
(I've been through the long "stuttering live tv" post, and have tried the RelaxTsReaderForBadReception.txt" file)
It was also impossible to change tv channels by "scrolling" through them - the channel names would take 10-30 seconds to appear... to get into "Recorded TV" from "live TV" could take 5 minutes. Everything was slow...
I doubled my system memory (1GB -> 2GB) with no improvement.
I tried ffdshow/Stand-Alone filters etc...
I'd tried different ATI drivers/Omega drivers...
I'd run out of ideas... (short of spending a lot of cash on newer hardware)
I even started messing with Linux and had some limited success with MythTv....
I thought I'd give Mediaportal another go, so I went back to RC3 and hey presto - everything works ok (as it did before v1.0).
No stuttering, channel changes are possible...
Any ideas what changed in the MediaPortal releases to have this effect ?
As is stands I'll have to stick on RC3 to guarantee performance (and a quiet life from a very angry partner who "only wants to watch TV"), so any advice on what I can safely upgrade would be very much appreciated.
eg. skins... can I just change the version number in the XML file to make them work ???? (Will skins with the improved "red program" highlight in the Program Guide work on RC3 ???)
Given the number of "MediaPortal" and "TV Server" updates between RC3 and v1.0, is there any way to apply any of them (short of re-compiling)? (independently/incrementally etc...?)
Does any have any advice about installing RC4 ? Is it "more stable" but "same performance" as RC3 ? (I've already suffered one of the black screen with channel and time "borders" of the "program guide"(in white) crashes.
I've not had one of these crashes since Xmas with v1.0 but sadly not reason enough to stick with it
Any comments/advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Steve
(I still have both 1.0 and 1.0RC3 installed - on separate disks - so I can do any tests you want ?????)
<<< the hardware specs in my profile are up to date