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<blockquote data-quote="rayskater" data-source="post: 265706" data-attributes="member: 74603"><p>This is just an update as things have changed during the last days. The channel change issue is resolved; now I'm on the way to make it working as a whole.</p><p></p><p>I re-installed MediaPortal with built-in TV engine. This was working. I'm really impressed by this software! There are so many details that as a whole make MediaPortal appear really superior. Like the sliding EPG messages, great menus, the soft fade-out during shutdown, many important general configuration options, ... A commercial software nowadays often classifies such things as "nice to have" and removes them from the todo lists.</p><p></p><p>There was a remaining problem in my installation with waking up from standby: either the PC showed a blue screen before Windows came up or MediaPortal raised an error. This is why I updated the BIOS to the current V4.</p><p></p><p><strong>Surprise: Now TV Server is working and switching channels without delay!</strong></p><p></p><p>Unfortunately MediaPortal crashed during start-up ... seems to be related to Vista's user access control. MediaPortal starts if the user access control is disabled.</p><p></p><p>The next point is to re-configure MediaPortal to use TV Server again. Unfortunately the configuration options of MediaPortal have changed. The configuration of a TV Server has gone. After re-installation of MediaPortal the TV configuration looks again different: neither TV Server nor channel scan using built-in TV engine is accessible anymore...</p><p></p><p>Will go back to an image I had saved before the first installation of MediaPortal and re-install everything from scratch.</p><p></p><p>To cut a long story short: MediaPortal is a great piece of software. Just its installation is a demanding task for someone like me who is building his first HTPC and did not know anything about MediaPortal before. The installer of RC1 makes things a lot simpler, compared to the tutorial videos explaining a manual installation. Just the parallel support for built-in TV engine and separate TV server and the adaptation of the MediaPortal configuration to only support one of them appears confusing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rayskater, post: 265706, member: 74603"] This is just an update as things have changed during the last days. The channel change issue is resolved; now I'm on the way to make it working as a whole. I re-installed MediaPortal with built-in TV engine. This was working. I'm really impressed by this software! There are so many details that as a whole make MediaPortal appear really superior. Like the sliding EPG messages, great menus, the soft fade-out during shutdown, many important general configuration options, ... A commercial software nowadays often classifies such things as "nice to have" and removes them from the todo lists. There was a remaining problem in my installation with waking up from standby: either the PC showed a blue screen before Windows came up or MediaPortal raised an error. This is why I updated the BIOS to the current V4. [B]Surprise: Now TV Server is working and switching channels without delay![/B] Unfortunately MediaPortal crashed during start-up ... seems to be related to Vista's user access control. MediaPortal starts if the user access control is disabled. The next point is to re-configure MediaPortal to use TV Server again. Unfortunately the configuration options of MediaPortal have changed. The configuration of a TV Server has gone. After re-installation of MediaPortal the TV configuration looks again different: neither TV Server nor channel scan using built-in TV engine is accessible anymore... Will go back to an image I had saved before the first installation of MediaPortal and re-install everything from scratch. To cut a long story short: MediaPortal is a great piece of software. Just its installation is a demanding task for someone like me who is building his first HTPC and did not know anything about MediaPortal before. The installer of RC1 makes things a lot simpler, compared to the tutorial videos explaining a manual installation. Just the parallel support for built-in TV engine and separate TV server and the adaptation of the MediaPortal configuration to only support one of them appears confusing. [/QUOTE]
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