- November 11, 2014
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I'm working on trying out media portal. I put together a test system with the following hardware:
System Specs:
Win 7
MediaPortal 1.10.0
Pentium E5200
3GB RAM
250GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 210
HVR-2250, HVR-1600, HVR-1800
EPG: Schedules Direct & Xmltv
I have Time Warner cable, so I have my cable input connected to the 2250, the 1800 and the analog input of the 1600. I have a broadcast ATSC antenna connected to the digital input of the 1600. I created 3 channel groups: Analog cable, Digital Cable, and Digital Broadcast. This meant that I had 3 entries (analog, digital cable and broadcast) from some national channels, ABC/NBC/CBS etc, but otherwise everything was working pretty well.
When trying to schedule recordings by series, I found media portal isn't well suited to this configuration, I had a hard time indicating which of the 3 duplicate channels I wanted to record on.
I came to understand that I should merge channels that have the same line up, so instead of an Analog NBC, a Digital Cable NBC, and Broadcast NBC, I should just have NBC, and let the tuner priorities resolve Digital or Analog availability.
I did this, but no when I tune from channel to channel, Channels that have a Digital feed take a long time to start displaying, several minutes. Tuning from analog to analog only channels don't take anywhere near as long. This wasn't happening before I merged channels, I was able to switch from channel to channel, either with the "Change Channel" keys or the EPG. I'm not sure what went wrong Any suggestions ?
Logs Attached.
System Specs:
Win 7
MediaPortal 1.10.0
Pentium E5200
3GB RAM
250GB HDD
Nvidia GeForce 210
HVR-2250, HVR-1600, HVR-1800
EPG: Schedules Direct & Xmltv
I have Time Warner cable, so I have my cable input connected to the 2250, the 1800 and the analog input of the 1600. I have a broadcast ATSC antenna connected to the digital input of the 1600. I created 3 channel groups: Analog cable, Digital Cable, and Digital Broadcast. This meant that I had 3 entries (analog, digital cable and broadcast) from some national channels, ABC/NBC/CBS etc, but otherwise everything was working pretty well.
When trying to schedule recordings by series, I found media portal isn't well suited to this configuration, I had a hard time indicating which of the 3 duplicate channels I wanted to record on.
I came to understand that I should merge channels that have the same line up, so instead of an Analog NBC, a Digital Cable NBC, and Broadcast NBC, I should just have NBC, and let the tuner priorities resolve Digital or Analog availability.
I did this, but no when I tune from channel to channel, Channels that have a Digital feed take a long time to start displaying, several minutes. Tuning from analog to analog only channels don't take anywhere near as long. This wasn't happening before I merged channels, I was able to switch from channel to channel, either with the "Change Channel" keys or the EPG. I'm not sure what went wrong Any suggestions ?
Logs Attached.