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<blockquote data-quote="jickler" data-source="post: 1068364" data-attributes="member: 146516">Hi everyone! I'm new to Mediaportal, but I'm really enjoying it. Made the switch from XBMC because I wanted to get better live TV functionality, and with a little regex tweaking the MP-TV/Moving Pictures plugins do a much better job scraping the library on my roommate's media server, which has a lot of questionably named files.Anyway, the problem I'm having is that after watching TV for a certain period of time, the quality inevitably begins to degrade. Once it starts deteriorating, it continually gets worse until it's completely unwatchable. The visible symptoms are heavy artifacting, stuttering, and sound distortion. It used to happen after 10-20 minutes, but lately it's been stable for up to several hours before beginning to degrade. I moved my timeshift buffer to a ramdisk and installed the SAF codec pack that seems to be popular here. I'm not sure if that's what led to the improvement or if it was just coincidental.I attached my logs and put my system specs in my profile, so hopefully I've included all the necessary info.Thanks for your help!EDIT: I forgot to add that when I plug the antenna directly into the TV I can watch everything without issue, which rules out the question of signal quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jickler, post: 1068364, member: 146516"] Hi everyone! I'm new to Mediaportal, but I'm really enjoying it. Made the switch from XBMC because I wanted to get better live TV functionality, and with a little regex tweaking the MP-TV/Moving Pictures plugins do a much better job scraping the library on my roommate's media server, which has a lot of questionably named files. Anyway, the problem I'm having is that after watching TV for a certain period of time, the quality inevitably begins to degrade. Once it starts deteriorating, it continually gets worse until it's completely unwatchable. The visible symptoms are heavy artifacting, stuttering, and sound distortion. It used to happen after 10-20 minutes, but lately it's been stable for up to several hours before beginning to degrade. I moved my timeshift buffer to a ramdisk and installed the SAF codec pack that seems to be popular here. I'm not sure if that's what led to the improvement or if it was just coincidental. I attached my logs and put my system specs in my profile, so hopefully I've included all the necessary info. Thanks for your help! EDIT: I forgot to add that when I plug the antenna directly into the TV I can watch everything without issue, which rules out the question of signal quality. [/QUOTE]

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