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Testbuilds for Native MP2 TV - Updated for 10th AE Update 1 (2014-09-13)!
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<blockquote data-quote="mnmr" data-source="post: 1064211" data-attributes="member: 86308"><p>I went ahead and downloaded the most recent test-build, but so far have not had much luck getting anything to work. Here are my observations so far:</p><p></p><p>MP2 installed fine (Windows 8.1 x64) but the client didn't render anything until DirectX runtime libraries were installed. Dependencies should be bundled or at least referenced somewhere. I also installed all VC++ redistributables (2005 through 2012, both x86 and x64), as I read somewhere that one or more of those is required.</p><p></p><p><strong>TvSetup notes:</strong></p><p>I then followed the instructions on configuring native TV for MP2. TvSetup worked fine - I was able to find the HDHomeRun tuner, scan for channels, map and group them, etc. The UI of the TvSetup tool is in many ways quite horrible (I can elaborate if anyone is interested in improving it), especially when you have 4 tuners that you need to configure, but at least it appears to mostly work. </p><p></p><p>The restricted mode button is defect - when you run as administrator it is able to restart the service, but the button still says restricted mode is active. Why on earth do you not simply request elevated access when needed? Microsoft has quite comprehensive guidelines on how to create such buttons.</p><p></p><p>I have a NAS and have mapped persistent shares for everything I need to access. Thus, I tried to configure the recording folder to be V:\TV\Recordings, which the tool appears to accept but then (as soon as you don't look, i.e. navigate away) promptly resets back to the default. You cannot enter a path manually, so I could not try with an UNC path instead. </p><p></p><p><strong>Settings (via MP2 client UI) notes:</strong></p><p>The first thing I did was to add my media shares, since indexing always takes forever. Even though I have local drive letters to access the media, these do not show up in the MP2 client UI. You can only pick local, physical drives (sorry, but that's just incredibly dumb; why force people to go through the Dokan library?). </p><p></p><p>Regardless, after much cursing I went ahead and created the shares the MP way, and it seems to mostly work (I got an error for the first share I created, and some file access errors in the logs, but it seems to have gotten over that, since there's nothing in the more recent logs). As an aside, why not call shares for collections or some other term that does not already have a well-defined (and different) meaning in Windows-land? I only really went to configure "shares" because I could find nothing else that looked like it was media library related.</p><p></p><p>I also see "Playlists" everywhere in the client UI, and recall seeing this in MP1 also. What is that and why is it a persistent entry in the menus on every screen? It looks pretty defect to me.</p><p></p><p><strong>TV:</strong></p><p>When I click the TV option in the MP2 client, I get the red cross and a message saying "No TV providers yet)". But preview from within TvSetup does work. Not sure what to do about this.</p><p></p><p><strong>Other notes:</strong></p><p>UPnP discovery seems to be broken or incompatible with other stuff on the network. My logs are overflowing with 'Invalid HTTP header' lines from the SSDPClient/Server, and I'm not sure where to go to disable it.</p><p></p><p>Back to Plex for now..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mnmr, post: 1064211, member: 86308"] I went ahead and downloaded the most recent test-build, but so far have not had much luck getting anything to work. Here are my observations so far: MP2 installed fine (Windows 8.1 x64) but the client didn't render anything until DirectX runtime libraries were installed. Dependencies should be bundled or at least referenced somewhere. I also installed all VC++ redistributables (2005 through 2012, both x86 and x64), as I read somewhere that one or more of those is required. [B]TvSetup notes:[/B] I then followed the instructions on configuring native TV for MP2. TvSetup worked fine - I was able to find the HDHomeRun tuner, scan for channels, map and group them, etc. The UI of the TvSetup tool is in many ways quite horrible (I can elaborate if anyone is interested in improving it), especially when you have 4 tuners that you need to configure, but at least it appears to mostly work. The restricted mode button is defect - when you run as administrator it is able to restart the service, but the button still says restricted mode is active. Why on earth do you not simply request elevated access when needed? Microsoft has quite comprehensive guidelines on how to create such buttons. I have a NAS and have mapped persistent shares for everything I need to access. Thus, I tried to configure the recording folder to be V:\TV\Recordings, which the tool appears to accept but then (as soon as you don't look, i.e. navigate away) promptly resets back to the default. You cannot enter a path manually, so I could not try with an UNC path instead. [B]Settings (via MP2 client UI) notes:[/B] The first thing I did was to add my media shares, since indexing always takes forever. Even though I have local drive letters to access the media, these do not show up in the MP2 client UI. You can only pick local, physical drives (sorry, but that's just incredibly dumb; why force people to go through the Dokan library?). Regardless, after much cursing I went ahead and created the shares the MP way, and it seems to mostly work (I got an error for the first share I created, and some file access errors in the logs, but it seems to have gotten over that, since there's nothing in the more recent logs). As an aside, why not call shares for collections or some other term that does not already have a well-defined (and different) meaning in Windows-land? I only really went to configure "shares" because I could find nothing else that looked like it was media library related. I also see "Playlists" everywhere in the client UI, and recall seeing this in MP1 also. What is that and why is it a persistent entry in the menus on every screen? It looks pretty defect to me. [B]TV:[/B] When I click the TV option in the MP2 client, I get the red cross and a message saying "No TV providers yet)". But preview from within TvSetup does work. Not sure what to do about this. [B]Other notes:[/B] UPnP discovery seems to be broken or incompatible with other stuff on the network. My logs are overflowing with 'Invalid HTTP header' lines from the SSDPClient/Server, and I'm not sure where to go to disable it. Back to Plex for now.. [/QUOTE]
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