United Kingdom
Hello guys,
A while ago I took the jump from windows media centre to mediaportal. Windows media centre worked well, however there is a lack of customisation which I wanted.
Anyway I installed mediaportal using Titan skin, with mp tv series and moving pictures. I have 8 x dvbs feeds and 4 x dvbt feeds. I setup originally as a standalone system. These are the problems I initially faced and how I corrected them...
1) mediaportal 'direct3d' would not initialise when MP was setup to auto load. Fix - untick auto load in MP settings and setup a scheduled task to load on log in.
2) directors commentary over HD channels and no throughput of Dolby digital. Fix - go into tv settings on MP configuration and tick 'prefer ac3 audio'. Un tick other boxes.
3) Video stutter and glitchy scanning when trying to fast forward live tv. Fix - enable cuvid acceleration in lav filters. Go onto nvidia 3d settings and select 'yes' on triple buffering and vertical sync.
This took me a while to get things running smoothly but initially for my stand alone PC this worked. Now for setting up the client...
1) setup as per the above on the client PC using mediaportal configuration.
2) video stuttering and freezing....not a quick fix for me but think I be finally sorted it. I tried the following...
Changing codec settings - didn't work
Removing my network switch and connecting computers with crossover on gb LAN - didn't work
Changed file sizes and setup shares on time shift folders - didn't work
Moved time shift drive onto ramdisk - didn't work
Turns out MP tv series on my server was causing the dropped framrate...this was particularly bad on HD.
If I disable the auto scan settings in MP tv series and change the scan time from 5 minutes to every 12 hours the issue is gone.
I had both my client and server watching live tv on separate HD channels and had a drop rate of 7 over a couple of hours with no stuttering. Setting the codecs also helped massively. I ran other software on the server and tested to see what affects live tv...seems to only be the software plugins for MP itself.
I hope this may help. I spent hours of getting annoyed because of live tv stutter. I tried what felt like hundreds of things and was about to give up.
MP is awesome now it's working well for me!
A while ago I took the jump from windows media centre to mediaportal. Windows media centre worked well, however there is a lack of customisation which I wanted.
Anyway I installed mediaportal using Titan skin, with mp tv series and moving pictures. I have 8 x dvbs feeds and 4 x dvbt feeds. I setup originally as a standalone system. These are the problems I initially faced and how I corrected them...
1) mediaportal 'direct3d' would not initialise when MP was setup to auto load. Fix - untick auto load in MP settings and setup a scheduled task to load on log in.
2) directors commentary over HD channels and no throughput of Dolby digital. Fix - go into tv settings on MP configuration and tick 'prefer ac3 audio'. Un tick other boxes.
3) Video stutter and glitchy scanning when trying to fast forward live tv. Fix - enable cuvid acceleration in lav filters. Go onto nvidia 3d settings and select 'yes' on triple buffering and vertical sync.
This took me a while to get things running smoothly but initially for my stand alone PC this worked. Now for setting up the client...
1) setup as per the above on the client PC using mediaportal configuration.
2) video stuttering and freezing....not a quick fix for me but think I be finally sorted it. I tried the following...
Changing codec settings - didn't work
Removing my network switch and connecting computers with crossover on gb LAN - didn't work
Changed file sizes and setup shares on time shift folders - didn't work
Moved time shift drive onto ramdisk - didn't work
Turns out MP tv series on my server was causing the dropped framrate...this was particularly bad on HD.
If I disable the auto scan settings in MP tv series and change the scan time from 5 minutes to every 12 hours the issue is gone.
I had both my client and server watching live tv on separate HD channels and had a drop rate of 7 over a couple of hours with no stuttering. Setting the codecs also helped massively. I ran other software on the server and tested to see what affects live tv...seems to only be the software plugins for MP itself.
I hope this may help. I spent hours of getting annoyed because of live tv stutter. I tried what felt like hundreds of things and was about to give up.
MP is awesome now it's working well for me!