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Hi,
I am a bit pressed for time now, but I have prepared the text below while my forum registration was pending. My apologies.
Probably this post or thread could be moved and/or split up into different subforums, but since I am a newbie I tought the general forum was a good place to start
Hey Guys,
I'm Cordraconis from Belgium and I have invested in some decent hardware for my HTPC/Virtualisation server.
(A couple of hundreds extra for virtualisation support beats spending thousands for upgraded laptops for the whole family!)
I designed it with Mediaportal in mind, and the wiki stated my Hauppaughe HVR-2250 was supported, so I built it.
There are some issues I have now, and probably they are best split up, maybe even in separate threads.
Anyway, here they are, please feel free to give any advice or ask for more information and we'll go from there.
(Needless to say I'm quite motivated to test and poke around to Get It Working (tm), as for now it is a slightly overpowered VLC-Player-with-MCE-wireless-keyboard instance.)
- The Hauppaughe card crashes as I try to scan for analog channels. I have searched the forum etc... and this seems to be a common problem where "there is a thread with the solution somewhere in the forum", however for the love of God I cannot find it.
The closest I get is some mentioning that you need an older driver version, but not which one. Also, in Windows Media Centre (win7) it works fine. Some of the MP Devs said he was in contact with the hauppaughe guys about this???
- Scanning for digital channels works (TV+Radio), and for analog radio. Analog TV = BSOD. (It does find a handfull, after witch it crashes.)
- I tried to manually add analog TV, based on the frequency list of my cable provider. (Rather stressfull doing this from abroad over VNC during holidays ;-) , but it didn't crash. It gave the correct logo in the TV guide, but no video, so could not watch. What is the right procedure for doing this, or could a "add stations manually" option be coded?
- My cable provider has different frequencies for different provinces/areas in the country. The provided list is therefore not accurate. Also see the issue above. I can provide the website with the frequencies for someone who can write a script to scrape it if you want.
- Since I have only digital TV (about 5 stations), I only have 48h of EPG. The manually added analog channels didn't grab in webEPG.
- The WebEPG plugin seems to find the stations, but doesn't grab the program data. Also, I think I'm supposed to find a list of mappings when I import it? Can someone from Belgium confirm this?
- Without a working guide, there is no way of recording something analog. Maybe there is a way to manually do this?
- some test recordings (documentaries) from digital TV or radio did work...
(BTW, when I say "manually, I generally mean editing the appropriate .XML files, if I can find them!)
Thanks in advance for any pointers! As I already said, I am willing to give something back to Mediaportal (like tests, EPG updates, frequency lists per province etc...) I forgot about the win7-built-in-WMC so I was supprised when it popped up (and worked) when I used the included remote control, but after 2 weeks the EPG stopped updating and microsoft is letting WMC bleed to death, hence I am switching to MP2, as designed.
Cordraconis
I am a bit pressed for time now, but I have prepared the text below while my forum registration was pending. My apologies.
Probably this post or thread could be moved and/or split up into different subforums, but since I am a newbie I tought the general forum was a good place to start
Hey Guys,
I'm Cordraconis from Belgium and I have invested in some decent hardware for my HTPC/Virtualisation server.
(A couple of hundreds extra for virtualisation support beats spending thousands for upgraded laptops for the whole family!)
I designed it with Mediaportal in mind, and the wiki stated my Hauppaughe HVR-2250 was supported, so I built it.
There are some issues I have now, and probably they are best split up, maybe even in separate threads.
Anyway, here they are, please feel free to give any advice or ask for more information and we'll go from there.
(Needless to say I'm quite motivated to test and poke around to Get It Working (tm), as for now it is a slightly overpowered VLC-Player-with-MCE-wireless-keyboard instance.)
- The Hauppaughe card crashes as I try to scan for analog channels. I have searched the forum etc... and this seems to be a common problem where "there is a thread with the solution somewhere in the forum", however for the love of God I cannot find it.
The closest I get is some mentioning that you need an older driver version, but not which one. Also, in Windows Media Centre (win7) it works fine. Some of the MP Devs said he was in contact with the hauppaughe guys about this???
- Scanning for digital channels works (TV+Radio), and for analog radio. Analog TV = BSOD. (It does find a handfull, after witch it crashes.)
- I tried to manually add analog TV, based on the frequency list of my cable provider. (Rather stressfull doing this from abroad over VNC during holidays ;-) , but it didn't crash. It gave the correct logo in the TV guide, but no video, so could not watch. What is the right procedure for doing this, or could a "add stations manually" option be coded?
- My cable provider has different frequencies for different provinces/areas in the country. The provided list is therefore not accurate. Also see the issue above. I can provide the website with the frequencies for someone who can write a script to scrape it if you want.
- Since I have only digital TV (about 5 stations), I only have 48h of EPG. The manually added analog channels didn't grab in webEPG.
- The WebEPG plugin seems to find the stations, but doesn't grab the program data. Also, I think I'm supposed to find a list of mappings when I import it? Can someone from Belgium confirm this?
- Without a working guide, there is no way of recording something analog. Maybe there is a way to manually do this?
- some test recordings (documentaries) from digital TV or radio did work...
(BTW, when I say "manually, I generally mean editing the appropriate .XML files, if I can find them!)
Thanks in advance for any pointers! As I already said, I am willing to give something back to Mediaportal (like tests, EPG updates, frequency lists per province etc...) I forgot about the win7-built-in-WMC so I was supprised when it popped up (and worked) when I used the included remote control, but after 2 weeks the EPG stopped updating and microsoft is letting WMC bleed to death, hence I am switching to MP2, as designed.
Cordraconis