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<blockquote data-quote="DragonQ" data-source="post: 1004076" data-attributes="member: 115209">Tell me about it. MediaPortal is just buggy in my experience. Even the clean install when I moved the TV Server (and tuner card) from my HTPC to my server didn't help much.&nbsp;I plan to do a from-scratch install at some point (with no imported channels, schedules or databases), maybe with 1.4.0 if Custom Data Grabber gets updated, in the hope of eliminating some of these weird issues. The biggest three right now are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Encrypted recordings sometimes only work for a second or so before failing to decrypt for the rest of the recording (probably not an MP problem but only started happening recently, and recent versions of OSCam simply don't work on my server so I don't know where to start with troubleshooting this)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The HTPC takes bloody ages to start a TV channel or view the EPG after waking, sometimes crashing MediaPortal in the process and requiring a reboot. Considering the HTPC is only a client, and it's connected via gigabit ethernet to a TV Server that's using an always-on SSD for timeshifting, I have no idea what could cause such a thing.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Channel changing on my HTPC client is ridiculously slow, around 5 seconds once &quot;warmed up&quot;.</li>
</ul>I might try a TBS tuner card at some point because the BlackGold ones have such poor drivers and terrible customer service - it's now nearly a year since I was promised a new driver to fix a BSOD issue &quot;soon&quot;. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DragonQ, post: 1004076, member: 115209"] Tell me about it. MediaPortal is just buggy in my experience. Even the clean install when I moved the TV Server (and tuner card) from my HTPC to my server didn't help much. I plan to do a from-scratch install at some point (with no imported channels, schedules or databases), maybe with 1.4.0 if Custom Data Grabber gets updated, in the hope of eliminating some of these weird issues. The biggest three right now are: [LIST] [*]Encrypted recordings sometimes only work for a second or so before failing to decrypt for the rest of the recording (probably not an MP problem but only started happening recently, and recent versions of OSCam simply don't work on my server so I don't know where to start with troubleshooting this) [*]The HTPC takes bloody ages to start a TV channel or view the EPG after waking, sometimes crashing MediaPortal in the process and requiring a reboot. Considering the HTPC is only a client, and it's connected via gigabit ethernet to a TV Server that's using an always-on SSD for timeshifting, I have no idea what could cause such a thing. [*]Channel changing on my HTPC client is ridiculously slow, around 5 seconds once "warmed up". [/LIST] I might try a TBS tuner card at some point because the BlackGold ones have such poor drivers and terrible customer service - it's now nearly a year since I was promised a new driver to fix a BSOD issue "soon". :( [/QUOTE]

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