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<blockquote data-quote="DragonQ" data-source="post: 1004131" data-attributes="member: 115209">I don't have the time nor the inclination to try different versions of MediaPortal right now - making sure I have backups of everything and making sure everything is restored afterwards is hassle, and then depending on the result I may have to do it all again with another build. I am fine with upgrading to new versions since that is usually quick and easy and doesn't require downgrading, but I can't upgrade to 1.4.0 until a Custom Data Grabber build is made, which may be never (and I'm having no luck building MediaPortal myself).&nbsp;I have co-operated with every other troubleshooting step in this thread and we got somewhere - I at least can view the MediaPortal EPG after typing the hostname manually in the MediaPortal.xml file, which lets me record channels so I can watch them in MPC-HC. MediaPortal's TSReader obviously doesn't play nice with VPNs - even with 15-20 Mbps of bandwidth, a 3-4 Mbps SD channel doesn't play without skips and errors in MediaPortal, but it works fine when the TS file is played directly using MPC-HC. Using MediaPortal over a VPN must be massively low on the priority list though so I don't expect this to change any time soon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DragonQ, post: 1004131, member: 115209"] I don't have the time nor the inclination to try different versions of MediaPortal [I]right now[/I] - making sure I have backups of everything and making sure everything is restored afterwards is hassle, and then depending on the result I may have to do it all again with another build. I am fine with upgrading to new versions since that is usually quick and easy and doesn't require downgrading, but I can't upgrade to 1.4.0 until a Custom Data Grabber build is made, which may be never (and I'm having no luck building MediaPortal myself). I have co-operated with every other troubleshooting step in this thread and we got somewhere - I at least can view the MediaPortal EPG after typing the hostname manually in the MediaPortal.xml file, which lets me record channels so I can watch them in MPC-HC. MediaPortal's TSReader obviously doesn't play nice with VPNs - even with 15-20 Mbps of bandwidth, a 3-4 Mbps SD channel doesn't play without skips and errors in MediaPortal, but it works fine when the TS file is played directly using MPC-HC. Using MediaPortal over a VPN must be massively low on the priority list though so I don't expect this to change any time soon. [/QUOTE]

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