TV player only (1 Viewer)

[Blutarsky]

Is there any chance to launch the TV player without the whole MP environment?

Could it be an option? Lighter ?

 

[Eeyore]

without anything else....

surely you want the whole 'My TV' section

to me, sounds like a good idea for those who dont want the other bits...

you could always disable everything else (through configuration.exe), but it would be good for the EXE to only contains the needed bits for 'My TV' and nothing else and when you launched MP it went directly to My TV

i'm not sure how feasible this is though...MP Lite...but,you could be onto something...i like it....i definately like it

 

[tklon]

but it would be good for the EXE to only contains the needed bits for 'My TV' and nothing else and when you launched MP it went directly to My TV

Just use the software which came with your tv card for that. I think in that case you don't need a mediacenter software. :wink:

 

[Eeyore]

but i thought keeping MP for functionality like

- WebEPG
- TV Recording
- EPG Searching/Alarming
- Timeshifting
- Single interface for DVB-T/C/S systems

would be great

 

[James]

Read Here

 

[Blutarsky]

Read Here

Do you mean "Yes, it is required that MediaPortal is running to record a scheduled TV Show. MediaPortal is not designed to run as service. " ??

I've asked because the built in TV player is really clumky and wprst of all it isn't capable using neither nVidia Purevideo codec nor ffdshow!

 

[tklon]

I think James means this one:

Would a cut down version of MediaPortal be faster?

No. MediaPortal is already modular and modules which are not used can be disabled in settings. However, removing code for those part which you do not want to use will not improve the performance of MediaPortal or is basic hardware requirements.

 

[James]

Yep also take note of:

Why doesn't MediaPortal perform as well as the application provided with my TV card?

MediaPortal needs to support a large range of TV cards and to do this it uses the Windows DirectShow API. The applications provided with most TV cards will communicate directly with the card and therefore can perform better in certain conditions. They can do this because they only need to support a very limited set of hardware and the provided applications normally have a very limited feature set.

 

[Blutarsky]

Sorry for being confusing.

I was talking about my tv card built in player (Savvy TV), that is poor quality and clumky.

MP tv player is much better, and best of all uses PureVideo and ffdshow!!

That's why I was asking about a standalone tv player

 

[onkl]

Sorry for being confusing.

I was talking about my tv card built in player (Savvy TV), that is poor quality and clumky.

MP tv player is much better, and best of all uses PureVideo and ffdshow!!

That's why I was asking about a standalone tv player

You might like DScaler, Mediaportal is not primarily meant to be a 1:1 replacement for the various (and sometimes indeedly horrific) programs bundled with cards.
However, a great alternative would obviously be a switch to a HTPC usage of your PC, in which case you might probably like MP :wink: