TV Server Error on Fresh Vista Install (1 Viewer)

[jaeger]

Hi,

I've BDA drivers, but I had Technotrends fake drivers (makes DVB-C look like DVB-T)) earlier for the MCE. They aren't in use anymore. However they were active when I originally installed MP (1.0). MP didn't work ok, so I uninstalled the fake stuff and MP and re-installed MP.

It's possible that the exception came from the TV card wait timer, I played with the timer earlier to check if it helped. I had 10 sec there. Now I removed it (-> 0 sec) and there was no exception anymore. I'll try that again tomorrow to see if that was the case (or not)

 

[neo2001]

I'm using a TechniSat SkyStar 2 HD (DVB-S2) (which is supposed to be a Twinhan AD- SP400) with the latest BDA driver available. The card works fine with DVBViewer, DVBDream etc. - but it never worked with Vista MCE (incl. TV Pack) natively. I did not use any fake drivers or something like that to get it work in Vista MCE - at least not in this fresh set up vista installation.

 

[zosoDK]

Try disabling UAC and run TVservice as Administrator....

 

[jaeger]

Try disabling UAC and run TVservice as Administrator...

UAC was disabled already. I cannot set tvservice.exe to be run as admin from the properties window as the option is grayed out in in the compatiblity sheet. Do you mean that I should set the 'log on as' to admin account for the service? Now that is set to local system account

2008-12-29 18:13:21.550155 [SetupTv]: Exception   :System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException: Requested Service not found

I have confirmed now that this error disappeared once I removed the 10 sec wait timer from the TV server configuration. Looks like TV server configuration utility is not waiting long enough in case the timer has so big value.

I can get around the problem by stopping the TV service manually and then starting the TV-Server Configuration utility. It still tells me that tv service isn't running and asks me if I want to start it now - and if I choose yes - it doesn't complain anymore about TV service running. TV service starts anyway and I can watch TV after that (until next reboot)

This workaround works now ok.

 

[zosoDK]

Yes..."log on" is what i mean...this will run the service as the selected user....here you must select Administrator...
Also set the service Recovery mode as:
First Failure: Restart Service
Second failure: Restart service
Subsequent failures: Restart service
Restart service after: 2 minutes

Also
In the general tab set startup type to: Automatic (Delayed start)

In the Dependencies section make sure the your SQL server (either MySql or MS-sql) is also set at automatic.

Kind regards

 

[neo2001]

Ok, I tried everything - no success!

I even tried the working DVB-S USB-Box from the other PC and also a Pinnacle DVB-S USB-Box (PCTV 400e). Both work fine and instantly with other DVB software - but not with TV Server. So I don't think it's a driver or hardware issue.

Reinstalled TV Server several times. The error remains always the same. I can't even configure the damn thing. Maybe it's the stupid TV Pack (which was useless for me anyway).

I'm giving up now. Thank you all for you help!

 

[jaeger]

Hi,

Didn't help. Thanks for the help anyways.

Somehow I've managed to change the situation that the workaround doesn't work anymore. I'm going to reinstall Vista without the TV pack to see if that helps.

 

[jaeger]

Bye bye TV pack, welcome working MP.

Looks like the TV pack, or something else in my previous Vista installation, caused my problems. Fresh install without TV pack and everything works now.

 

[BeLLe]

I'm having the same problem. I'll try to uninstall tvpack as it didn't work anyway but i would love to know if anyone finds a 100% working solution

 

[offbyone]

I think we all have the same problem, the installed TVPack!

I used MediaPortal with the same hardwaresetup before on Vistax64 and it worked without problem. After the fresh install I also installed the TVPack (to test its DVB-C Support) and was disapointed. So I went back to MediaPortal. From what I've read the TvPack makes Vista recognize DVB-C cards (only some) where the MediaPortal Error comes from -> the TVServer tries to find TVCards starting with DVB-T and get a NullReferenceException somewhere along this (instead of the usual empty collection). I put a try catch around each detection type, so an error in DVB-T (comign first) won't perevent the others from working. This way my TVServer works with installed TVPack.
Also on a side note, the TVPack will also be in Windows7 (kind of), so the error might occure there too.

I would ask the developers to put at least the try catch around the blocks that detect the cards by type.