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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raife_1" data-source="post: 874039" data-attributes="member: 125572">I wouldn't say it was a last straw, mostly cumulated frustration. I generally think I am pretty computer savvy (I build my own computers, I have dabbled in FreeNAS, etc.), but I just kept coming across stumbling blocks with MP. The first frustration was the videos on my server not showing up. So I went through and installed all the codecs per the recommendations, still nothing, so I mucked around some more. They are all extension MPEG-4. Then there was the problem with the analog channels. This may have been a newbie issue on my part as nowhere was there a recommendation that I just use ATSC (now I know better) - BUT when the analog scan would start I did get channels (it usually BSOD around the channel 50 and up). Since I was picking up stations, I assumed that I should continue down the analog path. I did multiple reinstalls of MP and the Hauppauge drivers, but still no luck. Then I tried to start from real scratch and also uninstalled MySQL 5 thinking something could be wrong in there (FYI - I know NOTHING about SQL), but then I kept keeping an error about the password when I tried to reinstall MP and MySQL 5 - after more web searches I realized you couldn't just uninstall MySql 5 from the Programs and Features, you had to go in and delete 2 folders (one of them hidden). After 3 evenings and too much lost sleep, I did get it to work through ATSC and selected EPG, but then couldn't get it to download at the time, so it wasn't helpful. Then I re-transcoded one of my videos to mkv and it worked, but this indicated to me that I would need to redo my entire library, which I wasn't interested in. So after much web trawling yesterday and so many posts about WMCE 7 "just working" and the need for a stable, platform with HIGH WAF I decided to switch - so I went out and bought Windows 7 Professional (I wanted to get off Vista anyway). I am a tinkerer, my wife is not - and inevitably I will be on business travel and it won't work. We are cutting the satellite/cable cord next week and she is already putting a lot of faith in me that all will be fine. So I needed to go with the "just works" option, even if I lose some power and functionality. I have heard and read great things about MP and like I said, maybe we will cross paths again in the future. Thanks.</blockquote>

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