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<blockquote data-quote="MacMini" data-source="post: 229626" data-attributes="member: 20587">Well, it's after Christmas, after New Year's, and I am close to throwing in the towel and getting back to the VMC fold:-(I love Media Portal: with the Monochrome skin, for me it's pretty close to the perfect front-end.Except for TV. I have tried both a Hauppauge 950 and HDHomeRun. On two separate computers.I can get the analog portion of the Hauppauge to work, sort of. It shows the dreaded &quot;No video/audio detected&quot; when I first enter TV, but if I just scroll and press Start TV again, then it starts working. But if I change channels, the Audio starts lagging, and it gets worse with every channel change. The result is, that the TV portion is unusable.With the HDHomeRun, I can't even scan the digital cable or OTA channels: it crashes every time. It used to work a few months ago, prior to 0.2.3.0, but then the analog portion of the Hauppauge didn't work....I see a lot of posts about these issues, tons of logs, but many logs end up showing &quot;0 views,&quot; which means nobody looked at them:-(The sad part is, if I run the same two tuners in Sage TV, or Vista Media Center, they get set up absolutely painlessly, and run perfectly within a couple of minutes. No Audio lag, no error messages, no glacial channel changes. Maybe this is naive, but why doesn't someone just take a look at what these guys are doing right, and emulate it?Anyway, I've been preaching the gospel of Media Portal for a while, to anyone who would listen. And I am very grateful to all the developers, who spend their free time on the project.But, at some point, it just has to work.For myself, I am going to wait for a couple of more weeks to see what the apparently significant planned changes will bring to MP's TV portion, with my fingers and toes crossed in hope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacMini, post: 229626, member: 20587"] Well, it's after Christmas, after New Year's, and I am close to throwing in the towel and getting back to the VMC fold:-( I love Media Portal: with the Monochrome skin, for me it's pretty close to the perfect front-end. Except for TV. I have tried both a Hauppauge 950 and HDHomeRun. On two separate computers. I can get the analog portion of the Hauppauge to work, sort of. It shows the dreaded "No video/audio detected" when I first enter TV, but if I just scroll and press Start TV again, then it starts working. But if I change channels, the Audio starts lagging, and it gets worse with every channel change. The result is, that the TV portion is unusable. With the HDHomeRun, I can't even scan the digital cable or OTA channels: it crashes every time. It used to work a few months ago, prior to 0.2.3.0, but then the analog portion of the Hauppauge didn't work.... I see a lot of posts about these issues, tons of logs, but many logs end up showing "0 views," which means nobody looked at them:-( The sad part is, if I run the same two tuners in Sage TV, or Vista Media Center, they get set up absolutely painlessly, and run perfectly within a couple of minutes. No Audio lag, no error messages, no glacial channel changes. Maybe this is naive, but why doesn't someone just take a look at what these guys are doing right, and emulate it? Anyway, I've been preaching the gospel of Media Portal for a while, to anyone who would listen. And I am very grateful to all the developers, who spend their free time on the project. But, at some point, it just has to work. For myself, I am going to wait for a couple of more weeks to see what the apparently significant planned changes will bring to MP's TV portion, with my fingers and toes crossed in hope. [/QUOTE]

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