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| 602641 | 2007-11-03 05:31:00 | You must be doing something different to me Bantu- I've got an HVR3000 hooked up to a Sky dish running on a new XP install. After endless mucking around I got as far as getting Tv server to show up freeview and D1 as a sat... that's as far as it goes, no scan works and more often than not TV sever would hang. I also tried Mediaportal by itself but couldn't get freeview/D1 to show up as a sat to scan. I even tried the daily SVN but that was borked. Can't for the life of me think why they would have every sat in the world except Optus D1 in their list. All up worse fun than linux :yuck: PS, I also have a separate sat DVB box and that works fine hooked up to the dish. For all the great features MediaPortal has its buggy as hell, atleast MythTV is stable. Ive seen MediaPortal lock up multiple times when simply playing MP3's :yuck: |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 602642 | 2007-11-03 05:46:00 | For all the great features MediaPortal has its buggy as hell, atleast MythTV is stable. Ive seen MediaPortal lock up multiple times when simply playing MP3's :yuck: Yeah, they reckon it's 'almost there' :p MythTV= linux, so I can say I've been there. For once I would like a piece of hardware/software to just install and 'work'... maybe... maybe... no, I just can't bring myself to utter the iM word :stare: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 602643 | 2007-11-03 06:02:00 | Have you looked at the likes of Mythbuntu or Mythdora? Meant to be very easy to setup to point it doesn't require much knowledge at all and all setting are done via wizards etc. The Mythbuntu iso is only 450mb ish and they update it every time Ubuntu releases a new build. | Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 602644 | 2007-11-03 09:05:00 | I've just been through this as well, it was hell but fun! Started with MediaPortal, which worked really well with the analogue dual tuner PVR500 for a long time. Then tried with a DVB-S card to get Freeview and it was good too. Then I decided to get creative and added a second DVB-S card and that's when the fun started. There are patches and updates that you need on XP to get dual DVB-S tuners working and Mediaportal kept crashing a lot. Then I tried MythBuntu and gave up on that pretty quickly as it wouldn't pick up the DVB-S cards at all. I tried GB-PVR, which worked most of the time and was probably the easiest to set up but it is pretty basic. At the moment I am running Windows Media Center in Vista Home Premium. It was the hardest to set up as MCE doesn't support DVB-S cards at this time (may be added with Vista SP1.) There is a reg hack provided by Hauppauge to make MCE think the cards are actually DVB-T cards. Fun! :thumbs: I think Windows Media Centre looks the best out of the lot and seems to be the most user friendly and once it supports DVB-S cards it should automatically get the EPG via the DVB-S stream as well so I can get rid of Bladerunner. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 602645 | 2007-11-03 19:05:00 | There is a reg hack provided by Hauppauge to make MCE think the cards are actually DVB-T cards. CYaBro can you give me the exact location and filename of that reg hack please. I read it was on the German website but I can't find it. Can't read german and don't really know what I am looking for. - Thanks |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 602646 | 2007-11-03 19:21:00 | Bantu- can't help with your reg hack as I don't read German either.... made the mistake of d/loading an 'updated' installer from the German site... in German :( I'm about to try a clean install of my HVR3000 card and straight Mediaportal (without tvserver)... just gotta have a strong coffee 1st :D Can you give me any pointers on how to get the D1/sat info into the scan menu and do you remember what your LNB settings were? I tried putting the sat files from McRaeNZ's site in the straight mediaportal tuning parameters folder but that didn't work. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 602647 | 2007-11-03 19:39:00 | You must be doing something different to me Bantu- I've got an HVR3000 hooked up to a Sky dish running on a new XP install. After endless mucking around I got as far as getting Tv server to show up freeview and D1 as a sat... that's as far as it goes, no scan works and more often than not TV sever would hang. I also tried Mediaportal by itself but couldn't get freeview/D1 to show up as a sat to scan. Take a look at www.team-mediaportal.com Install the SQL Server Express Mediaportal TV Server I altered satellites.xml in a text editor and had this in it only. - <satellites> <satellite name="Freeview" url="" /> </satellites> I had a file called freview.ini [SATTYPE] 1=0020 2=OptusD1 [DVB] 1=12483,h,22500 2=12456,h,22500 3=12707,h,22500 Mediaportal client and its svn can be done later For the freeview logos grab them from mcraenz.googlepages.com mcraenz.googlepages.com has a heap of info on setting it up also From the TV Server you can record several channels at once without going near the client. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 602648 | 2007-11-03 19:41:00 | satellite.xml points to the freeview.ini The TVlogos are just so you get little images in the client makes it easier to identify, not really important. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 602649 | 2007-11-03 19:43:00 | The SQL Server and TV server are the main ones you need the client is optional really. Keep in mind when you set the password when installing the sql server that you will need it later. When the SQL Server first starts you need Name "sa" and then your password |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 602650 | 2007-11-03 20:02:00 | ... just gotta have a strong coffee 1st :D Can you give me any pointers on how to get the D1/sat info into the scan menu and do you remember what your LNB settings were? Yea a lot of coffee helps also:-) Just found another site with good info. wiki.team-mediaportal.com LOF1 10750 or 11300 (2 types of LNB) Switch 0 FEC 3/4 |
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