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post #1051 of 1429
2/9/10 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by bighick View Post

I am having an issue with media portal. I used it for about 1.5years then I got windows 7 and have been using media center. I was trying to go back to media portal but am having huge issues with tv tuners. When setting up tvserver it sees my tuners but it will NOT find any channels. Is there a setting I need to change somwhere ? i am using KWORLD ATSC TV Stick UB435-Q.

I am switching from Sage to Mediaportal and when trying to configure my system I had the same problem, many searches on the mediaportal forums basically I found a couple of others having the same issue with W7. I rolled back to Vista and no problems with the channel scans. Seems there is some issues with the channel scan routines and W7.
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post #1052 of 1429
2/10/10 at 6:27pm
I guess i will just stick with media center for the time being. Thanks for teh input mark.
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post #1053 of 1429
2/13/10 at 7:47am
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Originally Posted by cassnlogan View Post

Forgive me if this has been asked but a quick search didn't turn up anything. When watching videos from my HD, using MP internal player, I'm not getting any kind of play/pause type menu that you normally see at the bottom of the screen. Is there supposed to be one or is the only way to pause, start, stop, etc. thru the keyboard shortcuts? Also I have no exit button to click on. So far the only way I have been able to exit is to use the esc key several times. Can anyone shed any light on this? Am I missing something? Thanks.

When you say your HD I'm assuming Hard Drive... so they could be a variety of formats... but that may not be of issue. I find the only sure way to trigger the lower menu bar is to be in FULL screen mode. I don't get it in a window. Moving the mouse to the bottom 20% will popup the menu... I use my Hauppauge 1600 and its remote to control while I'm in fullscreen mode and it works GREAT! Oh, and the small button on the left edge of the remote mimics the key taking you back UP the menu from where you'd come in.
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post #1054 of 1429
2/13/10 at 7:51am
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Originally Posted by Mark Guebert View Post

I am switching from Sage to Mediaportal and when trying to configure my system I had the same problem, many searches on the mediaportal forums basically I found a couple of others having the same issue with W7. I rolled back to Vista and no problems with the channel scans. Seems there is some issues with the channel scan routines and W7.

Please... MediaPortal's current release version is 1.0.2 and it is not Win7 compatible!
Their next version 1.1.0 will fold W7-compatability into the other improvements... I'm surprised to see how many are getting decent results now but have never questioned if they're using the release 1.0.2 or the Beta 1.1 and the nightly SVN patches.
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post #1055 of 1429
2/15/10 at 6:23am
I never said anywhere it was W7 compatible. I had it on the machine I was testing on so I tried it. That's all. I simply shared my experiences.
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post #1056 of 1429
2/15/10 at 8:08am
I figured out how to get the "Watch a blu ray" option? Any way that can monitor a different folder, as I have a separate folder with all my blu-ray mkv's ? How do you set that up?
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post #1057 of 1429
2/15/10 at 9:45am
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Originally Posted by Mark Guebert View Post

I never said anywhere it was W7 compatible. I had it on the machine I was testing on so I tried it. That's all. I simply shared my experiences.

Thank you for mentioning that... I think many have done just that because if you read the MP roadmap you can identify several items addressing Win7. Here's how they describe 1.0.2 and Win7.
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post #1058 of 1429
2/16/10 at 3:32pm
Does anyone know how to make the green MCE button launch Media Portal instead of 7MC?
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post #1059 of 1429
2/16/10 at 3:37pm
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Extract the attached files in your MediaPortal program files folder and run the install bat file. That will set up the mptray process to run in the background (and on start-up) to listen for the green button press on your remote and launch MediaPortal.

To stop Media Center from running when you press the green button (Start button) on your remote, you have to kill the ehtray process and stop it from coming back when you start your computer. Here's how to do that:
- Use Task Manager to kill any existing instance of the ehtray.exe process
- If you're using Windows Vista/7, then follow this tutorial to take ownership of file C:\\Windows\\ehome\\ehtray.exe and rename it to ehtray.exe.bak http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html

 

mptray-mod-patched.zip 62.888671875k . file
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post #1060 of 1429
2/19/10 at 2:19pm
hello all,

using the setup in this guide, i've got a few tv shows (nightly shows like letterman, chelsea lately, etc) that i had to run the Manual Episode Importer on. their titles show up in red text now in MP. not only that, but i've found that after watching one of the shows in the list, it disappears from MP and i have to re-import.

is this normal behavior? is there some way i can fix this?

thanks in advance.
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post #1061 of 1429
2/19/10 at 11:54pm
Mediaportal 1.1.0 RC1 released!
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/co...eleased-78043/
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post #1062 of 1429
2/20/10 at 7:25pm
Woot rc1 is picking up my atsc channels in windows 7!!
will post back if it works good, i hope i can get away from windows media center...pain in the butt on a server for recording and not wanting to buy sage or beyond..

-edit seems to work good, now just gota get epg figured out. then decide if i want to stay in media center or switch all the htpcs over to portal.
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post #1063 of 1429
2/20/10 at 8:42pm
Well I forgot how much epg sucks. Looks like I am going to have to sack up and buy sagetv or beyondtv just for recording :/
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post #1064 of 1429
2/21/10 at 1:03pm
For $20/year a subscription to SchedulesDirect is an excellent EPG - been using it ever since Zap-2-it stopped supporting FREE EPG to the public...
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post #1065 of 1429
2/21/10 at 1:17pm
I will second that, I used schedules direct and the epg plugin for it, no problems.

It was more work, but I also have setup 4therecord

http://www.4therecord.eu/

as a scheduling for recordings. Mapping the channels was a bit of a pain, but I like it alot.
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post #1066 of 1429
2/21/10 at 3:59pm
I have Media Portal and am Using STEAMmp with the moving pictures add in.. I have a HT intro i would like to play but when I set it up in the Moving Pictures ADVANCE options i get nothing when i play a movie from steammp... is there another setting im not seeing !? Any help would be great im trying to get everything done
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post #1067 of 1429
2/21/10 at 6:51pm
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Originally Posted by Whyask View Post

I have Media Portal and am Using STEAMmp with the moving pictures add in.. I have a HT intro i would like to play but when I set it up in the Moving Pictures ADVANCE options i get nothing when i play a movie from steammp... is there another setting im not seeing !? Any help would be great im trying to get everything done

Possibly stupid question as I've never used that feature - but you are attempting to play the movies via Moving Pictures and not the video section of the StreamedMP skin correct? Also, what file extension is the intro file?
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post #1068 of 1429
2/21/10 at 7:36pm
The File exstension is and are mpg and flv. It works no problem in VLC media player or windows classic or when i load the movie in StreampedMP with out a movie after it. But if i try and get it to be an intro movie it craps out
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post #1069 of 1429
2/23/10 at 7:22pm
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Originally Posted by daMaster View Post


To stop Media Center from running when you press the green button (Start button) on your remote, you have to kill the ehtray process and stop it from coming back when you start your computer. Here's how to do that:
- Use Task Manager to kill any existing instance of the ehtray.exe process
- If you're using Windows Vista/7, then follow this tutorial to take ownership of file C:\\Windows\\ehome\\ehtray.exe and rename it to ehtray.exe.bak http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html

Just turn off media center completely from programs and features in control panel
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post #1070 of 1429
2/24/10 at 3:46am
updated to rc1 and everything works well. i think its actually a bit faster. maybe its just me...
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post #1071 of 1429
2/24/10 at 6:24am
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Originally Posted by wooddog View Post

Mediaportal 1.1.0 RC1 released!
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/co...eleased-78043/

Nice! I have to find time to update my HTPC to Win7 and MP RC1. I'll update the guide as well once I get around to doing the upgrades.
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post #1072 of 1429
2/24/10 at 1:56pm
Doesy anyone have the issue where if "start Media Portal on Windows Start" is selected MP choxes at the "intializing DirectX" step? If I start it myself this doesnt occur...

BTW thanks everyone for setting up this guide I am a convert.. I will never use 7mC again.. this blows it out of the water!
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post #1073 of 1429
2/24/10 at 1:58pm
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Originally Posted by HaLo6 View Post

Doesy anyone have the issue where if "start Media Portal on Windows Start" is selected MP choxes at the "intializing DirectX" step? If I start it myself this doesnt occur...

BTW thanks everyone for setting up this guide I am a convert.. I will never use 7mC again.. this blows it out of the water!

Easy solution to your DirectX error: remove Catalyst Control Center from start-up processes. This is most often the culprit as it causes a race condition.
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post #1074 of 1429
2/24/10 at 2:37pm
awesome will do! Thanks!
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post #1075 of 1429
2/27/10 at 8:39am
I have been using MP for over a year and got it all working prefect. I just got in to blu-ray rips to mkv. I can use MPC-HC and it plays them in most of the time but in MP it skipps the audio or it dose the pop thing ? set up is 32bit win7, his 5770, 4 gigs of ram. Is there a step that I need to do? and decode softwear is ffdshow and haali.
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post #1076 of 1429
3/1/10 at 9:42am
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Originally Posted by brickuser View Post

I have been using MP for over a year and got it all working prefect. I just got in to blu-ray rips to mkv. I can use MPC-HC and it plays them in most of the time but in MP it skipps the audio or it dose the pop thing ? set up is 32bit win7, his 5770, 4 gigs of ram. Is there a step that I need to do? and decode softwear is ffdshow and haali.

ffdshow is a pretty bad decoder for H.264. Personally I use the DivX H.264 decoder which comes with DivX Lite.
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post #1077 of 1429
3/2/10 at 10:59am
is that for video or audio ? I dident think it could decode DD-HD or DTS HD
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post #1078 of 1429
3/2/10 at 2:34pm
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Originally Posted by brickuser View Post

is that for video or audio ? I dident think it could decode DD-HD or DTS HD

OUCH... you didn't mention what you'd placed inside your .mkv files. Besides, if you want to have HD audio, then you would know them as Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio, and already know of FLAC from reading this other thread... Hope you get answers over there!
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post #1079 of 1429
3/3/10 at 11:44am
Wooooooow everybody should totally check out the latest RC build of StreamedMP.

I haven't upgraded in a while, but this is boat loads better than what it previously was. Moving Pictures and TV series have seen some pretty significant upgrades (categories and filters!!!), and the new music skin is great.

Can't wait for the official release.
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post #1080 of 1429
3/3/10 at 6:05pm
I use Make MKV to rip the blu rays. i can do DST-HD fine with my set up just not DD-HD and media portal wont do it at all.
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