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[dale77]

Hi there,

saw some chat about jriver on AVSForum so gave it a whirl. My current mediacentre is Mediaportal with blu-ray support from PDVD8.

Thoughts:

- found my media nicely, no fuss
- seems to be a lot of functionality in there, music plays nicely using WASAPI mode
- TV recorded by mediaportal plays nicely
- My Hauppage Nova DVB-T dual tuner card is detected
- Getting the TV guide works, importing the xmltv file I generate for mediaportal

Not so good:

- Scan TV channels for New Zealand h264 encoded DVB-T only comes up with 1 channel
- choosing to watch this one channel, gives an error - timeout waiting for writer (bad signal?)
- playing now for music shows some very random pics on the background. Can this be configured to only actually show pics of the artist? :-)

Any suggestions for those issues?

Thanks

Dale

[wig]

Not so good:

- playing now for music shows some very random pics on the background. Can this be configured to only actually show pics of the artist? :-)

Welcome to the forum, Dale! The random pics are coming from Google Images. I recommend you go to the Media Slideshow Settings (Tools > Options> Theater View > Theme > Online Media Slideshow for those looking) and untick Google Images for the time being.

The Media Slideshow is a fairly new feature, I started a thread to suggest some improvements to it here:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65610.msg439904


Hopefully someone else can help you with your TV card problems.

[JimH]

- Scan TV channels for New Zealand h264 encoded DVB-T only comes up with 1 channel
- choosing to watch this one channel, gives an error - timeout waiting for writer (bad signal?)
- playing now for music shows some very random pics on the background. Can this be configured to only actually show pics of the artist? :-)

Please try the build from the top of the MC16 board.  It fixes a scanning issue.  But use the longer scan option.  If that doesn't work, it's probably the frequency table we use, which can be fixed.

[dale77]

Removing google images from the theatre view theme did the trick.

I modified the dvb xml file to include the frequencies mediaportal uses, but no joy. I did not try the longer scan though. Perhaps that might work. Still no playback of the one channel found.

[dale77]

No joy with TV playback. Dual tuners are visible to MC16b149, but:

Only one channel is found using "longer" scan across three valid frequencies.

No playback is possible on that single channel.

[dale77]

I like the audio features, jriver playback mixed to 5.1 seems less bass heavy than Mediaportal.

DVB-T TV playback doesn't work unfortunately.

[pauly139]

Hi

I'm having the same problems with scanning Australian TV. I believe Yaobing is looking into the issue.

Paul.