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kramer672

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#36141 20-Jun-2009 09:10

Hi there,

I have installed mediaportal recently, but I cannot for the life of me get any freeview to display. I've set it up, tuned it in and everything (almost) appears to be working. It plays videos from my library fine, however when I enter the TV page it displays nothing. Sound plays however. I know I'm picking up the video, because I can record something, then go find the .ts file and play it back with VLC sound and video no worries. Just not in mediportal. I've played around with different codecs no end. What could be wrong?

My system is an Avermedia Hybrid card, running on a 3.4 Ghz dual pentium under Vista with 4 gig ram by the way. VLC has no performance issues when playing back the .ts file either.

Thanks,

James

mentalinc

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#226957 20-Jun-2009 09:26

Have you updated powerdvd?

if so this is the cause of the problem. Cyberlink have prevented the codec being used by other applications.

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kramer672

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

#226964 20-Jun-2009 09:59

Yeah, well, I first installed powerdvd 9... then I read about what you just said and uninstalled it, then installed powerdvd 7, but still no go. Unless in the process of uninstalling it still left some codecs behind. If that's the case, I'm not sure how to get rid of them.

James

meesham

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#226976 20-Jun-2009 11:44

Have you gone to the settings screen within MediaPortal and made sure that the PowerDVD codec is selected as the default for h264 playback?

You might also want to run MediaPortal in debug mode so that it does full logging. Turn on debug mode, start up MP, try to play a video and then shut it down. It'll then create a zip file on your desktop with all the logs.

Klathman

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#226984 20-Jun-2009 12:20

I believe that the updates of older versions of PowerDVD also have the same "feature"

To try and eliminate that totally try another codec entirely. Depending on your hardware some free software decoders will be fine for just testing at least.

If it is just the powerdvd codec then get an old version of 7 and don't apply any updates.

kramer672

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

#227503 22-Jun-2009 20:16

Ok, so I installed powerdvd 7. Now my settings are as follows:

MPEG2 video decoder: Cyberlink video/sp decoder (pdvd7)
h.264 decoder: Cyberlink h.264/avc decoder (pdvd7)

I now get some video, but its all compressed into a band about a centimetre high (well on my screen anyway), and I can't watch it. Any ideas?