Channel switching problems

My Home Theater PC Project

Channel switching problems Thu, Apr 24. 2008

After the installation and configuration was finished, it was time to test the new Media Portal installation. Unfortunately I encountered the following error message when I tried to change the channel from Nederland 1, which is my first TV Channel, to another TV Channel:

Media Portal is complaining about Unable to start timeshifting because No free card available. Add first I did not understand the problem, as from a hardware point of view nothing was changed to the configuration. Using the always help full google guided me to a thread in the Media Portal Forum that delivered a solution to the problem.

It seems like the default TV Server installation sets the number of descrambler channels available on the decrypter card to one. Actually the decrypter card can handle more than that, so I had to change this in the TV Server Configuration (launched by clicking the appropriate icon on the desktop):

I first tried to use a 0 for the number of channels, as the dialog suggests that this will disable the limit completely, but putting a zero in did not resolve the problem. So now I changed it to 10, and the channel switching works as before.

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Latest Media Portal SVN-Snapshot (05-09-2008) Rev 19069
As you could have read in my previous post, I downloaded the latest Media Portal SVN Snapshot from the Media Portal site. After installing and configuring (don't forget to change the number of CAM crypto channels, refer to one of my previous blogentries o
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#1 - Morieske 2008-04-25 18:45 - (Reply)

Super dat je dit allemaal zo duidelijk met ons deelt. Jouw ervaringen gaan me zeker helpen met de bouw van mijn eigen PC! ..ik dacht ik zeg 't ff...
Greetz, Morieske

#1.1 - Geert-Jan said:
2008-04-25 18:48 - (Reply)

Graag gedaan, daar doe ik het o.a. voor!


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