Aaron Stebner's WebLog

Didn't see this in your list of issues, but I am experiencing random TV recordings that I didn't schedule since I installed Rollup 2. I know of at least one other person having the same issue. Once a week or so a program records on some random channel at some random time. Very weird.

I upgraded to both an HD (ATSC) tuner (AverMedia A180) as well as updating to rollup 2. I can record HD dvr-ms files perfectly, but am unable to burn them as a Video DVD. I can still burn (most) Standard Def (NTSC) shows, however. I have the sonic solutions encoder on my system, but rollup 2 was supposed to "improve" the functionality of burning DVDs as well as allow for HD recording (via down-converting the video) but still keeping decent quality.

I have tried several third-party editing tools for dvr-ms files (i.e.--to convert them to other file formats) but none have worked out for me so far.

A more detailed description (if this one doesn't make much sense) is posted here: http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=41&MessageID=148960

I'm at an impasse here... any thoughts?

Another problem with update rollout 2, I have a Sony VAIO VGC-RA840G one of the applications that come with the VAIO is VAIO Media that allows you to stream TV, Video's, etc to other PC's on your network. It worked fine before Rollout 2, since the update every time I try to start the media server it get a "One or more of the servers could not be started" error. I have downloaded and installed all the updates I can find for the Media Server in the hopes it would fix the problem, I have even uninstalled and reinstalled VAIO Media and still no luck, any ideas would be appreciated.

Alright, so i have an ATI AIW 9700, im using xp media center 2005. i am having the same problem as a lot of other people with "no tuner hardware found". i foudn this website and tried all three ways to fix the problem. none of them worked so i searched harder, found out that haugpagge says to reinstall .net 1.1 sp 1 and then install rollup 2 and that that shoudl fix the problem. still no go, i dont know what else to do, i have the decoder installed and i know the tuner works as ati's mmc works fine. please help anyone

My shows do not record since I've updated. They claim to have some temporary error or power failure when I go look at them in the history. Help me.

I took it upon myself to try and fix my Media Center problem once and for all.  A friend and I have tried everything we could think of, but to no avail.  

I could not find anything useful in the Event Viewer, and the stop errors (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, and Page fault in non-paged area) led me to believe there was a driver or hardware problem.

I put the Hauppauge tuner into another computer with the same drivers and I was able to get it working without any issues.  I exchanged the videocard for one that I knew operated well with Windows MCE and the same crashes happened.  I exchanged the momory module with another make/brand/bus speed twice but the same crashes continued.  I removed all other cards, including the D-Link wireless and the crashes continued.  I re-formatted the HDD and re-installed Windows MCE and was careful to only install the newest drivers for each hardware component, but the crashes continued.  I then suspected that perhaps it was a software issue and tried SageTV and BeyondTV but had the same crashes in both programs on the afflicted computer, but they worked just fine with the same tuner on a second computer.  Both of these programs crashed as they were detecting the signal from the tuner.  It is interesting, however, that when my friend and I tired to get MSN messenger 7.5 to input information from the tuner, we did get a black screen but with coloured lines through it, as if the TV signal were coming from a very poor quality antenna.

I think I may have to replace my motherboard, as it is the only thing left that I can think of.  It is a Gigabyte 8VM533M-RZ.  I updated all of the drivers and even tried newer versions of the BIOS, but nothing worked.

Am I on the right track?  Thanks again!  

Thank you for your help, regardless!  I purchased a new motherboard today and it worked perfectly.  I have since heard that Hauppauge 150 cards do not play well with VIA chipsets, and this seems to have been the case with my system.

Thanks!

I have 2 MCE's connected in a network. One is still on RU1, the second rig on RU2.

The problem:  I can play all the shows recorded on my RU1 rig on the RU2 rig, but when I try to play a show recorded on the RU2 rig on my RU 1 rig, no sound. Something to do with AC3? All other files, like avi etc.. play on either.

I just purchased an HP m7350n to replace my aging Dell and it came preinstalled with Update Rollup 2.  I had previously used Media Center and loved the nonlinear zoom mode included with UR2, however my new PC does not seem to have the fourth zoom option!  I've tried various MPEG-2 encoders as well as reinstalling Update Rollup 2.  I've downloaded every hotfix available on Windows Update and all the updates from HP but still nothing.  It's not available during live TV play, recorded TV playback or video playback.  Any assistance would be appreciated.

I'm having a problem with MCE crashing after 5 or 10 mins running, it can be during playback, live TV or viewing the guide.  It worked fine before the RU2 installation.  I have the latest ATI drivers for the Radeon 9600 and can't seem to find the source of the problem.  I'm using a Haupage 250 tv tuner.

Any help appreciated....

I have now rectified the problem :)

I've tried everything I can think of (video card, TV tuner drivers, even a full system restore) but still can't get this option enabled.  Is there a registry setting which enables zoom option 4?

I ran into an interesting problem with scheduled recordings on the recent changeover to Daylight Savings Time.  

My Media Center is setup with 4 series recordings. The Date and Time properties under Control Panel was set to "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes".

When DST time came, the time change to the system clock occurred correctly.

The issue occurred with 3 of the 4 recordings. One of the recordings was set to automatically record "24" from the guide whenever it was a new show. This one worked correctly. The other three recordings where channel and time combinations set to record on weekdays. For example,

Channel 5  from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Channel 3  from 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Channel 5  from 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

After the DST change, the series recordings became:

Channel 5  from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Channel 3  from 1:00  pm - 1:30 pm
Channel 5  from 1:30  pm - 2:00 pm

To fix, I had to reset the times on the 3 incorrect series recordings and then all was OK. Thought you would want to know about this.

Marty

My windows mce laptop with intel grpahics drivers is connected via s-video to an hdtv capable tv.  I can operate fine outputting to the hdtv EXCEPT when i go to media center.  

I hear the media center welcome sound and then the tv goes black and no selections can be made.

HELP!  I have seen this exact same problem on other forums with no successfull fix.

Many thanks

Thanks a ton for your help; that registry setting was exactly what was stopping it.

I figured it was something like that holding it back and let's just say HP tech support was . . . unhelpful . . . (aka didn't have a clue what I was talking about).

Hi,

I've got my television signal back normally.  My cable company set up a 'Video on Demand' option for my set top box and I lost my normal signal on my Media Center through the box.  After 2 or 3 weeks (I kept checking) the signal finally came back.  So sometimes I guess it's not fair to blame Media Center for problems that crop up.  THIS time it was something in the signal from my Set Top Box that screwed up Media Center.  What ever was wrong was corrected by my cable company.  Of course, maybe it was evil spirits or voodoo, these days what do I know?

Just thought it might be of use to anyone else out there who may experience a similar problem.

Hmm...just went through a ton of the fixes on here...great stuff.

I still have one minor but really annoying issue. Once I install the rollup 2 update, the actual selection sound in Media Center is very fuzzy/scratchy (I.E. you can scroll up and down in my music and you will get the little beep beep beep as you scroll crystal clear, but the noise you get when you actually click to select an artist for example sounds terrible). If you uninstall Rollup 2 it goes away. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this/heard of this?

Thanks for the help. The ID was set to 3.1

Hi, after installing this update on a HP Pavilion DV8235NR laptop and launching media center, I get a ehExtHost.exe - Common Language Runtime error. Everything still works but the annoying error message comes up. Is there a fix for this? Thanks!

Hi,

I have been having some problem in exiting mce after installing rollup 2 for instance if I try to exit mce during the playing of a video it will crash saying the normal process id (0xxx) popup.

Also lets say if I hit the windows logo icon in the top left to return to the main interface of mce it will also crash.

This happens whether I have a dvd running in mce or if I am running something out of My Videos.

I have repeatedly tried reinstalling mce and update rollup and also .Net framework 1.1.I think I have pinpointed the problem and I think it has to do with ehRecvr.exe.

If I run the command
"%windir%\ehome\medctrro.exe /o /p RunOnce"


I get a popup saying
"This application (ehRecvr.exe) has failed to start because faultrep.DLL was not found.Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

However unfortunately reinstalling isnt helping any ideas??

Howdy Aaron...

Before I query & just whine, let me express my respect for you & your blogging; it's unusual to come across a technical authority who's as accessible & dedicated to the user base as you. Apologies in advance if anything I b*tch about happens to be your code... ;-) I appreciate that it happens to the best of us, despite my frustration with the difficulty level in resolving this.

I've had five weeks of bench time from work to get a MCE 2005 setup working through Rollup 2 and beyond (hopefully to the July Rollup), starting with bare metal. I was hoping to spend more time at the pool, but that wasn't in the cards. After 4 attempts, I haven't yet found a path to a working >= Rollup 2 system -- neither by pre-rollup preparation or post-rollup repair strategies (component registration, RepairMCE 1 & 2, KB patches, etc.)

I've now nLite'd & Acronis imaged my fully functional setup, which is patched through Rollup 1. Since this gives me more freedom to experiment, with any luck I'm hoping to arrive at a solid enumeration of conditions under which MCE Rollup 2 and the July Rollup *will* install cleanly & leave tuners functional, complete with "musts" & "must nots." I've tried other such lists to no avail, so I'm starting my own. Perhaps this could be a blog topic if I arrive at a reliable list before a solid, stable Rollup gets released. I'm subscribing to this thread, and will post all my updates here unless you want to make this its own topic & redirect comments there.

Any additions or corrections here would be greatly appreciated. My current list is apparently incomplete, but here it is... thanks much:

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Checklist for installing MCE2005 Rollup 2:
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KB904706 *Not* installed (until afterwards);
KB912812 *Not* installed (until afterwards);
KB886904 *Not* installed (until afterwards);

MCE Rollup 1 installed;
KB891592 installed;
KB899337 installed;
.NET Framework Version 1.1 Installed
 (2nd thing prior to rollup)
.NET Framework 1.1 SP1 Installed  
 (Immediately prior to rollup)
%windir%\system32\mscoree.dll version >= 1.1.4322.2032
 (but perhaps < 2.0.xxxx during rollup install?)

Additional questions:
Am trying individual component installs next; is there
any one or more of them after which Media Center would
*not* be expected to function after a reboot? (i.e.
do any of them take out functionality but depend on
a subsequent one in the manifest to restore it?)

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Checklist for installing MCE July 2006 Rollup:
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(Unknown so far)


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My system specs:
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ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core processor
2 Gb DDR2 dual-channel Patriot 667Mhz RAM
nVidia 7600 256Mb PCI Express 16x graphics
 nVidia ForceWare 91.33 Beta Drivers
 -Dual-core patched w/AMD & MS hotfixes,
  boot.ini & registry patches; no more
  bluescreen or lockup issues whatsoever.
Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE Kit analog tuner--
 Signal from Motorola cable box via S-Video
 Driver Release 2.0.43.24103 (04/13/06)
AverHDTV A180 ATSC Digital Tuner (OTA)
nVidia Pure Video Platinum 1.02-223 as preferred codec
 (MCE Compatible & Windows Media compatible per checkup util)
System drive = Seagate SATA 3Gb/s, 300Gb, 7200RPM
 (Temp dir & pagefile on another of the above)
Media storage: 1TB SATA nVidia RAID in RAID 5 formation (3 x 500gb)

Hi, Aaron;
I have asked around and dont know where else to go!
I have a Club 3d Zap1000MCE card (with bundled Sonic software as decoder etc.) running on an installation of MCE2005 rollup 2 - having previously run under Vista for a few months with Excellent performance on TV etc.

Unfortunately, MCE (2005) is not showing the TV picture at full resolution (Am not sure of the DVD but absolutely CERTAIN about the TV).    Input is from SKY+ STB via s-video port.  I can exit MCE and run "DScaler" and set it to "PAL-I" and I get full res (720 X 576?) but under MCE / Live TV I am getting less than that - visibly less.  Looks like either it is trying to display at 480 vertical or maybe is not getting the full interlaced pair of pictures (I can see "Combing" effects on high-contrast text which I would expect to see on a single field freeze-frame).

Is there a setting I can change to ensure full resolution?  As the card is working correctly (Evidenced by DScaler) and I KNOW that MCE is capable of running at full res (Have seen it do so elsewhere) I can only assume that this is either an MCE interface driver issue or somesuch?

I really hope you can help me out with this one - after a few unfortunate driver issues with Vista, I was kind of hoping that running MCE2005 would finally keep the rest of the family happy with it's track-record of stability etc.

In-case it affects anything, the machine is a P4-HT 3.4GHz with 2Gb RAM.

Kind regards, (and great blog, BTW)

- Richard.