i have (i think) major driver or codec problems. here's what i did...
1. installed a fresh winxp pro sp2 onto the second hard disk in my pc and booted from it
2. installed mainboard chipset drivers
3. installed directx 9c
4. installed lan drivers
5. installed (onboard) audio drivers
6. installed
only the drivers for skystar2 from its official cd (latest drivers v. 4.3 or something, cannot check now but most recent i know)
7. installed mytheatre 3.21 which is the shareware version i downloaded from the official website (1 hour limitation)
7. disabled windows firewall
8. put in avbroadcaster plugin
9. edited ip adress in plugin to 192.168.123.103 (=xbox) and marked http streaming, and clicked ok to exit. (did not "start broadcast now")
10. scanned astra 1 and got all channels set up.
11. rebooted for the 105th time (or 106th
)
leep:
12. tried to watch a channel on pc in mytheatre, but get only some streaming info in the bottom bar of mytheatre's window (which hangs after some minutes). when clicking on the left side arrow "show screen" (or something like that, cannot check exactly at this time) i get cyberlink audio codec error. my "fresh install" now behaves exactly like (actually worse) than my normal install where i also installed dvbviewer which is official skystar2 software. why?? ... because cpu usage goes up to 80% and system is thus very slow. sometimes mt will run stable, but no view.
13. googled for "codecs" and downloaded and installed ace mega codecs pack and error about cyberlink audio disappeared, even got vision in mytheatre now. but picture will hang after a few minutes.
14. tried these four steps as advised by th3_h0und:
step 1) start mytheatre and set it to any channel.
step 2) run mytheatreepgserv.exe
step 3) start xbmc
step 4) run the mytheatre.py script from xbmc.
but just the same messages on tv/xbox as i have described before in previous posts in this thread:
what is to be concluded so far on a "fresh winxp pro install":
- fresh winxp pro installation doesn't seem to eliminate effects that could be caused by official dvbviewer software from skystar2 cd,
- mytheatre 3.21 will rise cpu usage to 80% many times, causing to use reset button on pc (i'm impatient)
- mytheatre 3.21 needs additional codecs on a fresh install to display a channel
- mytheatre 3.21 will freeze after a few minutes
short: mytheatre is very unstable versus a very stable and very usable and nice dvbviewer (the official software from skystar2 cd). if there only would be a good dvbviewer plugin for xbox mediacentre , my problems would be solved!
but to quote:....
i'm not the only person that uses this script. this script does work and rather well at that. so if you want to get to the next level then get a dvb card.
th3_h0und
so, how do i get mytheatre, and then this script to work?
ps: (ofcourse) i edited the script to point to 192.168.123.100 where my skystar2 is located.