Vista 64 SP1 and Media Portal

[Ugg]

Just installing a new media portal dedicated TV server and started with Server 2008 64bit. Its based on Vista 64 SP1 but not approved for MP due to microsoft not issueing hot fixes but does install.

Now I have issues with the TV service reporting it is not started when you run TV server configuration. It works fine when I disable my DVB-C card. There are a few people reporting this on MP forum under Vista 64 SP1 but no solution or confirmation from the developers.

My question is is anyone on here using Vista SP1 64 or even better (Server 2008 SP1)and a DVB-C card under Media Portal's TV server. If so can you indicate the type and driver version. I really want to make this work for many reasons on server 2008 64bit but my show is truly stopped....

would love a lead here I am thinking its a BDA driver issue with Vista SP1 64 and Media Portal.

[Ugg]

There are 17 DLL's missing from server 2008 that are present on Vista 64 pertaining to BDA drivers for our DVB cards. After copying them over, registering them and enabling the desktop experience it works. Actually you need to enable the desktop experience first to get WMP11 and install Media Portal.

Its an old dual processor 3.2 xeon and also running Exchange 2007 ...... all the other stuff a server does but wow what a difference over my old dual core XP 32bit TV server

Channel change for SD over the network is now 2-3 secs with a softcam.

I have a program to run to do all the file extraction and moving registering etc so if someone can tell me how I can upload it along with some other MP related stuff.

also the credit goes to someone on a microsoft forum for figuring this out...

[rborhara]

Ugg - this might be somehting im interested as i have a spare HP lieing round dual core jobby
I'll put Server 2008 trial on it fo now x64 version - once i install the TT BDA drivers and Media Portal will it work like Media Center Edition style system

[Ugg]

My floppy works fine, not 100% on the TT-1501 as its a bit choppy. Also no HD yet but think codec compatibilty. I have not had any spare time and will not for a few weeks to finish this but I am using it fine on 3 clients with 1 Tuner and no HD.

[surtur]

Hello Ugg!
You are talking about missing dll's.
Do you have a list of these dll's or can you tell me how to find out?

Thanks

[Ugg]

h**p://www.msfn.org/board/BDA-Tv-tuner-support-on-Server-2008-t114549.html

from there you will recieve a batch file to run on a Vista SP1 x64 or x86 machine to extract the files microsoft left out of the server release. Then to put them in the correct location and register them.

It works for sure

[surtur]

I will chance it!