MediaPortal: The re-installing trick

My answer to many MediaPortal configuration problems is, to re-install! This seems to work for me, time and time again. The only problem in doing this is that you lose your 'settings' information... so if you are willing to re-configure MP and its many plug-ins that you have setup, then take my advice and re-install!

A re-install, certainly did the trick for my new GPU and BBC HD problem. Now receiving HD via satellite works a treat! The problem, as I suspected, was the fact that MP would not 'apply' my configuration change of the location of the 'timeshift buffer'. Previously, I had configured MP to buffer onto a USB stick. Later I realised this might not be a good idea for HD processing... so changed it back to the HDD, but had not realised that it was still buffering to the USB stick, until I looked at the back of the case, where the stick was plugged into, to see that is was still merilly flashing away!

A fresh-from-scratch re-install did the trick and now buffering is on the local HDD, and receiption and decoding of BBC HD is perfect. (I still have to try recording at the same time as watching BBC HD to test the new GPU.)

I had an experiment with creating a RAM disk for the location of the timeshift buffer, but I could only create a 32MB RAMdisk! This has to be bigger for the buffer I suspect. I need to find a free piece of software to create at least a 256MB RAM disk...