I ran the included version from the installer folder Apologies for being dense but I've little experience in this, how would I make the changes manually [Edit] I have also tried downloading and executing the latest version of fix mssqllite with the same outcome. The patch exits with no errors but ehome still crashes on start.
this https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...ible-alternatives.61061/page-484#post-1548260 gives the instructions but if you find that all those are there I guess it is something else. hang on though. this IS a different error to what I've seen before. Is this a 64bit machine?
Ok - hanging on! Yes - it is 64bit In the meantime I will check the entries - I did note that the first time I ran fix mssqllite it copied files - since then it appears to run with no action.
it only copies the files if they don't exist. I am investigating the error message you got. I've never seen that before. That is why I asked if it is a 64 bit or 32 bit O/S you are installing on
Running as Admin gets ehome to start but it starts as a new install and then fails as it cannot start the service - i also tried to start the service manually and got access denied.
Doesn't sound good. I wonder if your Windows upgrade didn't work properly. I've had some weird things going on with one I did the other day.
Did you uninstall and re-install WMC after the Windows upgrade? Typically that is needed, the previous Windows upgrade being the exception.
yup, there is a 3 second delay on the audio though in WMC but not in WMP no thumbnails in WMC and file explorer
You may have found a chink in the 8.8.4 armour. As you know, Kevin put a copy of msvidctl, cpfilters and encdec in the ehome folder and re-engineered WMC to use those instead of the ones in system32. However, the early windows systems involved not only dlls in the system32 folder but also registry entries to point to them. What I don't know is whether the registry entries for encdec are reinstated when 8.8.4 is installed. I also don't know whether reinstating the original functionality of encdec works on 8.8.4 because of the changes that Kevin made. I guess you could try it and see what happens. I'm not sure about the three second delay. Is that only when playing dvr-ms?
@Bigal I've never seen this issue on any of my machines, but I don't have any .dvr-ms file, so I can't really test. Have you tried V13 and @technodevotee's DLL fixer to see it helps? Nope, the 8.8.4 installer doesn't restore any of the COM registry entries for which breaking changes have been introduced by MSFT.
thanks guys. I've been having serious stability problems, WMC keeps hanging when i cancel upcoming conflicting recordings, sometimes it comes back, most of the time i have to use task manager and end task, which then can cause the, WMC has recovered from a problem, please check the guide... "Dracula voice from, Hotel Transylvanian " blah blah blah. That messes up the guide DB mcepg3-0 and then makes another dir mcepg3-1 and so on each time. I tried technodevotee's preventative prog, but WMC had already thrown the issue. it just happened again, so i either do, WMC Multi Tool option 7, a clean install of windows, i went the upgrade path, a reset, which i tried in the past with no joy, or v13.... edit.. WMC just unfroze and then froze again when removing a scheduled recording....
Well, this used to happen to me frequently but since I have been setting the registry entry (several years now) I have only ever had it happen once and that was due to a corrupt EPG download. It only ever needs to be run once per install and before this problem occurs. It isn't needed with V13.
I'll rephrase my post, I've always had problems with WMC and it had made several new mcepg3-1,2,3..... It may have been bad timing but when i tried your prog, WMC threw a fit again. I could try it again now, as I only last night reinstalled WMC and it hasn't thrown a fit yet. I've always wondered why WMC does it and how/what your prog actually does.... Hope you dont take issue with what i'v just said
Well, as I say in the read me, it can't usually fix a broken installation because the registry entry will have been set by then and setting it to point to the corrupt database will just make it crash again. It needs to be run on a virgin installation before it crashes but it isn't needed with V13 because I set the registry on installation. Basically, when version 8x is installed there is no registry entry to tell WMC which database to use until there's a problem and a new one is made. I discovered that on very rare occasions WMC had a problem reading the database (maybe got confused, the file was being scanned by antivirus, updated by an EPG download or read by RecordingBroker) and so it created a new one. I found that on those very rare occasions, setting the registry entry to point to the old database and restarted the PC it was fine again. However, if the database is actually corrupt, it doesn't help. I wondered if setting the registry on a fresh installation would help prevent it being confused and it does seem to have helped me. It may be pure coincidence and nothing to do with that at all of course.
i got a virgin WMC install atm how often should it be run ill do it when there aren't any recordings ... i've stopped the current recordings but they wont stop and there are upcoming recordings... guess what happens if i cancel them lol I will then try your WMC Multi Tool option 7 and report back