Windows Installer

[jusjoken]

See second post for details.....

[ASegredo]

Stalls on "Installing Visual C++ redistributables"

SageTV 7.1.9 trial installs and runs with no problem, unfortunately it will be dead in 19 days.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by ASegredo

Stalls on "Installing Visual C++ redistributables"

SageTV 7.1.9 trial installs and runs with no problem, unfortunately it will be dead in 19 days.

Is your win7 current with updates? We know this works on window 7 so need more info.

k

[ASegredo]

Just installed it (win7 and Sage 7 trial) on Monday. I ran "check for updates" when installing, but it didn't find any. Maybe a permissions problem? I'm finding Win7 quite a bit different (obstinate) compared to XP. I don't even know where to check the version. I installed piriform speccy and it said that I was running Windows 7 64-bit.

EDIT: Just tried to install SageTV Client 441 from the Stuckless repository. Got error "C\Program Files(x86)\SageTV\STVERPrstr.dll failed to register HRESULT-2147024770" I also tried it with "Run as Administrator" same result.
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

[daminc]

I had to maually install updates on win 7 64... theres an update that fixes the windows updater on the computer.... people say it will hang if you dont reboot prior to runing windows... i just ran into both of those problems on Sunday

[Taddeusz]

I have the same problem on Windows 10 but there the necessary patches will not install and are not available through Windows Update.

[willieb]

Originally Posted by ASegredo

EDIT: Just tried to install SageTV Client 441 from the Stuckless repository. Got error "C\Program Files(x86)\SageTV\STVERPrstr.dll failed to register HRESULT-2147024770" I also tried it with "Run as Administrator" same result.
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1

Guys,

I upgraded to Version 9 yesterday with seemingly no problems. I have a server, 2 HD100s, an HD200, 2 HD300s and an Android Miniclient all functioning well. I continue to be amazed by the talent and dedication all of you have. My only issue is that every time I try to install the Windows client on my main "work" machine at home, I get the error ASegredo encountered above. The only difference is I am running a fully-up-to-date version of Windows 10. I am installing over a working version of SageTV 7 so I am a little confused about why my mpeg2 drivers hang (not if I click "Ignore" for the STVERPrsts.dll, it is followed by about 15 more dlls that I know relate to Mpeg 2 playback). Any ideas? I can do it manually if someone points me in the right direction. Much appreciated.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by willieb

Guys,

I upgraded to Version 9 yesterday with seemingly no problems. I have a server, 2 HD100s, an HD200, 2 HD300s and an Android Miniclient all functioning well. I continue to be amazed by the talent and dedication all of you have. My only issue is that every time I try to install the Windows client on my main "work" machine at home, I get the error ASegredo encountered above. The only difference is I am running a fully-up-to-date version of Windows 10. I am installing over a working version of SageTV 7 so I am a little confused about why my mpeg2 drivers hang (not if I click "Ignore" for the STVERPrsts.dll, it is followed by about 15 more dlls that I know relate to Mpeg 2 playback). Any ideas? I can do it manually if someone points me in the right direction. Much appreciated.

This is typically due to a dependency missing on your system. Did you try the kb install mentioned in the installer post? That may not be the right kb any longer but some dependency is missing and we need to track it down. I have an up to date win 10 test vm but it installs fine on it.

k

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

Is your win7 current with updates? We know this works on window 7....

I am going to make a logical leap and say that the installer probably does not work on XP - mainly because it is failing on my XP box and I do not see mention of any Windows versions except 7 and 10 in the threads I have skimmed so far.

Am I on the right track?

If so, would anybody opine whether I should "Upgrade" my XP box to 7 or 10?

I haven't heard anything good about 10, but it seems to be where things are headed.... OTOH, I know and trust 7.

Also, once I get an acceptable OS on the box, am I going to run into trouble because my SageTV is installed on D and not C: ?

The rationale for D: is that D: is for Data and C: is for System.... so I can image/re-image C: without losing data like Wiz.bin or SageTV.Properties.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

If so, would anybody opine whether I should "Upgrade" my XP box to 7 or 10?

I haven't heard anything good about 10, but it seems to be where things are headed.... OTOH, I know and trust 7.

You asked for opinions - my opinion is that you should upgrade and to Win10 as Win7 is getting pretty long in the tooth. Some folks have complained about having forced reboots on Win10 but I don't think that I have seen that happen.

Other than that I don't see a downside to Win10 and a bunch of things on the upside, such as being newer and having some features that Win7 doesn't have.

For a further opinion - all of the cool kids are moving to unRAID Linux.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by wayner

...you should upgrade and to Win10 as Win7 is getting pretty long in the tooth. Some folks have complained about having forced reboots on Win10 but I don't think that I have seen that happen.

Other than that I don't see a downside to Win10 and a bunch of things on the upside, such as being newer and having some features that Win7 doesn't have.

For a further opinion - all of the cool kids are moving to unRAID Linux.

Well, that resolves the 7-vs-10 question for me.

But for a hundred bucks (10 OEM price), maybe I need to re-visit the unRAID solution. Somebody had me going on it a couple weeks ago, but when I tried to create a USB stick to do the deed, I could not make it happen.

A strong appeal to me of the UnRAID solution is the USB stick: it sounds like I can leave the XP install in place and just try UnRAID without losing anything - once I get a USB stick working.... -)

Perhaps more relevant is that it seems like The-Powers-That-Be-SageTV-wise are all using UnRAID....

No problem with Un-RAID and 3-TB drives, right?

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

Also, once I get an acceptable OS on the box, am I going to run into trouble because my SageTV is installed on D and not C: ?

Just when you run the Installer, choose Options before doing the install so you can ensure it is going to the path you want. When I did the V6 > V7 > V9 upgrade on my test image, the V9 Installer did the Default (C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV) path instead of detecting it was on D: drive.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

I am going to make a logical leap and say that the installer probably does not work on XP - mainly because it is failing on my XP box and I do not see mention of any Windows versions except 7 and 10 in the threads I have skimmed so far.

Am I on the right track?

If so, would anybody opine whether I should "Upgrade" my XP box to 7 or 10?

I haven't heard anything good about 10, but it seems to be where things are headed.... OTOH, I know and trust 7.

Also, once I get an acceptable OS on the box, am I going to run into trouble because my SageTV is installed on D and not C: ?

The rationale for D: is that D: is for Data and C: is for System.... so I can image/re-image C: without losing data like Wiz.bin or SageTV.Properties.

It should work on XP. You will first get an error that tells you to update the windows installer...it should give you details.

It then will have at least one failure of registering a dll...EVR i believe. Ignore these and continue.

It should then work.

Note...if you search for WHS posts i believe it acts the same as XP.

k

[SHS]

jusjoken is there plan update to 9.1.7 any time soon it sure be nice to have the fix logos in guide

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by SHS

jusjoken is there plan update to 9.1.7 any time soon it sure be nice to have the fix logos in guide

Are you sure 9.1.7 fixes that ? I believe that someone first needs to create a makefile that will properly build the imageloader and I am not aware if anyone has yet. I tinkered with it myself for a bit but it may take a long time if everyone is waiting on me to figure out C makefiles

Otherwise, the only thing I am waiting on is to give TMiranda time to adjust youtube plugin as I believe it will stop working after the new STV is in place in 9.1.7 and I think there are many users that rely on that.

Otherwise, I can build a 9.1.7 pretty much any time.

k

[wnjj]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

I tinkered with it myself for a bit but it may take a long time if everyone is waiting on me to figure out C makefiles

Did you install Mingw? It looks like once you do, you need only run 'make ImageLoader.dll' in the directory where the makefile is, provided the paths to the libraries are all good. (I.E. you may have to update the jdk path to a newer one.)

In theory the dll builds could get added into the native Windows project but I assume the goal here was to keep the dll/so source and build between Windows and Linux as shared as possible.

[SHS]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

Are you sure 9.1.7 fixes that ? I believe that someone first needs to create a makefile that will properly build the imageloader and I am not aware if anyone has yet. I tinkered with it myself for a bit but it may take a long time if everyone is waiting on me to figure out C makefiles

Otherwise, the only thing I am waiting on is to give TMiranda time to adjust youtube plugin as I believe it will stop working after the new STV is in place in 9.1.7 and I think there are many users that rely on that.

Otherwise, I can build a 9.1.7 pretty much any time.

k

See https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...25&postcount=6

which saying
Edit: The code is actually fixed. The DLL with the changes just needs to be compiled and included in the next Windows release.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

Are you sure 9.1.7 fixes that ? I believe that someone first needs to create a makefile that will properly build the imageloader and I am not aware if anyone has yet. I tinkered with it myself for a bit but it may take a long time if everyone is waiting on me to figure out C makefiles

Otherwise, the only thing I am waiting on is to give TMiranda time to adjust youtube plugin as I believe it will stop working after the new STV is in place in 9.1.7 and I think there are many users that rely on that.

Otherwise, I can build a 9.1.7 pretty much any time.

k

I'm targeting this weekend for the YouTube fixes.

[AlphaCrew]

I noticed the installer created a "MPEGDecoder" folder. I was under the impression that you needed V7 for the use of a MPEGDecoder; is that no longer the case?

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by AlphaCrew

I noticed the installer created a "MPEGDecoder" folder. I was under the impression that you needed V7 for the use of a MPEGDecoder; is that no longer the case?

Are you upgrading over v7? If so, it will create that and migrate the decoder that was part of v7.

k