Tivo Desktop 2.7 v's Media Centre 2002

[martinnj]

I just upgraded Tivo Desktop Plus to 2.7 and now my Window Media Centre PC is having an issue with running its sevices.

Have had Tivo Desktop installed for a few years with no issues, have no added or changed anything else recently.

I get this error every 10 seconds or so.

"Media Center Receiver Service has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

These are the details of the error.

szAppName : ehrecvr.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2715.3011
szModName : mciscaler.ax szModVer : 7.11.0.35746 offset : 00003e4
d

From doing some research online similar errors seem to be happening to people when a 3rd part SW over writes some of the Codec's for windows.

For now I have shutdown and disabled the services for media centre which stops the error but also stops it recording anything :-)

Has anyone come across this or know how to fix ?

I am at a loss and looking for any suggestions

Thanks
Martin

Windows XP Media Edition 2002 - SP3 - All current MS updates applied
Tivo Desktop 2.7 (323086)

[ASW]

I have the same problem with Media Center 2005.

[fabianro]

I encountered this same problem after I installed TiVo Desktop 2.7. I ended up removing version 2.7 using the TiVo Desktop Cleaner tool (h t t p assets.tivo.com/assets/exe/tivotogo/TivoDesktopCleaner.zip) and then reinstalled version 2.6.1. Not an optimal solution but it worked.

[zoo76]

I just upgraded Tivo Desktop Plus to 2.7 and now my Window Media Centre PC is having an issue with running its sevices.

Have had Tivo Desktop installed for a few years with no issues, have no added or changed anything else recently.

I get this error every 10 seconds or so.

"Media Center Receiver Service has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

These are the details of the error.

szAppName : ehrecvr.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2715.3011
szModName : mciscaler.ax szModVer : 7.11.0.35746 offset : 00003e4
d

From doing some research online similar errors seem to be happening to people when a 3rd part SW over writes some of the Codec's for windows.

For now I have shutdown and disabled the services for media centre which stops the error but also stops it recording anything :-)

Has anyone come across this or know how to fix ?

I am at a loss and looking for any suggestions

Thanks
Martin

Windows XP Media Edition 2002 - SP3 - All current MS updates applied
Tivo Desktop 2.7 (323086)


I have experienced the exact same thing since installing Tivo 2.7. There is quite a bit of Web discussion from 2005-2008 (not coinciding with the Tivo install), but yours is the only post I've seen from 2009 (and Tivo 2.7).

I'm going to take fabianro's advice and downgrade to 2.6.1.

[innocentfreak]

ANy reason 2.61 over 2.62?

[zoo76]

Good catch innocent. I noticed I had 2.6.1 installed before upgrading to 2.7, so that's what I posted. Turned out I had both 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 files on my computer, so when I reinstalled, it was with 2.6.2.

Problem went away, Media Center works fine again, I just don't have whatever Tivo 2.7 offers.

[jcthorne]

I would suggest this is a good time to try pyTivo instead of TivoDesktop....

[innocentfreak]

I know for me I am waiting until I get Windows 7 RTM up and running. I never could get Pytivo to work for me on this machine but it is probably some install error. I finally gave up on it for now.