Resize of UI etc

[roosterx]

I've probably missed it, but where do i resize the skin so i can see the whole skin on my 32" CRT - like it is now i only seem to be able to move skin around up/down/left/right, and not shrink it so i see the whole of it.

One other thing is, when i have a small 'preview' window showing live tv-stream, (analog hauppauge pv250 card) is there a way to stretch picture out so the small black border that is around the picture goes away - so everyone knows what i mean -> a live television pal signal is (if i remeber all this right) 768x576 with overscan, but the picture itself with actually something in it does often not fill the whole 768x576 - and how much of a border i get depends on channel/program - this is the one i wanna get rid of.

One bug - i believe it to be, is that if i have some kind of live preview going on, and i try to switch skin - it takes forever (like 5 minutes or maybe 10?!)

And lastly (something i've ,mentioned before, but noone had heard of ) is that my Hauppauge 34 button remote double clicks at times, and i am 100% shure i havent actually doubleclicked - this is still happening to my setup - anyone got an idea?(for the record this *only* happens with Mediaportal, not SageTV and WinTV2000.)

My specs - Athlon 64 3200+ s939(CoolAndQuiet=on), 1Gb ram 128bit acc.,MSI k8n neo 2 mobo, Seagate PATA 160Gb 7200rpm, Ati Radeon 9550 @ 400/200, Hauppauge PVR 250, Logitech (old one, if not first)Cordless Keyboard(ps2), Logitech cordless 2.4GHz V200 Mouse(USB), WinXp as of today latest updates, Mediaportal also latest with latest SVN.

[FlipGer]

Hi.

1) How is your CRT connected to your PC? Every CRT has overscan. That is normal, and cannot be solved by MP. Shrinking the skin is not possible. The skinners have to make a skin which takes this fact into account. You can only play with the overscan settings of your graphics card.

2) You can switch between different zoom modes with "S" / BLUE-Button.

3) Thats strange. Doubleclicks are solved a long time ago. Did yoo check "filter double clicks" in Configure->Remotes->Hauppauge? You can also tweak with the reaction settings there.

HTH, Flip.

[bigj]

I made a patch that added GUI scaling (in addition to offsets).
I think it even (almost) made it into the sources - dman ?? took a copy IIRC.

It's possible - it's really no different to running in a window (or indeed any other resolution).

Ultimately, I think there's these things that should be configurable for total flexibility:

a) TV destination frame adjustment (overscan adjustment) - already exists.
b) GUI destination frame adjustment (overscan adjustment) - wot my patch added.
c) TV *source* frame adjustment.

c can be trivially implemented by adjusting the video frame u,vs from [0,0]->[1,1] to some inner rect (e.g. 10% trim => [0.05,0.05]->[0.95,0.95]). I assume this is possible with VMR9.

[bigj]

Ok, I took a look at SVN, and my patch made it but with some changes - fair enough - so here's how it currently works; my change to support scaling via the settings screen isn't there afaict, but you can still edit the calib files by hand:

Edit calibration file: e.g. "ScreenCalibration1024x576.fs.xml"
And change entries for offsetx/y and entries for zoom:

entry name="offsetx">38</entry>
entry name="offsety">23</entry>
entry name="zoomhorizontal">9277</entry>
entry name="zoomvertical">9063</entry>


Here zoom is in units of 10000=>1.0 so, increase to zoom in, decrease to zoom out. Here I've got offsets of +38,+23 pixels and reduction in size of 92.77% horizontal and 90.63% vertical.
This fits my Philips CRT perfectly and makes those newer skins work

Of course, this is from SVN and is all WIP (I guess) and therefore subject to change!

[roosterx]

-> Bigj: I'll do it right away - thank you *very* much

[edit] I did what you said, it works *perfect*, now Razor skin works too(now i only wait for nonafo skin!) only difference were the values - but that would be different from tv to tv so thats not so strange, and my values were:

name="offsetx">36</entry>
name="offsety">21</entry>
name="zoomhorizontal">9300</entry>
name="zoomvertical">9259</entry>
[edit-end]

i know that thing works flawless in SageTv (in which i'm going away from - mostly because of lack of .iso support)

-> FlipGer:
1. I'm using a special vga to RGB cable i made the other day (page in Swedish i'm afraid - http://www.nada.kth.se/%7Efeldt/vgascart/ for the record i know similar design is out there in english - and no, it is not my design) for excellent video out (compared to crappy s-video(y/c)).

2. I'll try that
3. I tried Mediaportal many months ago(2 and 12 maybe?!) - at that time with different HW(cpu/motherboard/memory) and of course different build of MP - same result as now - and i've tried different settings in the 'filter doubleclicks etc' with no luck - but for the record when i tried it 2 months ago MP told i were not using latest ir - driver and i upgraded to latest - this time around i changed all drivers from www.shspvr.com 'driver-bundle' (that i've always used latest of), to the one linked in MP setup - the whole new bundle from Hauppauge - and this time MP still tells me i haven't got the latest ir-driver.

[FlipGer]

Hi,

1) I am using this cable too! It really delivers an awesome picture quality.

3) Hmm. We did have a download for a driver on the MP homepage. But its gone (do not know why and where). This was the only driver, which did not rise this message in configure. I might have this driver at home. So if you want to, I can sent it this evening. Just PM me.

Flip.

[mPod]

Originally Posted by FlipGer

3) Hmm. We did have a download for a driver on the MP homepage. But its gone (do not know why and where). This was the only driver, which did not rise this message in configure. I might have this driver at home. So if you want to, I can sent it this evening. Just PM me.

Just use latest driver package from here: http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?p=25253

[FlipGer]

Hi,

thanks for the link mPod!

Flip.

[mPod]

No problem. But it's the same as here, btw: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/file...ppaugeDrivers/

(That link always contains the latest irremote stuff. That and the fact that it's problematic to host copyrighted drivers/files were the reasons why I removed the irremote installer.)

[zion22]

Originally Posted by roosterx

1. I'm using a special vga to RGB cable i made the other day (page in Swedish i'm afraid - http://www.nada.kth.se/%7Efeldt/vgascart/ for the record i know similar design is out there in english - and no, it is not my design) for excellent video out (compared to crappy s-video(y/c)).

Damn you ppl... you just made me run out to the storage to locate a Scart and a VGA Dsub. :lol: