Recent content by enchant

Ok, now this really pisses me off, because I tried that yesterday and when I fired up MP and selected videos, it hung. I just tried it now and that appears to be working. (Networks. I hate networks.) Thanks.

I have an existing HTPC that I've been using for years. I'm replacing it with a new machine and I'm trying to get it configured. All of my video files are stored on my personal computer and I have the drive mapped on the HTPC. When I want to add a folder in the video config, it lists the F...

Well, that was good advice. I downloaded and installed MP2. A couple bumps, but I was able to get it going. And I knew pretty much immediately that it wasn't for me. It looks like it was designed for a totally different kind of person. So I got MP1 installed and I'm working through the...

Thanks, that sounds like a sensible plan. I honestly wouldn't know where to start troubleshooting the existing PC. It does next to nothing other than running MP. My video files are stored primarily on my personal PC and the HTPC accesses them through wired network. It's possible that there...

I've had Media Portal 1 installed on a dedicated desktop computer for at least 10 years now. Sometimes it's a little sluggish, but it's always done the job for me. I've decided to toss the old desktop computer and get a new mini PC. It'll have 8GB and Win10. I'll have to reinstall Media...

Thanks so much guys. I'm good now. I did install graphics drivers from the English version of that page, but apparently they were the wrong ones.

It appears I've stumped the band. fwiw, I uninstalled v1.18, then uninstalled, downloaded 1.20 and installed that. No change.

Here's the watchdog file.

I recently purchased a computer with Win 10 pre-installed. Downloaded Mediaportal and it came up on the first shot. I've been using it for a few weeks, but the thing is that I absolutely hate Windows 10, so I installed Win7 on another drive. Installed all of the latest Windows updates and...

That's exactly right. I don't need an indication to tell me what genre a show is. I know completely what a show is about and what type it is before I ever start downloading it and don't need an icon of a spaceship to tell me that Altered Carbon is science fiction. More often than not, it's...

Ah, the old "You fixed it, you own it" quandry. Indeed. Very complex. I'm big in to minimalism, so I've tried to disable all of the large graphics files that I can. I've managed to increase the font size and the list width to 1000. As I mentioned before, I really REALLY like that when you...

I don't know why I didn't notice this before, but you're the author of the Amped skin, right? My other project is to tweak that to my needs. I love the layout, especially the lack of a huge opaque status bar at the bottom when you pause or skip ahead. Two things that I'd very much like...

I don't completely understand how the word "genre" fits into this. I'm not looking for anything complicated. When i see the list, I just want to know if a text string is the name of a directory (by a folder icon next to it), or an actual video (with some other folder, or even nothing next to...

Oh. My. Freakin'. God. I am such a pinhead. Somehow I totally missed Centarea HID.txt, which contains everything I need to know about how to get this all working. On top of that, I had the whole key mapping methodology bass ackwards. I was looking at the list of actions on the left thinking...

I keep the files on a separate machine. So on that machine, it's: \TV\drama\show series name\show episode S02E03.mkv \TV\comedy\show series name\show episode S04E08.mkv