1.3 final and online videos - UAC pop-up (11 Viewers)

[Callumgw]

Hi All,
Since installing 1.3 I've had this annoying pop-up asking for admin password. When I click 'more info' it suggests it's because of online videos. I reckon its because of the settings are now inside the MP client and my clients auto-start to a non-admin account. I have applied a couple of updates to online videos since the problem firsts tarted (right after upgrade to 1.3) hoping they'd fix it, but no luck.

I don't want to give these accounts admin rights, because the kids use these machines by themselves.

Can anyone suggest how to fix this issues?

Cheers
C

 

[offbyone]

OnlineVideos is set to automatically update sites on load, you can change this behaviour in the Configuration.
When new DLLs are found on the server they need to be put into UAC protected folders, that's why there is a prompt when UAC is enabled.

 

[rsbrux]

OnlineVideos is set to automatically update sites on load, you can change this behaviour in the Configuration.

I have followed this advice. Presumably this means that I now have to update manually. How is that done?

 

[doskabouter]

What exactly is the issue here?
If you set autoupdateonstart to true, it will (disclaimer: not tested myself) check if there are newer siteutils available and install them when you start mediaportal.

 

[rsbrux]

I use MP in a non-privileged account, with a 10' GUI and a remote. If I set auto update on start, I get a UAC prompt, which I cannot handle. That's why I disabled it, as recommended by offbyone. I would still like to update the sites occasionally. For maintenance tasks which can't be performed in the (unprivileged) 10' GUI. I usually log into an admin account via RDP, through which I cannot run MP, so I need an alternative way to update the OnlineVideo sites.

 

[doskabouter]

that is weird. it should set the correct accessrights (so non-admin account has write permissions) on that folder when installing onlinevideos
code: mp-onlinevideos2/MPEI/OnlineVideos.xmp2 at e75fc924c18ca0b5f2b0a586b009266ecc5cd249 · MediaPortal/mp-onlinevideos2

 

[rsbrux]

I thought that Windows prevented bypassing UAC in %ProgramFiles% except by disabling it completely. However, the problem appears to be fixed in OLV 2.7.0. OTOH, maybe there just aren't any updates pending. I'll keep an eye on it and report back.

 

[doskabouter]

latest update was jan 28 (youtube) just over a week after the release
EDIT: pretty easy to check though: just try to create a file in there as a non-admin user