Call for tester for 1.4.0 features and fixes (2 Viewers)

[Quantor]

Thats What I use standard. Tried that first. No sound.
Triedn then the AMD one.. still same.

Going to give build V13 a go.

Try the following: End MP --> Open your Volume Control out of the Tray --> Switch to "Mixer" ---> Start MP in windowed mode --> check if a mixer control shows up for MP --> Have a look at this control if it is alligned with your master volume control

 

[Scythe42]

Just fixed that one so during playback it shows the overlay when muted again. Not specific to my builds. Old issue as the general overlay over the UI was removed.

You can only mute/unmute during playback. Not when being in UI, even though muting still applies here for skin sounds effects. Yeah, inconsistency in MP.

 

[Quantor]

Just started to test 014 some minutes ago:

One Digit Channel Switching still works fine on my installation. Will test all other issues/behaviors I had and let you know the outcome later on.

 

[edterbak]

Ok, did a quick test. Dont know if this has been mentioned already.

GUI playback positioning bar is now correct!

During playback switch off/on receiver, movie returns nicely. But a judder is introduced. Maybe you knew/expect it.
Here is log plus screenshots.

Before shutdown After turning on


Overall experience is good!
Will keep it until further notice for testing

 

[Scythe42]

Yep, the judder is a another side effect of turning off HDMI equipment.

Refresh Rate get reset when the resolution goes back to 1024x768 and then 1930x1080 when you turn on your equipment again. Refresh Rate changer is not called again under these circumstances. Changing the resolution also resets the refresh rate. MP isn't really aware of it.

If not using the RR changer than it is just DirectShow itself not really surviving a disconnected audio renderer but in your case keeps playing sound with whatever glitches introduced. There was a Direct Show error for sure that should have terminated playback. Already wrote about it.

All this stuff goes basically back to DirectShow itself. With MediaFoundation you have better control. But the codec maintainers don't really provide a MediaFoundation versions of their filters. So DirectShow is probably stay there for years to come with its limitations.

 

[edterbak]

Tested your situations as described above.
1 - set Refreshrate changer to 24hz per default (same as movie)
2 - Disabled refreshrate changer all together and started MP @ 24hz

1 resulted in the same judder.
2 resulted in a nice flat line and no judders..

Ill report back in a couple of days with my findings.

If you want me to test specific things, please just ask. Happy to do it for you

 

[disaster123]

Anybody else with mini display problems? Stays on when shutting down and imon remote does not work on resume? It works fine with stock 1.3.

 

[azzuro]

Anybody else with mini display problems? Stays on when shutting down and imon remote does not work on resume? It works fine with stock 1.3.

i have mini dispaly, but i can't test on System production.

 

[edterbak]

I use minidisplay - IMON VFD
But I dont use the IR receiver function. I use an MS MCE remote/receiver.

Ill check and edit this post with the results for you.

 

[Lightning303]

We need some more testers (especially for suspend/resume scenarios).

This made me think for a minute... I always had problems with resume on my system. Every once in a while after resume mediaportal is frozen. Background tasks of mp are still working, like movpic import and so on, but i cant use the gui. It shows me the time from when it last went to sleep. To avoid this, i had checked "restart MP on resume (prevent stuttering for some Nvidia users)". So every time on resume mp would just restart and everything worked ok. This is not an issue related directly to your builds, so i never mentioned anything. Yesterday i disabled the restart option to get this problem again to have logs for you.

The scenario in this instance is:
At 18:00 my htpc wakes up automaticly to fetch epg infos via webgrab++, when webgrab++.exe is not active anymore PowerShedular++ sends my htpc back to sleep (hibernate). That happend at 18:39.
Now i started the htpc again and gui is frozen and shows 18:39.

Hope you can figure something out =)