Call for tester for 1.4.0 features and fixes (3 Viewers)

[powermarcel10]

@Scythe42:

2 notes:

1. The new option to move Mediapoertal to the taskbar when Mediaportal is not focussed: When I'm getting focus on Mediaportal back again, it's only half screen.. Is this a known bug? Otherwise I will upload some logs today.

2. I'm missing the 'hide taskbar' function. You said it was only because of Windows XP support, but also under Windows 7 this was a nice feature. I'm using a second screen with touch, and when I touch that screen, the taskbar is visible and that shouldn't. (even when Mediaportal is set to keep always focus)

Cheers,
Marcel

 

[Scythe42]

It seems to be work. If I power on TV first, wait of the message "no video signal" on TV and power on the PC.

That would be a change in the default direct sound device probably or something related. Maybe in this case HDMI does not even become the default audio renderer and/or gets deactivated even though it is connected or or or or or - yes there are even more combos.

@FreakyJ: can you confirm the volume handler is still running properly on your system?
- After several resume suspend cycles.
- Booting Windows and starting MP before turning on receiver/display (that's the killer case probably for a lot of stuff)

I want to make sure we are not on the path of a completly different issue most users won't notice as they bitstream. Meaning the Volume Handler does not come into play that is the source of the problem here.

I deactivated "Realtek high devinition audio" at the windows device manager.
"AMD HDMI audio" is then the only activated audio device.
Tried some times, seems to be work in all cases.
But my MCE remote does not work anymore!
Don't understand this, but it works again after activating "Realtek .... audio".

That is exactly what I meant. If you do not have multiple audio renders, Windows cannot switch them and you are on the safe side

And why do you have RealTek High Definition Audio Devce and AMD HDMI Audio? Sounds to be like you installed the RealTek drivers over the ATI drivers. Ouch!

Even if that is very often recommended in forums that is an absolute no go! It makes things in regards to HDMI audio even worse on a general system level.

Or do you have some onboard GPU/Sound as well that supports HDMI audio? In that case, why having it enable in the BIOS in the first place? If nothing connected to it and not use, save your self some trouble and turn if off.

Why your remote does not work when you disabled an audio device I cannot tell you.

or do NOT select the Default Direct Sound device?

Selecting an audio renderer is on the codecs page of Configuration.exe. Do Not use "Default Direct Sound Device".

 

[Scythe42]

1. The new option to move Mediapoertal to the taskbar when Mediaportal is not focussed: When I'm getting focus on Mediaportal back again, it's only half screen.. Is this a known bug? Otherwise I will upload some logs today.

Fullscreen or windowed mode? Cannot reproduce. Using this all the time since the beginning. Need some logs here and a detailed description when this happens. Also do you use multiple displays and if so at what resolutions do they run?

2. I'm missing the 'hide taskbar' function. You said it was only because of Windows XP support, but also under Windows 7 this was a nice feature. I'm using a second screen with touch, and when I touch that screen, the taskbar is visible and that shouldn't. (even when Mediaportal is set to keep always focus)

Do you mean on the screen MP is running on or a second screen with a Windows desktop meaning taking MP out of focus when you touch it? Need a more detailed explanation of what you are doing.

 

[megahorst]

Can anyone else confirm this with PowerScheduler? Will try to reproduce. Just a short question: is this the stock PowerScheduler or the PowerScheduler++ plugin?

It is the PS without ++

Please try the following: - disable not used audio output devices - do not use default Direct sound device, instead select your sound output explicit.

I will do some tests with the audio renderers and standby hopefully this evening.
I'm using two audio outputs:

• One analog output to my hifi equipment for music and dvbc radio
• One hdmi output for TV and Movies

I'm turning of my TV when only music or radio is playing. As MePo does not have the possibility to define different renders for TV and DVB-C I'm using the "AudiorendererChanger" plugin to change the renderer when switching from TV to radio.

If I understood your explanations regarding "default renderer" right it could be a solution for me to define the analog output as default. this device should always be there after standby.
But I think that I'm loosing the skin sounds then. It seems to me that these sounds are always played with the default renderer.

 

[struppi21]

And why do you have RealTek High Definition Audio Devce and AMD HDMI Audio? Sounds to be like you installed the RealTek drivers over the ATI drivers. Ouch!

Yes, that seems to be my fault.​

I have only the onboard audio device.​

Will try to uninstall one of both.​

Which device should I keep?​

 

[powermarcel10]

I will try to be a bit more specific. I have tried the first point on my test/game pc. There are 3 monitors connected to that one:

1 with a FullHD resolution and 2 screens with a resolution of 1280X1024. Mediaportal is running on the FullHD monitor. When there isn't focus anymore. (by example when I point the mouse to one of the other monitors and I click) Mediaportal is moving to the taskbar, that's fine. But, when I try to get focus again, using Alt+tab by example, Mediaportal is getting back in half screen.. I will try it on my main system also to see how it's working on that one!

2. Yep I mean the screen where MP is running at. There I see the taskbar when I touch the second screen. So Mediaportal is getting unfocussed I think..

Do you need logs? I'm at work now, but I can upload logs in a couple of hours.

 

[Scythe42]

And why do you have RealTek High Definition Audio Devce and AMD HDMI Audio? Sounds to be like you installed the RealTek drivers over the ATI drivers. Ouch!

Yes, that seems to be my fault.​

I have only the onboard audio device.​

Will try to uninstall one of both.​

Which device should I keep?​

Regarding having no audio:

Could you try, when you have no audio to start some movie playback and try to increase the volume? Not that we are starting with "0" as a volume level by accident (I had some screw-ups with my local GIT, not that I am using a wrong version of my files, when I did not experiments). Try to press "m" during playback for mute/unmute as well.

Please let me know what you see (also if you don't even see the volume OSD). Just need to gather as much information as possible here.

If this makes a change try to reproduce it a couple of times.

Also check the mixer inside windows (click on the speaker icon in the task bar on the right if you did not remove it from there).

Regarind having more than one HDMI audio device:

If you only have one device, there should only be one audio renderer for it. Having multiple instances for the same audio chip could have strange effects like audio output going to nowhere.

Keep the ones ATI's Catalyst Control Center installed. They work nice. Recently solved some very nasty audio problems for an audiophile friend using ATI as well and bitperfect playback.

Uninstall all RealTek stuff, also their "bloatware" mixer or sound program thing. Keep it clean. Latest GPU drivers from ATI should be nice and the only thing you need.

Don't want to go into the details of this topic here. Yes, it worked for some people using a generic chip driver. But in this case something else is wrong on their system that might be related to the mainboard or its BIOS. The RealTek ones are not reference drivers or something. I recommend staying as far away as possible from such a solution unless you have to other choice.

 

[Scythe42]

1 with a FullHD resolution and 2 screens with a resolution of 1280X1024. Mediaportal is running on the FullHD monitor. When there isn't focus anymore. (by example when I point the mouse to one of the other monitors and I click) Mediaportal is moving to the taskbar, that's fine. But, when I try to get focus again, using Alt+tab by example, Mediaportal is getting back in half screen.. I will try it on my main system also to see how it's working on that one!

Is the taskbar one of the screens with 1280x1024? In that case Windows will tell MP that it was moved to a screen with a lower resolution and force MP to resize itself. That could be a special scenario I am currently not supporting. I did not think of that combination, so I might have missed it.

Is MP exactly 1280x1024 big or is it another resolution?

MP runs in fullscreen on the FullHD display, right?

Can you move the taskbar to the screen MP is running on, if this changes the behavior? Just for trying if my assumption is correct.

And yes, I need logs here to see the events Windows sent to MP in regards to screensize, when it does not work.

2. Yep I mean the screen where MP is running at. There I see the taskbar when I touch the second screen. So Mediaportal is getting unfocussed I think..

That is very interesting and should not happen. What kind of touch screen is it? Any special drivers or an App? Win7 or Win8? This must be controllable on the Windows side or we have an additional bug in MP that needs to be fixed.

Can you give me some more info about the setup like this:
1 = 1280x1024, no taskbar
2 = 1920x1080, taskbar and MP running on it in fullscreen mode
3 = 1280x1024, no taskbar.

And you touch the MP screen and the taskbar on the MP screen comes up? But MP is still controllable right?

The only thing I can how this is happening if there is a transparent form over MP reacting to the touch controls and then sending it back as a mouse click even or something. That would mean MP is actually loosing focus or get overlayed by something.

Can you also try what happens if you use "always on top"?

 

[powermarcel10]

On my testsystem, I have 3 monitors. This middle one is the main monitor with a full HD resolution, and Mediaportal is running on that monitor. When Mediaportal loose focus, it goes to the taskbar. When I try to get focus again to Mediaportal, still running on the main monitor, Mediaportal is windowed/half screen.

It is an imon touchscreen (samsung I think). It's a 7" inbuild screen on my Moneual 932 case <-------------------------------

Do I need to test any specific things for you? Logs? Tell me what you need!

 

[Scythe42]

So we have four display? Meaning the 7" is another one? I am total confused right now.

Anyway, the screen MP runs on is not the touch screen. That explains at least what you are seeing in regards to the taskbar.

Then the focus change is perfectly normal as you activate another application on another display when you touch it! And when changing the focus to an application MP gets overlayed by the taskbar.

Have you tried always on top in MP?

This is the correct way of preventing a form to be overlayed by other stuff.

So that is one problem.

Regarding the resolution change I need the following information:
- Need logs
- Is the taskbar on the same display as MP?
- Is the taskbar on any other screen or extended across screens?
- What is the exact resolution of MP coming back from the tray to small?
- Does this resolution matches any of your screens?
- Does it restore to the correct screen?