Call for tester for 1.4.0 features and fixes (1 Viewer)

[HomeY]

BTW: sorry for the different font sizes in this post...i copied the results editor from word and there seems to be some glitches.

You can fix that when you select ALL text in the (quick reply) box, and hit the 'Remove Formatting button

on top left. But it removes ALL formatting!

 

[Scythe42]

It happen on start (surely loading plugins related) but not each time.

The TVSeries Guys probably know exactly what is happening in DBOption.LogOptions() on their side and can take care of the exception / handle it properly or even reproduce it. As said don't know how critical this function is or what it does. I need some more information for making a guess here.

Please contact them and reference them to the GIT branch for testing, in case it is related - does not necessarily have to. I would more except that it fails always.

And as already said, making threaded plugin loading an experimental option or even postponing it is always an option. When merging I will take it out of this branch and afterwards add another branch with support for it.

When bumping compatibility for plugins because of some other collected changes this can then be merged it at any time. I expect bumping with 1.4.0 personally because of other changes anyway. The branch might not work without my rework, but my rework for sure does work without it.

 

[Sebastiii]

@Scythe42 : reverting :
SHA-1: 8f5c07c7020f9b74894f3e6edf72daa2da9b4ea0
* Fixed imbalanced mouse cursor state created by the splash screen and during focus changes.

Seems to fix mouse cursor issue

 

[Scythe42]

What are your WIndows Region settings? The fix might not cover all settings. Please provide the screen shots for number formats.

View attachment 126209

Please click on "Additional Settings" and then "Numbers" tab. That's what I need to see.

@Scythe42 : reverting :
SHA-1: 8f5c07c7020f9b74894f3e6edf72daa2da9b4ea0
* Fixed imbalanced mouse cursor state created by the splash screen and during focus changes.

That makes other glitches visible, but OK, then this part needs a bit more work.

@ Scythe42 i tested everything again with your modified mediaportal.exe

Thanks. Looks a bit better now. Will check what might cause that stuff. Will come back later to you for the next round of testing.

 

[AtTimesPerplexed]

Please click on "Additional Settings" and then "Numbes" tab. That's what I need to see.

 

[boldie]

I found another strange behavour

In my Environment ISO-Videos are played with TMT5. The remote control is done by IRSS. I use the Standard Video plugin.
With the final 1.3 everything is fine.
TMT5 is started, gets the focus and the controll is done by IRSS TMT settings.
IF I close TMT, MEPO gets again the focus.

With build 18 the focus remain at MEPO if TMT is started.
Indepent from the Setting "...minimize to tray."
I need to press alt-tab so that TMT gets the focus and I can controll it with IRSS TMT Settings.

I can reproduce it by changing the files of final or build 18.

 

[Scythe42]

I was already planing on buying a new video card
I' am only sad that MP 1.4.0 can't be run on my little eeePc (net-book, so no upgrade possible), but I understand your position.

Does not mean that the current code in master does not get changed again. But right now the code does not allow such GPUs anymore. Was not my call...

n controll it with IRSS TMT Settings.

Will check. Probably a bug in calling external applications that shows now. Did not change stuff here at all. But could also be related to the fact that I did not include the external application plugin. Will test. Anyway, that will be an easy one.

 

[FreakyJ]

Does not mean that the current code in master does not get changed again. But right now the code does not allow such GPUs anymore. Was not my call...

I think that must get in the docs so that everyone knows whats wrong if there are bugreports...
Reason:

the GPU does not support Hardware Vertex Processing

@Dadeo I don't know much about our wiki, maybe you know how to document this, I think that is an important one
In general: GPUs which doesn't support Hardware Vertex processing aren't supported anymore with MP 1.4
Maybe Scythe knows the change from tourettes (I think it was tourettes) which causes this.
Or another quote from Scythe summarizing it:

Starting with MP 1.4.0, MP does not support software devices or software vertex handling anymore.

 

[Scythe42]

@ Scythe42 i tested everything again with your modified mediaportal.exe
If you need logs or something else just let me know! BTW great work! I installed the latest build on my productive system and Live-TV, Video Playback and other things seems to be better than ever But i have noticed a bit more CPU usage...maybe around 10%.

No recent change in regards to how MP sleeps. Might be changes in master. Please keep an eye on it. But first let's sort out the final tweaks for the multi display support.

Attached is the next one. Again thanks for helping out.

Edit: newer one attached a few posts below

 

[Dadeo]

@Dadeo I don't know much about our wiki, maybe you know how to document this, I think that is an important one In general: GPUs which doesn't support Hardware Vertex processing aren't supported anymore with MP 1.4 Maybe Scythe knows the change from tourettes (I think it was tourettes) which causes this.

If we can find the issue that changed this then it should be documented. However, I suspect that will likely be a bit obscure. It is probably more useful to indicate the min. requirements for GPU on our HP - hardware requirements - and could be worth a note in the 1.4.0 release news?