- June 25, 2015
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I am not trying to persuade anyone to stop using MP2. I was just explaining why I don't use it and why I am using MP1 and the reason why I refactored the product for my use.For me it’s vice versa, I found >20 fundamental issues in 1 hour of MP1 usage. Hardcoded design elements, that are just empty without function, if the plugins are not installed (MP2 knows which plugins installed and all elements for non existent plugins are invisible). The player controls show buttons, even the function is not given. MP2 shows only buttons that also can be used. …
Some skins have color elements that are painful (orange with blue etc., in my company there is even a guideline not allowing such combinations) and totally overloaded with information. It seemed a designer tried to squeeze infos into every free space. Ares was the only skin, that looked for me ok, but had other issues. Anyway, I don’t want to start a bashing against MP1 here. It’s just to explain my experience. Im very happy with MP2. It works stable on 3 clients.
There is a loop scrolling setting, which allows loop scrolling in almost all screens. But I think you’re right, in the main EPG it’s not possible. I think it’s because you can otherwise not reach some elements placed above the EPG. But this can be also easily changed. Change LoopScrolling=“False” to “True” in the xaml file of the EPG screen
MP2 offers user management and if activated all settings are shared. I can start watching my movie in the kitchen and if I log in in the bed room with my user I can resume it there.
Agree, but in the end it depends also very much on the video length. For episodes and short movies 90% might be better, for longer movies probably 95%. In the end it can be configured for MP1 and MP2, so I’m fine
I can understand why people would be attracted to MP2 (as a long-term user of WMC myself before Microsoft dropped support for it).