Dual Screen on Vista , MP Vanishes (1 Viewer)

[FreQi]

Asside from having problems with MediaPortal not starting on the secondary monitor, I have an issue where MediaPortal seems to minimize when I click on a different window / program while MediaPortal is playing a video. It could be an xvid, an x264 or even video from the tvserver, but if I am just showing the menu, this does not happen. The screen that MediaPortal was on will show the desktop, and the system tray will show the MP icon, and I can still hear the audio playing. If I click the icon in the system tray and select Restore, MP does not come back, and I have to kill it from taskmanager.

The only time I was able to restore MP while it was playing a video was when on the main 'My TV" menu where the video is shown to the right of the menu options (not full screen). This did not seem to be the case when playing a video from the "My Videos" section and hitting Esc to see the list and the video was in the little box in the lower left. Click outside of MP still caused it to disappear and I could not get it back without killing and restarting MP.

Furthermore, I noticed that if I have a program open on the screen that MP disappeard from, I cannot click on it, as if there was an invisible layer over the screen that MediaPortal is supposed to occupy that is intercepting the clicks.

I thought it might have something to do with Aero as when MediaPortal would be playing, the open windows on the secondary monitor would loose their transparency, and when I would click out of MP on the other applications, the transparency would return and MediaPortal would disappear. I've tried disabling Areo but get no better behaviour. In fact, the video started to jitter while playing when Aero ws disabled, so arguably, it was worse.

I am using FFDShow-Tryouts (ffdshow_beta4a_rev1723_20071224_clsid.exe) if that might be the issue...

One other thing to note, I have my Primary screen set to a 720p projector which is identified as Monitor1 and it is positioned to the RIGHT of Monitor2, a 1280x1024 LCD monitor. Monitor2 is where I have positioned the taskbar and windows sidebar and all icons. In actuality, I want the LCD Monitor to be my Pirmary screen and the projector to be secondary, but MP won't go full screen there unless it's the primary

Would it behave differently under XP? I really like the sidebar gadgets in Vista, but that is really the only reason I want to use this OS, other than the fact that the MP insall videos shows Vista too. So I guess I could reinstall everything on XP if it would work right.


TV-Server Version: tvengine3-03-06-2008--00-37h--Rev17762
MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal-svn--03-06-2008--00-34-Rev17762
MediaPortal Skin: Anything Widescreen (720p)
Windows Version: Vista Ultimate SP1
CPU Type: Intel Q6600
HDD: Hitachi P7K500 500Gb SATA3
Memory: Crucial 2Gb DDR2 1066MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
Motherboard Chipset: Intel P35
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Asus GeForce 8600GT EN8600GT
Video Card Driver: 169.25_forceware_winvista_32bit_english_whql
Sound Card: OnBoard
Sound Card AC3: Optical
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: HDHomeRun (Two Tuners)
1. TV Card Type: ATSC
1. TV Card Driver: hdhomerun_windows_20080305
2. TV Card: HDHomeRun (Two Tuners)
2. TV Card Type: QAM
2. TV Card Driver: hdhomerun_windows_20080305
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Silverstone LC20-B + IR/VFD
Cooling: Scythe SCMNJ-1000 (Ninja Mini CUP HSF), Scythe SY124010L (40mm), Acces 92mm (x2)
Power Supply: Seasonic S12 II SS-380GB 380W
Remote: iMON Pad (came with LC20M)
TV: Panasonic PT-L500U
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI

 

[Bunny2102210]

I had the same problem. First deselect Vista Aero Theme and then set the monitor you with to have the movie play on as the primary monitor in windows. That will fix your problems.

 

[FreQi]

Actually I decided to give up on Vista and I installed XP with SP2 and (90+ updates). Then I used the SVN builds of TVServer and MediaPortal from today and I have no more issues like that!

To get my sidebar fix I hear there are some things out there for XP, so I'll be lookin to that once I figure out how to get guide information from XMLTV for my ATCS.QAM channels.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

To get my sidebar fix I hear there are some things out there for XP

Desktop Sidebar Home Page

Free with some pretty tasty skins.

 

[FreQi]

Desktop Sidebar Home Page

Free with some pretty tasty skins.

That looks like a pretty close equivilent, but does it actually let you run a Vista Sidebar Gadget on XP? I ask because I want to run the Rottentomatoes "Movies" Gadget, the SpeedFan Gadget (temperature readings and fan rotations), SysMon (for 4 core and memory utilization bars) and DUMeter 4.0 (network usage graph) as a Gadget. I haven't found anything that'll support those in XP yet, and I am not sure if I will.

 

[Sacamantecas]

Same problem here.

The extrange thing it's that I was able to use my primary screen with the media portal running on the secondary screen without problems.

But I must have changed something and I can't make it work it right again, each time I use primary screen media portal vanishes on the secondary screen, any idea how to solve this?

Finally got the solution, it seems the latest k-lite codepack version screw that. I have downloaded the CCCP codepack and now it works like charm.

Same problem again, I have restarted the computer and now it happens again, don't know why

 

[TheMerovingian]

Same problem here -> Changed back to XP!