extended MP 1.1 Disaster Edition includes more features and fixes by me (3 Viewers)

[jestermgee]

Thanks for the reply but I have it working now

The issue was the location of the files. I did a test with the following direct path to my recorded files:
<entry name="recordingpath">\\SERVER\Recordings\Recording</entry>

When I viewed the MediaPortal.log file it said it was trying to read from:

\\SERVER\Recordings\Recording\Recording

I needed to have the ROOT path to my recordings drive, not the absolute path to the directory. So after removing the \Recording directory from the recordingpath, it played the file AND comskip kicked in just as before.

This has now basically got my multi-seat setup operating exactly how it did in single-seat setup

 

[jestermgee]

i've made changes to 4therecord tvplugin.dll so you can use it with disaster MP (only version was changed) in
case anyone is interested

I would be interested in this. I was thinking of trying 4TR for the webserver side of things.

 

[sand]

tvplugin attached.

sand

i've made changes to 4therecord tvplugin.dll so you can use it with disaster MP (only version was changed) in
case anyone is interested

I would be interested in this. I was thinking of trying 4TR for the webserver side of things.

 

[sand]

mybe it's time for new version

 

[disaster123]

my idea was to release a new version when the livetv bug is fixed. And it is still not fixed... :-( livetv is stopping from time to time

 

[buddman]

Hey disaster,

I was finally able to track down the remote control issue. When doing a fresh install of your release, everything works just fine. The problem begins when I go into MediaPortal Config. When I go to the plugins part of the config, this error pops up:

2009-10-01 13:23:34.024658 [ERROR][MPMain]: Exception while loading GUIWindows instances: MediaPortal.GUI.Video.GUIVideoFullscreen
2009-10-01 13:23:34.025658 [ERROR][MPMain]: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
2009-10-01 13:23:34.026658 [ERROR][MPMain]:    at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.PluginManager.LoadWindowPlugin(String strFile)

After this error, when I load MP again, I see the remote control issues and cannot use arrow keys to skip forward or backwards on videos (and a few other functions stop working as well). This error will pop up even if I have no additional plugins installed. After I get the error, I never can restore remote control functions, even if I reenable remote support. Any idea why it is causing some MCE remote functions to fail?

 

[disaster123]

i'm really sorry but i haven't changed anything regarding these functions or things.

 

[buddman]

So I assume this must happen if I were to do a regular SVN patch? I will go ahead and test that then.

 

[disaster123]

yes should be

 

[buddman]

Ok confirmed. Is a compatibility issue with the Mediaportal.Gui.Video.Guivideo.Fullscreen plugin. Looks like it has been reported as well. Still not sure why this is causing some MCE remote functions to stop working in Windows 7. Hopefully they'll have this fixed in the next SVN release.