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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 1002507" data-attributes="member: 123421">Scripts to move MediaPortal back to secondary monitor.&nbsp;Not sure if my symptoms are typical or not.PC-&gt;AVR-&gt;TV via HDMI, plus VGA monitor as main workbench. (extended)MP 1.4.0 pre-releasemouse user, no handy keyboard&nbsp;When TV is turned off, nothing bad happens. Sound continues thru AVR, MP remains on TV, although invisible, of course.When TV is turned back on, all hell breaks loose.About 3 times, MP tries to stabilize.If video was running when TV went off, it eventually appears on VGA, but sound in repeat loop of about a second.If video was not running, stable MP eventually appears on VGA.&nbsp;When AVR is turned off, the same sort of symptoms occur.&nbsp;I wrote a script for my wife to kill MP and restart it, and it nicely reverts MediaPortal to the TV. Actually 2 scripts, since I couldn't get either AutoHotkey or AutoIt to do the whole job. They are executed when the middle mouse button is pressed. (The scripts also take care of 3RVX [the volume displayer] as well, which has the same problem as MP.)&nbsp;The scripts are attached, in case they're of any use to anybody.&nbsp;I had originally tried to implement a series of keystrokes (alt-enter, win-shift-arrow, alt-enter) but it was slow and unreliable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 1002507, member: 123421"] [B]Scripts to move MediaPortal back to secondary monitor.[/B] Not sure if my symptoms are typical or not. PC->AVR->TV via HDMI, plus VGA monitor as main workbench. (extended) MP 1.4.0 pre-release mouse user, no handy keyboard When TV is turned off, nothing bad happens. Sound continues thru AVR, MP remains on TV, although invisible, of course. When TV is turned back on, all hell breaks loose. About 3 times, MP tries to stabilize. If video was running when TV went off, it eventually appears on VGA, but sound in repeat loop of about a second. If video was not running, stable MP eventually appears on VGA. When AVR is turned off, the same sort of symptoms occur. I wrote a script for my wife to kill MP and restart it, and it nicely reverts MediaPortal to the TV. Actually 2 scripts, since I couldn't get either AutoHotkey or AutoIt to do the whole job. They are executed when the middle mouse button is pressed. (The scripts also take care of 3RVX [the volume displayer] as well, which has the same problem as MP.) The scripts are attached, in case they're of any use to anybody. I had originally tried to implement a series of keystrokes (alt-enter, win-shift-arrow, alt-enter) but it was slow and unreliable. [/QUOTE]

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