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I also agree that the focus for now should be on getting the info out of MP rather that trying to develop a new LCD driver. When we have that, writing a plugin for almost any of the existing LCD programs is something that should not be to hard to do based on the exemples I've seen so far. This could also be some kind of generic interface that can have other use than LCD.
Another advantage of using an external program is that you can keep it running and displaying info even if MP is not running. (Yes I know it's bad but I'm sometimes using my HTPC without MP running...). Also a plugin will use CPU too so at the end I'm not sure that there will be a big advantage here. Maybe someone can make the whole LCD Smarties a "plugin" to MP, so clicking on the configure plugin in MP setup brings the LCD Smartie configuration dialog...

I'm currently using LCD Smarties with a serial Matrix Orbital 4*40 and this program is great. I really would like to see a plugin for MP just like the current LCD smarties plugin for Winamp. As soon as Winamp is launched and plays something, it gets displayed on the LCD.

<blockquote data-quote="jf2020" data-source="post: 11974" data-attributes="member: 10892">I also agree that the focus for now should be on getting the info out of MP rather that trying to develop a new LCD driver. When we have that, writing a plugin for almost any of the existing LCD programs is something that should not be to hard to do based on the exemples I've seen so far. This could also be some kind of generic interface that can have other use than LCD. Another advantage of using an external program is that you can keep it running and displaying info even if MP is not running. (Yes I know it's bad but I'm sometimes using my HTPC without MP running...). Also a plugin will use CPU too so at the end I'm not sure that there will be a big advantage here. Maybe someone can make the whole LCD Smarties a &quot;plugin&quot; to MP, so clicking on the configure plugin in MP setup brings the LCD Smartie configuration dialog...I'm currently using LCD Smarties with a serial Matrix Orbital 4*40 and this program is great. I really would like to see a plugin for MP just like the current LCD smarties plugin for Winamp. As soon as Winamp is launched and plays something, it gets displayed on the LCD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jf2020, post: 11974, member: 10892"] I also agree that the focus for now should be on getting the info out of MP rather that trying to develop a new LCD driver. When we have that, writing a plugin for almost any of the existing LCD programs is something that should not be to hard to do based on the exemples I've seen so far. This could also be some kind of generic interface that can have other use than LCD. Another advantage of using an external program is that you can keep it running and displaying info even if MP is not running. (Yes I know it's bad but I'm sometimes using my HTPC without MP running...). Also a plugin will use CPU too so at the end I'm not sure that there will be a big advantage here. Maybe someone can make the whole LCD Smarties a "plugin" to MP, so clicking on the configure plugin in MP setup brings the LCD Smartie configuration dialog... I'm currently using LCD Smarties with a serial Matrix Orbital 4*40 and this program is great. I really would like to see a plugin for MP just like the current LCD smarties plugin for Winamp. As soon as Winamp is launched and plays something, it gets displayed on the LCD. [/QUOTE]