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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 2759"><p>Hi! Time to give my own 2 cents...</p><p>First the reasons why I'm not very happy with MediaPortal (my last review is many months ago, so I might be wrong):</p><p>- Menu items can't be renamed / created to support custom actions / deleted</p><p>- Menu items can't be user defined groups</p><p>- Menu items can't be batches of actions</p><p> :arrow: This makes it impossible to create a personal user interface</p><p>- There's no way a plugin can communicate with Media Portal</p><p> :arrow: This makes it impossible to seamlessly integrate 3rd party apps </p><p>- Player plugins create their very own user interface with own menus, own look and own keyboard requirements</p><p> :arrow: This makes it impossible to set up a user interface that can be used with a reasonable amount of front plate buttons or remote control buttons, without mouse and without keyboard</p><p></p><p>So Media Portal is a nice media player, but a not so nice HTPC. Anybody here who uses MP as a stand alone, below the TV set, no keyboard, no mouse HTPC?</p><p>You don't really need LCD support for a media player: Your PC monitor is turned on anyway...</p><p></p><p>But anyway. If you want me to code a plugin supporting all major LCD softwares, I can do that. </p><p></p><p>First I need some definitions: </p><p>- What is the LCD plugin (not the LCD itself) for? Only the menus and file lists? The menus, file lists and the player plugin's user interface? The menus, file lists, player plugins' user interface and the media data? </p><p>- If media data is to be shown via the plugin, where does this data come from?</p><p>- If media data is not to be shown via the plugin, what should be displayed while a player plays? Nothing? The menu? How does the plugin know about the playing player?</p><p>- When to show what? (Menus when they have focus, menus only if they were used in the last x seconds)? </p><p>- How will this data be sent to the LCD plugin? </p><p>- What if a plugin doesn't send anything? </p><p>- What if an external player doesn't send anything? </p><p>- What if an external player sends something?</p><p></p><p>Setting up an LCD software is a mess. If you want the LCD plugin and the LCD software to be easy to set up, MP and its plugins had to send everything one would want to see on the LCD. If you don't care, the menus and file lists would probably be enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 2759"] Hi! Time to give my own 2 cents... First the reasons why I'm not very happy with MediaPortal (my last review is many months ago, so I might be wrong): - Menu items can't be renamed / created to support custom actions / deleted - Menu items can't be user defined groups - Menu items can't be batches of actions :arrow: This makes it impossible to create a personal user interface - There's no way a plugin can communicate with Media Portal :arrow: This makes it impossible to seamlessly integrate 3rd party apps - Player plugins create their very own user interface with own menus, own look and own keyboard requirements :arrow: This makes it impossible to set up a user interface that can be used with a reasonable amount of front plate buttons or remote control buttons, without mouse and without keyboard So Media Portal is a nice media player, but a not so nice HTPC. Anybody here who uses MP as a stand alone, below the TV set, no keyboard, no mouse HTPC? You don't really need LCD support for a media player: Your PC monitor is turned on anyway... But anyway. If you want me to code a plugin supporting all major LCD softwares, I can do that. First I need some definitions: - What is the LCD plugin (not the LCD itself) for? Only the menus and file lists? The menus, file lists and the player plugin's user interface? The menus, file lists, player plugins' user interface and the media data? - If media data is to be shown via the plugin, where does this data come from? - If media data is not to be shown via the plugin, what should be displayed while a player plays? Nothing? The menu? How does the plugin know about the playing player? - When to show what? (Menus when they have focus, menus only if they were used in the last x seconds)? - How will this data be sent to the LCD plugin? - What if a plugin doesn't send anything? - What if an external player doesn't send anything? - What if an external player sends something? Setting up an LCD software is a mess. If you want the LCD plugin and the LCD software to be easy to set up, MP and its plugins had to send everything one would want to see on the LCD. If you don't care, the menus and file lists would probably be enough. [/QUOTE]
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