media center doesn't start (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

If you cannot start media center, you may have had my problem. The separate configure utility messes things up. Took me a few hours of installing/uninstalling/deleting to finally realize NOT to use the configure utility and to do all of your configuring in the application itself.

 

[MrMario64]

this only goes for current 20072004 release!!
after this it should be fine.

 

[Anonymous]

Different Problem

I also fouind that my MediaPortal was not loading each time I started it (version 0.0.0.10), but would have a 23MB process running in Memory. I re-installed Direct X (9.0c) which fixed my problem (although it would crash on movies until I installed the latest version of Ffdshow

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

MP does also not show up, when the working directory is not the one from MP. This can happen by wrong links or when starting MP with a remote software. For usage with remote software it can help to create a batch file, containing this code:

cd\
cd "Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal"
start MediaPortal.exe
exit

with your directories of course.

HTH, Flip.

 

[MissSophie]

could you please elaborate? i ahve a problem starting mp remotely

 

[MrMario64]

if you mean by remotely "remote desktop" from m$ then it won't work.
Remote desktop does not support DX applications.

Using UltraVNC is the way to go to remotely control the htpc.
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

 

[MissSophie]

no im using an external app to function as a remote controll (simple sendkey)
the remote works but i cannot start mp from the app , if i use a batchfile like the one above mp does start. the problem is my app does not allow for .bat files (just .exe to start an app) -- my app tries to verify the launch of mp (and using the .bat it cannot) and my app fails.

 

[MissSophie]

and now a question, can i make sure the working directory is media portal without using a .bat workaround?

 

[tomtom21000]

Can you start a shortcut (.lnk) ?

tomtom21000

 

[MissSophie]

nope .exe only