[News] MediaPortal 1.3.0 Alpha Released (2 Viewers)

[Arturas1976]

I think that Youtube is all of the best way to make tutorials, and MP to make ease for people adjust MP settings in shortest way with good explanation is right thing. It is a lot better (for newbies or people that want out of the box things) then read wiki
Some more detailed about codecs usage (latest VC1/VC1i splitting etc.), renderers, post processing possibilities, right video drivers+resolutions+tv Hz settings, Moving pictures and/or video DB usage (it is a bit complex, but super feature).

Respect for good job done (started ?!)[DOUBLEPOST=1342694213][/DOUBLEPOST]Also - skin makers could make their presentations with modifications features and how-to's.

 

[Fafnir]

Please be aware that this is Alpha Software - so expect it to have some problems and quirks!

Quirks?! No trace of any problem: Home user with one single seat and one client with access to single seat.
MPExtended and aMPdroid working perfect!

This feels like having the final product before release. Huge thank to all you busy and antlike working guys!

Greets Fafnir

 

[SiLenTYL]

Please be aware that this is Alpha Software - so expect it to have some problems and quirks!

Quirks?! No trace of any problem: Home user with one single seat and one client with access to single seat.
MPExtended and aMPdroid working perfect!

This feels like having the final product before release. Huge thank to all you busy and antlike working guys!

Greets Fafnir

Yeh, the only quirks ive seens are from plugins/skins that have yet to be updated but thats natural - the core seems solid!

 

[cruse]

Been testing 1.3a since release and pretty happy with it. Can only second those who feel it is faster and more stable.

One idea with regards to something like a plugin compatibility list. For most plugins and skins the information is right there in MPEI (once you run the current version). Maybe there's some way to export that info and generate a webpage displaying MPEI's compatibility info on a daily basis.

 

[Dadeo]

You can also search all 1.3.0 compatible extensions in the Plugins/Skins Downloads repository. Just click Advanced Search, then click the box for v1.3.0 and search. I am not sure all extensions have updated their listings yet, but many have.

 

[legnod]

Hi Guys,

i updated my MP installation to 1.3.0 alpha two days ago and since then i got some problems with Live-TV/recordings (other video sources not tested yet).
Every 5-7 seconds the counter of the "drawn frames" inside the graph view starts from 0 again and the dropped frame counter raises to 3 and while this is happening, the picture is stuttering.
I tried LAV video codecs v0.50.5 and 0.51.2 and its the same. Maybe someone else got the same problem?
I will gather some logfiles when im at home today.

EDIT: it seems that only Live-TV and recordings got this problem... .mkv, .avi files and DVD playback is fine.
I attached some logs so maybe some dev can take a look at it?

 

[legnod]

Problem solved...My TV needs 150ms for processing the pictures and because of this set a delay for audio inside LAV audio configuration. As soon as i disabled this setting, everything worked fine! when the delay was set for the lav the MP Audio Renderer also did not work properly...this problem is solved too by disabling the LAV internal audio delay. since the mpar is working i can use the delay setting of it and it seems to work fine.

 

[PCSentianl]

Can I make three feature requests, if they havent already been asked for?
1) Please can we have a dynamic Audio Delay function for the LAV filters so that it can be changed on the fly whilst watching output (as per ffdShow slider)
2)Windows Media Centre has a neat feature where if you fastforward to double time then the audio is till played and they use a fancy algorithm for making it not sound like Mickey Mouse. An y chance of MP doing this?
Thanks for a fantastic product.
3) In TV is there a way a button can be assigned so that the viewed channel swaps between current and presious watched (good for boring ad breaks)

thanks

 

[xetic]

to point 3... i think the nummber button 0 is the answer

 

[PCSentianl]

Thanks, sorry, must have missed the instructions for that