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<blockquote data-quote="Issih" data-source="post: 66265" data-attributes="member: 23003"><p><strong>Area</strong>: Media Portal Program</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Version</strong>: 0.2.0.0 (2006-07-10)</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Skin</strong>: Project Mayhem 3</p><p><strong>Windows Version</strong>: Windows XP (SP2)</p><p><strong>.NET CLR Version</strong>: 2.0.50727</p><p><strong>DirectX Version</strong>: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)</p><p><strong>Audio Codec</strong>: NVIDIA Audio Decoder</p><p><strong>Video Codec</strong>: NVIDIA Video Decoder</p><p><strong>CPU Type</strong>: AMD Athlon XP 2500+</p><p><strong>Memory</strong>: 1 GB</p><p><strong>Motherboard</strong>: FN41 (Shuttle Inc)</p><p><strong>TV Card Model</strong>: Msi Mega Sky 580</p><p><strong>TV Card Type</strong>: DVB</p><p><strong>TV Card Driver</strong>: 5.1.2600.1043</p><p><strong>Video Card Model</strong>: Nvidia Geforce 6800 (128 MB)</p><p><strong>Video Card Driver</strong>: 8.4.2.1</p><p><strong>Video Card Resolution</strong>: 1280x1024</p><p><strong>Video Render Type</strong>: VMR9</p><p><strong>Audio Card Model</strong>: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio</p><p><strong>Audio Card Driver</strong>: 6.14.442.30</p><p><strong>Synopsis:</strong>: </p><p></p><p>I am having various problems with the minimise to tray option.</p><p></p><p>With the minimise to tray and exclusive direct x options selected, I find that if live tv is playing (e.g. as a preview on the home screen) when you close the application, the screen isn't released. In essence media portal graphics remain on top of the desktop. Right clicking in the appropriate areas allows you to confirm that media portal has exited, as you can see some windows context menus - briefly.</p><p></p><p>Shutting down windows with media portal minimised is not possible. You have to explicitly shutdown media portal via the system tray and then try again.</p><p></p><p>Similarly choosing shutdown (as opposed to close) from within media portal does not shutdown the pc - this seems wrong to me - although it may be intentional</p><p></p><p>If you run the setup utility with media portal running and set up to minimise to tray (or already minimised), then after finish your alterations and click yeson the dialog box saying media portal has to be restarted, the program just gets minimised to tray and not actually closed and certainly isn't restarted. Worse still closing it explicitly from the system tray and then restarting it will not apply the changes you made in the setup utility - normally these are lost. The only way to alter settings is to manually close media portal prior to running the setup utility</p><p></p><p>Generally media portal is a brilliant application, and these are admittedly minor annoyances, but whilst I appreciate that the main thrust of media portal development is for stand alone htpcs, for those of us trying to use one machine for both htpc and general use, this option is very useful as it allows us to keep MP up and running so we don't miss scheduled recordings, and it would be fantastic if these issues could be ironed out. </p><p></p><p>Its entirely possible that once TV engine 3 comes along these problems won't really exist any more as recording scheduling occuring in a service will be a superb improvement! But given that any major change tends to bring instability, it may be worth investigating these issues anyway, if they can be solved easily anyway.</p><p></p><p>One final thing to mention, I, like many others used to suffer from the problems of tv stuttering with timeshifting on and audio sync problems with it off. I found the solution, at least in my case, to be to change the audio rendering device to be one of the Directsound options as opposed to the wave out devices. I mention this partially in the hope it may help some people out, (although I suspect there are better places to post for that) but mainly to point out that there doesn't appear to be a setting for the audio rendering device within the setup utility - it can only be changed from within media portal via the settings ->mytv ->audio renderer menu path. Perhaps this should be changed for consistency if nothing else</p><p></p><p>Many thanks to all the media portal developers for a fantastic application. If I ever get round to learning more about microsoft development (I'm a c++ and java nerd mainly) I may well try and join in, although I'm not sure I'd be good enough...thanks again.</p><p></p><p>Issih</p><p></p><p>btw, if these are already known about or just too minor to matter - feel free to tell me to piss off - ta</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Issih, post: 66265, member: 23003"] [b]Area[/b]: Media Portal Program [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 0.2.0.0 (2006-07-10) [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: Project Mayhem 3 [b]Windows Version[/b]: Windows XP (SP2) [b].NET CLR Version[/b]: 2.0.50727 [b]DirectX Version[/b]: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c) [b]Audio Codec[/b]: NVIDIA Audio Decoder [b]Video Codec[/b]: NVIDIA Video Decoder [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ [b]Memory[/b]: 1 GB [b]Motherboard[/b]: FN41 (Shuttle Inc) [b]TV Card Model[/b]: Msi Mega Sky 580 [b]TV Card Type[/b]: DVB [b]TV Card Driver[/b]: 5.1.2600.1043 [b]Video Card Model[/b]: Nvidia Geforce 6800 (128 MB) [b]Video Card Driver[/b]: 8.4.2.1 [b]Video Card Resolution[/b]: 1280x1024 [b]Video Render Type[/b]: VMR9 [b]Audio Card Model[/b]: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio [b]Audio Card Driver[/b]: 6.14.442.30 [b]Synopsis:[/b]: I am having various problems with the minimise to tray option. With the minimise to tray and exclusive direct x options selected, I find that if live tv is playing (e.g. as a preview on the home screen) when you close the application, the screen isn't released. In essence media portal graphics remain on top of the desktop. Right clicking in the appropriate areas allows you to confirm that media portal has exited, as you can see some windows context menus - briefly. Shutting down windows with media portal minimised is not possible. You have to explicitly shutdown media portal via the system tray and then try again. Similarly choosing shutdown (as opposed to close) from within media portal does not shutdown the pc - this seems wrong to me - although it may be intentional If you run the setup utility with media portal running and set up to minimise to tray (or already minimised), then after finish your alterations and click yeson the dialog box saying media portal has to be restarted, the program just gets minimised to tray and not actually closed and certainly isn't restarted. Worse still closing it explicitly from the system tray and then restarting it will not apply the changes you made in the setup utility - normally these are lost. The only way to alter settings is to manually close media portal prior to running the setup utility Generally media portal is a brilliant application, and these are admittedly minor annoyances, but whilst I appreciate that the main thrust of media portal development is for stand alone htpcs, for those of us trying to use one machine for both htpc and general use, this option is very useful as it allows us to keep MP up and running so we don't miss scheduled recordings, and it would be fantastic if these issues could be ironed out. Its entirely possible that once TV engine 3 comes along these problems won't really exist any more as recording scheduling occuring in a service will be a superb improvement! But given that any major change tends to bring instability, it may be worth investigating these issues anyway, if they can be solved easily anyway. One final thing to mention, I, like many others used to suffer from the problems of tv stuttering with timeshifting on and audio sync problems with it off. I found the solution, at least in my case, to be to change the audio rendering device to be one of the Directsound options as opposed to the wave out devices. I mention this partially in the hope it may help some people out, (although I suspect there are better places to post for that) but mainly to point out that there doesn't appear to be a setting for the audio rendering device within the setup utility - it can only be changed from within media portal via the settings ->mytv ->audio renderer menu path. Perhaps this should be changed for consistency if nothing else Many thanks to all the media portal developers for a fantastic application. If I ever get round to learning more about microsoft development (I'm a c++ and java nerd mainly) I may well try and join in, although I'm not sure I'd be good enough...thanks again. Issih btw, if these are already known about or just too minor to matter - feel free to tell me to piss off - ta [/QUOTE]
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