MP 1.0 Crashing when loading with Blue3++ (1 Viewer)

[Dadeo]

I'm having a problem I can't sort out after installing Blue3++ skin (which is still in Beta, I am testing it for Joz)

Whenever I start MP for the first time, it crashes (see MediaPortalLogs Debug log attached). When I start MP again, it is fine! (see MediaPortallogs attached).

The skin is designed in 1024x768, which is the screen resolution I use on my TV. If I start MP using the screen selector to dispay it on my TV, it does not crash, even the first time I start MP after installing Blue3++.

However, if I start MP using my computer screen, which is 1280x1024, it crashes every time I start MP after installing the skin.

I tried creating a screen calibration file for 1280x1024 without making any changes. Then it does not crash but the very large fonts used in Titles do not display properly but show as white lines (see attached screen shot MyFilms.jpg). See MyFilmsGood.jpg for the way it should look!

I can see that if there is no screen calibration file found it renders at 25 fps. But if there IS a standard screen calibration file (attached), why is it rendering slightly differently? All the fonts created in Cache are the same in both cases, so I can't think where the difference is!

Hope one of you MP geniuses can help!

TV-Server Version: None use Inbuilt
MediaPortal Version: 1.0
MediaPortal Skin: PureVision, Blue3++
Windows Version: Vista Ultimate 32 bit
CPU Type: Intel Core2Duo 2.4GHz E6600
HDD: Seagate 500GB, 300GB, 250GB
Memory: Kingston 2GB 1067 Mhz
Motherboard: Intel DG965WHMKR
Video Card: Nvidia 8600 GTS
Video Card Driver: 175.11
Sound Card: Sigmatel 7.1
Sound Card AC3: Sigmatel 7.1
Sound Card Driver: Intel IDT 6.10.5713.7
1. TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 MCE kit
1. TV Card Type: Analog
1. TV Card Driver: 2.0.48.25037
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPG2 MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Klite Codec Pack 434 Full
h.264 Video Codec: FFDshow
Cooling: CoolerMaster
Power Supply: CoolerMaster 600W
Remote: MCE R6
TV: Aiwa CT202 20" (ALAS!)
TV - HTPC Connection: Composite

 

[joz]

I'm the original project starter of Blue3++.

I edited the fonts.xml file so I can make use of fonts that are quite big (all the way up to height 48).
These fonts were already declared in fonts.xml but had the start tag set to 48 and end tag to 58. I changed this to
<start>0</start>
<end>1536</end>

Now this does work for me and text with this font is rendered correctly on my test system (and it's not when I use the original start/end tags, nothing shows then).

I started using Google Code and there's an issue on this subject you can find here.
I'm no skinning guru so it could well be I did something wrong.