MPstandbyHandler (2 Viewers)

[kiwijunglist]

what does MPstandbyHandlerUser.exe do? is it needed to be running, or do i just need to run the service?

I also found a bug,
when you uninstall, MPstandbyHandlerUser.exe is not removed from msconfig -> startup

 

[gnavox]

When using this on an Athlon X2 5050e+ machine with 2 gigabytes of ram and a GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM type motherboard on which Mediaportal 1.1.0.0 is installed with the TV-client and pulling down TV from another mediacenter which functions as a server for it, I get a green screen when trying to start TV after resume. There is audio/sound but no picture (a green screen) and the processor is working very hard as if it's stuck in a loop.

MPStandbyHandler does restart TV-Service and Mediaportal on resume.

 

[josch.hh]

When using this on an Athlon X2 5050e+ machine with 2 gigabytes of ram and a GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM type motherboard on which Mediaportal 1.1.0.0 is installed with the TV-client and pulling down TV from another mediacenter which functions as a server for it, I get a green screen when trying to start TV after resume. There is audio/sound but no picture (a green screen) and the processor is working very hard as if it's stuck in a loop.

MPStandbyHandler does restart TV-Service and Mediaportal on resume.

I can't tell anything about the behaviour of MPSH running on a 64bit windows. Are you sure that the MPSH Server process consumes the CPU power?

what does MPstandbyHandlerUser.exe do? is it needed to be running, or do i just need to run the service?

I also found a bug,
when you uninstall, MPstandbyHandlerUser.exe is not removed from msconfig -> startup

This exe is only needed if you want to start/stop MP, otherwise you can just forget it.

Uninstall has no bug. It is only used to unregister the MPSH server process as windows service.

 

[gnavox]

It is indeed the MediaPortal process that consumes the CPU power. It's not nessesarily an MPStandbyHandler problem though. I've noticed that my MP uses the wrong codec for MPEG2, so it could be the codecs fault.

Another issue that is MPStandbyHandler related: Sometimes MP does not start up again on resume. Going into standby again and back fixes it.

 

[josch.hh]

It is indeed the MediaPortal process that consumes the CPU power. It's not nessesarily an MPStandbyHandler problem though. I've noticed that my MP uses the wrong codec for MPEG2, so it could be the codecs fault.

Another issue that is MPStandbyHandler related: Sometimes MP does not start up again on resume. Going into standby again and back fixes it.

I can't help you without logs.

 

[gnavox]

Here is a minor piece of the log. I tried suspending, resuming, suspending, resuming and so on. At least two times MP was still open on resume. The last time MP was gone on resume and didnt come back. I suspect that suspend jobs doesnt get called before the PC sleeps..

19-10-2009 22:37:55 - INFO System PowerEvent: Suspend
19-10-2009 22:37:55 - INFO OnSuspend - Already suspended
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeAutomatic
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO OnResume
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job MediaportalStart
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO RemoteClient - Sending: JOB==RESUME_000_MediaportalStart
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeSuspend
19-10-2009 22:38:08 - INFO OnResume - Already resuming
19-10-2009 22:38:19 - INFO System PowerEvent: Suspend
19-10-2009 22:38:19 - INFO OnSuspend - Already suspended
19-10-2009 22:38:27 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeAutomatic
19-10-2009 22:38:27 - INFO OnResume - Already resuming
19-10-2009 22:38:27 - INFO RemoteClient - Server returned command JOB==RESUME_000_MediaportalStart successfully identified
19-10-2009 22:38:27 - INFO OnResume - Done
19-10-2009 22:38:28 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeSuspend
19-10-2009 22:38:28 - INFO OnResume - Already resumed
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO System PowerEvent: Suspend
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO OnSuspend
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO Job Load - Loaded SUSPEND job MediaportalStop
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job MediaportalStart
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO Flags Save - Saving flags to C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Flags-Service.xml
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO MediaportalStart - Setting Mediaportal run flag to True
19-10-2009 22:38:39 - INFO RemoteClient - Sending: JOB==SUSPEND_000_MediaportalStop
19-10-2009 22:39:07 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeAutomatic
19-10-2009 22:39:07 - INFO OnResume - Already resumed
19-10-2009 22:39:09 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeSuspend
19-10-2009 22:39:09 - INFO OnResume - Already resumed
19-10-2009 22:39:09 - INFO RemoteClient - Server returned command JOB==SUSPEND_000_MediaportalStop successfully identified
19-10-2009 22:39:09 - INFO OnSuspend - Done

 

[josch.hh]

I would prefer a clean log from the service and user part of MPSH. Please stop the service and the user exe, remove logs, start again and do one suspend and one resume.

 

[ssjunior]

Same problem here... Using Win 7 32. Any ideas?

regards

ssjunior


08/12/2009 04:06:17 - INFO System Start
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO System PowerEvent: Suspend
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO OnSuspend
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loading SUSPEND jobs from C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Jobs
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG Job Load - Job MediaportalStop has 6 properties
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO Job Load - Loaded SUSPEND job MediaportalStop
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loaded 1 SUSPEND jobs
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loading RESUME jobs from C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Jobs
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG Job Load - Job TVServiceStop has 6 properties
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job TVServiceStop
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG Job Load - Job MediaportalStart has 7 properties
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job MediaportalStart
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loaded 2 RESUME jobs
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - INFO Flags Load - Loading flags from C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Flags-Service.xml
08/12/2009 04:11:57 - WARNING Flags Load - Error loading flags Root element is missing.
08/12/2009 04:13:03 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeAutomatic
08/12/2009 04:13:03 - WARNING OnResume - OnResume called but not suspended
08/12/2009 04:13:03 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeSuspend
08/12/2009 04:13:03 - WARNING OnResume - OnResume called but not suspended
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - INFO System PowerEvent: Suspend
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - INFO OnSuspend
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loading SUSPEND jobs from C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Jobs
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG Job Load - Job MediaportalStop has 6 properties
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - INFO Job Load - Loaded SUSPEND job MediaportalStop
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loaded 1 SUSPEND jobs
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loading RESUME jobs from C:\ProgramData\MPstandbyHandler\Jobs
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG Job Load - Job TVServiceStop has 6 properties
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job TVServiceStop
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG Job Load - Job MediaportalStart has 7 properties
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - INFO Job Load - Loaded RESUME job MediaportalStart
08/12/2009 04:21:39 - DEBUG JobTools Load - Loaded 2 RESUME jobs
08/12/2009 20:07:48 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeSuspend
08/12/2009 20:07:48 - WARNING OnResume - OnResume called but not suspended
08/12/2009 20:07:48 - INFO System PowerEvent: ResumeAutomatic
08/12/2009 20:07:48 - WARNING OnResume - OnResume called but not suspended

 

[josch.hh]

It can hapen, that the suspend job wasn't finished when the system enters standby mode.
This is the case since Vista. MS changed the behaviour of the Power-Event for suspend. With Win XP it was possible to delay the suspend until everything was finished - but not with Vista or higher. Means, if you have lot to do on the syspend jobs (or a fast machine) then suspend will not be ready when the machine actually suspends.
I am currently not sure how to fix this.
Any ideas are welcome.

 

[ssjunior]

Hi Josch,

I have two ideas:

1 - Is it possible to cancel the suspend when MPSH is notified? If it is possible, you can cancel the suspend do the suspend actions and call suspend again.

2 - Maybe you can intercept suspend and ´transform´ in Win 7 away mode? Somethind like GMPS (Home) do?

kind regards

ssjunior