MPTouch - Mediaportal TouchScreen Plugin (1 Viewer)

[rich76]

Hi Sa_Ddam

I just like to say what a great job you have done with this pluggin

I do have a couple of issues though which I am not sure if its just mine of if its common for everyone.

My first problem I have is the transitions seem very slow and responsive, ie if I am watching TV and return back to the TV Guide its very slow for the touch screen to change screens and I can not change channel in the guide till the touch screen is displaying the correct info for the guide. I have tried all the different resolutions for my monitor and they all seem to do the same, I never got any problems like this with your older pluggin.
Also changing channels from the TV guide doesn't always update the touch screen straight away and I am left with the info from the previous channel for about a minute or 2 untill it updates.
Also the issue with it keeping the old thumbnail picture stays on the touch screen untill i enter another pluggin ie music or videos for the thumbnail to change.
Also the thumbnail is very grey and i can see that there is a grey box behind it so when i have a TV channel with a white background its looks more grey than white. Is it meant to be greyed out? As I would prefer the thumbnails on the touch screen to stay the original colours.

Well done on your great work and if you need any more info on this issues I am experiencing let me know

Rich

 

[bigboss97]

Re: MPTouch - Hardware Recommendations??

Does the additional display simply work as a secondary monitor? i.e. I need to make sure my PC supports a second display.
Any examples for touch screen hardware?

Thanks
Phuoc

 

[technick]

The touch screen display work as a second screen, the touch screen is also USB connected on the motherboard for the pointing part. The pointing part need generally a driver. For your information I use 2 graphic cards, 1 for the touch screen, one for the TV. With the 2 screens on the motherboard I had some sync problems on the TV. Perhaps there is no more problems with the last Nvidia drivers, to late for me, I keep my 2 card (the pc is also faster with 2 card).

 

[savidge]

Is it possible to have a equalizer on the screen when playing dvd, blu ray? So not only when playing music (MP3)

thanks

 

[technick]

Please, keep this as a option please ! Some of us prefer look the movie when MP play a movie ;-)

But for your information videos don't use the bass library like music player so equalizer will not work (on my HTPC I don't use BASS library for music also) except if you create a equalizer direct show filter witch is not so easy as you think...


If someone want see this plugin (during TV) you have screens copy Here

 

[Muschi]

Hi sa_ddam213,

nice plugin, i ever wanted...

I have the same problem (TV Guide and My Streamradio V2 slow) with the version Alpha4 as described from rich76.
But additional comment: i see a many times (like 10) redraw of MPTouch Plugin GUI when the screen hide to left side.

The screen moving goes not full close to the left side and repeats many times...

edit: same problem in My Streamradio V2 Plugin....

 

[sa_ddam213]

Hi Sa_Ddam

I just like to say what a great job you have done with this pluggin

I do have a couple of issues though which I am not sure if its just mine of if its common for everyone.

My first problem I have is the transitions seem very slow and responsive, ie if I am watching TV and return back to the TV Guide its very slow for the touch screen to change screens and I can not change channel in the guide till the touch screen is displaying the correct info for the guide. I have tried all the different resolutions for my monitor and they all seem to do the same, I never got any problems like this with your older pluggin.
Also changing channels from the TV guide doesn't always update the touch screen straight away and I am left with the info from the previous channel for about a minute or 2 untill it updates.
Also the issue with it keeping the old thumbnail picture stays on the touch screen untill i enter another plugin ie music or videos for the thumbnail to change.
Also the thumbnail is very grey and i can see that there is a grey box behind it so when i have a TV channel with a white background its looks more grey than white. Is it meant to be greyed out? As I would prefer the thumbnails on the touch screen to stay the original colours.

Well done on your great work and if you need any more info on this issues I am experiencing let me know

Rich

How good is your graphic card(GPU) , When watching tv your GPU is doing a bit of work especially if HD then switching to tv guide will overlay a GUI window over your TV and also your GPU has to render MPTouch too.
I have a two card setup on mine like Technik and overall performance on MPTouch is good.
Basicly if your playing Video/TV there will be lag on MPTouch (old version this would have lagged MP ,Reason for rebuild)
Also with so many requests for skin support This also slows down the new Version.
NOTE: (Transparent Backcolors in skin setup will cause fickering)

The TV guide > TV thumbnail issue has been there since V0.0.0.1 and I can not solve seems to be on the MP side.
(If MP receives an action this detail updates strait away, IF MPTouch updates the information only old Information is still there)

The grey thubnail issue seen to be a bug (simple fix)
other thumbnail issue is already on buglist (page 1)

Cheers for feedback Sa

Is it possible to have a equalizer on the screen when playing dvd, blu ray? So not only when playing music (MP3)

thanks

Sorry wont be possible unless you want your DVD/Bluray to flicker like crazy

Sa

Does the additional display simply work as a secondary monitor? i.e. I need to make sure my PC supports a second display.
Any examples for touch screen hardware?

Thanks
Phuoc

As long as it is detected as a display this will work. Ie: Monitor, TV, Touchscreen, Photoframe(this is cool only about $40nz)
and I'm pretty sure all PC's will allow more than one Display (not sue about Linux or Cr-apple computers)

Cheers Sa

Just read your guys post and was thinking, I could add a feature to MPTouch that when a display is Detected/Removed it could set resolutions for both screens.

So when a display is remove MPTouch will overlay Mediaportal.
And when the display is detected MPTouch will set Resolution's and set MP and MPTouch to the correct screens

And IN THEORY it should not be to hard.... hmm..

What do you think??

Hi sa_ddam213 and technick,

Allthough I'm not an expert, I think that MPT cannot change the plug&pray feature of Windows (and to be honest I think its a pain in a HTPC multi screen setup) so thats why I bought the detective.

And because I've got him allready, I think its fine so . Technick also mentioned that he is pleased with the detective.

So please put you're effort in further development of this great plugin .

And again, thanks for thinking with us!!!

Johnnie

I am aware that you just brought one , But this is for the people (like me ) that cant spend that kinda money to save a double click

It works well too,

If you turn off your TV MPtouch detects the lost display > Sends MP to the touchscreen (below MPTouch),
Turn your TV back on and it set's the TV resolution (eg: 1920x1080, 50Hz) then sends MP to TV and MPTouch to touchscreen.
and if any point (Sleep/Hibernate) if your screens aren't set right the plugin will do the work.

I only spent a day on it and I'm happy enough to put on my main HTPC and it great , No more frustrating issue when the wife turns off the tv

This in mind the HDMI detective is a way better option as if you turn on you TV MP is there ready instantly.
The plugin will have to change Resolution etc. so not instant (maybe about 8 seconds)
in fact making one could be also an option (HDMI sockets ,Flash drive ,soldering iron Hmmmm...) Told you i was cheap

Sa

 

[sa_ddam213]

Hi sa_ddam213,

nice plugin, i ever wanted...

I have the same problem (TV Guide slow) with the version Alpha4 as described from rich76.
But additional comment: i see a many times (like 10) redraw of MPTouch Plugin GUI when the screen hide to left side.

The screen moving goes not full close to the left side and repeats many times...

good spotting:
SetStyle(ControlStyle.ResizeRedraw, true)

I didn't notice on mine, But had a look anyway and seems I missed this (3am coding is you enemy, LOL)


Thanks will fix for MPTouch_Beta
Sa_ddam213

 

[bigboss97]

Re: MPTouch - TouchScreen Hardware

I'm using one of those mini PC's, i.e. can't fit any graphic card in it :-(
Only use the on-board card. So I'm thinking of something like this:
Mimo Monitors - iMo Pivot Touch

The touch screen display work as a second screen, the touch screen is also USB connected on the motherboard for the pointing part. The pointing part need generally a driver. For your information I use 2 graphic cards, 1 for the touch screen, one for the TV. With the 2 screens on the motherboard I had some sync problems on the TV. Perhaps there is no more problems with the last Nvidia drivers, to late for me, I keep my 2 card (the pc is also faster with 2 card).

 

[sa_ddam213]

Re: MPTouch - TouchScreen Hardware

I'm using one of those mini PC's, i.e. can't fit any graphic card in it :-(
Only use the on-board card. So I'm thinking of something like this:
Mimo Monitors - iMo Pivot Touch

The touch screen display work as a second screen, the touch screen is also USB connected on the motherboard for the pointing part. The pointing part need generally a driver. For your information I use 2 graphic cards, 1 for the touch screen, one for the TV. With the 2 screens on the motherboard I had some sync problems on the TV. Perhaps there is no more problems with the last Nvidia drivers, to late for me, I keep my 2 card (the pc is also faster with 2 card).

This should work perfectly
EDIT: I want 1 , actually I want 5 . USB only 10'' TFT Awesome