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<blockquote data-quote="1gkar" data-source="post: 1227619" data-attributes="member: 53076"><p>After initial testing, of MP2, on my bedroom HTPC, I have decided to wait until it's further development, towards attaining it's full potential. The reasons why I, have listed below.</p><p></p><p>The bedroom HTPC is an ASRock Beebox J3160 small form factor box, running 4GB SODIMM RAM. This box is relatively slow being a Celeron CPU. The install was completed from an Acronis True Image 2016 without any prior Mediaportal 1 installation, on a Windows 10 Home x64bit OS. All OS & programme drivers & updates were complete.</p><p></p><p>The MP2 install went smoothly with no issues upon configuration. The only issues were of import nature, listed below.</p><p></p><p>The main reasons I decided to stay with MP1, even though I was looking forward to the centralisation of my HTPC network, are:</p><p> -I had continual issues with the importation of both movies & TV Series. Even after a number of attempts, the same files would not be recognised, A number of these were titled correctly, according to the WIKI. I tried renaming some of my other TV & movie files -I have a number of documentaries not listed in the various scraping databases, & some of my files are uniquely named (ie. I renamed the TV Series files, Galactica 1980 from '1.01-title.ext' to 'Galactica 1980 S**E**xtitle.ext'- to the conventions listed in the WIKI, with no success</p><p></p><p>I have no logs of the process, but I do have an MP2 True image, in case I want to try again, in the near future. So, if any dev(s) want logs of the process to assist with the betterment of MP2's development, I am willing to reinstall it, & gather those. Be aware it would not be an instant process, & you would need to inform me exactly what is needed.</p><p></p><p> -I had spent considerable time customising MP1 to suit my specific requirements for the running of the front-end. They include:</p><p> -setting up my movie & tv series files in an order, which I deem to be logical for both searching, & viewing;</p><p> eg. all my Star Trek movies, in Moving Pictures, are listed -by sort order- to be displayed in the Moving Pictures Homepage (using coverflow view), in chronological order. This is not achievable in MP2. Even if you set the movies to be listed by collections -which is far from preferable, in my estimation-, their is no sub-menu capable of setting the movies listed, in any specific collection, by release Date -or some other way -eg. Lord of the Rings showed the movies as 1:-fellowship of the Ring: 2:-return of the King: 3:-The Two Towers. Any context menus used affect the entire movies category.</p><p></p><p>It was after these limitations presented themselves I decided to curtail any further testing. I will continue to occasionally monitor the betterment of the programme. Until the TV Series, & Movies sections become far more flexible -along similar lines to those of both the 'Moving Pictures' & 'My TVSeries' plugins, I will remain using MP1.</p><p></p><p>The MP2 devs are doing a great job, at it's development, however at present, the programme simply does not fit my requirements. Maybe I am in the vast minority, in terms of how Mediaportal is used as a programme, with regards of viewing RecordedTV, Movies & TV Series (which are the main areas I used MP for). I do not know. but keep up the great work, & I will look at it further on up the road.</p><p></p><p>I hope this assists others in deciding whether it is time to make the move, to another section of the best media front-end on the planet, regardless of its itinaration. All the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1gkar, post: 1227619, member: 53076"] After initial testing, of MP2, on my bedroom HTPC, I have decided to wait until it's further development, towards attaining it's full potential. The reasons why I, have listed below. The bedroom HTPC is an ASRock Beebox J3160 small form factor box, running 4GB SODIMM RAM. This box is relatively slow being a Celeron CPU. The install was completed from an Acronis True Image 2016 without any prior Mediaportal 1 installation, on a Windows 10 Home x64bit OS. All OS & programme drivers & updates were complete. The MP2 install went smoothly with no issues upon configuration. The only issues were of import nature, listed below. The main reasons I decided to stay with MP1, even though I was looking forward to the centralisation of my HTPC network, are: -I had continual issues with the importation of both movies & TV Series. Even after a number of attempts, the same files would not be recognised, A number of these were titled correctly, according to the WIKI. I tried renaming some of my other TV & movie files -I have a number of documentaries not listed in the various scraping databases, & some of my files are uniquely named (ie. I renamed the TV Series files, Galactica 1980 from '1.01-title.ext' to 'Galactica 1980 S**E**xtitle.ext'- to the conventions listed in the WIKI, with no success I have no logs of the process, but I do have an MP2 True image, in case I want to try again, in the near future. So, if any dev(s) want logs of the process to assist with the betterment of MP2's development, I am willing to reinstall it, & gather those. Be aware it would not be an instant process, & you would need to inform me exactly what is needed. -I had spent considerable time customising MP1 to suit my specific requirements for the running of the front-end. They include: -setting up my movie & tv series files in an order, which I deem to be logical for both searching, & viewing; eg. all my Star Trek movies, in Moving Pictures, are listed -by sort order- to be displayed in the Moving Pictures Homepage (using coverflow view), in chronological order. This is not achievable in MP2. Even if you set the movies to be listed by collections -which is far from preferable, in my estimation-, their is no sub-menu capable of setting the movies listed, in any specific collection, by release Date -or some other way -eg. Lord of the Rings showed the movies as 1:-fellowship of the Ring: 2:-return of the King: 3:-The Two Towers. Any context menus used affect the entire movies category. It was after these limitations presented themselves I decided to curtail any further testing. I will continue to occasionally monitor the betterment of the programme. Until the TV Series, & Movies sections become far more flexible -along similar lines to those of both the 'Moving Pictures' & 'My TVSeries' plugins, I will remain using MP1. The MP2 devs are doing a great job, at it's development, however at present, the programme simply does not fit my requirements. Maybe I am in the vast minority, in terms of how Mediaportal is used as a programme, with regards of viewing RecordedTV, Movies & TV Series (which are the main areas I used MP for). I do not know. but keep up the great work, & I will look at it further on up the road. I hope this assists others in deciding whether it is time to make the move, to another section of the best media front-end on the planet, regardless of its itinaration. All the best. [/QUOTE]
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