- July 7, 2014
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Hi Guys,
Another possible Ex-WMC convert! I'm moving to MP as WMC is a pain for more than one machine (have a living room machine, but now want bedroom, snug and rumpus). Have quite liked WMC as it just worked and did the job; it had its restrictions and MS weirdnesses but - and the main point - was easy to use and stable and just did the job.
However, want more than one instance and share recordings/libraries and it is a pain (killing processes, deleting libraries, restarting UI uck!!). So have joined the growing ranks of MediaPortal aficionado's
It really is a heavyweight piece of kit and someone has done a lot of work!! First Impressions are very positive; wipes WMC into far-behind second place.... Took me a while to work out how the components fit together (server/client/skins/plugins/etc/...) but getting there (unfortunate other half has given me 3 weeks to evaluate and make sure it can be used easily by all; family not tech-savvy! And blond lol).
My current stumbling block is that the GUI locks up; seemingly randomly. IR LED flashes, keyboard/mouse work on non-MPGUI (IE. Alt-Tab to desktop) but MP does nothing. This occures on a local client as well as remote client and can only be fixed by killing the client process (in Task Manager) and restarting; CPU is about 13/14% and normal memory usage, when it locks up.
I realise it could be many things that is causing it (including user finger trouble lol!!) so I thought I'd ask what the easiest/quickest way of debug is (IE. What debug settings and where the most interesting logs are....)?
Thanks guys (for all the hard work done so far!); hope I'm able to help in some way (donation being made)
Mat
Another possible Ex-WMC convert! I'm moving to MP as WMC is a pain for more than one machine (have a living room machine, but now want bedroom, snug and rumpus). Have quite liked WMC as it just worked and did the job; it had its restrictions and MS weirdnesses but - and the main point - was easy to use and stable and just did the job.
However, want more than one instance and share recordings/libraries and it is a pain (killing processes, deleting libraries, restarting UI uck!!). So have joined the growing ranks of MediaPortal aficionado's
It really is a heavyweight piece of kit and someone has done a lot of work!! First Impressions are very positive; wipes WMC into far-behind second place.... Took me a while to work out how the components fit together (server/client/skins/plugins/etc/...) but getting there (unfortunate other half has given me 3 weeks to evaluate and make sure it can be used easily by all; family not tech-savvy! And blond lol).
My current stumbling block is that the GUI locks up; seemingly randomly. IR LED flashes, keyboard/mouse work on non-MPGUI (IE. Alt-Tab to desktop) but MP does nothing. This occures on a local client as well as remote client and can only be fixed by killing the client process (in Task Manager) and restarting; CPU is about 13/14% and normal memory usage, when it locks up.
I realise it could be many things that is causing it (including user finger trouble lol!!) so I thought I'd ask what the easiest/quickest way of debug is (IE. What debug settings and where the most interesting logs are....)?
Thanks guys (for all the hard work done so far!); hope I'm able to help in some way (donation being made
)Mat