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<blockquote data-quote="Requiem" data-source="post: 1085327" data-attributes="member: 117808"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I'd like to re-initiate a discussion about a feature/workaround which has been discarded with the release of MP1.4: The option to automatically restart MediaPortal on Resume from Standby.</p><p></p><p>The functionality always has been a workaround for existing bugs, and of course, it's still a valid argument that it would be better to eleminate any Bugs in MP that prevent a clean startup after resume than to use a workaround. Yes, I understand that.</p><p></p><p>Well, my reality is as follows: I have a multiseat-setup (one server, one main HTPC, AmpDroid and two notebooks...). I always try to use the latest mediaportal version (1.8pre right now) for more than 2 years now.</p><p>When everything goes wrong and I have a f*cked up configuration or irreproducible errors, I'll just go back to a clean Windows7-Image with all updates of my HTPC and reinstall MP from scratch with all its plugins.</p><p>Right now, some very essential plugins lack official releases, like Fanart Handler.</p><p>So, I install MP, I install my favorite skin with its plugins (StreamedMP), I configure everything, I start with newly built databases for fanart, series, music etc.</p><p>At the moment, I need to find time again to reinstall from scratch once again, as with 1.7.0/1.7.1hotfix/1.8pre I have issues with resume again - this time EVERY time when I resume, I have to kill MP as it's frozen or just hit the HTPCs reset button.</p><p></p><p>I keep reading several posts in several threads here, where the technically advanced users are sharing their problems with MP and resume from standby. Just search the forums yourselves.</p><p></p><p>As I said, I fully understand that the goal is to eleminate bugs and not to implement workarounds.</p><p></p><p>But please, reimplement this functionality or implement it as an addon. It would save me (and I am sure, lots of others) hours of frustration. There still seem to be a lot of circumstances not obvious to the standard end-user who just wants to use his HTPC which lead to a state of not responding/crashing MP after resume from standby.</p><p></p><p>So, a pledge to the devs: Please rethink your arguments for and against the restart on resume functionality. I still think that MP would be better with this workaround feature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Requiem, post: 1085327, member: 117808"] Hi, I'd like to re-initiate a discussion about a feature/workaround which has been discarded with the release of MP1.4: The option to automatically restart MediaPortal on Resume from Standby. The functionality always has been a workaround for existing bugs, and of course, it's still a valid argument that it would be better to eleminate any Bugs in MP that prevent a clean startup after resume than to use a workaround. Yes, I understand that. Well, my reality is as follows: I have a multiseat-setup (one server, one main HTPC, AmpDroid and two notebooks...). I always try to use the latest mediaportal version (1.8pre right now) for more than 2 years now. When everything goes wrong and I have a f*cked up configuration or irreproducible errors, I'll just go back to a clean Windows7-Image with all updates of my HTPC and reinstall MP from scratch with all its plugins. Right now, some very essential plugins lack official releases, like Fanart Handler. So, I install MP, I install my favorite skin with its plugins (StreamedMP), I configure everything, I start with newly built databases for fanart, series, music etc. At the moment, I need to find time again to reinstall from scratch once again, as with 1.7.0/1.7.1hotfix/1.8pre I have issues with resume again - this time EVERY time when I resume, I have to kill MP as it's frozen or just hit the HTPCs reset button. I keep reading several posts in several threads here, where the technically advanced users are sharing their problems with MP and resume from standby. Just search the forums yourselves. As I said, I fully understand that the goal is to eleminate bugs and not to implement workarounds. But please, reimplement this functionality or implement it as an addon. It would save me (and I am sure, lots of others) hours of frustration. There still seem to be a lot of circumstances not obvious to the standard end-user who just wants to use his HTPC which lead to a state of not responding/crashing MP after resume from standby. So, a pledge to the devs: Please rethink your arguments for and against the restart on resume functionality. I still think that MP would be better with this workaround feature. [/QUOTE]
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