Scythe42's fixes for 1.4.0 (3 Viewers)

[Helios61]

New build in first post.

Did the users who reported problems with Intel graphics ever report back ?

Tomorrow morning, last week of vacation

 

[Pythagoras]

yesterday I upgraded from 1.3.0final to the patch bundles provided on 19th April. In the evening after resuming I tried to view a recorded TV show (ZDF Heute) and got an error about AVC Codec displayed. Tried again, same error. Exit Media Portal Client, Started Media Portal Client and tried to view again => No problem.

I also still see DEVICECHANGE messages from Windows. Maybe it has not fully woken up yet when you started playback?

Does it happen when you use a different codec that LAV?

All in all, not related to my changes.

General question: If I resume PC from Hibernate or Standby, is it safe to power on TV and AVR and select AVR-Input and TV-Input at any time during the resume action of the PC? I suspect there will be several HDMI state switches during all that actions. At the moment the PC Wakeup is not integrated into my Remote Control sequence, so we manually wake up PC and then (with small or no delay between) also hit the TV Button on Logitech Harmony remote.

My hope would be the system is robust enough to work with correct display and such once the HDMI connection status has settled. If it is not i need to instruct my users and work some more on the remote control sequences now.

 

[SpudR]

@Scythe42 - can you sanity check my wiki input please:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/13_Setup_Guides/2_Startup_MediaPortal/Green_Button

Thanks

 

[azzuro]

- System Specs used : Workstation
- How many displays : 2
- What resolution does each display use : D1: DVI 1920x1080 / D2 : VGA 1680x1050
- More than one GPU used : No
- How are displays connected : D1 : DVI / D2 : VGA
- How are they positioned : D1 : Left / D2 : Right
- Which one is the primary one : D1
- On which do you start MP : D1 (Default : not set in config)
- Where is the taskkbar positioned of Windows : Left (Also Right, but it's trick)
- Skin Used : DefaultWide

Step :
Start MP in Windowed,
Move it to D2 screen
Skin is not resized correctly, Skin is out of screen and have bad quality for font

 

[FreakyJ]

- System Specs used : Win7 x64
- How many displays : 1
- What resolution does each display use : HDMI 1920x1080
- More than one GPU used : No
- How are displays connected : HDMI
- How are they positioned : /
- Which one is the primary one : /
- On which do you start MP : /
- Where is the taskkbar positioned of Windows : /
- Skin Used: Black Glass HD

I'm still on version 18c, but just had the Half Fullscreen error again :/
I stopped playback and switched the tv off for around 1 hour, switchied it on again and MP was in the upper left corner :/ I don't know if you will take a look on this, because I'm still on version 18c... otherwise I will report back if it should happen again with the latest version... but will probably update at the weekend...

 

[Pythagoras]

Hi, two additional issues, sorry mixed in one article:
1) At around 18:30 PC was running and ?recording?. Then TV and AVR have been started with the combined "TV" function of the Logitech Harmony remote, which is something like the following, i am not fully sure about the order programmed: Power on TV, Power on AVR, Switch TV In to correct HDMI, Switch AVR to PC HDMI, send MCE TV command. => Media Portal displayed with small window in bottom left. Note: In that moment also tray icon with some Norton Internet Security message popped up and vanished again. Can those popups impact Media Portal display mode? MP Client was then manually exited and started again.

im no expert but wondering if this post may help you

Thanks for the hint, I found the following how to for disabling Balloon Tips and other notifications in Windows 7 and Windows 8. I will try this.
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/windows-8-7-disable-notification-balloons-taskbar/


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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Registry edit for enabling Windows Balloon Tips
; groovyPost.com

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000001
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000001
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000001
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000001
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Registry edit for disabling Windows Balloon Tips
; groovyPost.com

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

 

[Scythe42]

HI have beeen merging your fix alongside the custom data grabber for a while, however when if I turn my TV and AVR off and back on again MP seems to crash, sometimes alt-F4 will close it, other times I have to kill the process.

1. Can you please try while playback is not running.
2. And make sure the open "stop playback on removal of audio render" is selected.

In your case it should be the loss of the HDMI audio device that makes it impossible for DirectShow to continue playback properly.

 

[Scythe42]

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I'm still on version 18c, but just had the Half Fullscreen error again :/

Did you change any keys in the registry regarding the minimum supported resolution? Because the WM_DISLAYCHANGE message does not report a changed resolution. If you are overriding what Windows sends, MP is not made aware of the change in resolution and cannot resize itself again.

 

[disaster123]

@Scythe42
Any idea regarding my volume problem? i still got sometimes a not working volume control but no error in log.

 

[Scythe42]

General question: If I resume PC from Hibernate or Standby, is it safe to power on TV and AVR and select AVR-Input and TV-Input at any time during the resume action of the PC? I suspect there will be several HDMI state switches during all that actions. At the moment the PC Wakeup is not integrated into my Remote Control sequence, so we manually wake up PC and then (with small or no delay between) also hit the TV Button on Logitech Harmony remote.

In general it would be best if the AVR/TV would be there first. But it should work nicely in theory as long as MP gets the messages for resizing from Windows properly. I suggest giving it a try and let us know if it works.

When AVR is powered on after MP, you might end up with no volume control on MP itself. But that should not be a problem as you use your AVR for volume probably anyway.