Zalman HD135 VFD (VlSys Mplay) (1 Viewer)

[cybrmage]

Didn't read it!

Did you not read through this thread either??

I don't have an Mplay display!! I am not a mind reader!! I can't see what the display is doing!! If you find a problem, a description alone will not do any good. I need the mediaportal.log ( with "Extensive Logging" enabled) from a run of MediaPortal that exhibits the problem!


To the others participating in this thread: Please excuse my attitude with this poster... I have VERY little sympathy for people who can't be bothered reading the thread to find background information on the driver they want to use.

 

[pcwizzul]

Did you not read through this thread either??

I don't have an Mplay display!! I am not a mind reader!! I can't see what the display is doing!! If you find a problem, a description alone will not do any good. I need the mediaportal.log ( with "Extensive Logging" enabled) from a run of MediaPortal that exhibits the problem!


To the others participating in this thread: Please excuse my attitude with this poster... I have VERY little sympathy for people who can't be bothered reading the thread to find background information on the driver they want to use.

I read all this thread and I asked you two or three times if you wanted me to post a log.
You never answered me and now you come out with this VERY bad attitude and say sorry to the other members.... you should say sorry to me FIRST then to other users.
I'm just trying to be helpful and you just keep on attacking me.
I could sit on my couch and wait for someone else to do these test and get the final version when it's out.

anyway. here are the two logs with the latest E version with normal and stereo EQ.
the normal EQ shows the upper line with two small triangles instead of the moving bars.
the stereo EQ showw only the firs two columns on the left and the upper row has the same small triangles as the lower one.
I hope these logs are correct. I made them with the extensive log checked.

The E version fixed the pause issue. Now it works fine.

I made another test with 2 mp3s with only left channel in one and right channel in the other while running the plugin in VU meter mode. The left channel is the lower row and the right channel is the upper row. Shouldn't it be inverted?

 

[cybrmage]

new version just posted...

 

[OptimusPrime]

Hi there,

the OptimusPrime will be back tomorrow from latvia.
this post will let you know, that the hard-core-tester from hell will be back soon....

 

[Djang]

O.M.F.G A few months ago I came here dissapointed that my display didn't work. was one of the early people that placed a few comments on this thread, in the hope Joe Dalton would help. After giving up hope and now returned after 2 months I see this hugly expanded thread; with wat is this!?! A WORKING PLUGIN!!!!

You guys almost make me cry, It works icluded the remote and now your even trying to get the EQ to work?

 

[pcwizzul]

I made some tests of the version F
Here are the log files and pictures taken while the display works.

With normal EQ you can clearly see the triangles I was talking about. I think the lower and upper lines are inverted and the triangles are shown instead of the full bar.

With stereo EQ it shows boh channels now but with triangles as before. I played the mp3s I have with only left channel and only right channel and they are not displayed correctly. They fire up both parts of the display and have alternate columns. I mean: the SX only mp3 moves columns 1 3 5 7 on the left part of the screen and the same on the right part while the DX only mp3 moves only 2 4 6 8 columns. Hope I've been clear enough. (I' ve seen that there are only 8 bars for every channel and one column on the left and on the right is not used so I start counting from the first used).

I've seen that the cpu load rise at 100% even when mp is idle with this plugin but with the processplugin.dll found on this thread everything was fine. (I tried both the CybrDisplayPlugin_01_30_2008.zip and CybrDisplayPlugin_01_31_2008f.zip)
Sorry I didn't notice that before.

The log files are very big but they both are full of lines from the lcd.

I hope this time I can be more helpful as I'm really interested in getting this plugin to work at best on my VFD

 

[pcwizzul]

Version H is almost perfect!!!!
Great job!
Normal EQ works great, Eq Stereo is perfect too and channel separation is perfect.
The only problem is I still have cpu load ad 100% all the time and on idle too.
Here is a log with stereo EQ.
Thanks
pcwizzul

 

[Herr R aus B]

Features just keeps coming

Vu meter crashes MP. It seems that I'm the first testing level to get this running and Herr R&B finalizes it - hehee!

well - therefore you suomalaista got the better ranking in the PISA study, which obviously turns out to be our national confidence debacle number one

Hi there,

the OptimusPrime will be back tomorrow from latvia.
this post will let you know, that the hard-core-tester from hell will be back soon....

who is the hard core tester from hell?

 

[Herr R aus B]

display turns absolute dark if video plays.

Good... That is the intended behaviour (if you have selected the "blank display" option...)

No... (JOKE!!! Everything's fine)

no prob - i did the follwing testing:

Thanks. I'll look at the logs and see what I can find.

You're welcome - as usual

The contents of the rows seem to be OK but the rows obviously are in the wrong order

hmm... that shouldn't be happening... Can you check with todays version and see if it's still doing that...

Yes, order is OK now, but it still behaves somewhat strange. I guess, it's not mainly a coding, but rather a problem of the display's latency. What I experience is something, I would call a flickering effect - I am running out of vocabulary it seems - better have a look at the videos I attached - I am quite sure you'll understand what I mean. The effect is best visible when switching the decay on Important: I didn't move or shake the camera - the moving effects you can see are originally displayed on the MR300 like shown in the videos...

misunderstanding? i was talking a plain peakmeter for amplitude as in volume, but not the peaks of the EQ bands. i dont think, you'll need fast fourier transformation to display the amplitude of each channel, do you?

The Equalizer display requires FFT processing to extract the frequency spectrum... The Bass audio engine provides

---------- 8< ----------

array), whereas the FFT data is windowed (and will always return a fixed size data array)...

EEEEK! That complicated??? The BASS doesn't provide volume / amplitude values? A pity! Evenmore the signal obviously is a pre fader signal which isn't really suitable for setting up a real VU meter tho... Anyway - nice new stuff in the display driver Talking the horizontal VU meter style EQ - what about a little R and a little L in front of the the peak? And what about something like a maximum peak memory display, where the maximum peak level remains for some time as a single | ... would then look like:

L |||||||||||||||||| |
R |||||||||||||||| |

oops... that probably wouldn't work with just eight custom characters if not you define the characters for the left and right maximum peak on the fly whenever it changes - I assume you need 5 custom characters to display the current peak level... and if this display was a color display and the data you get wouldn't be a pre fader reprsentation... well!

OK - I am demanding - shame on me...

Check out todays version of the driver...

I did and after I installed a different display with a higher resolution I even got the config dialogue on the screen at once... what a number of parameters... amazing

neat-o!

I think I wil be doing the fan control testing tomorrow as I already have recordings going on again. Btw - I have the impression, that the FFT data is quite OK. I could test it using a pure sinus glissando - do you happen to know the frequency range covered by the FFT data delivered by the BASS system?

Greets

Axel

 

[Herr R aus B]

Finally MP also crashed here! Yeehaaaaaaaah!

I thought it never would happen to me, but it did. Using the mono EQ display while playing music I got a nice hung up. Find the log attached - maybe it is associated with the new driver's version...



Axel