Category: Home and Media

After changing the screen resolution from Full HD (1920 x 1080) to 4K (3840 x 2160), Media Portal’s Titan skin’s text go very small. To resolve the issue, all I had to do was clear the skin’s cache. To do that, navigate to C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\ and delete the folder with your skin’s name (in my case…

Issue Some remote controller commands are processed twice by Media Portal making it impossible to perform certain actions. For example, a pause command doesn’t seem to do anything because the video is paused and then instantly unpaused. The controller in question is Logitech Harmony Hub working in tandem with IntelliRemote software which extends remote controller functionality…

Issue A Windows 7 Media PC (HTPC) with Plex and Media Portal TV servers installed never enters sleep on its own. It can be put to sleep manually via Start Menu (if no TV is being recorded or streamed), but it never enters sleep automatically according to the Windows Power Plan sleep schedule.

Issue Minecraft Bedrock server running on Windows 10 Pro PC started having issues accepting connections from remote computers. This didn’t affect loopback connections from a local PC (after enabling the loopback exempt), but both, PCs on a local LAN network and remote clients connecting over WAN could no longer connect. Unable to connect to world

Issue When watching recorded or live TV in Media Portal, aspect ration keeps jumping between different modes. Both, TV and Media Portal aspect ratios are set to the manual 16:9.

Issue DaVinci Resolve 16 render task fails in with the following error: Render Job 1 failed as the current clip could not be processed.The clip 2020-02-28 22.55.25.MOV could not be decoded correctly. Please check if the clip is still available on the drive.

  Issue Videos produced with Davinci Resolve (Cineform) and encoded to H.264 MP4 with Handbrake don’t work properly with some video player (i.e. Media Player Classic). The issue occurs when seeking / skipping using timeline. Instead of jumping to the place clicked on the timeline, it starts playing several seconds earlier or later.

I use Sony Movie Studio Platinium 14 and DaVinci Resolve 16 to edit videos. I recently tried to edit a slow-mo clip shot on iPhone XR and found that neither of these applications could properly open and display them. These videos were encoded with H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and shot at 240fps. This…

Issue Plex Media Player (v2.54) crashes on launch and the following error message is displayed: PMP Fatal Error!Plex Media Player encountered a fatal error and must exitCould not create EAE working directory.

DJI Mavic Air can generate 360 degree panoramas automatically, unfortunately quality of image stitching is far from perfect and often leaves visible blurring and artifacts in areas where images were joined. After a bit of experimenting I settled on the following process.

Issue Media Portal 1 plugin LogoManager doesn’t download UK TV logos. Logos generated: 0

I had an issue on my own Xbox One where one or other controller would randomly disconnect and then reconnect few seconds later after pressing A button on the affected controller. After ruling out obvious issues (low batteries, wireless interference, re-pairing, updating firmware), I started looking into hardware. Original Xbox One Controllers communicate using proprietary Wi-Fi…