AutoRefresh: Support Thread

[gEd]

thanks Iain, will download now and report back if I have any problems.

[dshoup]

I gave this plugin a try yesterday but had issues with it changing the resolution of my computer monitor (and not putting it back). I use an ATI Radeon 6670 card with the primary monitor being a 19" LCD with 1400 x 1050 resolution and my HDTV as the secondary monitor at 1920 x 1080. When I let Auto Refresh run, it sets the primary monitor to 1920 x 1080, resulting in a blank screen (monitor cannot handle the signal). I have to manually load the ATI Catalyst Control center on the TV monitor and change the resolution to get the monitor working again. Any way to avoid this behavior. I only care about syncing the frame rate of the TV as that is where we watch videos...can the plugin be set to only affect one video output?

[imilne]

The plugin isn't multimonitor aware so I wouldn't run it just now if the HDTV isn't the primary device. I'll look at updating it if I can though.

Iain

[imilne]

Try the attached (test) version. I don't have access to a multimonitor setup at the moment, so it's a bit of a guess and may not work.

Specify the monitor number (0, 1, 2, etc) that the plugin should try to control using the settings dialog.

Iain

[BigMoose]

Hey, I've just discovered this plugin and it's fantastic for mkv files / US content. However it seems that for some reason it decides BBC1 HD recordings aren't in 50Hz and changes to something and screws up the over scan. Probably something dumb i've not done, so I'll continue to play with it when the family aren't watching telly Thanks for such a great plugin, really makes a big dif watching 23.9 content.

[imilne]

Flick it to debug mode and post some logs and I'll take a look. From memory, it doesn't detect on .ts files so should just use whatever rate is specified as the default.

Iain

[BigMoose]

Seems it thinks it's 25Hz, from the log:

2013-10-14 20:07:10.512 [DEBUG][1] Playing video file: E:\Recordings\Strictly Come Dancing\Strictly Come Dancing_20131012_18302030.ts
2013-10-14 20:07:10.512 [DEBUG][1] AutoRefresh: Checking E:\Recordings\Strictly Come Dancing\Strictly Come Dancing_20131012_18302030.ts
2013-10-14 20:07:11.496 [DEBUG][1] AutoRefresh: MediaInfo reports framerate is 25.000
2013-10-14 20:07:11.498 [DEBUG][1] AutoRefresh: Switching refresh rate to 25Hz
2013-10-14 20:07:11.818 [DEBUG][1] AutoRefresh: Current refresh rate now 25Hz

It switches back to 50hz fine when done.

[imilne]

That all looks fine. You just need to match the 25fps setting in AutoRefresh to 50Hz.

I think the problem (which I've only just noticed) is that the plugin's default value for 25fps is 25Hz rather than 50 - my bad

Iain

[BigMoose]

Sorry, yes, I'm stupid because of course the stream is 25 not 50!! D'oh, wasn't thinking!

[BigMoose]

Can you think of any reason why at 25Hz the video doesn't properly fill the screen but at 50Hz it does? When it changes the refresh rate to 25, there's a boarder round the whole thing.