Screensaver

[Joram]

Where does one click Save?

[mvallevand]

Do you see it on the wiki https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/player-settings If you don't have the same screen some users had had trouble with the GUI not being saved properly but I can't remember if the command line option -nogl helps.

Martin

[Joram]

I do see it in the screenshot on that page.

Apparently what's happening is that the Settings window here is horizontally larger than the computer's screen and there's no evident way to maximize the window; to drag the top edge up past the edge of the monitor in order to see the bottom of the window; to resize the window; or to scroll down within the window to see what's at the bottom.

What is the -nogl flag intended to do?

[mvallevand]

I did some testing here and yes it looks like that dialog is bigger than 1280x720 or old laptop resolutions which you are probably running at. You probably need 900 or higher. The nogl option won't help.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I found the related post https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=63293

Martin

[Joram]

I did some testing here and yes it looks like that dialog is bigger than 1280x720 or old laptop resolutions which you are probably running at.  You probably need 900 or higher.  The nogl option won't help.
Martin

Ah, I see.

Up until this week, my tests with NextPVR have mostly been on the laptop's screen. There, the resolution was set to the maximum (1600 x 900 ?). But when the testing expanded a few days ago to a more real-life situation by connecting a TV set to the laptop, at that resolution the taskbar and desktop icons were bleeding off the edges of the TV screen. So I had to play around with the Windows display settings until I found one that gave the best resolution while remaining useful on both the laptop screen and the TV screen (1360 x 768).

Since the idea ultimately is to watch TV on a TV set, the TV set's requirements take precedence over the laptop's.

The TV I'm experimenting with is in my office and is not even the TV that matters the most: the one that wife will be using. That one will probably need its own display tweaks and with any luck, unlike here there will be a display resolution that works for all situations.

[Bobins]

Joram,

Some graphics drivers let you scale the screen to fit a display area without changing the resolution settings.
That may allow you to get to see the full screen within the resolution you need for laptop/TV.
Depends on the GPU and its support software.

Ray.

[Joram]

Joram,

Some graphics drivers let you scale the screen to fit a display area without changing the resolution settings.
That may allow you to get to see the full screen within the resolution you need for laptop/TV.
Depends on the GPU and its support software.

Ray.

Ray, that's an interesting idea, thanks.

This laptop only has an integrated GPU (Intel). If it were a discrete Nvidia or maybe AMD card, I'd know how to get to where you're saying.

[Joram]

I found the related post https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=63293

Martin

Thank you. As soon as I get the chance, I'll change the resolution back so that the Save/Cancel buttons become visible again and we can experiment with the screensaver settings.

[Joram]

Did you confirm that the Windows default screensaver works correctly with the NPVR screensaver set to none?

Yes, I've confirmed that this does work correctly.

However, the converse doesn't seem to work. With the Windows screensaver set to None and NPVR screensaver activated, and NPVR in full-screen mode showing the program guide or the recorded programs list, the NPVR screensaver isn't kicking in.

If worse comes to worst, I suppose I could leave the computer set to use the Windows screensaver instead of the NPVR screensaver.