How to display a Volume OSD!

[sgilani]

Just wanted to share a way that I found to show an OSD for volume (since I use my remote to control the computer's volume as I'm not using my TV speakers).

Download a program called Sound Control, it's freeware.

It's fairly easy to set up, and you can customize the OSD: position, font, size, volume changing interval, display time...

You assign keys to activate the program's volume changer.. for instance, I picked Ctrl+Shift+U for VolUp, Ctrl+Shift+D for VolDown, and Ctrl+Shift+M for Mute. But now you need to edit the irremote.ini file to accomodate this, so you go into the [Default] section and do something like:

VOLUP={ctrl}{shift}u

Or, I suppose you could put it into GBPVR's section if you only want the OSD to appear while you're in GBPVR.

It seems to work pretty well.. just thought I'd share it since I know a lot of people have been wanting native support; this is the next best thing.

[wannabepvr]

Interesting.

Does anyone happen to know what keys the MCE005 remote simulates for volume up / down? [do I have even have the question right?]

[MixMan]

I used another great program called MixerBrowser that allows you to make volume profiles.

http://media.virtuosi.fi/users/pdonner/mixerbrowser/

[sgilani]

I spoke a bit too soon.. whenever you change the volume with the OSD turned on, it slows the TV video to a crawl, and even the volume change itself is a bit sluggish.. we really need native support after all!

[wannabepvr]

Well you can certainly define F9 and F10 as volume control shortcuts and they certainly show as an OSD during GBPVR playback. No apparent high CPU load here.

Will try with MCE remote tonight.


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Move up UP ARROW
Move down DOWN ARROW
Move left LEFT ARROW
Move right RIGHT ARROW
Select ENTER or SPACEBAR
Jump back one page at a time PAGE UP
Jump ahead one page at a time PAGE DOWN
Start Media Center Windows logo key+ALT+ENTER (pressing this in MC will take you to main menu)
Go back to the previous screen or backspace a single character in Search BACKSPACE
Toggle full screen mode or window mode ALT+ENTER


Change channels

Change to a specific channel The number for the channel you want
Move up one channel EQUAL (=) or CTRL+EQUAL
Move down one channel MINUS (-) or CTRL+MINUS


Menu shortcuts take you directly to the main menus for feature areas.

To go to top level menus for
My TV CTRL+SHIFT+T
My Music CTRL+M
My Videos CTRL+E
My Pictures CTRL+I


TV and DVD menus

To go to TV and DVD menus for
Guide CTRL+G
Record CTRL+R
Details CTRL+D
DVD Menu CTRL+SHIFT+M
Recorded TV CTRL+O
DVD Audio CTRL+SHIFT+A
DVD Subtitle CTRL+U


Transport controls control the playback of your media.

Pause CTRL+P
Play CTRL+SHIFT+P
Stop CTRL+SHIFT+S
Replay CTRL+B
Skip CTRL+F
Rewind CTRL+SHIFT+B
Fast Forward CTRL+SHIFT+F
Mute F8
Volume Down F9
Volume Up F10 [/PHP]

[reven]

ive been using this program for a while now and i dont suffer from any slow downs or anything, it works perfectly.

[DrDavid]

Sound Control or MixerBlaster?

[sgilani]

well after a bit of tweaking, sound control isnt as bad as before.. but i'd love to try out something else..

[sgilani]

Well you can certainly define F9 and F10 as volume control shortcuts and they certainly show as an OSD during GBPVR playback.

Hmm.. do you have some sort of other software that's putting up the OSD? For example some of those multimedia keyboards have proprietary software that displays an OSD.

[wannabepvr]

OK. I defines volume up and down as F10 and F9 in sound control. And when I hit these keys I do get the volume OSD.

But when I use my MCE2005 remote I do not

I though the MCE2005 was just creating these dummy key stokes but perhaps not.


PS. No other multmedia software. Just 'sound control'