• MediaPortal
• Configuration
• General

General

This section contains all settings that control the look and feel of MediaPortal. Some of these options can also be set from within the MediaPortal interface, in the General options of the Settings section.

• Start with basic homescreen (Default: off)

• This will cause MediaPortal to start with a simplified home screen, giving the menu options usually of !TV, Music, Video, Pictures and Weather. Note that the Skin has to support the Basic Homescreen (e.g. ProjectX).

• Start MediaPortal in fullscreen mode (Default: on)

• With this option you can configure MediaPortal to start in full-screen mode. If unselected MediaPortal will start in a window.

• Use alternate fullscreen Splashscreen (Default: on)

• With this option set, when in fullscreen mode, the splash screen on startup of MediaPortal will also cover the full screen instead of a small box in the middle of the desktop. NOTE:- This setting only takes effect when MediaPortal starts in fullscreen mode.

• Autosize window mode to skin (Default: off)

• Automatically sizes the window (if windowed mode is used) to the skin's designed size.

• Keep MediaPortal always on top (Default: off)

• Note that not only does this keep MediaPortal on top of other windows, it also prevents other windows from getting (keyboard) focus. With this setting on, you cannot control any other application until you've closed MediaPortal.

• Hide taskbar in fullscreen mode (Default: off)

• This will make sure you will not see the Windows taskbar when using MediaPortal in fullscreen mode.

• Autostart MediaPortal on Windows startup (Default: off)

• Automatically start MediaPortal when Windows starts.

• Minimize to tray on start up (Default: off)

• When starting MediaPortal, instead of showing the application, this hides it in the system tray. Useful if you have scheduled recordings with the classic inbuilt TV-Engine that requires MediaPortal to be running, or when you want to be able to quickly start MediaPortal.

• Minimize to tray on GUI exit (Default: off)

• When clicking the 'X' icon, MediaPortal will not close but will be minimized to the system tray. MediaPortal can be closed by choosing Exit from the File menu or Exit from the tray icon context menu. Enable this if you use the classic inbuilt TV-Engine.

• Show special mouse controls (scrollbars, etc.) (Default: on)

• Some pages show scrollbars etc, which only makes sense when you are using a mouse. If you are using a remote control, you can disable these controls.

• Hide file extensions like .mp3, .avi, .mpg, ... (Default: on)

• Hides file extensions when showing file lists.

• Enable skin sound effects (Default: on)

• Enable sound effects that are build into skins, for example the swooshing when selecting a menu item.

• Enable animations / transitions (Default: on)

• This will cause animations to be played in the skins transition to different screens. Switching from home to music for example wil play an animation to blend the transition into a fluent action.

• Disable tray area's balloon tips (Default: off)

• Hides the pop-up ?balloon tips that Windows shows on various events.

• Turn off monitor when blanking screen (Default: off)

• Turns off the monitor when MediaPortal is idle for more than 1 minute. Is only effective when a supported monitor/TV can handle the signals via the cable connection. This is an ideal setting if you are energy wise.

• Turn monitor/tv on when resuming from standby (Default: on)

• Some videocards and or monitors/televisions will not initiate when the PC wakes from resume. So the computer will resume but the screen stays on standby. Enable this if your TV or monitor will not wake up from standby

• Allow S3 standby although wake up devices are present (Default: on)

• Allow the computer to enter S3 standby mode even though USB devices are set to wake up the computer. (Normally, only S2 standby mode will be achieved with USB wake-up devices.)

• Restart MediaPortal on resume (Default: off)

• This will prevent stuttering playback with nVidia videocards.

• Show last active module when starting/resuming from standby (Default: off)

• MediaPortal will automatically show the last module, or screen, that was in use prior to the computer going into standby mode or exited.

• Automatically skip commercials for videos with ?ComSkip data available (Default: off)

• This setting will allow MediaPortal to skip through commercials that have been detected by the 3rd Party Product Comskip. Note this is only for the video section only of MediaPortal.

• Use screenselector to choose on which screen MP should start (Default: off)

• When enabled, the screen chosen in the dropdown box below will be the screen that MediaPortal will start on by default. Enable this if you use multiple outputs on your video card and would like MediaPortal to start on the secondary screen. You must also specify which screen you want to use (see below).

In addition, the following options are available:

• Log verbosity (Default: Information)

• Sets the detail level of the logfiles that are stored in the log folder underneath the MediaPortal application folder.

• Process priority (Default: Normal)

• Sets the priority of MediaPortal, higher gives MediaPortal more systems resources, too high can make the system unstable or crash when MediaPortal crashes.

• Start screen

• If Use screenselector to choose on which screen MP should start is enabled, this allows you to specify the screen you want MediaPortal to start on.