Problems with Configuration Manager

[calabar]

Configuration Manager seems to not work!

I set my kmplayer, then I create a configuration.
I change some kmp settings, and then I create another configuration.

But, when I load configurations, Settings are mixed, or often are lost...

It's impossible to set properly the player, and this bug make the player unuseful.
Please fix it!

[Pantuflo]

Follow the steps in User Manual ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) or search the forum to know how to set a configuration profile properly.

If the problem persists, describe your problem step by step so we can reproduce it.

[calabar]

I temporarily bypassed the problem in this way:
- I use configuration file (simpler to manage than registry)
- I setted kmp for the first configuration (without creating a config using the config manager), then make a copy of KMPCfg.ini file
- I setted kmp for the second configuration (without creating a config using the config manager), then make a copy of KMPCfg.ini file
- I open a clear KPM, then I create, using the config manager, two profile
- finally, I opened the tree cfg file (one with firts config settings, one with the second config settings ant the third with the configs created with config manager) and I copied the settings of the first two files in the third.

PS: the config manager should have an "update" voice to simply update a configuration with the present settings. It would be very comfortable.


Now I'll look at the manual, but I think I proceeded correctly.

EDIT: I didn't noticed the slide menu on the top left with the list of the configurations!
Perhaps the problem was due to this. I'll try again to see if using the menu solves the problem.

[scratchy]

hummm, personally sometimes the profiles reset completely...and I have to spend 10 mins re-creating them.

when everything's fine, I check the option to save to a .ini file.....then I set it to "Read only" and voila :cool:

and keep a backup somewhere ;)

[calabar]

Yes, I often loose configurations too...
Sometimes, even, on restart, I found old configurations I previously deleted O_o

I learned to save ini file as often i can! :p

It seems that if i create configurations subsequently, there is no problem.
But if i delete, rename or switch positions, then trouble starts!

[mouse]

Configuration file makes the launching speed of KMP very slow. Thus, I don't use it.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]

[scratchy]

no problem here with the latest beta.

but I've copied my HTPC files in a ramdisk :D

and it's good to have a "default" configuration that doesn't remember if there was some PS script enabled(like deinterlacing?) and if you checked "adjust window from outside" ;)

[mouse]

I have one and you can export it from preferences. No need to use KMPcfg.ini in general. I think so.

[scratchy]

yes OK.

but if you enable a deinterlacing PS script, and don't want it enabled for the next time you open a file..........or if you checked "adjust window from outside".

the next time you open KMP, it will remember that.....and that's annoying because you need to disable it...

at least my KMP with the .ini is fresh each time I open it ;)

BTW a friend of mine has improved the deinterlacing PS script, where should I post it ?

it looks PERFECT now :D

[mouse]

but if you enable a deinterlacing PS script, and don't want it enabled for the next time you open a file..........or if you checked "adjust window from outside".
I would rather use a hotkey. It's quiet simple. By the way, I don't use any ps script and the option too. There is nothing perfect in the world. :p

[scratchy]

what if you forget that you had turned on that filter.

it's annoying to have a video filter applied(basic, advanced or PS) if the file doesn't need it.

and only a read only .ini file can make sure that it doesn't happen.

well if you need deinterlacing, you should try the PS script from my friend......it's PERFECT :D

nothing looks as good....it doesn't blur, and kills 95% of the lines :cool:


// +deinterlace (blend).txt=ps_3_0
sampler s0 : register(s0);
float4 p0 : register(c0);
float4 p1 : register(c1);

#define width (p0[0])
#define height (p0[1])
#define counter (p0[2])
#define clock (p0[3])
#define one_over_width (p1[0])
#define one_over_height (p1[1])

#define PI acos(-1)

float4 main(float2 tex : TEXCOORD0) : COLOR
{

float2 h = float2(0, one_over_height);
float4 c1 = tex2D(s0, tex-h);
float4 c2 = tex2D(s0, tex+h);
float4 c0 = (c1+c2)/2;

return c0;
}

[mouse]

what if you forget that you had turned on that filter.
No problem. KMP has a filter log if you can read it (ctrl-tab). It's simple to call a video filter menu using hotkey too.

[scratchy]

I don't think we understand each other.

some filters I want them to be enabled only for the file that's playing.....and that it doesn't apply after I close KMP.

only a read only .ini can do that

[mouse]

I think so but I don't really see any reason of using .ini file if not for portable.

[scratchy]

ah well, I give up :p

[Peuj]

I think so but I don't really see any reason of using .ini file if not for portable.

In fact the true "problem" is that KMP saves automatically the settings changed during a playback session. So if you have a preset load it will be fully modified when you change a settings.

I think that the settings modified during a session playback should not be saved. It should be saved only if it's done from the preference panel.

[mouse]

Hmm, you can add it to feature request. Anyway, I like a default method.


ah well, I give up
Me too. :p

[calabar]

Sincerely, if using .ini file is slow, it is not so solw to discourage its use.
KMP load in a while using .ini file too, and I prefear a program that don't write in windows registry and has all settings in its folder.

About the "problem" that KMP saves automatically the settings changed during a playback session, is it not solvable simply creating a personalized default profile and telling KMP to load it at startup (or doing it manually)? (or I get it wrong?)

[Peuj]

About the "problem" that KMP saves automatically the settings changed during a playback session, is it not solvable simply creating a personalized default profile and telling KMP to load it at startup (or doing it manually)? (or I get it wrong?)

Yep you're right that's what I do but even using a preset you may have to modify a settings for a particular video and then it will be automatically saved.

It's not a big issue at all but maybe have an option to select to automatically update the preset or not could be a good idea.

[calabar]

So if I mofify my settings, kmp modify my saved presets (i.e. the current preset)?
Ah, so... that's because I didn't find a button to update presets :p