General

Overview

The General section contains settings that affect MediaPortal as a whole.

Some of these options can also be set from within the MediaPortal interface, in the Settings > General section.

Accessing General Settings

The left Navigation Panel can be expanded by clicking on the + symbol to show all the General configuration options.

The General Configuration section contains sub pages for:

• Volume Settings
• Keyboard Shortcuts *
• Keys and Sounds *
• Dynamic Refresh Rate *
• Start/Resume - a new section which contains many of the previous General Settings

General page

On the main General page:

• Log verbosity (Default: Debug for Beta release - information for final release)
  
  Sets the detail level of the log files 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.
   
• Watchdog is the MediaPortal Debug tool. It can monitor MediaPortal and automatically gather the log files, zip them to your desktop and restart MediaPortal for you, if you choose.
  
  Note: You can also run Watchdog by using the MediaPortal Debug-Mode Shortcut which you will find on your Windows Programs menu under Team-MediaPortal > MediaPortal.

Changes in the latest release

The following table shows the changes that affect the user interface in the latest version of MediaPortal (final or test release), either within MediaPortal or in the Configuration tool(s). Select the links to view details of the changes. These changes are incorporated into this wiki page once the final stable version is released.

You may sort the table by any of the columns. Note: the Date column displays the date the UI Rellated Change wiki page was created.

 

Change	Date	Release
General Settings Restructure	2011/11/05	beta
Start/Resume Settings in Config	2011/11/05	beta
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