CybrDisplay - External Display Driver package by CybrMage

Author

?CybrMage

Features

support for display specific ICONs
Optical Drive status (optional - on displays that support status icons)
Large Icons (on supported graphic LCD displays)
EQ Display (optional - on supported displays)
* Stereo EQ Display (optional)
* VU Meter display (optional)
Blank display during video playback (optional)
Restrict Display update rate (optional - on supported displays)
Explict ?PowerState Monitoring (optional)
Show Track Information during EQ Display (optional)
Enable display on MediaPortal action when playing a video (optional)
Blank display when MediaPortal goes idle (optional).
Custom shutdown message support (optional)

Supported Displays / Devices

?SoundGraph iMon VFD displays, including OEM versions (Older units, MFG before approx. October 2007)
?SoundGraph iMon LCD displays, including OEM versions (Older units, MFG before approx. October 2007)
?SoundGraph iMon VFD HID displays, including OEM versions (Newer units, MFG after approx. October 2007)
?SoundGraph iMon LCD HID displays, including OEM versions (Newer units, MFG after approx. October 2007)
VL Systems MPlay and LIS2 displays, retail and OEM versions
?CrystalFontz CFA631 / CFA632 / CFA633 / CFA634 / CFA635 displays
Matrix Orbital MX Series Character VFD displays
Matrix Orbital GX Series Graphical LCD displays
Medion MD8800 series displays (Dritek VFD controller based displays)
Generic Windows Media Center Edition compatible displays
Generic serial port based VFD/LCD displays, including Point-Of-Sale display devices (See CybrDisplaySerialFormats for information)
xPL Home Automation protocol connector (see CybrDisplayXplScemas for control and display information)

Availability

The Plugin is available in the MediaPortal 1 External Display Support CybrDisplay Thread

History

Since the latest changes to the Mplay, ?SoundGraph and LCDHype driver have not been, and likely never will be, committed to SVN, there have been many reports that the latest versions of these drivers do not opperate correctly with recent SVN versions of MediaPortal.

Having these drivers as a seperate DLL eliminates compatability problems caused by changes to the other packages included in the ?ProcessPlugins.dll through updates introduced by SVN changes. It also allows the other plugins contained in the ?ProcessPlugins.dll to continue development without affecting the operation of the display drivers. It also allows continued development of advanced features for the external displays