Tray Icon

[kylesit]

Does the ffdshow icon only appear in the systemtray when the video portion of windows media player is used? Is the icon supposed to appear when playing audio files?

Thanks in advance
Lou

[Shark007]

When FFDshow is 'in use' it will display an icon in the system tray.
A red colored icon is used for Video (this will also show in the tray while generating thumbnails or displaying Subtitles)
and a Blue colored icon is used for Audio

[kylesit]

(08-17-2009 03:15 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  When FFDshow is 'in use' it will display an icon in the system tray.
A red colored icon is used for Video (this will also show in the tray while generating thumbnails or displaying Subtitles)
and a Blue colored icon is used for Audio

I have Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit Edition
Vista codecs 5.3.7 installed
x64 components v2.0.7 installed
Media control 6.0.1 installed
Media control x64 6.0.1 installed

Should the icon appear when I play a mp3 audio file?
I get the blue icon when a video movie file is played

[Shark007]

you should not have Media control 6.0.1 installed, that is for the x86 version of MediaCenter

x64 Windows only has one version of Media Center, it is x64

As for the icon, I will quote myself...

Quote:When FFDshow is 'in use' it will display an icon in the system tray.

[kylesit]

I will uninstall media control 6.0.1

I do not have any tray icons when any type of audio only file is played?

Lou

[Shark007]

I do not know if there is any interaction between the 2 Media Control Programs.
I would suggest uninstalling both, and then re-installing the x64 version.

If the audio is being processed by FFDshow, a blue icon will show.
If the audio is being processed by AC3Filter, that icon will appear.
If the audio is being decoder by the OS or a monogram codec, no icon will appear.

[kylesit]

(08-17-2009 03:37 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  I do not know if there is any interaction between the 2 Media Control Programs.
I would suggest uninstalling both, and then re-installing the x64 version.

If the audio is being processed by FFDshow, a blue icon will show.
If the audio is being processed by AC3Filter, that icon will appear.
If the audio is being decoder by the OS or a monogram codec, no icon will appear.

Have new information
When a audio file is played the following is greyed out
WMP VIDEO PROCESSING DMO
WMP SPECTRUM ANALYZER DMO
WMP EQUALIZER DMO
WMP SRSWOW DMO
AVI SPLITTER DMO
FILE SOURCE ASYNC.

I also downloaded and installed graph studio 64
When i play an video file the flow is as follows
movie file-avisplitter-ffdshow videodecoder-video renedering device
ffdshow audiodecoder-direct sound device
both tray icons appear

When i play a mp3 audio file
mp3 file-mpeg 1 stream splitter-ffdshow audiodecoder-directsound device

No tray icons?
Have vista home premium 64bit installed
Have x64 components intalled
Have vista codecs 537 installed
Please not x64 will not work if the codec package is not installed

I have tried several senarios including installing just ffdshow current 64 bit software same result
Get both tray icons when a video file is played
No tray icons when audio only file is played?

Thanks Lou

[Xanashi]

(08-17-2009 05:01 PM)kylesit Wrote:  I have tried several senarios including installing just ffdshow current 64 bit software same result
Get both tray icons when a video file is played
No tray icons when audio only file is played?

Isn't this exactly how it should be?

Both tray icons will be shown, when you play a video file,
because the video decoder (red tray icon) is decoding the video,
and the audio decoder (blue tray icon) is decoding the audio (in the video).

When playing a standalone mp3 file in wmp, it is most likely that MS own audio decoder will take care of the decoding,
therefore no tray icons will be shown.

If the standalone audio file has a rare format, it might be to much for the MS decoders,
and in these cases ffdshow will probably take over the decoding, resulting in a blue tray icon showing.

[deeprajhere]

(08-17-2009 03:15 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  When FFDshow is 'in use' it will display an icon in the system tray.
A red colored icon is used for Video (this will also show in the tray while generating thumbnails or displaying Subtitles)
and a Blue colored icon is used for Audio

Hey Shark

As I said earlier, I liked the previous view than right now, when there was no tray icon, unless it is a subtitle. Can you put some control such that the tray icon only comes, when there is some extra feature in media like multiple audio tracks, multiple video tracks (very rare) or subtitle or DVD settings or any other extra functionality.

I know that you only compile the codecs together, but can you see if it is possible. Because without extra feature, tray icons looks horrible. But when there is some extra functionality in media, it is also necessary.

Please do some research for this. As we all love your pack. Add this thing to make it awesome.

At least put some control to switch the tray icon behavior to turn on/off the tray icons from the settings application as most of media don't have extra features.

One more thing, I got one small bug in settings application. When I added WMP filetype association, it started showing two "WMP" options in "open with" shell option in filetypes, which were already associated with WMP. (OS - Xp SP3, Player - WMP 11)

Thanks in Advance

[Shark007]

Adding a control to allow turning all tray icons on/off slipped my mind.
They will be on by default but a single click will turn them all off.

I will add such a feature to the next release(s).