Desktop installation on Windows 8

Found a new bug with desktop.  When you install it on Windows 8, it replaces the metro desktop.  So, while 7.1 is in beta, desktop should be renamed to something else to help deal with users being confused.  This will unfortunately be a huge problem for a lot of users.

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I mean the desktop tile, for those not familiar with Win8.

i'll try it on server 2012 and see if it is doing the same thing...  pretty much the same thing as windows 8

I tried it on two separate machines with the same result.  It is because the Win 8 install puts a tile up for every installed program.  And desktop cannot be on there twice.  Easy fix for Boonex.  Rename it.

It is not clear at all what the problem is.

Please can you provide more details with screenshots ?

ok well i tried to post a video as an attachment...  nothing  i then tried to embed a video and nothing.  at any rate it worked just fine for me with it being named desktop ....

i suppose you can watch the video here:

http://dolphinbeta.com/m/videos/view/destop-app-on-server-2012

it used to be a 1080p video until ffmpeg got a hold of it...   why are the video settings in admin not working anymore.  everything gets converted at 512k no matter what i pick ?

Thank you for the Video.

512k bitrate is not hardcoded, it should be changeable via settings in flash video player.

yeah that's the thing...   i changed it to 2048 in admin...  the video was 5000 plus k 1920 by 1080  the output after ffmpeg was 130k  640 X 380

so i had to change  flash/modules/video/inc/functions.inc.php to 2048

function getVideoBitrate()

{

    global $sModule;

    $iBitrate = getSettingValue($sModule, "bitrate");

    if(empty($iBitrate) || !is_int($iBitrate))

        $iBitrate = 2048;

    return $iBitrate;

}

and i had to change

flash/modules/video/inc/constants.inc.php

if(!defined("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9")) define("VIDEO_SIZE_16_9", "1280x720");

It looks like there is some bug here, please could you try the following fix, change:

$iBitrate = getSettingValue($sModule, "bitrate");
if(empty($iBitrate) || !is_int($iBitrate))
    $iBitrate = 512;

to:

$iBitrate = (int)getSettingValue($sModule, "bitrate");
if(!$iBitrate)
    $iBitrate = 512;

let me give it a try.  should i set constants back to 640 x 360  first ?

that seems to be working with exceptions:

admin settings:

100 quality 30 fps 

baseline video:

1920 x 1080  2362kbps   30fps  25.8mb

convert results:

21.m4v  640 x 360  144kbps  1.57mb 24fps 256k in admin

22.m4v  640 x 360  195kbps  2.1mb  24fps  512k in admin

23.m4v  640 x 360  261kbps  2.71mb 24fps 1024k in admin

24.m4v  640 x 360  34kbps  3.57mb 24fps  2048k in admin

25.m4v  640 x 360  374kbps  3.84mb  24fps  5096k in admin

26.m4v  640 x 360  378kbps  3.89mb  24fps  256k in admin

So with that being said your code change works for the bit rate but all videos are still 640 x 360 ....  the only way i can change that is in constants.inc.php

Thanks for the bit rate fix.

a little more testing...

constanst.inc.php   1920 by 1080

27.m4v  1920 x 1080 1715kbps  17.27mb  5096k in admin (extremely view able)

28.m4v 1920 x 1080 1184kbps  11.95mb 2048 in admin  (extremely view able)

constants.inc.php  1280 by 720

29.m4v 1280 x 720 758kbps  7.69mb 2048 in admin  (pretty view able)

30.m4v 1280 x 720 1123kbps 11.35mb 5096 in admin  (pretty view able)

Thank you very much for checking this.

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2960

This topic was forgotten.  Desktop is an application inside of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.  There are tiles on your start menu (Windows Metro).  One tile is called Desktop.  When you install desktop.air, desktop.air replaces the desktop tile.  Now users cannot go directly into their desktop environment.  And, you cannot switch between environments.  You should be able to go up to the top left of the screen to switch between start and desktop.  Desktop now does not appear.  This app needs to be renamed or else users with Windows 8 are going to have problems.

 This would be because you guys did not test your beta with Windows 8.  I did, and reported the problem while Dolphin 7.1 was a beta.  My description makes perfect sense, if you have worked on a Windows 8 machine or tablet.

Here is a screenshot of what your Windows 8 start should look like.

If you found yourself installing the Desktop app in Windows 8 or Windows 2012 and your tile is gone, here is the fix.

http://techxtras.blogspot.com/2013/02/fix-desktop-tile-missing-from-windows-8.html

We already changed title to the site name, and tested it as well, try to reinstall desktop module to regenerate desktop app installation files.