STV IMPORT: Multi-function Stop (v1.6 23/Oct/2006)

nielm · #1 05-31-2005, 08:57 AM

I have always thought that the Stop button is a bit out of place on a PVR -- it does not emulate a VCR's stop function (pressing play does not restart the video from where you left off) and there are a whole load of functions that it could do instead...

When I saw how SageMC handles 'Stop' (putting up a dialog saying 'what would you like to do?'), I thought: I like that!

By popular demand, I have also added a function that allows you to preemptively stop a scheduled recording.

So here is a plugin for SageTV3 based STV's that does similar things:

When something is playing, pressing STOP pauses playback and puts up the following menu:

If it is a currently recording file, you get:

When nothing is playing, but you have highlighted something that is recording, it pops up the following:

Otherwise pressing STOP takes you to the main menu (equivalent to the HOME command)

For library files, Delete is not shown, and for DVDs, there is also a DVD Menu option (which is the default if you are not already in the DVD Menu).

In the menu, there are shortcut keys are as shown so:

PLAY -- restarts playback
REW -- restarts playback at the beginning of the file
FF -- goes to Main Menu (or DVD Menu )
STOP -- closes the file and goes to the main menu

If you are not in the full-screen TV menu, any of the options to restart or resume playback will take you there, so STOP-PLAY is a quick shortcut back to the fullscreen TV view if you do not already have a button mapped!

Download link and installation instructions

History
v1.6 for SageTV v6 23/Oct/2006

make it work in v6
Use SageTV v6's intelligent return on STOP
Add Stop recording option to Stop popup and record options popup
If STOP is pressed when nothing is playing and a currently recording file is highlighted, prompt to Stop Recording
make it work in views where keyboard input is allowed (only when hidden extras is enabled)

17/Nov/2005: v1.5 for SageTV4

Use SageTV 4's delete prompt
tries to intelligently go back to a suitable screen when stopping/deleting from the full-screen TV page (ie Recordings/Video Library/Music, the same as when files are finished playback in the standard STV)
shows episode name or album/atist name in popup
'left' cancels popup and leaves video paused.

25/Jul/2005: v1.4 for SageTV3 -- uses SageTV3 highlighting and icons, use STVI file extension

2/Jun/2005: v1.3 -- resumes playback with play/pause (CTRL-Shift-S) and also responds to the commands to jump to specific screens such as Sage recordings/Video library/etc.

1/Jun/2005: v1.2 -- Fix transparent background problem

31/May/2005: v1.1 -- first version.

ke6guj · #2 05-31-2005, 11:50 AM

Just installed it, looks good so far.

One issue, I'm not getting the blue background behind the pop-up so its hard to see the words, they blend into the video.

I'm running the original STV

nielm · #3 05-31-2005, 12:43 PM

Odd... I just reinstalled and retested it and it worked ok for me (2.2.8) which Sage version are you using?

ke6guj · #4 05-31-2005, 12:57 PM

2.2.8 for me also

Also, once you hit stop, if you hit play to resume, should the pop-up disappear, mine doesn't?

abasu2003 · #5 05-31-2005, 01:45 PM

it all sounds like the same background image problem. maybe he just doesn't have that blue background. mine is working but i have so many stv's installed that i don't know if its using a file from the original or not.

ke6guj · #6 05-31-2005, 01:53 PM

I've been messing around with it. I copied in a fresh copy of the originalv2 folder and am now working with it to see if any of my other installed stv's had messed it up. No difference, except when I accidentally tried to use the import.stv as the main stv. I did get teh blue background, but nothing else worked

jlabrue · #7 05-31-2005, 06:10 PM

I'm having the same issue as ke6guj. It appears as if the background is transparent. It functions fine but is definately diificult to read against the video background. I have not tried disabling transparency in the menus yet. I am using overlay and Nvidia decoders.

dblaine2 · #8 05-31-2005, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ke6guj

2.2.8 for me also

Also, once you hit stop, if you hit play to resume, should the pop-up disappear, mine doesn't?

Nielm, you are simply awesome!

It works very well - I use Cayars 18E on Sage 2.2.8. BTW, I also have the same issue with hitting play to resume that ke6guj has. I have to arrow up to the option for the pop-up to disappear.

nielm · #9 06-01-2005, 03:26 AM

ke6guj + jlabrue:
Transparancy: found it!

On one of my systems it works fine... on the other, it does not! It looks like this is actually a bug in the OriginalV2 STV - if you try to delete an imported video file, you get the same problem... I will try to work around this in the import...

As for the pressing 'Play' problem - Where does this occur: when you press stop in the full-screen video screen, or in any other screen (or both)?

How are you pressing Play (remote/keyboard/mouse click)

If you press CTRL-G then CTRL-D (keyboard stop/play), do you also get the menu being left behind?

Does it also occur for STOP-REW?

nielm · #10 06-01-2005, 01:35 PM

V.1.2 released -- fixed the transparent BG problem... Can't reproduce the non-disappearing popup on STOP-PLAY...

ke6guj · #11 06-01-2005, 01:36 PM

my Play problem comes when I am watching full-screen or windowed, and hit the stop button on the remote. I use the remote to press play. If I do a stop-rew, stop-ff, or stop-stop, it seems to work fine.

I only use my remote (Hauppauge 45) and just noticed that the keyboard commands you mentioned didnt even work.

ed: checked the keyboard commands in Detailed Setup -> Commands -> Show Command and they showed just fine, now they seem to work. Also, I'm using SendMsg() commands with the remote, could that have anything to do with it?

ke6guj · #12 06-01-2005, 01:45 PM

1.2 fixed the transparancy problem just fine, thanks. Still has the pop-up problem you mentioned.

ke6guj · #13 06-01-2005, 03:32 PM

Now that the keyboard commands are working, the pop-up works fine using the keyboard, or STOPing with teh remote and PLAYing with the keyboard, but not when PLAYing witth the remote. I'm thinking it may be a SendMsg() issue.

nielm · #14 06-01-2005, 03:55 PM

Does your play send Play (msg 7) or Play/Pause (msg 59)? -- I am only handling the former (will correct that in the next version)

ke6guj · #15 06-01-2005, 04:01 PM

Just looked, its msg 59.

Ok, at least we figured it out. I'll look forward to the next version.

Thanks, Jack

ed: I just changed my play from 59 to 7 and your stv works perfectly now. Now, I just need to see if I notice the difference from PLAY/PAUSE to PLAY only.

ke6guj · #16 06-01-2005, 04:11 PM

When you select "delete file" what status does it set to the file, watched/unwatched? Perhaps having both variations in the pop-up?

nielm · #17 06-01-2005, 04:29 PM

Uploaded v1.3 -- now listens for play/pause, and various other commands that the menu screens also respond to (video lib, sage recordings, recording schedule, etc)

ke6guj: it depends on how much you have watched -- just like if you hit delete while watching...

ke6guj · #18 06-01-2005, 04:51 PM

Tested 1.3, looks good with play/pause.

Regarding deleting while watching, I didn't know since I don't have a key mapped to that on my remote. I usually go into recordings and delete there and set watched first if need be.

mayamaniac · #19 06-01-2005, 05:56 PM

wonderful, anyway to import this into Cayars 17 or 18E?

dagar · #20 06-01-2005, 06:19 PM

I think that mlbdude did an update to 18E to allow imports.

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