Some questions

[Athfar]

1) Is there a way to skip commercials? (like an addon)

2) How do you set the "Skip #2" ammount, by default i think its like 2.5mins (the faster skip on the hauppauge remote)

3) What's it mean when theres a TV with a exlamation mark? (in the top right as well as the systray)

4) Is there any skins for it like meedio has?

5) Is there a link for info about whats changing in the new version 3?

Thanks!

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by Athfar

1) Is there a way to skip commercials? (like an addon)

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=27 has info on different STV's (mods) and many of them have commercial skip/

2) How do you set the "Skip #2" ammount, by default i think its like 2.5mins (the faster skip on the hauppauge remote)

Yes, with Sage shut down, in version 2.2, you can edit the sage.properties settings for the skip time by changing the following lines, you may have to add the second one it. It may not be listed by default.

videoframe/ff_time2=120000
videoframe/rew_time2=-120000

120000 is 120 seconds in miliseconds.

edit: in Sage 3, the ff time is changable on the fly in the setup menu. And some 2.2 STV's (like Cayars) had it changable in the setup menu also.

3) What's it mean when theres a TV with a exlamation mark? (in the top right as well as the systray)

That means that Sage has some upcoming recordings that are conflicting and it can not juggle the schedule to record everything. if you go to "recording conflicts" in "schedule recordings" you can tell Sage what to record, and what to ignore.

4) Is there any skins for it like meedio has?

There are STV's which can change the looks of the UI

5) Is there a link for info about whats changing in the new version 3?

This is what OPUS4 posted the other day:

Originally Posted by Opus4

A more complete list of changes will be available later, but for now, here are some of the v3 changes, in no particular order:
Configuration Wizard for easier setup
DX9 Full screen exclusive mode
TVTV Support for European EPG listings
Canadian EPG support
Playback of ASF, WMA, WMV files
HDTV Recording & Playback
.tivo file playback
Playlist Importing (m3u, asx, wpl)
ATI 550 Support
French Language Support
SageTV Server Discovery from SageTV Client (list local addresses you can connect to)
Software Encoding support
Media Download / Upload to/from external device when a new drive is detected (i.e. mp3 player)
STV UI enhancements
Numerous other fixes and changes.

[Athfar]

Thanks!