STV: SageMC 16x9 Version 6.x (latest dev build)

[JParedis]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Hmm, I just wanted to add this, and I noticed it already works that way ??




Dirk

Well, that's strange ! See the 2 screenshots, one the STD the other MC. Clearly the STD displays the thumbnails, the MC doesn't. Any idea what the issue could be?

Jan

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JParedis

Well, that's strange ! See the 2 screenshots, one the STD the other MC. Clearly the STD displays the thumbnails, the MC doesn't. Any idea what the issue could be?

Jan

Hi Jan,

so you have a 'folder.jpg' inside of the folders seen in the screenshot ?

Dirk

[JParedis]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Hi Jan,

so you have a 'folder.jpg' inside of the folders seen in the screenshot ?

Dirk

Dirk,

Aha, we are gettting there I guess. So it's no, I don't. I do actually have a folder.jpg in the root (that's the MUSIC logo you see on the jpg). All the other directories have a <same name as directory>.jpg. I also 'imported' this jpg in the mp3.
I believe the STD takes both, <same name> as those included in mp3. Could it be MC only takes the folder.jpg into account?

Jan

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JParedis

Dirk,

Aha, we are gettting there I guess. So it's no, I don't. I do actually have a folder.jpg in the root (that's the MUSIC logo you see on the jpg). All the other directories have a <same name as directory>.jpg. I also 'imported' this jpg in the mp3.
I believe the STD takes both, <same name> as those included in mp3. Could it be MC only takes the folder.jpg into account?

Jan

Yes, SageMC is only looking for 'folder.jpg'. I'm not sure, but I believe that in your case the default STV is picking up the embedded jpg from your MP3 instead of the <dirname>.jpg (Andy will correct me if I'm wrong). So would it be a problem to rename those files ?

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by Muchacho

Here is a feature request-

Would it be possible for sageMC to be able to use the name of the folder that contains videos for the name used to search IMDB. For example, say I have a ripped movie that contains two files named a.avi and b.avi, in a folder named Superman. Would it be possible to use Superman to search IMDB automatically and treat the two files as 1 Superman.

For how my system is set up, that would be a bit cleaner.

Thanks

Did you know that in the case where SageMC uses the wrong title for the IMDB lookup, you can always perform a manual search by pressing the Options button (ESC on keyboard) while the search results are displayed ?

Dirk

[Muchacho]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Did you know that in the case where SageMC uses the wrong title for the IMDB lookup, you can always perform a manual search by pressing the Options button (ESC on keyboard) while the search results are displayed ?

Dirk

Yea- That does work. I guess I am just lazy though!

Thanks

[mikesm]

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find it... Is it possible to use SageMC as the STV in a Linux server instance of Sage? The reason is that my RAID storage server runs on Suse, and with HDHomeruns, it seems possible now to run the Sage backend on Linux (where the disks are), and the frontend Windows (which has excellent graphics card support - e.g. Purevideo).

I know the Unix and Windows versions are supposed to interoperate, but was unsure about SageMC. If not, is it possible to run SageMC on a windows client and the default on the (headless) Linux backend? It seems silly to dedicate a new windows machine for Sage backend work when all of the resources are network based.

Thanks,
Mike

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by mikesm

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find it... Is it possible to use SageMC as the STV in a Linux server instance of Sage? The reason is that my RAID storage server runs on Suse, and with HDHomeruns, it seems possible now to run the Sage backend on Linux (where the disks are), and the frontend Windows (which has excellent graphics card support - e.g. Purevideo).

I know the Unix and Windows versions are supposed to interoperate, but was unsure about SageMC. If not, is it possible to run SageMC on a windows client and the default on the (headless) Linux backend? It seems silly to dedicate a new windows machine for Sage backend work when all of the resources are network based.

Thanks,
Mike

Yep, you can run a windows SageMC client with a linux SageTV Server. I used to do that for a while.

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

Yep, you can run a windows SageMC client with a linux SageTV Server. I used to do that for a while.

Cool. Now if I ran a MVP extender, would that see a SageMC interface as well?

Is all this still true with the V6 beta?

Thanks,
Mike

[pvr599]

I just have a list of questions, but I'm not sure if they are SageMC related or not, so if anyone can answer any of these questions or direct me to where I could find the answers, I'd appreciate it.

-Can I save the cover art for an AVI imported video in My Videos? Mpegs work fine.
-How do I add webradio to SageMC v6.3.0?
-Where is the search that only has one letter per box and not 3 letters per box? I saw and used it after one re-install and haven't seen it since.
-Can animated weather maps and cams be added to the weather?
-How do I get SageMC on my MVP? Before V6 I just loaded SageMC and my MVP would just pick it up and use it. Do I have to load it from the MVP?

These are just general problems:
The volume on all my imported video's is way lower than normal or recorded TV. Is there a way to adjust the volume for imported videos or is this just usually a mpeg or avi problem?
Is anyone having problems with Showanalyzer constantly crashing?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[JDizzy]

I seem to be having problems getting IMDB descriptions to stick (or save).

I get the info from IMDB, save it and it is good until I reboot Sage, or my machine.

When I go back and look at video information, the cover art is there but no description??

This is for DVD's that I have have ripped to hardrive and is structured in the directory like this and :

J:\DVD\DVD's\SUPERMAN <--- this is the folder with the VIDEO_TS folder in it
J:\DVD\DVD's\BATMAN

K:\DVD\DVD's\SPIDERMAN
K:\DVD\DVD's\THE HULK

I have multiple libraries strung across drives and when structuring them like this, the movies from several drives all appear to be in one library...
(all 4 movies above would be in one area called 'DVD's')

Another thing I've noticed is that when there are no descriptions (and only cover art), the titles of the movies displayed on the screen have the directories
appended to them like this: DVD's/SPIDERMAN

Once I get the definition from IMDB (again), the movie's title changes to: SPIDERMAN (and eventually changes back once I reboot and the description disappears)

Do I need to add a path to a database somewhere or what am I missing?


-JD

[JParedis]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Yes, SageMC is only looking for 'folder.jpg'. I'm not sure, but I believe that in your case the default STV is picking up the embedded jpg from your MP3 instead of the <dirname>.jpg (Andy will correct me if I'm wrong). So would it be a problem to rename those files ?

Dirk

Dirk (or Andy),

But in the "My Music" (so not the "My Music Files"), SageMC does seem to pick-up the jpg. Is this maybe because this part of the code is from the default STV (only the screen layout altered) where for "My Music Files" SageMC specific code was written.

Well, guess it's not that a big deal to change the jpg names.

Thanks ... Jan

[JonTom]

Originally Posted by flachbar

I will have sort of a 'compromise' for you in the next version...


Dirk

I don't know where Brookfield is but if anyone is going nearby, please buy Dirk a beer for me...

[White94Cobra]

Originally Posted by JDizzy

I seem to be having problems getting IMDB descriptions to stick (or save).

I get the info from IMDB, save it and it is good until I reboot Sage, or my machine.

When I go back and look at video information, the cover art is there but no description??

This is for DVD's that I have have ripped to hardrive and is structured in the directory like this and :

J:\DVD\DVD's\SUPERMAN <--- this is the folder with the VIDEO_TS folder in it
J:\DVD\DVD's\BATMAN

K:\DVD\DVD's\SPIDERMAN
K:\DVD\DVD's\THE HULK

I have multiple libraries strung across drives and when structuring them like this, the movies from several drives all appear to be in one library...
(all 4 movies above would be in one area called 'DVD's')

Another thing I've noticed is that when there are no descriptions (and only cover art), the titles of the movies displayed on the screen have the directories
appended to them like this: DVD's/SPIDERMAN

Once I get the definition from IMDB (again), the movie's title changes to: SPIDERMAN (and eventually changes back once I reboot and the description disappears)

Do I need to add a path to a database somewhere or what am I missing?


-JD

Are these on local drives or network mapped drives? I had an issue with the descriptions disappearing and it turned out to be the firewall on the PC that was sharing the drives (Windows Live One Care). I would go through and IMDB all of my videos, and slowly over a few days they would lose their description. Once I turned off the firewall the descriptions stuck (and have for weeks now).

[JDizzy]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

Are these on local drives or network mapped drives? I had an issue with the descriptions disappearing and it turned out to be the firewall on the PC that was sharing the drives (Windows Live One Care). I would go through and IMDB all of my videos, and slowly over a few days they would lose their description. Once I turned off the firewall the descriptions stuck (and have for weeks now).

They are local(?) drives as far as I have them plugged directly into the Sage computer via USB.
I'll look around about the firewall settings.


**EDIT
I turned off the Windows firewalls, enabled sharing of all drives, but still, the descriptions did not save....

I thought I read somewhere that you could 'dump' (or delete/move/rename) your xml file and it would rebuild a new one. I'm thinking there might be a problem there because some of the descriptions are saving and others not....but, both videos are on the same drive under the same directory. hmmm

(Initially, I had moved some of the videos from one drive to the other trying to organize things better and this is possibly where the problem began?)

**EDIT

Deleted wiz.bin and .bak, slowly everything in media directories was loaded. I added a few IMDB descriptions, saved them, rebooted Sage and they are gone again, just as before)

Could it be because I have 2 or 3 directories (on seperate drives) named the same? (it confuses Sage?)

-JD

[pvr599]

Hey Dirk
I had an idea for a feature that I had with my STB DVR. I'ts Autotune. To explain, let's say you wanted to see something that was on at 8:00pm but it was 7:40pm. You wanted to watch or do something else until that time and then you wanted Sage to automatically change to that channel at 8:00pm.

Does this sound like something that could be done?
Dana

[JDizzy]

Originally Posted by pvr599

Hey Dirk
I had an idea for a feature that I had with my STB DVR. I'ts Autotune. To explain, let's say you wanted to see something that was on at 8:00pm but it was 7:40pm. You wanted to watch or do something else until that time and then you wanted Sage to automatically change to that channel at 8:00pm.

Does this sound like something that could be done?
Dana

Couldn't you just set the show you want to autotune to record and it would automatically change to the channel?

[kricker]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Yes, SageMC is only looking for 'folder.jpg'. I'm not sure, but I believe that in your case the default STV is picking up the embedded jpg from your MP3 instead of the <dirname>.jpg (Andy will correct me if I'm wrong). So would it be a problem to rename those files ?

Dirk

ALL my mp3's have the album art embedded in them. Would it just be too much work for SageMC to use that as well as folder.jpg? I'd hate to have to redo over 4000s songs and who knows how many albums.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by kricker

ALL my mp3's have the album art embedded in them. Would it just be too much work for SageMC to use that as well as folder.jpg? I'd hate to have to redo over 4000s songs and who knows how many albums.

BY default the Sage core is using the embedded art and as far as I know so does SageMC. That's all I have is embedded art and it all shows in music. I don't have any folder.jpg for music.

Gerry

[kricker]

...but what about what Dirk said? I must admit I don't have any of my music in Sage so I hve no idea what it would look like, but I was planning on it soon.