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[traker1001]

Originally Posted by Goodspike

I'd be happy with an icon to hit when in full screen that would exit Sage. I don't know why it's taking them so long to add that. Seems like if you're running service the icon to put it to sleep is totally useless.

To exit I need to switch from full screen and then click to exit. Gets annoying.

Actually, I dont know much, But This is the one feature I know SageMC does Have.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by toricred

I'd really like Parental Controls that allow us to lock channels, not just programs.

This is my top request too...

[foolio]

1. Picture-in-picture - I have 3 HD tuners and 3 SDTV tuners. sucks that I can't watch more than 1 football game at a time

2. Nicer interface - beyondTV and Windows MCE both look alot nicer

3. HDTV thin client

[lotusvball]

Originally Posted by foolio

1. Picture-in-picture - I have 3 HD tuners and 3 SDTV tuners. sucks that I can't watch more than 1 football game at a time

2. Nicer interface - beyondTV and Windows MCE both look alot nicer

3. HDTV thin client

Every other DVR has PIP, why not Sage?

[mikejaner]

Every other DVR has PIP, why not Sage?

Other than MythTV, what DVR Software/Hardware does?
Mike

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by garyellis

Thus, it would be nice if Sage could somehow be pointed to the website and pick up the video/audio feed and play / record them

Interestingly enough, SageTVPlayer.exe can do just that! For one example, from a DOS box type:

 SageTVPlayer.exe http://66.250.45.118:7010

It would be really nice if Sage integrates this capability in the UI, so I can have a screen of preset stations and switch between them with the remote.

It would also be nice if the Sage people get a little more recent version of that SageTVPlayer (aka: MPlayer). The one that currently ships with Sage is rather old, and it gives me audio/video synch problems when playing some of my mpeg4 files. These synch problems disapear when I play the same files with more current versions of that player.

Patilan

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by Sam

Are there any solutions out there which let you grab and store one of these feeds instead of playing them live?

With the example from my previous post, just add the option:
-dumpaudio

...and it will store the feed to yout hard disk.

And this even makes it possible for SageTV to implement recording of multiple feeds and time shifting, the same way it does it now for the TV recordings.

Patilan

[Enormous]

Originally Posted by Patilan

It would also be nice if the Sage people get a little more recent version of that SageTVPlayer (aka: MPlayer).

Does anyone know what the differences between the SageTV compiled SageTVPlayer and regular MPlayer are? Would anything break if you simply renamed a more current version of MPlayer.exe to SageTVPlayer.exe?

[Patilan]

Originally Posted by Enormous

Would anything break if you simply renamed a more current version of MPlayer.exe to SageTVPlayer.exe?

Oh, trust me, I've tried that!

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for some reason. Probably Sage is using some undocumented or obsolete API call with that old version. Too bad because the newer versions do play my mpeg4 files perfectly.

Patilan

[sonoman]

How about gapless playback of audio files? I'm tired of explaining to people why my "stereo" stutters between gapless songs. And speaking of music why can't we get CD playback into this thing?

sonoman

[Pretzelboy]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Other than MythTV, what DVR Software/Hardware does?
Mike

Good question. Tivo sure doesn't.

[Goodspike]

Originally Posted by traker1001

Actually, I dont know much, But This is the one feature I know SageMC does Have.

Perhaps I need to be educated, but I've yet to find a one step process for exiting Sage when running full screen. There's standby, but no exit.

[PGPfan]

Originally Posted by Goodspike

Perhaps I need to be educated, but I've yet to find a one step process for exiting Sage when running full screen. There's standby, but no exit.

Pressing "Alt+F4" will exit Sage immediately in one step from full screen (as long as you can press them both with one hand ).

-PGPfan

[PGPfan]

Originally Posted by Pretzelboy

Good question. Tivo sure doesn't.

The only other one I know of is/was UltimateTV by Microsoft. Although I never used PiP, it was a great PVR even today. Sage offers much more flexability and customizablity, but it has some nice things that I wish existed in Sage.

Oh well, that's what Studio is for, right? I just wish it were a little easier to use.

-PGPfan

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by foolio

1. Picture-in-picture - I have 3 HD tuners and 3 SDTV tuners. sucks that I can't watch more than 1 football game at a time

2. Nicer interface - beyondTV and Windows MCE both look alot nicer

3. HDTV thin client

I agree with these points, esp. about the new UI. An much more MCE like interface shipped with the base version and supported and tested by Sage would be great.

thanks,
mike

[Goodspike]

Originally Posted by PGPfan

Pressing "Alt+F4" will exit Sage immediately in one step from full screen (as long as you can press them both with one hand ).

-PGPfan

I'm talking about with a mouse! I hardly ever have my keyboard out.

[dblaine2]

Originally Posted by Goodspike

Perhaps I need to be educated, but I've yet to find a one step process for exiting Sage when running full screen. There's standby, but no exit.

See the following from nielm to exit sage using his dynamic menus.

http://www.sage-community.org/index....mLets#exitsage

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by Goodspike

I'm talking about with a mouse! I hardly ever have my keyboard out.

As mentioned above, SageMC gives you a dialog box to sleep or exit (or cancel) from fullscreen with your mouse or remote.


Gerry

[Goodspike]

Originally Posted by gplasky

As mentioned above, SageMC gives you a dialog box to sleep or exit (or cancel) from fullscreen with your mouse or remote.


Gerry

That would help a lot, if I knew what SageMC was.

Edit: I've done a search and found out it's a custom UI. Not sure why a program would need to have a custom UI to have an exit button. It seems sort of basic, and rather an easy thing to add.

I'm just using the basic Sage software, (single computer, no server, nothing added) and it doesn't do that.

[sainswor99]

Exactly my point as posted above: I like the fact that Sage gives you the opportunity to add custom funtionality, but I don't understand how, why or when that custom functionality will get applied to the base product.