STV: MlbDude2 1.8.7 - July 5

[gotuitdan]

well, i've rebooted, restarted, and such several times. same problems. maybe there is confusion in my properties file? i've alternated between the original and various versions of both malore's and mlbdude's STVs...

hmmm.

[kny3twalker]

I have also will no problems

you could always close sage and delete it
you will have to reconfigure your channels and favorites again though

but starting back fresh may help

try deleting the backup one as well but make sure Sage is closed if you decide to do this and not just sleeping

[mlbdude]

I found a problem with the mini-browser that would only effect new users of the STV.

I see nothing wrong with the Sage Recordings menu, however, I have eliminated all ways to get to the old Frey included one so this should help some people. I will be posting another update later today.

[mlbdude]

Originally posted by humptybump
I am working on customizing the fonts for my instalation of SageTv with the MlbDude2 skin.

I have the font face and style set correctly but I can not determine which of the font entries controls the point size of the text of the channel names i nthe program guide.

No matter what changes I make, I can get the other items to be the right size but the text for the channel names (TBS, NBC, etc) are too big when the channel name is 4 letters or more (MSNBC, CNBC, BRAVO, etc).

This size is not customizable, however, it is set to auto-shrink if needed.

[mlbdude]

New version up. I also refreshed the main install. You can use it or the update to upgrade to:

1.8.5 - June 26 2004
Corrected property issue with Mini-Guide causing no airings to be shown.
Correct focus issues in Movie Browser.
Correct redirect issues from Video Playlist Clear menu item.
Changed STOP command to send back to Main Menu like the Origionalv2 does. This should help the 350 users.
Changed OSD menu item "Close File" to "Stop" for consistancy.
Removed all ways to accidentially get to the old unsupported Frey two-pane Sage Recordings menu.
Video Library now looks for an info.my (or whatever you may have changed default info file to) first. If it can't find it, it looks for EXACT MATCH FILE NAME.my. This allows to have multiple .my files in one folder with multiple episodes.
Added properties to display Archived Shows on Main Menu. It will probably have to be enabled before the text property is available.
ui/main_menu_archived_shows=false
ui/main_menu_archive_text=Archived Shows

[danward79]

Hi

Thank you very much for moving the archived show to main menu

I just added the new properties to the property file, and enabled it, but i can't get it to show up, tried restarting etc, still no joy any ideas?

Dan

[gotuitdan]

Beautiful... The Mini-guide look-ahead property works as expected!

Thanks, mlbdude!

[Alex0230]

Originally posted by mlbdude
Changed STOP command to send back to Main Menu like the Origionalv2 does. This should help the 350 users.
Changed OSD menu item "Close File" to "Stop" for consistancy.

I appreciate the effort, but I was still able to get the system to reboot itself 4 times this morning. I've switched from the beta driver back to the production hauppage driver to see if that makes a difference.

It's such a weird problem....no "hs_err" files are created, the system just immediately reboots. I'm typically finding that this is happening towards the end of a recording, especially after watching it a while. It one show this morning Sage was struggling to close it, it was stuttering a few second while trying to close so I pressed stopped and the system rebooted. But who knows if this is related to the beta driver or not since this never happened before that and like Jeff said, these STVs are at such a high level...they shouldn't be affecting that. If it starts happening again, I'll go back to the originalSTV with the production driver and see if it still happens.

Thanks again for your help with this.....

[mlbdude]

New update.

1.8.6 - June 27 2004
Fixed REW Timescroll issue with DVD's for.
Added group name and count for Sage Recordings Vertical menu.
Added new "Enhancements" section to Detailed Setup to configure most MlbDude properties.
Moved Main Menu options to new Enhancements section.
BETA Item: Added File Based music player. This works similar to Video Library but with MP3's. This is enabled in the new Enhancements setup area and will replace the other Music Player.
Added Custom2 Cycle menu to Enhanced OSD for Aspect Ratio.
Added Numeric Entry feedback popup to EPG.

Some experimental stuff here .

I also changed the OSD's to Close a file when it reaches the end of the file.

[humptybump]

Originally posted by mlbdude
This size is not customizable, however, it is set to auto-shrink if needed.

Thanks for the info. It appears I have selected a font that is confusing the "auto-shrink" algorithm because it displays pretty big characters and SageTV is truncating the channel names and adding an ellipsis - for example, "MSNBC" becomes "MS..."

[meekell]

Added Custom2 Cycle menu to Enhanced OSD for Aspect Ratio.
Added Numeric Entry feedback popup to EPG.

Both work great, thanks for the consideration.
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA

[danward79]

Hi

It seems to work ok, now except, when i back out of archived shows on the mainmenu, it goes to the dvd and media menu.

Also when i restart sage to initialise the skin, it looses the names of shows in the recordings section, do you have anyideas about that?

Thanks for your hard work



Dan

[kny3twalker]

Found another formatting issue ever since you added back the first run icon in the recordings list

here's a picture

[cmaffia]

Not for nothing, but your modifications are so good that Frey should make it as THE default in the original packaging!!!

The functionality you have added would DEFINITELY give this product much better reviews than it already has.

Keep up the good work.

Oh here is a request:

Malore has this filtering feature but it is very slow.
Can you mimic a Tivo guide feature where there is a split verticle pane... on one side are the channels and or the right side are all program in time order for the next two weeks for each channel?

That would be perfect!

[mlbdude]

Can you mimic a Tivo guide feature where there is a split verticle pane... on one side are the channels and or the right side are all program in time order for the next two weeks for each channel?

That sounds a lot like the Station Browser. Have you checked it out yet? There are three ways to get to it.

1. Search for programs to record\Browse Stations
2. In the EPG use the Options command to bring up a menu with the different views.
3. Use the Custom2 command from any of the Airings views to cycle through them (EPG, Station Browser, Category Browser, and Upcoming Movies).

Check it out. If that is not what you are talking about, explain how it would differ.

Thanks!

[darksoul]

You have done such a incredible job with this skin…

I would love to see more in the maintenance area though.

Would it be possible to do a custom command that brings up a popup window with the current available time (in min or hrs) you have free on your system?

I have 2 drives one set to use all but 10 gigs of space the other set to use only 10 gigs... my record quality is 2 gigs of space and I have a total of 80 gigs devoted to TV recording ( about 40 hrs ) I would love to know how much time I have free it would help in cleanup a lot.....

Would you be able to grab total space and divide by record quality to get the total time and then subtract the used space divided by the recorded quality to get the total free time ?

Regards,

Thomas Sexton
tsexton@cincom.com

[nielm]

I am having frequent UI lockups with this STV that I do not have the the OriginalV2 STV... They seem to be related to the 'Close File' command (I have Close File ; Home mapped to my remote's Stop button)... Is there anything I can do to debug this?

Other minor mouse issues: The Upcoming Recording list on the main menu is only click-able on the bottom half (half of channel icon + date/time); Similarly the 'progress bar' on the OSD is also only clickable on the bottom half...

[mlbdude]

I will have to look at the Close File item. Can you tell me if you are using the Stop binding from a particular menu, or are you using the Stop menu item from the OSD?

In a recent build I updated my STV to copy what the Original one does - Close then file then go to the Main Menu.

Also, are you using a 350?

[cmaffia]

Originally posted by nielm

Other minor mouse issues: The Upcoming Recording list on the main menu is only click-able on the bottom half (half of channel icon + date/time); Similarly the 'progress bar' on the OSD is also only clickable on the bottom half...

Is it possible to highlight the borders of the "Upcoming Recording" and "Currently Recording" on the main menu as to show it as a selected choice?

Also when you choose and exit "Currently Recording" and "Upcoming Recording", it should exit you back to those choices but instead places you on the top of the main menu.

Can you make it so that when you "Back" it leaves you at that choice? I like to thumb through the suggested viewings to rate them as "like" or "dislike" and being sent back to the top of the main menu makes this a little tedious.

Thanks!

[stanger89]

Hey mlbdude,

Have you thought of adding an automatic Close File (perhaps with confirmation prompt) that would automatically stop recording LiveTV after a period of inactivity?