MlbDude2 - Whats Next?

[pcuoco]

As a PVR-350 user I would like to see a better implementation of the Music Jukebox OSD. I want to continune to use Sage's interface so I can use the 350 output, but when I listen to music I have to keep the jukebox screen up. I have a tendency to let Sage randomly select songs while I do things around the house and the screen can sometimes stay up for several hours.

I don't like to leave it up too long for fear of burn in, but if I shut it off my fiance misses the interface. (She likes to see what song is playing when she doesn't recognize it.) If I go to visualizations what I get is a video still frame of the last show I watched. This doesn't help the burn in issue either.

What I'd love to see is screen saver or similar that plays in place of visualizations. It could display the current song information and float around the screen.

A simpler (but less fun) solution would be to change the visualizations to a plain black background for 350 users. This way it just displays video black, and the info button or transport controls bring up the song and track information.

I love your STV by the way. Keep up the good work!

[mlbdude]

Originally posted by laurenglenn
Actually, laurenglenn is a "she".....

There is no special code for 350UI, but you may want to look at the code for the TimeBar pointer's X-position. You may have taken care of this is since designing the one that comes with SageTV.....

Lauren

Whoa, a girl that is technical. I like that. Sorry about that stupid assumption .

[laurenglenn]

Originally posted by mlbdude
Whoa, a girl that is technical. I like that. Sorry about that stupid assumption .

It's like what Trinity said in the Matrix:

Neo: "THE Trinity?! I thought Trinity was a guy."
Trinity: "Most men do... "



Lauren

[kny3twalker]

Oh I got one more request
I had this happen with the Discovery Channel twice now
I set up a manual recording of a show
then the time slot occupied by that show was switched to another show without an notification from Sage
When it happened this time, the airing I had choosen to record was the last one and it was not replaced with another airing after the Discovery Channel decided they were going to air something else

If this was a problem with the guide info or a problem with the Discovery channel
I would like notification when a manual recording is changed from one show to another like this or for Sage to reschedule to another time slot (cause it was going to record the other show)

I hope this gets added
even though very small feature
I think it is important



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It's like what Trinity said in the Matrix:

Neo: "THE Trinity?! I thought Trinity was a guy."
Trinity: "Most men do... "



Lauren
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I was not sure myself (with Lauren) but did not assume you were a Guy
LOL

[laurenglenn]

Originally posted by laurenglenn
Actually, mine doesn't end playback a couple of seconds early. It tries to stop the OSD from Refreshing the time bar after a show ends. What I told Mlbdude was that there is no 350 specific code, but that the slight changes I made had to do with a remote possibility of a division-by-zero error.

The newest fix seems to check for this. It doesn't appear to be an EOF bug that's causing this. Mine hasn't locked up or slowed to a crawl after hitting the EOF. If the current fix starts doing that, then I will have to implement the pause before EOF.

Thanks,
Lauren

OK. Well, after getting another reboot after hitting EOF twice, I put in a CloseOfFile request 5 seconds before the video ends. The CloseAndWaitUntilClosed request actually closes the file the instant it hits the EOF and jumps back to the recording menu.

Lauren

[mlbdude]

Well it seems the two hot items are a Weather module and Divx compression. Weather module is not hard to do, but the Divx project could be stopped by the fact that there are not good command line (or config file) encoders. I don't see anything on an API either.

http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...&threadid=6103

If you know of any please post it in the thread above.

Now I see why BTV went with WMV so quickly. There is a full tool-set for that. But I will never go down that road, even if Sage adds support for that stuff.

[jglev]

First off I want to thank Mlbdude for his great work on this!!

In terms of wish list: how about a red "N" for a newly recorded show that hasn't been watched yet? It could disappear after it has been (or set to) "watched".

Also, I am not sure that Studio can do this, but a multi-speed/TIVO type FF/REW would be most welcome.

Thanks,

[mlbdude]

Originally posted by jglev
First off I want to thank Mlbdude for his great work on this!!

In terms of wish list: how about a red "N" for a newly recorded show that hasn't been watched yet? It could disappear after it has been (or set to) "watched".

Also, I am not sure that Studio can do this, but a multi-speed/TIVO type FF/REW would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Studio can't do FF/REW, that would be a core item.

What would be the conditions for the "N" to show? I could use a date compare I guess, for like 48 hours or something. Assuming I could get the date recorded from Studio.

I am also having an issue where to put these flags. Right now I have a "F" that shows up if it is a first run. Technically I don't have space to display it in the two pane views and it often gets overridden.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[jglev]

Originally posted by mlbdude
Studio can't do FF/REW, that would be a core item.

What would be the conditions for the "N" to show? I could use a date compare I guess, for like 48 hours or something. Assuming I could get the date recorded from Studio.

I am also having an issue where to put these flags. Right now I have a "F" that shows up if it is a first run. Technically I don't have space to display it in the two pane views and it often gets overridden.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for the info on the FF/REW. I figured that, but just wanted to make sure.

I was just thinking the "N" would be there for shows not watched yet (and disappear after the flag was set to "Watched"). Something similar to what TIVO and BTV have I believe (I think they use the word "New"). It would just be a quicker visual guide for shows not watched yet since I feel the italics/non-italics way that Sage does it now seems difficult to discern. I suppose if space is an issue, you could have an option to turn either "F" or "N" on or off, but not be able to turn both on at the same time. To me, the new flag would be more important than the first run flag.

Thanks again,

[SprDtyF350]

MVP support would be cool!!

Randy

[mlbdude]

Originally posted by SprDtyF350
MVP support would be cool!!

Randy

With Studio I could expose the data for the MVP, but the actual MVP side is done in something else.

I think BTV users have done it in dynamic HTML.

[SprDtyF350]

Oh well, it was just a wish.. That is such a neat box and sure would be nice if there was a real client for it.

Randy

[mlbdude]

If you can find some users willing to do the MVP side, I would be more than willing to dump the data they need.

[Brett]

I want a news/blog feed to be integrated... add some real functionality.

Also a red recording dot on the guide to indicate the show will be recorded would be nice. The whole highlighting of border idea doesnt work for me.

That Random Guy

[mrgibbysworth]

My biggest gripes these days are with the jukebox module, so how about considering some of these?

1. Some new visulizations or option to switch vis on/off? Option to show album/artist track info instead.
2. An "add (all) to now playing" option for filling up a queue while browsing tracks.
3. Tree based music browsing. I wish I could look at my music like this: Genre - Artist - Album (sorted by album year)
4. Listen to random tracks by genre.
5. Intelligent Artist sorting. Ignore "the" or "a" when sorting by artist. Use artist last name instead of first name if it is at all possible.

Nice job so far!
Dan

[White94Cobra]

Thanks for what you have already provided!

Some items I'd like to see...

1. Weather module (already mentioned)
2. E-mail module
3. DivX or Windows Media recompression (already mentioned)
4. Free disk space indicator on main menu (ala malore's)
5. Optional sound(s)for keypresses (like Tivo's bleep)
6. "Chapter skip" for skipping "chapters" you don't want to watch
7. Give the option for assigning functions to the navigation button's during video playback (like Tivo - pressing the right nav brings up the program description overlay, pressing the left nav button makes it go away)

[Brett]

1. Already happening
3. Not possible, Windows Media requires core modification
5. Not possible
6. Not likely, it would require extensive programming to create a function (either inside Studio or independent) that could find the commericals and mark them. Then it would require interpretting the chapters during playback

That Random Guy

[pcuoco]

5. Optional sound(s)for keypresses (like Tivo's bleep)

Actually, button clicks are already possible by modifying the irremote.ini if you use the Hauppauge remote. See this thread:

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...d+irremote.ini

[kny3twalker]

the others are possible as well

also mlbdude you should talk with SHS if you want to do the MVP thing

He will probably be able to get it done

[cmaffia]

I want to schedule my shows remotely!
So I guess a web service would need to be built.