STV: nielm combo STV (v1.8 Oct 19)

[OverClock]

Here's the updated version of the batch file to clean up orphaned files from commercial skip, this one does the new files comskip v.5x creates and can handle spaces in path and file names:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.txt') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.txt")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.log') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.log")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.chp') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.chp")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.logo.txt') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.logo.txt")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.csv') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.csv")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.srt') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.srt")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.smi') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.smi")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.cut') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.cut")
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%i in ('dir /s/b *-0.VPrj') do if NOT EXIST "%%i.mpg" (del "%%i.VPrj")

Save and run the batch file from within your videos folder. I recommend adding this a scheduled event to run everyday to keep your folder clean.

[Archerkit]

So I was happily using Nielm's awesome STV with 2.0. Out of curiosity I upgraded to 2.1RC4, and reverted to the default STV. Now I *really* miss the Nielm - so should I go ahead and use it with 2.1RC4, or revert back to 2.0, or just wait?

Also, I'd like to 'clean up' my Sage files a bit after trying out other STVs. (I'm thinking I should do a clean install and copy over my properties & wiz.bin files) But there are a bunch of mlbdude entries in the properties file - can I get rid of them?

Thanks for your help!

[bizarro]

Best way I have found is do a new install and set everything up the way you like, keeping it all stock. Next copy the folder to a new location, also do a copy after you install all the upgrades the way you like them, when you are sure it is all stable. Then install all the STV's and experiment all you like. When it blows up or you want to return to stock, delete all the files and folders and copy the copy you made back to the initial folder. All is then removed and reset. I did this prior to installing the beta 2.1 and am glad I did. I copied it to my D: drive for safe keeping. My C: drive died last night and I would have lost all my work.

[nielm]

my stv uses some of those mlbdude properties for the mlbdude screens.
Frey would prefer that you test betas with the original STV to iron out the bugs...
As for whether mine will work in 2.1... http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showpos...&postcount=402

[Methius]

Hello, I'm having problems getting the Weather module to run..
Error: failed to run weather retriever:
C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\STVs\OriginalV...
(it ends there)

My Sage.prop settings:
mlbdude/weather_exe=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\GetWeather.exe
mlbdude/weather_exe_java=false
mlbdude/weather_file=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\MlbDude\\Weather.txt
mlbdude/weather_provider=www.weatherroom.com
mlbdude/weather_url=
mlbdude/weather_zip=NLXX0014

I have the MlbDude2 skin installed (there is a GetWeather.exe in the STV folder).

When I install the .bat version of the weather suite from Nielm, and set it up... It runs fine.. But in his version I can't make a diff in the menu layout.
Any help would be appreciated

[big boi]

hey there, been using sage for about a month to a very limited extent. then someone mentioned these customizations on another forum so i decided to investigate. WOW!! nielm, you have really taken this software from sort of kind of useful to a stage where i may never see the desktop again. thank you and malore, and mlbdude, and everyone else working hard on these custom STVs.

anyway, i am trying to customize this customization i have changed out the cities in the weather suite. if anyone is having trouble with that i can provide my limited knowledge on it. i've also changed the Play DVD menu item to launch zoomplayer, and i altered the web browser menu item to launch firefox.

had a question about the menu.xml file, but i found the wiki

i'm trying to run mame, but i get the problem i've seen elsewhere where when you quit mame the sage screen is black. someone said to set switchres=0 in mame.ini. i don't have a mame.ini file. so in sage.properties i tried adding the -noswitchres to the mame/mame_exe_path=C\:\\Program Files\\MAME\\mame.exe line. i think the -noswitchres parameter is being ignored though.

so 2 questions. are the people with the mame.ini file running something other than the command line version of mame? is there a way to add paramters on lines in the sage.properties file?

thanks,
big boi

ps- also, if you recompress a show externally but put it back in your video directory with the same filename will it still have the right show info?

[big boi]

these are the lines from my sage.properties file.

mlbdude/weather_exe=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\MlbDude\\GetWeather.exe
mlbdude/weather_exe_java=false
mlbdude/weather_file=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\MlbDude\\Weather.txt
mlbdude/weather_provider=www.weatherroom.com
mlbdude/weather_url=http\://www.weatherroom.com/xml/ext/
mlbdude/weather_zip=20886

Originally Posted by Methius

Hello, I'm having problems getting the Weather module to run..
Error: failed to run weather retriever:
C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\STVs\OriginalV...
(it ends there)

My Sage.prop settings:
mlbdude/weather_exe=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\GetWeather.exe
mlbdude/weather_exe_java=false
mlbdude/weather_file=\\STVs\\OriginalV2\\MlbDude\\Weather.txt
mlbdude/weather_provider=www.weatherroom.com
mlbdude/weather_url=
mlbdude/weather_zip=NLXX0014

I have the MlbDude2 skin installed (there is a GetWeather.exe in the STV folder).

When I install the .bat version of the weather suite from Nielm, and set it up... It runs fine.. But in his version I can't make a diff in the menu layout.
Any help would be appreciated

[ukmgranger]

Just sorting out my menus. Anyone know where I can get hold of the icons that are used in nielms STV (eg 'mm_info.png')?

I cant seem to find the example icon anywhere.

Alternatively - does anyone know where these icons were sourced?

[alon24]

Nielm Hi
a few questions:
1. would it be possible for u to incorparate the mini guide by mlbdude2, into u'r stv? (the mini guide apppears when watching tv and you can browse the shows while watching tv).
2. in a response to a question of mine, andy (MalDude2) added some properties to his 2.1 stv and with them we can view the custom guide in hebrew (show names), http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...8&page=1&pp=20
can u add these to u'r stv so i can use it and see the favorites in hebrew?

3. it used to be that in the tvguide I saw arrows over the timeline so i can click and it would advance a day or back-up a day and on the show timeline, an arrow would appear over it, so i can move the shows forward and backwords. I do'nt see these icons now, I would love to get them back if anyone knows how to return them.

i am currently using the 2.1 version but i don't think thats the reason for q' number 3.

alon24

[nielm]

Originally Posted by ukmgranger

Just sorting out my menus. Anyone know where I can get hold of the icons that are used in nielms STV (eg 'mm_info.png')?

I cant seem to find the example icon anywhere.

Alternatively - does anyone know where these icons were sourced?

they are in the mlbdude2 STV zipfile

The source is the GANT iconset at deviantart.com

[nielm]

Originally Posted by alon24

Nielm Hi
a few questions:
1. would it be possible for u to incorparate the mini guide by mlbdude2, into u'r stv? (the mini guide apppears when watching tv and you can browse the shows while watching tv).
2. in a response to a question of mine, andy (MalDude2) added some properties to his 2.1 stv and with them we can view the custom guide in hebrew (show names), http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...8&page=1&pp=20
can u add these to u'r stv so i can use it and see the favorites in hebrew?

I am not updating this STV (other than bugfixes) until 2.1 goes 'gold' Sorry... Some of the features will be made available soon as importable modules for 2.1....

3. it used to be that in the tvguide I saw arrows over the timeline so i can click ... I would love to get them back if anyone knows how to return them.

Setup/detailed setup/general/enable mouse icons...

[nielm]

Originally Posted by big boi

ps- also, if you recompress a show externally but put it back in your video directory with the same filename will it still have the right show info?

I cannot comment on MAME (sorry) but in 2.0, the show information is linked to the exact file name, so even changing it from .mpg to .avi means that you will lose the show information...
(workaround... Use the Malore sage recordings view to export show information to show.xml, convert it to info.my format, and add it in the video library)

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by alon24

3. it used to be that in the tvguide I saw arrows over the timeline so i can click and it would advance a day or back-up a day and on the show timeline, an arrow would appear over it, so i can move the shows forward and backwords. I do'nt see these icons now, I would love to get them back if anyone knows how to return them.

_If_ this STV is using the customized LiveTV Guide from mlbdude's STV, those arrow icons were removed and you cannot get them back.

- Andy

[abasu2003]

This is a question about newsfeeds.

1) I know you answered the email question in another thread but is there a way to get web email to show up in a newsfeed (like gmail or hotmail).

2) Is there a reason that the feeds from blogs won't show up. Most blogs have an atom.xml file they generate like this one.
http://soxyankees2004.blogspot.com/atom.xml
But I can't get them to publish in the reader. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[nielm]

Web email: if the web email provider provides an RSS feed, yes. If they provide POP or IMAP access then the mailfeed php script I found can be used to generate a feed.

2) Atom is not RSS... they are different formats. My RSS newsreader can only read RSS... You can either enhance the java to parse and read Atom feeds, or use a tool such as Feedburner to convert between the two: http://www.feedburner.com (never used it myself).

Originally Posted by abasu2003

This is a question about newsfeeds.

1) I know you answered the email question in another thread but is there a way to get web email to show up in a newsfeed (like gmail or hotmail).

2) Is there a reason that the feeds from blogs won't show up. Most blogs have an atom.xml file they generate like this one.
http://soxyankees2004.blogspot.com/atom.xml
But I can't get them to publish in the reader. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[abasu2003]

FYI:

feedburner didn't work for me but http://www.2rss.com/software.php?page=atom2rss works great.

Also, http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1 works without advertisements but doesn't include as much information by way of the actual message.

Both just generate a web address that you can use in nielm's news reader

thanks for the info, nielm

EDIT: After doing much research, I've learned that gmail has an atom feed. However, the problem is that it requires authentication (obviously) and none of the atom to RSS converters support authentication, at least none of the above. If anbody can figure out a way around this, or find a converter that does convert authenticated atom feeds to RSS, please let me know. thanks

[OverClock]

A great idea would be to add the ability to define external commands that can be executed from the SageTV menus like having a menu of blank menu items that the name of the item and the command attached to it can be defined so that things like the cleanup batch file for orphaned files and the command line defragmenter can be run from the menus so whatever extra things that need to be done can happen without leaving the menuing interface.

[abasu2003]

Originally Posted by OverClock

A great idea would be to add the ability to define external commands that can be executed from the SageTV menus like having a menu of blank menu items that the name of the item and the command attached to it can be defined so that things like the cleanup batch file for orphaned files and the command line defragmenter can be run from the menus so whatever extra things that need to be done can happen without leaving the menuing interface.

You can define external commands in the menu.xml file

[mikejaner]

Hey, I just loaded your skin on 2.1RC5, and it works great!!! I love the transparency in overlay. is there a way to change the color? Would I just modify the color of the mesh pic?

[Methius]

I still can't get that damn weather suite to work...
I installed it, along with the Mlbdude2 skin, have the correct path for the GetWeather.exe. It works if I install the Nielm Weather extractor, (that .bat file) , but then I only get a basic 10 day forecast on the screen, nothing like the fancy pics showed on the Nielm website.

Thanks for any help..