Sage Mod for MediaMVP...

[x[corwyn]]

Dude this is very cool. Than You very much for doing this. I will be setting this up when I get home tonite. I'm pretty damned excited now...

[kevthor]

I downloaded and installed Mlbdude2's STV. I cant find the Data_dump in the sage properties file though. His stv is working fine?

What am I missing?
Thanks

[kevthor]

OK, I got it running. Took me a while to find the beta of MLBdude's stv but once I did I got the functionallity of data_dump.

But the problem is, my UI is not full screen. I am running NTSC? What can I change if everyone else's is full screen?

[Jason]

Originally Posted by insomniac

First of all Jason.....Thank you!
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What would you think about parsing out identification numbers after the titles( in the recorded shows, et.).
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To the first, I would like to say "Your welcome, but this is a work from quite a few number of folks... I just wish that we could all do more!

To the second, the ID #'s ARE parsed out... The videos files are not, but the Recorded Shows are...

See this pic...

-Jason

[Ralnee]

I've been playing around with my menu problem and it seems when I watch a Sage recoded show, and press the Back/Exit button on the the remote, my server's CPU goes to 100%, and and then drops back down to about 30%, but the show keeps on playing. Has anyone else seen this problem?

[kevthor]

Anyone have any ideas why my UI isn't full screen on NTSC?

Thanks

[Jason]

Originally Posted by kevthor

Anyone have any ideas why my UI isn't full screen on NTSC?

Thanks

Just so I know what you are referring to, can you post a screenshot?

-Jason

[kevthor]

I'm at work right now so I won't be able to do it till this evening. What is happening is, the UI with the menus, IE: Recorded shows, Pictures, etc. The blue background isn't the full size of my tv. My TV is only a 29" NTSC television. The whole UI has about a 2-3" black border all the way around it. The video plays perfectly, full screen. Just the UI has that 2-3" black surrounding border?

[Jason]

Originally Posted by kevthor

I'm at work right now so I won't be able to do it till this evening. What is happening is, the UI with the menus, IE: Recorded shows, Pictures, etc. The blue background isn't the full size of my tv. My TV is only a 29" NTSC television. The whole UI has about a 2-3" black border all the way around it. The video plays perfectly, full screen. Just the UI has that 2-3" black surrounding border?

Hmmm... Can you try and totally unistall the entire mvp installation and then re-install the latest beta hauppauge software and THEN install the Sage MOD? I want to rule out any misc. software.


-Jason

[Jason]

I want to get some feedback from folks...

We can control Sage via the sendmessage commands...

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...2628#post42628

and

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...&threadid=5253

and

http://www.freytechnologies.com/2_pa...wsMessages.txt

In addition to this, with a small addition, we can have the html files run programs on the host machine with this...

http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4941

With some care, we can merge the two issues and come up with some sort of control for Sage. While this is good for actually sending commands to Sage, it doesn't do any good as far as getting the info to the actual MVP.

What I am looking for is some feedback on how to accomplish viewing/utilizing the data from within Sage without having access to the wiz.bin file and the data within it. With the data dump(s) we have access to current_rec.xml (the file(s) CURRENTLY being recorded), recordings.xml (the info on the files that HAVE BEEN recorded), and the straight line text file schedule.txt (the files that are GOING TO BE recorded). Without any sort of data dump for the actual epg info, there is no way (without resorting to a standalone xmltv or zap2it data direct installation) to implement an EPG on the MVP...

If we go with an 'external' epg info source, the problem is 'how' to send that info back INTO Sage with any reasonable degree...

In short, I am just looking for ideas on how to best go forward with the Sage integration...

-Jason

[kevthor]

Originally Posted by Jason

Hmmm... Can you try and totally unistall the entire mvp installation and then re-install the latest beta hauppauge software and THEN install the Sage MOD? I want to rule out any misc. software.


-Jason

I will try the uninstall/reinstall but that is exactly what I did to install it. I had no MVP software installed at all. I intalled the Haupauge beta, and then the sage mod.

[insomniac]

Exact same experience. Im running the latest beta drivers from SHS. (2.2.22229)

I.

Originally Posted by kevthor

I'm at work right now so I won't be able to do it till this evening. What is happening is, the UI with the menus, IE: Recorded shows, Pictures, etc. The blue background isn't the full size of my tv. My TV is only a 29" NTSC television. The whole UI has about a 2-3" black border all the way around it. The video plays perfectly, full screen. Just the UI has that 2-3" black surrounding border?

[insomniac]

Wait for the web interface ?(exists somewhere in my sage dreams..). Anything would be possible after that comes out right?

Sorry,

All my other ideas are extremely ghetto and are probably not worth consideration for a long term solution.

I.

Originally Posted by Jason

I want to get some feedback from folks...

We can control Sage via the sendmessage commands...

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...2628#post42628

and

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...&threadid=5253

and

http://www.freytechnologies.com/2_pa...wsMessages.txt

In addition to this, with a small addition, we can have the html files run programs on the host machine with this...

http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4941

With some care, we can merge the two issues and come up with some sort of control for Sage. While this is good for actually sending commands to Sage, it doesn't do any good as far as getting the info to the actual MVP.

What I am looking for is some feedback on how to accomplish viewing/utilizing the data from within Sage without having access to the wiz.bin file and the data within it. With the data dump(s) we have access to current_rec.xml (the file(s) CURRENTLY being recorded), recordings.xml (the info on the files that HAVE BEEN recorded), and the straight line text file schedule.txt (the files that are GOING TO BE recorded). Without any sort of data dump for the actual epg info, there is no way (without resorting to a standalone xmltv or zap2it data direct installation) to implement an EPG on the MVP...

If we go with an 'external' epg info source, the problem is 'how' to send that info back INTO Sage with any reasonable degree...

In short, I am just looking for ideas on how to best go forward with the Sage integration...

-Jason

[Jason]

Originally Posted by insomniac

Exact same experience. Im running the latest beta drivers from SHS. (2.2.22229)

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I have not tested this... but try this. Mike made a slight change...

In addition, the latest hauppauge beta is...

FTP://shspvr.com//download/mediamvp/..._2.2.22237.exe

-Jason

[insomniac]

ill give it a try tonight when I get home from work. Thanks for the update!

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[insomniac]

Jason,

One more thing. I thumbed around with the MVP for only a few minutes last night, but found a couple behaviors that I thoght I should share.

bug:

when fast forwarding, if I am to hit fast forward again, then play; the playback will get all jacked up. Basically it will try to play in viewable speed, but every second or so, it will attempt to fast forward again(some kind of loop). Only thing that could fix it is to hit stop and open the file agian.

I was able to reproduce this 2 more times, from the same set of actions.

intuative enhancement?

when playing a recorded file, I intuatively want to hit "menu" (to go back to menu Obviously!). But no go. I believe "stop" is the only option at this point. Is this because this is the playback behavior of the MVP app, and your tapping into it, or just because thats the way that someone wrote it? Just curious

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[kevthor]

I will try the update tonight as well and see if it works. Thanks for the update Jason.

If we are doing feature requests one thing I would love to see is the same timeshifting mapped to the same buttons as sage does nativly. IE: Fast Fwd time shifts 10 seconds, and Skip time shifts 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

That would be great if this was implemented, although I'm not sure if it is even possible based on the nature of the beast? Please let me know.

Thanks again Jason.

[kevthor]

I uninstalled Haupauge's MVP software reinstalled it, and I tried that new media.html file you released. After I copied over that media.html file It looks like it starts bigger but then gets resized to the 2-3inch black border. When it starts and it looks bigger it is still not full screen, but close.

[Jason]

Originally Posted by kevthor

I uninstalled Haupauge's MVP software reinstalled it, and I tried that new media.html file you released. After I copied over that media.html file It looks like it starts bigger but then gets resized to the 2-3inch black border. When it starts and it looks bigger it is still not full screen, but close.

Can you send me a printscreen. I am thinking that your system is thinking it is PAL/NTSC...

-Jason

[kevthor]

How would I go about taking a screen shot of what the MVP is displaying??