STV: Cayars17 Ultimate STV (Release 17 - Jan 18)

[Tony414]

Hey Carlo,
Don't do much posting. Just wanted to say keep up the truly awesome work your doing. I was waiting till the right time and it's now here Just went to your donations page and my bucks are on the way!!!

Thanks,
Tony

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by insomniac

haha..I just finished looking at all your updated ss's and was just going to go comment on the robo spanker and saw this post. lol is all i can do

Im glad to see that you spiced it up a little bit. btw, did you know that Howard is going to do video on siri as well?

I don't listen to him to much these days on the air as I'm not in my car for the "usual 1.5 hour" drive to work. But I love the E channel show. I wish he would move the show to HBO or other premium channel. It would make the show so much better to watch!

Since, it's my thread i feel like a little "thread drift" is in order. Tell me more about the video on siri. I didn't even know video is an option. I guess I need to get my head out of the sand.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by Tony414

Hey Carlo,
Don't do much posting. Just wanted to say keep up the truly awesome work your doing. I was waiting till the right time and it's now here Just went to your donations page and my bucks are on the way!!!

Thanks,
Tony

Wow, post #1. I'm flattered. Thank you very much and enjoy!

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Did you have that bookmarked for just such an occasion?

heh -- nah, actually, I had to remember just where I had seen that & go looking for it. The old joke that goes along with it is why I remembered it.

- Andy

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Added support to Close the Xcard OSD when launching external players and opening it afterwards.

Cool! Looks like it might be time for me to buy an XCard!

[insomniac]

weeeeellll....So Howard has signed with Sirius for next year (Jan something I think). Microsoft has signed with Sirius to provide (at first) video content to cars (can anyone say accident!). Dish already has contract with SIRI and provides all SIRI programming for free (10 million +) At first, its supposed to be kids video programming (hmm...Bill Gates early recruitment?). Howard has already slipped and stated that one of the reasons why he signed was for the video programming..

so....if you were like me (got in at $1.96 a share) your a happy camper next year .

Buy while you can!

Originally Posted by Cayars

I don't listen to him to much these days on the air as I'm not in my car for the "usual 1.5 hour" drive to work. But I love the E channel show. I wish he would move the show to HBO or other premium channel. It would make the show so much better to watch!

Since, it's my thread i feel like a little "thread drift" is in order. Tell me more about the video on siri. I didn't even know video is an option. I guess I need to get my head out of the sand.

[broderp]

There has been discussion about ripping DVD's here. Will v.17 rip a dvd to a hard drive and save it as a playable file? I have a DVD player on my system, but not a DVD burner, I'd like to keep a few "choice" video's on the drive. If so, whats the best way/ format to use and is it native to SAGE TV or the STV? (Don't tell me DiVX is best, but I have to load a bunch of crap in and set up a ton of stuff) (I'm installing a second 200GB HD this weekend, so will have the room)

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Cool! Looks like it might be time for me to buy an XCard!

Remember to say "Thanks Thomas" if you get the XCard.

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Talk about your lazy SageTV operator.

Actually isn't the whole premise of your STV - and SAGETV for that matter - that we have all become lazy?

Too lazy to be changing video tapes.
Too lazy to program a VCR.
Too lazy to search through the TV Guide for things we want to record.
Too lazy to press the skip button when a commercial comes on.
Too lazy to edit the sage.properties file.
Too lazy to burn a DVD outside of SAGE.
Too lazy to click through a couple more screens to delete a show.
Too lazy to manually delete partial recordings and orphan files.
Too lazy to keep typing this list.
Ahh, but I digress... The point is, if we all weren't a little lazy we wouldn't be using this software/STV at all!

Seriously though, I got off my a** last night and started to type in all of the channels that I wanted to exclude and soon found out that the list only lets you type about 20 entries before you see "..." and the list goes off the page. This makes it impossible to see what you are doing. So I guess there's another reason, besides being lazy, for me to request this.

Did I mention that I was a VIP member.

[robert griffin]

Originally Posted by robert griffin

I just installed this STV today to try to do DVD Burning. I installed VideoReDo and input my Trial Key and installed DVD Decrypter. I have added one show to my DVD List and tried to do a burn, but I keep getting an error, "DVD Burner Failed".

What am I doing wrong, or what haven't I setup correctly.

Thanks.

I still haven't got a response to this message. Will version 16 Burn Disks? When I try, I imediately get a "DVD Burner Failed" message. Any ideas.

Thanks again.

Robert

[Tony414]

Hi,
Does anyone have a good set of direction I can follow on making sure the DVDBurner get's installed properly? Or anything I have to watch out for? I'm loading my system from scratch, AGAIN! I would really appreciate it

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by broderp

There has been discussion about ripping DVD's here. Will v.17 rip a dvd to a hard drive and save it as a playable file? I have a DVD player on my system, but not a DVD burner, I'd like to keep a few "choice" video's on the drive. If so, whats the best way/ format to use and is it native to SAGE TV or the STV? (Don't tell me DiVX is best, but I have to load a bunch of crap in and set up a ton of stuff) (I'm installing a second 200GB HD this weekend, so will have the room)

Yes it will. Check out the file DVDrip.cmd in your "External" directory. Edit this to use your DVD drive letter and select the type of "rip" you want to do. Save the file and then you can fire this off from the Applications menu in the STV.

This will create a "DVD" on disk. So make sure to change the Ripped directory to someplace already in your IMPORTED LIBRARY directory.

[White94Cobra]

You know what would be cool?? I just "upgraded" my DirecTivo to version 4.x with folders. All of the Tivo Suggestions go into their own folder, keeping my Season Passes (favorites) and manual recordings list nice and clean. An option to place all IR recordings into their own separate folder would be very nice.

If you can already do this, I appologize for wasting 10 seconds of your life... Please waste 10 more and point me in the direction of how to do this.

Thanks.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Actually isn't the whole premise of your STV - and SAGETV for that matter - that we have all become lazy?
<snip>


Too lazy to be changing video tapes.
Too lazy to program a VCR.
Too lazy to search through the TV Guide for things we want to record.
Too lazy to press the skip button when a commercial comes on.
Too lazy to edit the sage.properties file.
Too lazy to burn a DVD outside of SAGE.
Too lazy to click through a couple more screens to delete a show.
Too lazy to manually delete partial recordings and orphan files.
Too lazy to keep typing this list.
Ahh, but I digress... The point is, if we all weren't a little lazy we wouldn't be using this software/STV at all!

Not to lazy to upgrade that STV however.

Seriously though, I got off my a** last night and started to type in all of the channels that I wanted to exclude and soon found out that the list only lets you type about 20 entries before you see "..." and the list goes off the page. This makes it impossible to see what you are doing. So I guess there's another reason, besides being lazy, for me to request this.

OK got you covered, try this, shutdown sagetv. Open notepad, select your property file. Look for line ...

Did I mention that I was a VIP member.

Yes, but that's like being on the "honor roll" when you really need to be on the "Dean's List".

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

You know what would be cool?? I just "upgraded" my DirecTivo to version 4.x with folders. All of the Tivo Suggestions go into their own folder, keeping my Season Passes (favorites) and manual recordings list nice and clean. An option to place all IR recordings into their own separate folder would be very nice.

If you can already do this, I appologize for wasting 10 seconds of your life... Please waste 10 more and point me in the direction of how to do this.

Thanks.

Right now I don't have any control over any of this so it can't be done. Maybe in the future as I keep asking for this type of functionality.

[White94Cobra]

Originally Posted by Cayars

This will create a "DVD" on disk. So make sure to change the Ripped directory to someplace already in your IMPORTED LIBRARY directory.

This doesn't by chance have an option of converting the DVD audio to MP3 does it? I use a Media MVP on one of my TV's and as I recall the DVD audio needs to be in MP3 format.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by robert griffin

I still haven't got a response to this message. Will version 16 Burn Disks? When I try, I imediately get a "DVD Burner Failed" message. Any ideas.

Thanks again.

Robert

Look in the External directory and copy/attach your debug.txt file.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

This doesn't by chance have an option of converting the DVD audio to MP3 does it? I use a Media MVP on one of my TV's and as I recall the DVD audio needs to be in MP3 format.

Not yet but it's only a few items down on my todo list. This will use some of the techniques learned from doing the DVD Burner. I suspect there "might" be sync issues depending on the programs used to demux things.

But, let's wait and see what happens when I put the app together.

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Not to lazy to upgrade that STV however.

OK got you covered, try this, shutdown sagetv. Open notepad, select your property file. Look for line ...

Yes, but that's like being on the "honor roll" when you really need to be on the "Dean's List".

Sounds like you took offense to my ranting. Sorry if you did. Didn't know that the ignored channels for commercial skipping was in the sage.property file. If that's where it is then it should be easy enough for me to edit.

By the way, I was not calling you lazy or minimizing your work here either. I was just pointing out that the features that are implemented are just as lazy as the one I am requesting. You have worked very hard to get this STV where it is, and I appreciate that very much.

You should take every request for what it is - just a request.

[kny3twalker]

hey what's up
man I do not remember all the boobie girls in the screen shots before

LMAO

so anyways can we get like a feature request or something by donating(you probably know what I want)?
cause currently I am not using your STV
(would be happy to donate anyways-I will get to it soon)

just wondering