*****OFFICIAL SageTV/SageClient FEATURE REQUEST/UPDATE THREAD*****

[mightyt]

How about "Catagory Grouping" in Archived Recordings like in TV Recordings?

[RAlfieri]

It would be great to be able to set programs to record remotely a la Snapstream...

Thanks,
Rob

[Ted@TNT]

This has certainly been addressed in other threads, but....

HDTV, HDTV, HDTV!!!!

I NEED HDTV support. I would love to work with dual AccessDTV/Fusion/MyHDTV or some other card. This, IMHO, would make SageTV appealing to a whole new crowd. With so many OTA HDTV channels available in so many markets, I think that this could be huge.

[Matt-CV]

1) Folder use: when setting up, allow me to choose where (in what folders) to record to for each favorite, intelligent recording would go into its own folder(s)

2)Time delay after the IR blast to start recording (so we don't "see" the channel change when playing back)

3)Child mode, where within Sage, titles, folders, ect are hidden until AFTER unlocking.

I use 2 tuner Sage system as a headless' PVR with MVP around the house to be the slaves, I rarely watch shows on the PC itself.
An integration of MVP and Client might work too.... ;-)

Matt

[parkimar]

This may have been asked for before,
But I would like a simple way to get XMLTV data into Sage, it's all well and good having people come up with there own ways, but In Europe, we pay the same price for the software as US users.Mod's note:There is a thread for XMLTV setup and many great users support/help people who need help with setting up XMLTV. Once the XMLTV grabber is setup and Sage told(part of the setup wizard) to use XMLTV, it simply reads a file contianing the properly formatted guide data. Building direct XMLTV setup into Sage could violate Frey's contract with Tribune.

[ldavis]

I have found the in both SageTV and Sagerecorder, setting the thread priority to high (within taskmgr) has helped with, or totally eliminated, several small, but none the less, bothersome problems. I guess that having Sage actively aquiring needed system resources helps tremendously. It would be good if this was a setting within Sage so that this does not need to be reset within taskmgr each time Sage is started.

[fblack2]

Now that the Olympics are upon us....

I would like the ability to tell Sage that it should go ahead and record as much of a show as possible, and cut away to another show that has a higher priority, and back, etc.

Case in point: Record Olympics at all times except record Nightline when it is on, and then resume recording the Olympics...

[mbrown3]

Originally posted by fblack2
Now that the Olympics are upon us....

I would like the ability to tell Sage that it should go ahead and record as much of a show as possible, and cut away to another show that has a higher priority, and back, etc.

Case in point: Record Olympics at all times except record Nightline when it is on, and then resume recording the Olympics...

Wow! Sage has users over 60! That's great! Just kidding. Actually, this is a great idea. It would be very helpful to be able to do this.

[Ashman]

So, I've been a BTV user for quite a while now, and I just spent the evening playing with Sage and I must say you've converted me.

However, there is one major thing and a couple of small things that I like about BTV that Sage doesn't do or have...

1) Web scheduling is the one major thing. The ability to schedule a record job from across the web is invaluable. Sometimes I'm at work or a friend's house and hear about a program I want to catch, so I just jump on the web and set BTV to download it using their BTV.net service. It's the one thing I'm really going to miss once I completely switch over. The BTV.net service has my channel line-up in it and I can just find the program and flag it for record over the web.

2) I like the way BTV creates a vertical line through the entire guide to show you what the current time is instead of just across the time row at the top. (Maybe I can do this myself once Studio is out, but studio isn't out yet, so I'm not sure what it can do and can't...)

3) I also like the way BTV scrolls the TV listings left and right by always making the currently hilighted column in the center. In Sage, the hilighted column moves to the left or right and when you move it off the screen, the screen scrolls. In BTV the screen colums always scroll so that the hilighted column is always in the center. In this way you can always see what is before and after the currently selected column at all times. (As with #2, this might be possible with Studio, but who knows...)

Other than those issues, I'm satisfied, and provided I don't find any major issues during my experimentation this weekend, you'll have won another customer. The ability to record using both of my tuners is awesome and that feature alone is easily worth the switch...

[kny3twalker]

3) I also like the way BTV scrolls the TV listings left and right by always making the currently hilighted column in the center. In Sage, the hilighted column moves to the left or right and when you move it off the screen, the screen scrolls. In BTV the screen colums always scroll so that the hilighted column is always in the center. In this way you can always see what is before and after the currently selected column at all times. (As with #2, this might be possible with Studio, but who knows...)

thats sounds sweet
I do not think I have ever noticed that about BTV

I hope someone integrates that as well

[frdfsnlght]

Originally posted by fblack2
I would like the ability to tell Sage that it should go ahead and record as much of a show as possible, and cut away to another show that has a higher priority, and back, etc.

Here's a possible implementation for this idea, which also provides additional desired functionality.

Instead of specifying a show to record in the 'background' like fblack2 suggests, how about being able to specify, when setting up a a favorite or manual recording, that the recording should be split into chunks of N minutes each. Then, Sage would treat each chunk as an individual 'show' and the scheduler could prioritize each one (and possiby not record some of the chunks because a higher priority show is scheduled for it's time slot). You'd end up with a lot of smaller shows recorded, all with the same title, and presumably in the same folder.

For example, I'd like to setup a favorite to record the Olympics on NBC every day from 8PM to midnight and create chunks of 30 minutes. That would result in 56 chunks (4 hours * 2 chunks/hour * 7 days). But actually less, since some of our regular shows have a higher priority and override some of the Olympic chunks.

Besides achieving the previously mentioned 'background' recording, it also provides a way to split a long show (like the 4 hour Olympic segments) into smaller pieces that can be deleted (or saved) as they're watched, making more optimal use of disk space.

I got this idea as I manually setup recordings (lots of them) to achieve the same purpose for an entire week of Olympics. My wife and I want to save the swimming segments for our daughter, but since they don't announce when within a 4 hour block they're going to show swimming, we don't want to have to save the entire 4 hour nightly broadcast until our daughter get's home next week. We can watch the recordings for other things we like and delete the chunks we don't need to save long term, making room for more Olympic recordings.

-Tab

[Ashman]

Ok, as a previous BTV user, I've found one more thing that I'd like to be changed about Sage, and it may be a deusey of a code change...

I understand that there is a theory that says you may want to keep a program that you're currently watching as a recorded program in your archive, and this is why Sage treats every program you watch as if it is a discretely recorded program from the guide.

However, I can honestly say that I have never decided half-way through a show that I want to record it, and even if I did, chances are that I didn't start watching the show at the beginning anyway. I'm a person who watches something until a commercial comes on and then channel surfs until something else catches my attention.

In this way, the way BTV records live TV while you watch is much better than the way Sage does it. In BTV when you're just watching normal TV it basically recordes a never-ending buffer of a certain time period (say one hour) and doesn't record each show you happen to view as a discrete recording event.

I'd like to officially request the option to have Sage record TV in this way. This would not only fit the way I watch TV better, but it would get rid of the annoying 5 second freeze at the end of each program (which never actually happens at the actual end of the program but somewhere around the end, usually in the middle of some important wrap-up dialogue). Since the 5 second freeze is Sage trying to stop recording the previous program, delete the file if you didn't "instant record" it, and start a new recording for the next program, changing the way Sage records live TV would solve all of that.

All of my recordings are recordings that I've scheduled ahead of time. I don't want Sage to assume that anything I watch needs to be recorded. Maybe rewinded and replayed, yes... But recorded and saved, no...

Did all of that make sense?

[jettman]

I would like the Sage Video player to play .IMG and Bin/Cue files. I don't want to have to use D-Tools to mount them either.

Also the ability to play SVCD's would be great.

[LowBrow]

Modify Parental Controls so that when it's enabled, locked content is not visible. This would prevent the kids from seeing titles, descriptions, etc. as well as preventing them from watching. For parents, this makes it easier so that we don't have to constantly enter the code. We could just turn it on or off.

I love SageTV!

[Diginerd]

Similar to the last post, can we have parental controls for imported files? A simple approach to that would be if there is a file in a folder called (for example) PARENTAL.xml then all the files / folder containing files in that folder are invisible (as above), and you're only need to turn on and off the parental control once.

Getting clever that xml file could have information on individual files, but that's starting to make things far from easy.

[Diginerd]

Whilst we're at it if Parental control is global, how about a configurable timeout to revert back to locked mode.

That would be really cool....

[Bear]

Sage recognize the analog portion of my Sasem USB-HDTV tuner right away. I'd love it if Sage could work with the digital (aka HDTV) section of the box as well...

I'll also mention that I've already requested this from Sasem as well... Contact person is Sun Hwang (sun@sasem.com).

[GrayGh0st]

I don't think I've seen a request for this yet...

Changing ANYTHING about a favorite will delete all current recordings associated with it. Even if it's just changing the channel. Sage does not warn you of this. There is a warning if you try and delete the favorite altogether... What I suggest is a warning when you change a favorite, plus the option to move all current shows associated with that favorite to the archive.

I recently lost 20+ South Parks b/c of this!

Justin

[johandm]

an other option regarding favorites & padding:

currently when favorites are recorded back to back (on the same channel), and there is padding, you have 2 options:

* always do the padding, but then it will need 2 tuners to record this (because there is an overlap)

* don't pad the back to back part. Only takes one tuner, but it the downside is: afterwards you have to rely on the other recorded show if it turns out you needed the padding... Which is difficult to manage & easily forgotten when you just watched a show and delete it to make disk room... Does this file contain padding for an other show I recorded ?


My suggestion is:
in case of back to back recordings (on the same channel) do the padding on both shows, but: only use one tuner to record. This could be done by making SageTV write the overlapping part out to 2 files simultaneously. (the end of show1 = file1; the start of show2 = file2).

Thanks,
Johan.

[drbenson]

This grows out of a question asked on another thread:

I moved a series of files onto a backup disk to free up space for many hours of recordings in a short time (the Olympics). Now that I have moved them back, they do not show as Sage recordings, and there seems to be no way to get them back into the Sage Recordings list.

I would like a way to do this, perhaps a way to force a rebuild of wiz.bin when necessary.

I realize this goes against the 'philosophy' of Sage managing the disk space on its own, but the HTPC is *not* a closed box solution like TIVO, and such things have to be done sometimes.