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

[Gog]

My GF and I have different schedules so it's a hastle to check which show she watched and which is safe to set "watched"

It would be nice to be able to have multiple watched flags so that I could watch TV without being called the antechrist because I watched CSI without her and now the show is erased

I suppose it would also come in handy in big households.

The erase algorythm should erase shows that have been watched by all or most users.

[edit] Thinking about this a bit more, to be really efficient, you'd link the user(s) to a favorite so that if the ownser(s) of the favorite has seen it then you can erase the file if you need space [/edit]

Gog

[matterw]

How about emlinating the pause between MP3 songs that are encoded using VBR. If I set up a playlist with a bunch of songs and play the list SageTV will pause about 30 seconds in between because of VBR...so I am told.

Matterw

[matterw]

Originally Posted by 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.

I 2nd this baby!!! I would like to have support for HDTV over cable...

[mikejaner]

I 3rd

[matterw]

How about favorite by keyword?

EDIT: Check the 2.1 release notes. -Opus4

[casperse]

I would kill for a web interface to schedule recording over the Internet!

Cheers
Casperse

[OverClock]

First off let me say this is the first piece of software I've ever considered paying for. Kudos to you guys on a job well done!

2 features I would like to see added:

• Remote commands still sent to SageTV even if it's not the window in focus so you can have other programs running and use the computer for other things while still being able to interact with the TV using the remote (PVR350 TVout). Mod's Note: Done, but it isn't the default setup since the best solution requires updated Hauppauge IR software. See How to control SageTV w/o focus (Hauppauge or other remotes).

• If a recording conflict occurs with the padding at the beginning or end of a recording just have it drop the padding for that one instance and continue to record the programs (assuming the programs themselves don't conflict). Mod's Note: Can be done with back-to-back favorites on the same channel; see the remove_padding_on_back_to_back_favorites property. It is not yet global in nature.

OverClock

[OverClock]

Thanks for the fast response.

A further suggestion for the padding issue when you implement it globally is set an order of operations something like this:

1. Move recording to another timeslot if possible.
2. Move recording to another tuner/encoder if possible.
3. Drop padding on same channel if possible.
4. Drop padding on separate channels.

This way padding is preserved as much as possible without causing conflicts.

There are many features in the custom skins you should consider adding to the main program. For example commercial skip, having channel up/down only change the info bar until you hit enter to allow surfing while watching capabilities and setting defaults for favourites like default timeslot, default first run/rerun, default padding, etc. so you don't need to set these every time you set a favourite.

A performance improvement you could add is designating a separate drive/partition for each tuner/encoder to reduce file fragmentation and increase drive/read/playback performance.

I have noticed that when a favourite is set to first run it still grabs some old reruns that don't have the (repeat) stat in it's listing. One filter you could add when checking for first runs is episode title, old reruns don't have episode titles. You could also check the description, new shows have changing episode descriptions, old shows have a generic description that doesn't change.

[Gog]

How about a minimalistic STV for the sage client that does not have playing capability ? You could open the right port through the home firewall and program new favorites and shows from anywhere that has a sage client installed. Not really secured but it would allow some remote admin.

Gog

[OverClock]

I don't even know if this is possible but maybe you could pass the decoding to the hardware decoder of cards like the PVR350 but pull the resulting stream back to the desktop across the PCI bus so local MPEG-2 rendering doesn't take CPU time.

[reboot_this]

SageTV really needs to have a true fast forward and rewind... instead of the skip fwd and bkwd, will this ever show up in future versions?

[davephan]

I have 4 sugguestions:

1. Automatic commerical skipping.
I have an old Panasonic VCR that has this feature. To use the feature, a program is recorded, then the VCR rewinds the tape to 'mark' the commericals. Upon playback, the VCR automatically fast forwards through the commerical 'blocks'. The feature works about 90% - 95% of the time. Another possiblity would be to skip very loud programming, such as commericals with the volume jacked up. With more advanced intelligence in the programming, perhaps the user could 'train' the SageTV to skip really annoying commericals.

Originally Posted by mbrown3

This is available, check under the Customizations forum.

2. Record invidual programs without influencing the intelligence in SageTV.
I have recorded just one cartoon for my nephew, and then SageTV records many other cartoon programs that I don't want recorded! I like the feature where SageTV learns what I like, but I wish you could record individual programs without influencing SageTV's attempt to learn the programs I 'like' to watch.

3. Start recording X minutes early, end recording X minutes late.
A default setting for all TV programs could help catch programs that do not start and end exactly when they are scheduled.

4. On Screen Display, adjustable font size.
The on screen display is very difficult to display on my projection TV. Not all of the on screen display actually displays on my screen. Perhaps it is really a problem within my projection TV, but it would be nice if I could reduce the size of the whole on screen display, so that it would fit on my screen.

Dave

[PeteInSF]

I would like to see SASEM USB HD support so I can record QAM locals...

[BobPhoenix]

Sorry if this has been suggested before.

Would suggest that when two favorites are to be recorded back to back on the same chanel with padding that Sage doesn't need to use two tuners and still keep the padding. Sage supports multiple tuners so why not multiple files from one tuner for the overlapping times since they are from the same channel? Seems like that would be possible - just write the same data to two different files. Then you could edit the files and remove the excess with external MPEG editors like Hauppage supplies or VideoRedo. Sound doable?

[Brainwrek]

*begging*

DVB-S support including plugin/mdplugin & DiSEqC 2.0 switches.

I know this has been mentioned before. Just thought I'd cast my ballot.

[briands]

It would be great if SAGE could incorporate a "Censor" feature that would allow the playing file to skip "offensive" material. This feature could be controlled by a txt file of the same name as the media file. The text file would include segments of frames to be skipped during playback. The creation of this txt file would be up to the user (or STV developer).

It would be nice, too, if sage would delete this (or any other file) with the same name when deleting the media file.

[OverClock]

Adding menu options to shutdown/restart Windows and SageTV would be helpful.

[sleonard]

Originally Posted by OverClock

Adding menu options to shutdown/restart Windows and SageTV would be helpful.

I'll second that.

Scott

[natesneat2000]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Sorry if this has been suggested before.

Would suggest that when two favorites are to be recorded back to back on the same chanel with padding that Sage doesn't need to use two tuners and still keep the padding. Sage supports multiple tuners so why not multiple files from one tuner for the overlapping times since they are from the same channel? Seems like that would be possible - just write the same data to two different files. Then you could edit the files and remove the excess with external MPEG editors like Hauppage supplies or VideoRedo. Sound doable?

I second.

Mod's note: You mean like this? I never heard whether it was a feasible thing to do.

[reven]

things that have to be added to sagetv before i would buy it. xmltv support (not via a plugin, make it so it just looks for tvguide.xml in the sage directory, no setup required (gbpvr beats sage here)), a nicer interface (something like the mce interface), lcd support (show recording/channel number etc on lcd). and must be able to specify channel numbers instead of frequency/channel thingy like in new zealand channel one = channel7 channel 3 is like 63. thats annoying.
lcd isnt that important just nice.

sage tv is great, trying it and it works great, just having huge problems with xmltv. it works fine in gbpvr and mediaportal.

i wouldnt mind paying for it if it worked, easily. chances are my 15 day trial will end before i get the xmltv working, so i wont buy it if i cant get it working.

sage please integrate xmltv support into your software directly. its used all other the world and its really stupid not having this in your software already.