STV: SageMC 16x9 Version 6.x (latest dev build)

[geogecko]

Hi Tim,

yes you can edit the URLs in the property file directly, or you can do this even easier in SageMC itself: go to the weather maps screen, highlight the map button corresponding to the map you want to change, and bring up the options menu. You can edit the URL manually, or paste it from the windows clipboard with ctrl-v.

Dirk

Don't know when it was added, but having that paste feature for the RSS feeds makes it SO MUCH easier to put feeds in. :D

[ellweber]

Hi Tim,

yes you can edit the URLs in the property file directly, or you can do this even easier in SageMC itself: go to the weather maps screen, highlight the map button corresponding to the map you want to change, and bring up the options menu. You can edit the URL manually, or paste it from the windows clipboard with ctrl-v.

Dirk

Hi Dirk,

How would you go about increasing the number of weather maps beyond 7?

Lynn

[brewston]

Can't seem to get the URL recognised. I have in my properties file :

sagemc/wximage_url_1=http\://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_%Y%M%D12.jpg

(I also added a non-dynamic URL so I know the file changes were picked up)

and todays weather map is :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_07010312.jpg

Thanks

Tim

[dflachbart]

Can't seem to get the URL recognised. I have in my properties file :

sagemc/wximage_url_1=http\://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_%Y%M%D12.jpg

(I also added a non-dynamic URL so I know the file changes were picked up)

and todays weather map is :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_07010312.jpg

Thanks

Tim
Hi Tim,

yeah you found a bug, it's not handling single-digit months/days correctly. I attached a version with a temp fix for this.

Dirk

[flavius]

Just loaded 6.3.1.

I'm impressed.

[nyplayer]

Dirk,

Is there a possibility to make the Video play lists act more like the Stock STV play list. The reason I am asking is that I have Playlist of some complete series... and it is easier to play them through playlists.

In The SageMC playlists I cannot View details or play from a specific one.
Also the SagMC playlist on a 4.3 Display really cuts of the episode names as compared to the Stock STV.

Pictures Attached.

[brewston]

Dirk

Thanks for the quick fix, I guess I replace /c/Program Files/SageTv/sagetv/stvs/Sagetv3/SageMC_169.xml with your file right ? (renaming it to SageMC_169.xml)

I'll try it out tonight and report back

Tim

[geogecko]

Dirk

Thanks for the quick fix, I guess I replace /c/Program Files/SageTv/sagetv/stvs/Sagetv3/SageMC_169.xml with your file right ? (renaming it to SageMC_169.xml)

I'll try it out tonight and report back

Tim

That is the correct location.

You can rename it, or you can just select it as your new STV, with the current name. It keeps you from having to get out of SageTV (or doing a couple extra steps to get around changing the name when SageTV is open). Then once the next version comes out, you can just select the original...

[brewston]

Just tried it and it doesn't appear to have made a difference (yes, I was being a doofus for not realising I could select it as an STV)

Tim

[Hyperbaric]

Just tried it and it doesn't appear to have made a difference (yes, I was being a doofus for not realising I could select it as an STV)

Tim

Ditto. :(

[grooves12]

I am not able to get the double press of the home to map to another screen.

I have enabled it in the menu and set it to "recorded TV" but it doesn't work. It just flashes the home screen when pressing it the second time. I have also tried mapping it to a number of other menus, and none of them seem to work.

Dont know if flachbar missed this... can anyone else confirm if it is working for them or not?

[Alwayslearnin]

Dont know if flachbar missed this... can anyone else confirm if it is working for them or not?

I tried to get it work with the weather screen and I could not get it to work either. I assumed I was doing something wrong and moved on.

[geogecko]

I tried to get it work with the weather screen and I could not get it to work either. I assumed I was doing something wrong and moved on.

I wonder if it depends on the speed between commands of your remote. I know mine is setup pretty slow...

[grooves12]

I doubt it, mine is setup fast and i even tried doing it with the keyboard as fast as possible... neither worked.

[dflachbart]

I wonder if it depends on the speed between commands of your remote. I know mine is setup pretty slow...

I doubt it, mine is setup fast and i even tried doing it with the keyboard as fast as possible... neither worked.

Ok, there might be a little misconception here... This is not something like a 'quick double-press' functionality (the Sage core does not support anything like this). Mapping a menu to pressing the 'Home' button twice means just that - you press 'Home' the first time to get to the Main menu, and you press 'Home' a second time to get to the menu you configured. It's just a convenient way to map one more menu without requiring another free button on the remote.

Do all of you with problems use the standard SageMC main menu ? I found that the new 'Home' listener has only been added to the dynamic main menu, which would explain that it's not working for the standard menu. This will be fixed in the next update.

If you are using dynamic menus, then maybe you are pressing the buttons too quick, so that the second 'Home' command gets executed before the Main menu is recognizing its commands.

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Just tried it and it doesn't appear to have made a difference (yes, I was being a doofus for not realising I could select it as an STV)

Tim
Ditto. :(
So you both are saying that the dynamic URL's still won't work for you ? Strange, I tested it with


http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_%Y%M%D12.jpg

and the map displays fine for me...

Dirk

[brewston]

So you both are saying that the dynamic URL's still won't work for you ? Strange, I tested it with


http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_%Y%M%D12.jpg

and the map displays fine for me...

Dirk

Yes, thats pretty much it. I just re-checked my sage.properties (Im not using service mode at the moment) and the URL is the same. Shall I gather some debug logs this evening ?

Thanks

Tim

[real_per]

I wondered if anyone could explain the Custom1, Custom2, etc commands to me.

I saw them while i was playing with the RSS ticker, and i have no idea what they are and how they work... Even after spending 1/2 looking for info in the forums.

I have a Hauppauge 45 remote. Does that mean anything ?

Regards

[mdnttoker]

I wondered if anyone could explain the Custom1, Custom2, etc commands to me.

I saw them while i was playing with the RSS ticker, and i have no idea what they are and how they work... Even after spending 1/2 looking for info in the forums.

I have a Hauppauge 45 remote. Does that mean anything ?

Regards

These are custom menu items which you can link to aprticular pages available in SageMC. For example, you can change the name "Custom1" to "Google Videos," set the link to load the "Google Video Main" page, and enable "Custom1" on the main SageMC page by right clicking and setting the 'Show Custom1' option.

After re-loading, you'll see "Google Videos" on the main page, and clicking it will bring you to the Google Videos page.

That's my understanding at least.

-Dan

[dflachbart]

Yes, thats pretty much it. I just re-checked my sage.properties (Im not using service mode at the moment) and the URL is the same. Shall I gather some debug logs this evening ?

Thanks

Tim

Yeah, that would be a good idea. Please use the attached STV version, I added more debug logging...

Dirk

[dflachbart]

These are custom menu items which you can link to aprticular pages available in SageMC. For example, you can change the name "Custom1" to "Google Videos," set the link to load the "Google Video Main" page, and enable "Custom1" on the main SageMC page by right clicking and setting the 'Show Custom1' option.

After re-loading, you'll see "Google Videos" on the main page, and clicking it will bring you to the Google Videos page.

That's my understanding at least.

-Dan
Yep, everything Dan said is correct. But I think real_per was referring to the button mapping of the Custom1-Custom5 commands (yeah, I know I should have named the menu items differently to avoid confusion ;)). These are additional commands available in Sage and are usually used by STVi extensions. You can map any button on your remote to those commands, this can be done in Settings/Detailed Setup/Commands/Link Infrared/Key to SageTV command. So e.g. if a plugin uses 'Custom1' to invoke a certain function, you can map a remote button to 'Custom1' and invoke this function by pressing this button.

Dirk

[ChePazzo]

Ok, so this is actually about the IMDb import since I am not running sagemc, however, it was suggested that I post this here because this issue may have been seen with sagemc.


Anyway, I haven't actually used this on imported media in a while, so I was a bit surprised to find that it wasn't working!

I never really had a reason to before, but now that the MVP can play DVDs, I like to rip my DVDs to an imported folder and watch them on the MVP when I'm ready. Anyway, when I wanted to check out some IMDb info, I noticed that the entire Sage path ("Recorded Shows/Movies/Snakes On A Plane") was used as the search string instead of just the last part. I tried it with some imported MPGs as well and had the same result ("Movies/Adult/Office Space" actually pulled up info for a documentary entitled, "How They Make Adult Movies" which, while humorous and entertaining, wasn't what I wanted").

Is there something I can change to edit this behavior? or is this a bug?

anyone else notice this?

oh, it works great for stuff SageTV recorded!

[brewston]

Yeah, that would be a good idea. Please use the attached STV version, I added more debug logging...

Dirk

Dang, forgot to switch STVs (now the missus has comandeered the TV!) Anyway I can see the problem :

Thu 1/4 20:57:21.929 Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_07040112.jpg

The URL's somehow misconstructed. It should be :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/uk_summary_07010412.jpg

I think we might have the classic US vs UK date format problem - ie we say 04/01 you guys say 01/04. Let me know if this enough or you want it re-run with that STV. I will convert the URL to %Y%D%M12.jpg and re-try in a bit...

2nd edit - that seems to have nailed it

Tim

[geogecko]

;) That was funny. Guess since his nomenclature is correct, he doesn't have to fix anything!

[grooves12]

Is it possible to implement the intelligent sorting method like is available in the standard stv??

Also, if there were some way to differentiate between scheduled recordings and IR's with a visual?? Something non-intrusive like perhaps a different color font or italicized fonts on IR's??

[dflachbart]

I think we might have the classic US vs UK date format problem - ie we say 04/01 you guys say 01/04. Let me know if this enough or you want it re-run with that STV. I will convert the URL to %Y%D%M12.jpg and re-try in a bit...

2nd edit - that seems to have nailed it

Tim

Although swapping the template parameters does work, I'm still looking for a 'clean' solution :). Could you try the new attached version ?

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Is there something I can change to edit this behavior? or is this a bug?


If it's the same issue (and I think it is), then there is nothing you can do, other than hoping (or asking) that the STVi author will fix this in the plugin eventually.

Dirk

[technazz]

Hi technazz,

could you enable debug logging and post the log file after the ticker has stopped working ?

Dirk

Sorry it took so long but here's my log.

Technazz

[grooves12]

Ok, there might be a little misconception here... This is not something like a 'quick double-press' functionality (the Sage core does not support anything like this). Mapping a menu to pressing the 'Home' button twice means just that - you press 'Home' the first time to get to the Main menu, and you press 'Home' a second time to get to the menu you configured. It's just a convenient way to map one more menu without requiring another free button on the remote.

Do all of you with problems use the standard SageMC main menu ? I found that the new 'Home' listener has only been added to the dynamic main menu, which would explain that it's not working for the standard menu. This will be fixed in the next update.

If you are using dynamic menus, then maybe you are pressing the buttons too quick, so that the second 'Home' command gets executed before the Main menu is recognizing its commands.

Dirk

Yes, I am using the SageMC Main Menu. I tried switching to the dynamic menus, but nothing worked when I tried selecting any of the menu items. So, ive had to go back to the standard SageMC menus.

[flavius]

I can't seem to find the *Conversions* menu item? Is that missing?

[geogecko]

I can't seem to find the *Conversions* menu item? Is that missing?

You have to add it as a "Custom" menu item. See Settings>>SageMC>>Menu, and use one of the Custom menu items. For the screen, select "Video Conversions."

Enable the menu in the options menu on the main menu (options dialog, by pressing ESC).

[Alwayslearnin]

Ok, there might be a little misconception here... This is not something like a 'quick double-press' functionality (the Sage core does not support anything like this). Mapping a menu to pressing the 'Home' button twice means just that - you press 'Home' the first time to get to the Main menu, and you press 'Home' a second time to get to the menu you configured. It's just a convenient way to map one more menu without requiring another free button on the remote.

Do all of you with problems use the standard SageMC main menu ? I found that the new 'Home' listener has only been added to the dynamic main menu, which would explain that it's not working for the standard menu. This will be fixed in the next update.

If you are using dynamic menus, then maybe you are pressing the buttons too quick, so that the second 'Home' command gets executed before the Main menu is recognizing its commands.

Dirk

I am using the standard SageMC main menu. I'll wait for the next release.

Thanks,
Keith

[Hyperbaric]

Although swapping the template parameters does work, I'm still looking for a 'clean' solution :). Could you try the new attached version ?

Dirk

Dirk, I tried the new fix version but still no map... As with Brewston, swapping the %M and %D around works though.

Thanks for your efforts on this, much apreciated :thumb:

[geogecko]

Dirk.

The Media Extender Conversion Quality appears to not be available within SageMC. Is this intended, or has it be located to another menu?

Normally, it's found in Settings..Detailed Setup..Advanced.

[Kirby]

I was playing around with some settings just now, and noticed that the bloodbath goes away when I was in Overlay mode, no 3D accel. When I returned to VMR9, 3D, FSE, the bloodbath was back. I can reproduce it every time going back and forth. So its something related to running VMR9, 3D, and FSE. Also, disabling FSE had no effect, so its actually something with VMR9 or 3D but since you have to run both or neither, I cant narrow it down any more.

Could it be related to certain DirectX distributions? I am using the December '06 distribution pack from MS. Jason, how about you?

[MeInMaui]

I was playing around with some settings just now, and noticed that the bloodbath goes away when I was in Overlay mode, no 3D accel. When I returned to VMR9, 3D, FSE, the bloodbath was back. I can reproduce it every time going back and forth. So its something related to running VMR9, 3D, and FSE. Also, disabling FSE had no effect, so its actually something with VMR9 or 3D but since you have to run both or neither, I cant narrow it down any more.

Could it be related to certain DirectX distributions? I am using the December '06 distribution pack from MS. Jason, how about you?

Hi Kirby,

Good timing. I just played with this yesterday and found that it only occurs when 3D Accelleration is enabled. VMR9/Overlay have no effect. I e-mailed Dirk about it last night. It's good to know that it is now verified.

Aloha,
Mike

[geogecko]

Yep, same here. I'm not using FSE, but noticed it made no difference. That should be a fun one to figure out!

[ellweber]

Hi Dirk,

I have a couple of questions that you might answer.

1) I can't seem to see the previews for themes that are past the six that we start with, unless they are selected as the current theme. I have checked the graphic files and they seem consistant. Everything else works fine with switching themes (once I unscrambled the mess I had created!).

2) I have been unable to add additional weather maps. I have edited the properties file to add more but the number on the left side selection menu seems to not expand. Is there a trick for this or a property that I haven't found or is the number of maps locked at 7?

Thanks again for all of your hard work on this and especially for your responsiveness, it allows Sage to do what each of us want.

Best regards,

Lynn

[AndyS]

Perhaps I'm having an off-day, but I can't find a way to switch a 'HD' icon on for Hi-Def recordings, in the 'Recorded TV' and 'My TV' screens. Is this possible right now, or can it be added to a wish-list?

I'm running the latest version of Sage and SageMC.

Andy.

[geogecko]

Hi Dirk,

I have a couple of questions that you might answer.

1) I can't seem to see the previews for themes that are past the six that we start with, unless they are selected as the current theme. I have checked the graphic files and they seem consistant. Everything else works fine with switching themes (once I unscrambled the mess I had created!).

2) I have been unable to add additional weather maps. I have edited the properties file to add more but the number on the left side selection menu seems to not expand. Is there a trick for this or a property that I haven't found or is the number of maps locked at 7?

Thanks again for all of your hard work on this and especially for your responsiveness, it allows Sage to do what each of us want.

Best regards,

Lynn

1. Probably due to there not being a preview.jpg file for that particular theme.

2. I believe they are locked at 7. I remember previously, that the left hand menu is locked at having only 7 menu items.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[geogecko]

Perhaps I'm having an off-day, but I can't find a way to switch a 'HD' icon on for Hi-Def recordings, in the 'Recorded TV' and 'My TV' screens. Is this possible right now, or can it be added to a wish-list?

I'm running the latest version of Sage and SageMC.

Andy.

Nope, your day is spot on. It only shows up when you go into that particular show, or if you have more than one recording of that show, if you go into the listing of all the episodes.

There is currently not a way to turn it on for the My TV menu...etc.

[ellweber]

1. Probably due to there not being a preview.jpg file for that particular theme.

2. I believe they are locked at 7. I remember previously, that the left hand menu is locked at having only 7 menu items.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

preview.jpg and preview.png present in all cases and at the same resolution and size. The preview does show up when the theme is the "current" one but dissapears again when it is not selected.

Thanks for the answer on two. I like lots of maps!

[technazz]

Just a couple of requests for the RSS Feed Ticker.

1. If the RSS feed is long SageMC resizes the text. Its almost unreadable. Can you have this actually scroll off the screen instead of stopping and fading with the full font size?

2. I would like the ability to turn off the Ticker on the OSD but ALWAYS leave the ticker on in menus. Maybe a setting would take care of this.

Thanks for your hard work

BTW these are my wife's first suggestions!

Technazz

[dflachbart]

Just a couple of requests for the RSS Feed Ticker.

1. If the RSS feed is long SageMC resizes the text. Its almost unreadable. Can you have this actually scroll off the screen instead of stopping and fading with the full font size?

I'll look into this if it's easy enough to implement, no promises though...


2. I would like the ability to turn off the Ticker on the OSD but ALWAYS leave the ticker on in menus. Maybe a setting would take care of this.


You can already do this, set 'In All Menus' enabled, and 'In OSD' disabled. This will show the ticker on in all menus, but not in the OSD... Or did you mean something else ?


BTW these are my wife's first suggestions!

Technazz
Cool :)


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Hi Lynn,

Hi Dirk,

I have a couple of questions that you might answer.

1) I can't seem to see the previews for themes that are past the six that we start with, unless they are selected as the current theme. I have checked the graphic files and they seem consistant. Everything else works fine with switching themes (once I unscrambled the mess I had created!).

I'll check this out


2) I have been unable to add additional weather maps. I have edited the properties file to add more but the number on the left side selection menu seems to not expand. Is there a trick for this or a property that I haven't found or is the number of maps locked at 7?

As Jason already said, the left menu bar (in any menu) is limited to 7 items. I have an idea though, but I'll have to think about it a little more :)

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Yep, same here. I'm not using FSE, but noticed it made no difference. That should be a fun one to figure out!

Looks like an issue in the core again, like the one with the scaling insets and disabled 3D acceleration... Not much I can do in the code, other than trying to rearrange some parts of the dialog and see if the issue goes away. Btw, I am now running my Sage server on completely different hardware (this makes it 4 different hardware configurations I have tested this on), and I still haven't seen the issue myself ... :confused:

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Dirk.

The Media Extender Conversion Quality appears to not be available within SageMC. Is this intended, or has it be located to another menu?

Normally, it's found in Settings..Detailed Setup..Advanced.
Well, it's a new feature in V6 and hasn't been added yet... ;)

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Dirk, I tried the new fix version but still no map... As with Brewston, swapping the %M and %D around works though.

Thanks for your efforts on this, much apreciated :thumb:

Would it be possible for you to generate some debug logs with this version ?

Thanks,
Dirk

[geogecko]

Well, it's a new feature in V6 and hasn't been added yet... ;)

Dirk

:dance: LOL, didn't know it was new. I'm just getting my first MVP tonight, so I've been poking around in the SageTV user manual, and could not find that setting in SageMC, so switched to the default STV to see it. :p Not a problem. We'll see if Wireless-G can handle high quality...better yet, we'll see if my server can even handle the transcoding! :confused: I smell a dual core in my future...

[Mikeydog]

A couple quick questions.

I recently added an AverHD180 to my HTPC, and I use the scan feature in the Channel setup menu to add new HD channels. Anyway. I don't seem to have that option when using SageMC. I can add channels but the scan feature in not available. I have to go back to the default STV to use it.

also is there any cool feature or tool to let me see signal strength of HD channels, either in the channel guide or somewhere. Once again in the Default STV I can VIEW and channel in the channel setup menu, and sometimes it will bring up a power meter. Is there any easier way to do this..

Thanks for all the hard work
Mike

[geogecko]

A couple quick questions.

I recently added an AverHD180 to my HTPC, and I use the scan feature in the Channel setup menu to add new HD channels. Anyway. I don't seem to have that option when using SageMC. I can add channels but the scan feature in not available. I have to go back to the default STV to use it.

also is there any cool feature or tool to let me see signal strength of HD channels, either in the channel guide or somewhere. Once again in the Default STV I can VIEW and channel in the channel setup menu, and sometimes it will bring up a power meter. Is there any easier way to do this..

Thanks for all the hard work
Mike

Mike.

It is recommended to use the default STV when adding new hardware. I thought that it normally forced you to switch if you selected hardware setup...oh, I guess the channel setup isn't included. However, it's probably best to switch back to the default STV anyway.

I do not know of a power meter within sage. I wish they had one, because I have to use the FusionHDTV one when I need to check that.

[Opus4]

I do not know of a power meter within sage. I wish they had one, because I have to use the FusionHDTV one when I need to check that.It is is the default STV, on the Channel Setup screen. (How to view it is mentioned on p. 158 of the v6 manual. ;))

- Andy

[technazz]

I'll look into this if it's easy enough to implement, no promises though...

You can already do this, set 'In All Menus' enabled, and 'In OSD' disabled. This will show the ticker on in all menus, but not in the OSD... Or did you mean something else ?



No I meant an option to leave the ticker on ALL the time in MENUS and the abilty to call it up with a button press in OSD when watching tv if its diabled in the OSD.

Thanks

Technazz

[geogecko]

It is is the default STV, on the Channel Setup screen. (How to view it is mentioned on p. 158 of the v6 manual. ;))

- Andy

*embarrassed* Those things always have their way of sneaking into the manual. I assume this was something new, because when I asked about it way back when, it didn't exist. Time to crack the book open, again. :D

[Opus4]

I assume this was something new, because when I asked about it way back when, it didn't exist.It isn't new for v6 -- it was in the v4.1 manual too... but that was from just over a year ago.

- Andy

[MeInMaui]

<OT>

I was just looking through the downloads section and happened to notice that there have been >1000 downloads of the glassy show icons. :eek: So what I'd like to know is who set up the bot to repeatedly download the icons and inflate those numbers? It wasn't me, I swear! :D

</OT>

[bcjenkins]

I was playing around with some settings just now, and noticed that the bloodbath goes away when I was in Overlay mode, no 3D accel. When I returned to VMR9, 3D, FSE, the bloodbath was back. I can reproduce it every time going back and forth. So its something related to running VMR9, 3D, and FSE. Also, disabling FSE had no effect, so its actually something with VMR9 or 3D but since you have to run both or neither, I cant narrow it down any more.

Could it be related to certain DirectX distributions? I am using the December '06 distribution pack from MS. Jason, how about you?
I think I have noticed that it is not happening at 720P but it is at 1080i what resolutions are you guys running?

[geogecko]

I think I have noticed that it is not happening at 720P but it is at 1080i what resolutions are you guys running?

1080p

[technazz]

I think I have noticed that it is not happening at 720P but it is at 1080i what resolutions are you guys running?


I get it at 1080i.. 856x480p seems to be ok.

Technazz

[MeInMaui]

I think I have noticed that it is not happening at 720P but it is at 1080i what resolutions are you guys running?

1080p here as well.

[Madcoder]

Yep, I get the bloodbath dialog screens too. I am running vmr9, accelerated video, 7800gtx, etc., no FSE.

[Kirby]

I think I have noticed that it is not happening at 720P but it is at 1080i what resolutions are you guys running?

1080i

[Hyperbaric]

Would it be possible for you to generate some debug logs with this version ?

Thanks,
Dirk

Sure...

One thing, the image http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/ss_rain_07011009.jpg was kept in %Y%D%M format for both logs. The format for the ss_summary image was swapped.

Cheers.

[brewston]

Sure...

One thing, the image http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/ss_rain_07011009.jpg was kept in %Y%D%M format for both logs. The format for the ss_summary image was swapped.

Cheers.

I was about to get around to it - honest ! ;)

Tim

[JUC]

<OT>

I was just looking through the downloads section and happened to notice that there have been >1000 downloads of the glassy show icons. :eek: So what I'd like to know is who set up the bot to repeatedly download the icons and inflate those numbers? It wasn't me, I swear! :D

</OT>


well....i have downloaded them 3 times now so......

[gplasky]

When I go in to do a DVD Profiler update to the metadata I get a bigger dialog box where I can read all the dialog in it now. It's just missing the Yes-No buttons. Hitting enter just engages the default "no" behavior. Arrow left has no effect on changing that. I go back to 6.3.0 and you don't get all the dialog but you get the yes-no buttons. 1024 x 768 resolution.


Gerry

[feilerd]

Does anyone know how to get the imported videos to group into multiple levels based on the folder structure?

eg right now my folder structure is like this:



kids\

Barney\
Barney ABC.mpg
Barney XYZ.mpg

Disney Movies\
Cinderella\
video_ts\
Snow White\
video_ts\

grownups\
Movie 1\
video_ts\
Movie 2\
video_ts\


I'm trying to get the top level to display:

Kids
Grownups

When I drill down to "Kids," I want it to show:

Barney
Disney Movies


The next level should show:
Cinderella
Snow White


I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, since that seems the logical way to do it--and that's how the basic Sage used to work (v 2.2.8--my last version). When I couldn't get Sage to work "normally" after the upgrade, I figured I'd try SageMC--but this is just displaying all the recordings together, in one big single-level list, with names like Kids\Barney\Barney ABC

Also, is there any way to turn off the thumbnails for imported videos? The default ones aren't really useful anyway.

Thanks

[geogecko]

Take Grownups out of the Kids directory... ;)

[JParedis]

I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, since that seems the logical way to do it--and that's how the basic Sage used to work (v 2.2.8--my last version). When I couldn't get Sage to work "normally" after the upgrade, I figured I'd try SageMC--but this is just displaying all the recordings together, in one big single-level list, with names like Kids\Barney\Barney ABC

Also, is there any way to turn off the thumbnails for imported videos? The default ones aren't really useful anyway.

Thanks

I got that working just fine on my SageMC. Just to be sure, only select the top directory (not all subdirectories), else you get the behaviour you are having. Also, if a subdirectory has only one movie, that movie is displayed directly at the higher level - you can not drill down to that subdirectory and select the movie than.

For thumnails, I always do an IMDB search and save it. That gives me a great thumbnail. It also changes the 'title' above the thumbnail in only the movie name, excluding the directory name it's in.

Jan

[dflachbart]

When I go in to do a DVD Profiler update to the metadata I get a bigger dialog box where I can read all the dialog in it now. It's just missing the Yes-No buttons. Hitting enter just engages the default "no" behavior. Arrow left has no effect on changing that. I go back to 6.3.0 and you don't get all the dialog but you get the yes-no buttons. 1024 x 768 resolution.


Gerry
Thanks Gerry, I'll look at this


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Sure...

One thing, the image http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/ss_rain_07011009.jpg was kept in %Y%D%M format for both logs. The format for the ss_summary image was swapped.

Cheers.
Thanks for the logs !


I was about to get around to it - honest ! ;)

Tim

No problem ! :)


Dirk

[joe123]

Is SageMC 16x9 only for HD 16x9 TV's, or can I use it on my 4x3 relugar TV?

[dflachbart]

Is SageMC 16x9 only for HD 16x9 TV's, or can I use it on my 4x3 relugar TV?

Although originally designed for 16x9 displays, it runs just fine on an ordinary 4x3 set :)

Dirk

[feilerd]

I got that working just fine on my SageMC. Just to be sure, only select the top directory (not all subdirectories), else you get the behaviour you are having. Also, if a subdirectory has only one movie, that movie is displayed directly at the higher level - you can not drill down to that subdirectory and select the movie than.

For thumnails, I always do an IMDB search and save it. That gives me a great thumbnail. It also changes the 'title' above the thumbnail in only the movie name, excluding the directory name it's in.

Jan

Weird. All those directories are children (in the OS) of a single video import directory. (Well, strictly speaking, that same exact structure is duplicated across three video import directories, but that shouldn't matter--Sage has always merged them). That exact structure looks "normal" in the default stv in 2.2.8. In the default stv in 6.0 (as well as in SageMC), I just see the entire path as part of the name (eg kids\barney\Barney ABC) when I'd really expect to see it broken up into drillable levels.

re the thumbnails, I tried doing the IMDB search and then saving it--and all it did was update the text--not the icon. Besides, not everything will have an IMDB entry--so it might be nice to be able to "turn off" the thumbnails altogether. No way to do that, huh?

It just seems that the interface was so much cleaner in the standard 2.2.8 than the standard 6.0. SageMC is much, much cleaner looking than the standard 6.0, but maybe I'm just looking for cleaner still--and losing the ability to drill down is just a dealbreaker.

[Opus4]

Weird. All those directories are children (in the OS) of a single video import directory. (Well, strictly speaking, that same exact structure is duplicated across three video import directories, but that shouldn't matter--Sage has always merged them). That exact structure looks "normal" in the default stv in 2.2.8. In the default stv in 6.0 (as well as in SageMC), I just see the entire path as part of the name (eg kids\barney\Barney ABC) when I'd really expect to see it broken up into drillable levels.You can view by folder in v6's default STV too -- if you need help with that, please start a new topic in the SageTV Software forum section.

- Andy

[feilerd]

Take Grownups out of the Kids directory... ;)
:rolleyes: Yeah. Thanks.

Fixed the tags...

[feilerd]

ok--If I select "file system" and "view by list," I see what I'm looking for about 70% of the time. Here's the new problem: Some DVDs (folders w/ a VIDEO_TS folder under them) show up fine (as playable items) and others show up as folders w/ two items (!?). If I drill into those folders, I see a single entry in each: VIDEO_TS, and those also appear as folders containing two items. If I drill into those, I see nothing. The end result is that those DVDs are unplayable in the interface.

Here's the kicker: What makes those "special" is that they're stored on a different server than the ones that work ok. (Both the ones which work and the ones which don't are stored on boxes other than the Sage server).

Has anyone seen anything like this???

[horseflesh]

Man, for once I WANT a company to spam me, but Sage didn't send email about v6 coming out!

Anyway, I am going to upgrade to Sage 6 and the newest SageMC 16x9. I am a Sage 5 + SageMC 16x9 user now... I used to update SageMC just by replacing that one XML file, back when there were still new releases for v5. (that is, I am stuck at 6.13a now.)

Once I install Sage v6 over my v5, will I have to do the SageMC 16x9 "base install" again or can I just get the SageMC_196.xml update like I used to?

TIA for the help.

[MeInMaui]

Man, for once I WANT a company to spam me, but Sage didn't send email about v6 coming out!

Anyway, I am going to upgrade to Sage 6 and the newest SageMC 16x9. I am a Sage 5 + SageMC 16x9 user now... I used to update SageMC just by replacing that one XML file, back when there were still new releases for v5. (that is, I am stuck at 6.13a now.)

Once I install Sage v6 over my v5, will I have to do the SageMC 16x9 "base install" again or can I just get the SageMC_196.xml update like I used to?

TIA for the help.

It might be a good time to do a new fresh install of sage (copying in your old wiz.bin and properties files) and the new base install of SageMC. It could save you some potential problems with jar files that some poeple have had. You could just install the latest dev release of SageMC, but make sure you install all of the files. Some of the jars have changed.

Aloha,
Mike

[horseflesh]

It might be a good time to do a new fresh install of sage...

Turns out you do need to at least reinstall the SMC16x9 base package plus updates. Otherwise I don't seem to have had a problem installing 6 over 5.

[JParedis]

re the thumbnails, I tried doing the IMDB search and then saving it--and all it did was update the text--not the icon. Besides, not everything will have an IMDB entry--so it might be nice to be able to "turn off" the thumbnails altogether. No way to do that, huh?

Had today the same issue, the default thumbnail was an image of the start of the picture, and the IMDB save did not save the picture. However, when I - for another reason - restarted Sage the pictures were the IMDB ones!

But have a look at this thread (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20661&highlight=thumbnails). That may do it. It:

- Explains the 'delay' in update, as there is a timing set (video_thumbnail_extraction_time_offset_sec=15).
- Allows automatic thumbnail generation to be stopped (video_thumbnail_generation=false).

Regarding the folders, I got something like you have. One top with subdirectories grouping movies and in each of these subdirectories with the actual movies (often only one file, sometimes I added a jpg). I have only the top folder in the video import, as you have, and it works great.

Jan

[Ted@TNT]

I can seem to find what I'm looking for in this thread...

With the latest sagemc 6.3.1 install, I don't have any genre icons. I can see the graphics in STV's/SageTV3/SageMCE/Images/GenreIcons, but they aren't showing up in the gui.

Obviously, I've been going through this thread, but it seems that they problems with this should have been taken care of by the new sagemc versions.

Any ideas??

[geogecko]

I can seem to find what I'm looking for in this thread...

With the latest sagemc 6.3.1 install, I don't have any genre icons. I can see the graphics in STV's/SageTV3/SageMCE/Images/GenreIcons, but they aren't showing up in the gui.

Obviously, I've been going through this thread, but it seems that they problems with this should have been taken care of by the new sagemc versions.

Any ideas??

Do you have the top left button, in My Videos, set to Genre?

[wahb]

I am having trouble getting Other Programs to work. When I place a shortcut and jpg in the c:\sageOthers folder, i see the shortcut in the Other Programs screen, but the jpg does not show. If I select the shortcut SageTV is minimized to the tray, but the shortcut does not execute.

[dflachbart]

Had today the same issue, the default thumbnail was an image of the start of the picture, and the IMDB save did not save the picture. However, when I - for another reason - restarted Sage the pictures were the IMDB ones!

No magic here ;) This is caused by the image cache in the Sage core, the IMDB code saves the image correctly, but Sage still displays the old picture from the cache. There is currently no way around it, other than a restart.

Dirk

[dflachbart]

I am having trouble getting Other Programs to work. When I place a shortcut and jpg in the c:\sageOthers folder, i see the shortcut in the Other Programs screen, but the jpg does not show. If I select the shortcut SageTV is minimized to the tray, but the shortcut does not execute.

Which SageTV / SageMC version ?


Dirk

[Naylia]

So I finally upgraded to 6.x and now I'm having a minor issue with Custom 1 button (not menu item). i thought custom 1 mapped to My TV but instead it's enabling/disabling a ticker...any thoughts?

[gplasky]

So I finally upgraded to 6.x and now I'm having a minor issue with Custom 1 button (not menu item). i thought custom 1 mapped to My TV but instead it's enabling/disabling a ticker...any thoughts?
Check the SageMC options and look specifically in Visual for the RSS options. The default is Custom 1 for that.

Gerry

[Naylia]

So when did this change and is their still a custom button in the STV for My TV?

[geogecko]

So when did this change and is their still a custom button in the STV for My TV?

I believe it changed with the latest version.

You should be able to change it back, I believe, but I can't check right now, due to my wife doing her pregnancy workout...;)

[dflachbart]

So when did this change and is their still a custom button in the STV for My TV?

You can assign a different Custom button (or none) for enabling the ticker in the ticker options.

Dirk

[Naylia]

Yeah, I just figured that out...if you reassign the RSS buttons to other custom buttons then Custom 1 goes back to working as My TV. Thanks guys!

[dflachbart]

Sure...

One thing, the image http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/charts/uk/ss_rain_07011009.jpg was kept in %Y%D%M format for both logs. The format for the ss_summary image was swapped.

Cheers.
Ok, here's my last try on this...
Let me know if it works. Thanks !


Dirk

[wahb]

Which SageTV / SageMC version ?


Dirk


SageTV version 6.0.18

SageMC version 6.3.1

[Stuntman]

I noticed today while watching my chargers LOSE a game they should have won that if you extend a show by adding time to the end time of a recording the timeline that shows for comskipping does not reflect the added time.. so the game was scheduled from 1:30 to 5:00, but I added 60 minutes to that.. I would have expected, and liked, to see the timeline reflect this.. once it got to the 3:30 hour mark the timeline and current position indicator reached the end of the line..

Is this by design, or it is something that can be fixed?

Thanks!

[dflachbart]

SageTV version 6.0.18

SageMC version 6.3.1
Strange, I just tested this again, and it works fine here... How did you create the shortcut, what kind of program do you want to execute ? Make sure the link file has an extension of ".lnk", and that the filename without the extension doesn not end with "_i". Did you check in the task manager that the program has definitely not been started ?

And did you name the jpg the exact same name ? Also, please double-check that the Other Programs option in the SageMC settings is also pointing to c:\sageothers...

Dirk

[Hyperbaric]

Ok, here's my last try on this...
Let me know if it works. Thanks !


Dirk

That's the one :goodjob:

[wahb]

Strange, I just tested this again, and it works fine here... How did you create the shortcut, what kind of program do you want to execute ? Make sure the link file has an extension of ".lnk", and that the filename without the extension doesn not end with "_i". Did you check in the task manager that the program has definitely not been started ?

And did you name the jpg the exact same name ? Also, please double-check that the Other Programs option in the SageMC settings is also pointing to c:\sageothers...

Dirk
I was trying to use the DVD burning plugin which creates the lnk and jpg files. When this did not work, I created a shortcut by right clicking in the folder and creating a shortcut named notepad.lnk. My shortcut is to notepad.exe. If I double click the shortcut Notepad will run. I just upgraded to version 6.0.19 of SageTV. This did not help.

[dflachbart]

Does anyone care to try this and see if it fixes the bloody 'Stop' ?


Dirk

[Kirby]

Does anyone care to try this and see if it fixes the bloody 'Stop' ?


Dirk

That fixed it! Sorry it took all of 3 minutes to test! ;)

[dflachbart]

That fixed it! Sorry it took all of 3 minutes to test! ;)
Dude, next time please a little faster ! :D:D

Thx ! :) Today I got the bloodbath myself on my dev client, and was finally able to try some stuff out. The fix was easy: I just had to reduce the font size of the 'Stop' label from 72 to 62 (everything above 62 will bring it back). I remembered the issue with the weather bar font size, and although this was different (a little more severe ;)), I think that it's also some issue in the Sage core with rendering large fonts.


Dirk

[Kirby]

Dude, next time please a little faster ! :D:D
I'll try to get my act together! :p

Thx ! :) Today I got the bloodbath myself on my dev client, and was finally able to try some stuff out. The fix was easy: I just had to reduce the font size of the 'Stop' label from 72 to 62 (everything above 62 will bring it back). I remembered the issue with the weather bar font size, and although this was different (a little more severe ;)), I think that it's also some issue in the Sage core with rendering large fonts.


Dirk
I kind of wondered if it was a font size issue, but had no real way to check it, or time. Glad its fixes, now I dont have to tell people about my murdering of the Stopped! ;)

[snoopy]

also a proposed fix mentioned here for disabling sound if one is running a Remote UI

[gplasky]

also a proposed fix mentioned here for disabling sound if one is running a Remote UI
Wouldn't you just go into SageMC settings and go to Main and then set Play sounds to disabled?

Gerry

[dflachbart]

Wouldn't you just go into SageMC settings and go to Main and then set Play sounds to disabled?

Gerry

Yeah, I see this the same way...


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Curious: is anyone else (using Overlay) sometimes having problems when switching aspect ratio modes in the OSD (not specific to SageMC though) ?


Dirk

[geogecko]

Does anyone care to try this and see if it fixes the bloody 'Stop' ?


Dirk

:( Sorry it took me so long, man, must seem like an eternity, compared to Kirby.

It's not completely gone on my system, but this particular case, seems to not have involved so many stab wounds as before, because the bleeding on this victim was not nearly as much. There are only a few blood stained lines running down the screen.

[dflachbart]

:( Sorry it took me so long, man, must seem like an eternity, compared to Kirby.

It's not completely gone on my system, but this particular case, seems to not have involved so many stab wounds as before, because the bleeding on this victim was not nearly as much. There are only a few blood stained lines running down the screen.
Interesting... :)
Whats the resolution you are running ? And Kirby, whats yours ?

If you are a little familiar with Studio you could search for "StopLabel" and change the font size of the child "Untitled" theme to less than 62 and see if it goes away completely

Dirk

[snoopy]

Wouldn't you just go into SageMC settings and go to Main and then set Play sounds to disabled?

GerryYeah I do hear that. I like the tiki sounds myself but I suppose that would work.

[dflachbart]

Yeah I do hear that. I like the tiki sounds myself but I suppose that would work.

Well, don't forget that this is a client-side setting, so you can disable it on your MVP / Placeshifter and still enjoy it on your regular clients.


Dirk

[gotuitdan]

Hi,

I'm using SaceMC on a server/client system, with the latest builds of SageMC and Sage... Oddly, I can't seem to find the menu to setup Google Video on the client. It works fine on the Server, but the client custom menus don't list the Google Video page as an option... Am I missing something? Any pointers?

Thanks!

[dflachbart]

Hi,

I'm using SaceMC on a server/client system, with the latest builds of SageMC and Sage... Oddly, I can't seem to find the menu to setup Google Video on the client. It works fine on the Server, but the client custom menus don't list the Google Video page as an option... Am I missing something? Any pointers?

Thanks!

Which 'SageMC STV Version' is listed in the 'Settings' menu on the right side ?


Dirk

[JDizzy]

Curious: is anyone else (using Overlay) sometimes having problems when switching aspect ratio modes in the OSD (not specific to SageMC though) ?


Dirk

Not sure exactly what you mean but I do run in overlay mode and at times:

I switch aspect settings and the picture kind of stays the same size and shape. I have to click around with other aspect modes until it finally expands.

Also, at times the little preview screen on lower left (when you exit TV mode with video still playing) when it minimizes, doesn't scale the video in proportion down to the size of the window and only shows a small portion of video (like lower left part of picture).

Same happens occasionally when you have video playing in small screen and you click to go to maximize video the entire screen goes black with the small window still in lower left corner playing video.

Not sure if it is not specific to SageMC though as I never leave the UI....

Nothing major but it happens...
-JD

[Patilan]

Hi Dirk!

I've been following this thread closely, hoping to hear what you decided about those swapped Title/Tagline filelds in the database. Is there a chance you'll decide that it's worth fixing?

And also, you've fixed so many things in SageMC lately, but the version number is still stitting at 6.3.1. Could you consider bumping the version numbers more often, so people can be sure they are getting the fixed stuff?

Thanks!

[Opus4]

Curious: is anyone else (using Overlay) sometimes having problems when switching aspect ratio modes in the OSD (not specific to SageMC though)?Are you using the new command that toggles from one AR mode to the next? Not sure if it is only that command when this happens...

Are any of the saspect ratio settings modified to custom values? I found that switching modes when using overlay didn't always result in the correct aspect ratio when he H & V stretch values were > 100%.

And, yes, this is not specific to SageMC. :)

- Andy

[MeInMaui]

And also, you've fixed so many things in SageMC lately, but the version number is still stitting at 6.3.1. Could you consider bumping the version numbers more often, so people can be sure they are getting the fixed stuff?

Thanks!

v6.3.1 has only been out since Christmas. Before that the version was 6.3.0.

[geogecko]

Interesting... :)
Whats the resolution you are running ? And Kirby, whats yours ?

If you are a little familiar with Studio you could search for "StopLabel" and change the font size of the child "Untitled" theme to less than 62 and see if it goes away completely

Dirk

1080p.

I will play around with it...:D

[geogecko]

1080p.

I will play around with it...:D

60pt works well for me. How do you center the text over the buttons? It now appears right justified.

[dflachbart]

60pt works well for me. How do you center the text over the buttons? It now appears right justified.

Change 'AnchorX' of the 'StopLabel' panel, 0.5 should center it


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Hi Andy,

Are you using the new command that toggles from one AR mode to the next? Not sure if it is only that command when this happens...

No, it's when executing the old 'SetAspetRatioMode(mode)'. I haven't tried the new command yet...


Are any of the saspect ratio settings modified to custom values? I found that switching modes when using overlay didn't always result in the correct aspect ratio when he H & V stretch values were > 100%.

Yep, I changed the "Height Zoom" of the Fill mode to 133% to get rid of the pillar boxes of 4:3 content without having the picture stretched...

Well, I found that temporarily increasing any of the zoom values by 1% and back while the video is playing fixes the issue and chooses the correct aspect ratio. So I simply added this additional code to the aspect ratio change actions, and it now works flawlessly ... :)


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Hi Dirk!

I've been following this thread closely, hoping to hear what you decided about those swapped Title/Tagline filelds in the database. Is there a chance you'll decide that it's worth fixing?

Yes, as you and others pointed out it just makes sense to get in sync with the default STV again. This will be included in the next update


And also, you've fixed so many things in SageMC lately, but the version number is still stitting at 6.3.1. Could you consider bumping the version numbers more often, so people can be sure they are getting the fixed stuff?

Actually, since 6.3.1 I only made public fixes to the dynamic weather map URLs for our european folks, nothing else... I usually put out a maintenance release after I have collected most of the bug reports for a new major release, but this time I got busy with a new server setup and other projects, so it will take a bit longer. I should have something out by the end of this week though

Dirk

[feilerd]

Regarding the folders, I got something like you have. One top with subdirectories grouping movies and in each of these subdirectories with the actual movies (often only one file, sometimes I added a jpg). I have only the top folder in the video import, as you have, and it works great.

Jan

I'm sure I'd tried every single variation, but apparently not. I needed to do "File System," and "Folder." I hadn't noticed the "File System" option the first several times I tried.

Even with that set, though, I was still seeing "2 items" for single things--and removing ALL the import directories still didn't fix it: I ended up seeing one of each thing, but there was no way to update them. It was almost as though items were "stuck" in the database. It turns out they were.

I'd moved Sage to a new server by copying the Sage directory and installing on top of it. I'd found buried in a thread somewhere that Sage has a problem when you change server names (which I'd effectively done). Apparently it only updates entries in the database which were made by that server--leaving all my old entries still there. It's almost like the beginnings of an attempt to support multiple servers serving one database.

To fix it, I had to change the name of the new box to the old one and refresh the database (by adding and removing a channel from the channel lineup). Difficult to say the least, since the old name was still in use and was actually serving up recorded shows I didn't want removed from the database.

[Patilan]

Yes, as you and others pointed out it just makes sense to get in sync with the default STV again. This will be included in the next update
Thanks Dirk! That's what I've been waiting to hear. :goodjob:

[MTuckman]

Curious: is anyone else (using Overlay) sometimes having problems when switching aspect ratio modes in the OSD (not specific to SageMC though) ?
Dirk
Maybe - It seams as if since I did all of my upgrades in the last 48 hours, changing the aspect ratio in the OSD has either no effect or a minimal one. Adjusting a specific aspect ratio also doesn't seem to work anymore.

I was beginning to think it was related to my other problem, I couldn't get my SD recording to "stretch" to fill my 16:9 TV. I ended up going into the PureVideo settings and changed it to anamorphic/raw. That at least solved that problem.

[fyodor]

Hi,

How do you get the automatic compression to create another copy rather than replacing the original? The option doesn't seem to show up in the "series recording" menu. I am using version 6.31.

Thanks!
Fyodor

[geogecko]

Hi,

How do you get the automatic compression to create another copy rather than replacing the original? The option doesn't seem to show up in the "series recording" menu. I am using version 6.31.

Thanks!
Fyodor

There is a setting that is set to "In Place Of," change this to the other setting (can't remember the name), and that should do it.

[geogecko]

Change 'AnchorX' of the 'StopLabel' panel, 0.5 should center it


Dirk

Ah, thanks! Studio is a bit odd for me, but if I understand it, that setting is a like a percentage then? So .5 would be 50%?

Just wondering.

[snoopy]

Well, don't forget that this is a client-side setting, so you can disable it on your MVP / Placeshifter and still enjoy it on your regular clients.


DirkDid not know that, thought it was global. Thanks Dirk

[dflachbart]

Ah, thanks! Studio is a bit odd for me, but if I understand it, that setting is a like a percentage then? So .5 would be 50%?


You got it :)


Dirk

[geogecko]

You got it :)


Dirk

Thanks. That did it. It was set to 0.56 instead...

Jason.

[gotuitdan]

Well, I have 6.3.1, which corresponds to the latest available...

UPDATE, though: I went to check, and I tried again to check what menus were available. Lo and behold, Google Video was listed this time. I'm not sure why I didn't see it (or it wasn't listed?) last time. Strange, but I'm in good shape now.

Your question caused me to try again -- and it worked... :-)


Which 'SageMC STV Version' is listed in the 'Settings' menu on the right side ?


Dirk

[hfsoares]

Is it open source?
What is the tool used?
How someone can contribute?

Humberto

[geogecko]

Is it open source?
What is the tool used?
How someone can contribute?

Humberto

SageMC is created using SageTV Studio, which is now available to anyone that has a copy of SageTV. It used to be available only to a select few, but I believe was released sometime in version 4.

It can be kind of considered open source, since you can hit Shift+CTRL+F12, and edit the STV yourself.

It's probably easier to just ask for a feature, and see if Dirk approves it. Otherwise, you would have to make the change yourself every time a new version came out.

Oh, and welcome to SageTV forums! ;)

Check out the Studio manual when you get a moment, and it will give you the basics of editing the STV. I would warn you, that inside the SageMC STV, it can be a bit daunting (sp?), as it can be hard to locate what you are really wanting to edit. With some time, you can see how a lot of things are organized though.

[95TBird]

First of all I want to Thank Dirk & everyone else involved for this STV!! We have been running Sage for a few years & I just got to the point where I felt I had things solid enough to try a different STV & all I can say is WOW !! I wish I had loaded it years ago!! I 'm running the current version of Sage in a Client Server configuration & used the full install & everything went flawlessly. The only thing I can't seem to get to work is the built in commercial skipping. I'm using comskip & comskip monitor & it was working well with the default STV with the comskip playback stvi, I have comskip set to generate .edl files & they are there for all the shows, but no skip info shows up when they are played back & the commercials play. I must be missing something simple, but I just cant spot it... Any help will be deeply appreciated!!! :bang:

Bruce

[hfsoares]

Thx Jason!

I'm from Brazil, so I have some issues that I don't think everybody has, those are mainly concerned to the epg's info quality. So, a lot of episodes come to the guide without any information about episode number, etc...

I like to collect some series, and would like to have some information on the episodes. The idea is: grab episode infor from http://tvdb.zsori.com/ or tv.com and assign the correct episode to it.

I will follow your tips and look around Sage Studio.

[\s Humberto

[JonTom]

Finally got around to loading the latest SMC - thanks for including the 'play all music' option, and for including the folder view inside My Music.

I have another request - would it be possible to add a 'sort albums by folder date'? That way, when I rip a newly bought cd, it could appear at the top of the list...

Thanks again for SageMC - loving it...

[dflachbart]

First of all I want to Thank Dirk & everyone else involved for this STV!! We have been running Sage for a few years & I just got to the point where I felt I had things solid enough to try a different STV & all I can say is WOW !! I wish I had loaded it years ago!!


Hi Bruce, welcome to SageMC :)


I 'm running the current version of Sage in a Client Server configuration & used the full install & everything went flawlessly. The only thing I can't seem to get to work is the built in commercial skipping. I'm using comskip & comskip monitor & it was working well with the default STV with the comskip playback stvi, I have comskip set to generate .edl files & they are there for all the shows, but no skip info shows up when they are played back & the commercials play. I must be missing something simple, but I just cant spot it... Any help will be deeply appreciated!!! :bang:

Bruce

Strange...

Are you able to run the UI on the server and see if it works there ? First trying to rule out that it is a client-setup issue...

Dirk

[dflachbart]

I have another request - would it be possible to add a 'sort albums by folder date'? That way, when I rip a newly bought cd, it could appear at the top of the list...

I'll mark this in my ToDo list, but I can't say yet if this is easily possible, or when I will get to it.

Dirk

[dflachbart]

I was beginning to think it was related to my other problem, I couldn't get my SD recording to "stretch" to fill my 16:9 TV. I ended up going into the PureVideo settings and changed it to anamorphic/raw. That at least solved that problem.
Yeah, I changed it to anamorphic/raw too, but it didnt help. I assume you are using 100%/100% in the fill settings, so that should be fine, but I am using 133% vertical to get rid of the pillar bars. But as I said, the temporary value change does the trick, so this will be fixed in the next version.


Dirk

[95TBird]

Hi Bruce, welcome to SageMC :)



Strange...

Are you able to run the UI on the server and see if it works there ? First trying to rule out that it is a client-setup issue...

Dirk

Well I installed it on my server & it worked fine So I just reinstalled the full package again on my client & now everything works as expected !!

Thanks Again for the Fantastic Interface !! :clap:

[dflachbart]

Well I installed it on my server & it worked fine So I just reinstalled the full package again on my client & now everything works as expected !!

Thanks Again for the Fantastic Interface !! :clap:

Glad to hear ! :)

Dirk

[feilerd]

I must have installed comskip at some point when I had a prior version, because when I turned on all the "background commercial processing" options in SageMC, I (eventually) ended up w/ .vprj, .log, .txt, and .ccyes files. They seem to contain information about the comskip processing and the locations, but I don't see the commercials showing up in the time bar at the bottom of the screen and (even w/ the automatic commercial skip turned on) the commercials don't skip.

I see everyone talking about setting things up externally instead, .edl files, etc.
Is what I already have set up going to work, or do I need to start from scratch?

[feilerd]

Ok--actually, the time seems to show up ok on the server--just not on the client. Does the client need file-level access to the video directories for the commercial skipping to work? (ie do I have to share out the video directories)?

Thanks

[Halstead]

Ok--actually, the time seems to show up ok on the server--just not on the client. Does the client need file-level access to the video directories for the commercial skipping to work? (ie do I have to share out the video directories)?

Thanks
You need to do a bit more than share your drives- all of your SageTV recording folders\drives need to be linked to from the SageTV server as SMB shares, so that the path is the same for the server and the clients.

E.G.:

E:\Sage Recordings will not work but a shared drive called \\Media Server\Sage Recordings will.

[feilerd]

Got it. I tried that right after my last post--and I'm working now.

Thanks

[stanger89]

flachbar,

You might want to look at the metadata importing logic in SageMC if you haven't (sorry I haven't looked yet). V6 changed the way it stores titles for imported media, it stores the "legacy" title (the one with the path in it) in the same Title field, but also stores the "display" title (without the path) in the Episode field. The result is that if you import metadata in SageMC or something else that's assuming the V5 style, and you use the official STV, you'll get blank titles for (almost) all of the imported media.

[dflachbart]

flachbar,

You might want to look at the metadata importing logic in SageMC if you haven't (sorry I haven't looked yet). V6 changed the way it stores titles for imported media, it stores the "legacy" title (the one with the path in it) in the same Title field, but also stores the "display" title (without the path) in the Episode field. The result is that if you import metadata in SageMC or something else that's assuming the V5 style, and you use the official STV, you'll get blank titles for (almost) all of the imported media.
Hi stanger,

thanks for the heads-up, though this has already been noticed and discussed here in the past :). The next SageMC version will conform to the 'default STV' way of using the metadata again.

Thx anyhow,
Dirk

[feilerd]

flachbar,


First of all--excellent STV!!!! v6 was just getting too cluttered; this is absolutely fantastic on every level!

Does Sage/SageMC (I'm not sure which it is) send just the path (up to \video_ts) for a DVD when starting an external player? It seems that PowerDVD requires something all the way up to the file (eg \video_ts\video_ts.ifo). As a result, I can't get PowerDVD to start as an external player--which is a problem, because Sage6 is cutting off the right third of my screen (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22983).

I can't just add that filename to the .cmd file (eg %1\video_ts.ifo) because the path gets quoted.

Any thoughts?

[kricker]

-Dirk
Can we get the rescan library imports option in the pictures library just like in the movies and music libraries? Also there seems to be no way to have the pictures zoom to fill the screen like in the standard stv. And one more thing, is there any way to return to the pop-up for a removable device to copy files to and from after you have closed the pop-up? I see no command or internal screen to do this. I would love some sort of file browse module to make the task of moving files all do-able within Sage.

[jwmcclung]

I can't seem to find this one answered anywhere but if it is I apologize. I love this customization but I have one thing I can't figure out. I have some new .divx files with the proper directory & name.jpg file for the cover art. Now when I add one of the new .divx files the system won't use the cover art I have added to the directory. It uses the first frame of the video as the art. How do I force it to use the cover art?

Thank you.

[dflachbart]

I can't seem to find this one answered anywhere but if it is I apologize. I love this customization but I have one thing I can't figure out. I have some new .divx files with the proper directory & name.jpg file for the cover art. Now when I add one of the new .divx files the system won't use the cover art I have added to the directory. It uses the first frame of the video as the art. How do I force it to use the cover art?

Thank you.
Justin,

did you rescan the import folders after you copied the .jpg file into the video folder ?

Dirk

[dflachbart]

-Dirk
Can we get the rescan library imports option in the pictures library just like in the movies and music libraries?

Yes, you can get that :)


Also there seems to be no way to have the pictures zoom to fill the screen like in the standard stv.

I'll check on this too


And one more thing, is there any way to return to the pop-up for a removable device to copy files to and from after you have closed the pop-up? I see no command or internal screen to do this. I would love some sort of file browse module to make the task of moving files all do-able within Sage.
Does the default STV offer this ? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to add to SageMC, otherwise I'll have to see...


Dirk

[jwmcclung]

Dirk, thank you for the quick reply. The problem is that I can't find the rescan option. In the normal interface I knew where it was but in this one I can't seem to find it.

[dflachbart]

flachbar,


First of all--excellent STV!!!! v6 was just getting too cluttered; this is absolutely fantastic on every level!

Does Sage/SageMC (I'm not sure which it is) send just the path (up to \video_ts) for a DVD when starting an external player? It seems that PowerDVD requires something all the way up to the file (eg \video_ts\video_ts.ifo). As a result, I can't get PowerDVD to start as an external player--which is a problem, because Sage6 is cutting off the right third of my screen (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22983) (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22983%29).

I can't just add that filename to the .cmd file (eg %1\video_ts.ifo) because the path gets quoted.

Any thoughts?
I'll add an option to accomplish this

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Dirk, thank you for the quick reply. The problem is that I can't find the rescan option. In the normal interface I knew where it was but in this one I can't seem to find it.
When you are in the 'My Videos' menu and have any of the left-hand menu buttons focused, bring up the options menu ... :)

Dirk

[dflachbart]

-Dirk
Can we get the rescan library imports option in the pictures library just like in the movies and music libraries?

And as a workaround for now, if you select "Manage Picture Folders" and just hit "Ok", you will also get the 'Rescan Library" dialog...

Dirk

[feilerd]

I'll add an option to accomplish this

Dirk

Thanks!!

...and did I say AWESOME STV???? We're coming from 2.2.8's default STV, so it's like moving to an entirely new app!

As long as we're adding to the request list, my wife noticed that the recorded shows list no longer "wraps around" (ie she can't scroll back to "a" once she's gotten to the end). I guess this means we tape too much (318 shows at last count that we haven't yet gotten to watch), but...

This is obviously just a "nice to have," so feel free to ignore it.

Thanks again for a great interface!

[geogecko]

318 shows at last count that we haven't yet gotten to watch

LOL, try 638! 187 of which are Modern Marvels...which I can only watch when the wife isn't home!

[kricker]

...
Does the default STV offer this ? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to add to SageMC, otherwise I'll have to see...
Dirk
Not that I know of...you may have to work your magic on this one :)

[Opus4]

And one more thing, is there any way to return to the pop-up for a removable device to copy files to and from after you have closed the pop-up? I see no command or internal screen to do this. I would love some sort of file browse module to make the task of moving files all do-able within Sage.Does the default STV offer this ? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to add to SageMC, otherwise I'll have to see...After closing the auto pop-up that appears after inserting a removable drive, you can browse that drive again by going to Media Center -> Browse Media Files. From there, you can browse any drive you have access to, not just the removable drive.

- Andy

[jmv]

Sorry, I'm new and hence, stupid!...now that that is out of the way :) The wiki on the first page seems down...get a broken python script when I use the linky. In setting this up, do I need to replace the STV on both my server (only used to record shows, never with UI) and the clients...or just the clients? If I set up commercial skip on the clients, do I need to do something on the server? Lastly, how does using this STV affect extenders since I am anxious to get the HD externder when released!

thanks

mv

[geogecko]

Sorry, I'm new and hence, stupid!...now that that is out of the way :) The wiki on the first page seems down...get a broken python script when I use the linky. In setting this up, do I need to replace the STV on both my server (only used to record shows, never with UI) and the clients...or just the clients? If I set up commercial skip on the clients, do I need to do something on the server? Lastly, how does using this STV affect extenders since I am anxious to get the HD externder when released!

thanks

mv

Not stupid, just ignorant...;)

There should be some good instructions for setting this up on the first post of this thread. You should only need to replace the STV on the clients. What do you plan to use for commercial skip? It is mainly independent of the STV, other than the STV seeing the TXT or EDL comskip file. If you are using clients with comskip, then you need to make sure that the clients can see the comskip file. In other words, look a few posts back, and you'll see what I mean. Post #3451, to be exact.

The STV works great on current SD extenders, once you turn off sounds and animations (the sounds appear on the server, instead of the MVP, and the animations are really slow, if enabled). Comskip works out of the box (if you have it working on the server/clients), since the MVP doesn't really require any special file access configuration.

[bbig119]

This may be a stupid or previously answered question-- for that I apologize.

I've got a large selection of my DVD collection ripped to various hard drives. I've imported them into Sage and am using DVD profiler(very cool BTW). I haven't messed with it much, mainly because I'd rather not screw up the DVD stuff, but I'd like a way to keep these DVDs separated from other miscellaneous videos, such as short clips from my digital camera, and downloaded clips off the internet and such. Is there a way to do this currently?

Would it be possible to move imported DVDs from the videos section to the DVD option on the menu? It could be setup similar to My TV menu where a click brings into DVD menu which contains online library of DVDs and one of the options in the section is to load DVD in drive.

Just a thought.

-Bryan

[MeInMaui]

This may be a stupid or previously answered question-- for that I apologize.

I've got a large selection of my DVD collection ripped to various hard drives. I've imported them into Sage and am using DVD profiler(very cool BTW). I haven't messed with it much, mainly because I'd rather not screw up the DVD stuff, but I'd like a way to keep these DVDs separated from other miscellaneous videos, such as short clips from my digital camera, and downloaded clips off the internet and such. Is there a way to do this currently?

Hi Bryan,

There are a couple of ways you can do this. I think the best way is to assign your videos to custom groups and use the group view. When you enter the group, you can still have the videos organized by genre. Another approach would be to assign custom genres to your videos and just use the genre view. HTH

Aloha,
Mike

[Naylia]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I was wondering if support had been added to not just compress, but convert to iPod friendly formats.

Also, any chance you could add the auto-disable comskip as a Series setting instead of just for a particular recorded show.

[kricker]

LOL, try 638! 187 of which are Modern Marvels...which I can only watch when the wife isn't home!Hey...I worked on some of those shows!

[geogecko]

Hey...I worked on some of those shows!

LOL. I like watching them, but they come on too often! My wife likes me to watch them when she is trying to go to sleep, well, that or MacGyver (somehow the voice of him narrating his actions, puts her to sleep).

I was really surprised how many episodes they put out of that show. I figured when I turned it on to record, that I'd be lucky getting a couple a week, especially after all the episodes I have watched.

[dflachbart]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I was wondering if support had been added to not just compress, but convert to iPod friendly formats.

I don't know much about iPod formats, but SageMC uses the Sage core compression engine and is able to use all formats that are supported by the default STV



Also, any chance you could add the auto-disable comskip as a Series setting instead of just for a particular recorded show.
I'll check...


Dirk

[dflachbart]

As long as we're adding to the request list, my wife noticed that the recorded shows list no longer "wraps around" (ie she can't scroll back to "a" once she's gotten to the end). I guess this means we tape too much (318 shows at last count that we haven't yet gotten to watch), but...

This is obviously just a "nice to have," so feel free to ignore it.

To be honest, this was one of the features that drew my attention from the default STV to SageMC - I couldn't stand the wrapping lists in the default STV ;) But yeah, scrolling back 318 shows must be pretty annoying too :)


Dirk

[flavius]

If it could be configurable - to wrap or not to wrap..

[MeInMaui]

If it could be configurable - to wrap or not to wrap..

...that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous feature requests
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them...


:p

[ke6guj]

If it could be configurable - to wrap or not to wrap..

That would be nice. And if set to not wrap, could you keep the focus in the right-side menu and just have it stop at the bottom? Right now, when you get to the bottom of a right-side list, it jumps to the left-side menu and then will wrap-scroll on the left.

[kricker]

another vote for wrapping....

[dflachbart]

And if set to not wrap, could you keep the focus in the right-side menu and just have it stop at the bottom? Right now, when you get to the bottom of a right-side list, it jumps to the left-side menu and then will wrap-scroll on the left.

Believe me, I tried to find a solution for this several times (it bothers me too), but the Studio widgets simply don't give me enough focus control to achieve this

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Believe me, I tried to find a solution for this several times (it bothers me too), but the Studio widgets simply don't give me enough focus control to achieve this

Dirk
I stand corrected, Bob just showed me a way to do it :)
Expect this to get fixed, sooner or later.

Dirk

[Opus4]

I stand corrected, Bob just showed me a way to do it :)
I'm curious what you are using... Is it some listeners to kill the input when the table doesn't use it? You can use Up & Down listeners under the Table's parent panel to kill up/down input that would get used if the table passes along that input. The table would still scroll, but nothing else would happen when you get to the first or last items.

- Andy

[dflachbart]

I'm curious what you are using... Is it some listeners to kill the input when the table doesn't use it? You can use Up & Down listeners under the Table's parent panel to kill up/down input that would get used if the table passes along that input. The table would still scroll, but nothing else would happen when you get to the first or last items.

- Andy
It's an up/down listener on the button widget that only triggers a 'PassiveListen()' if it's on the first/last table element - like "If (TableRow < Size(List))"

Dirk

[Opus4]

It's an up/down listener on the button widget that only triggers a 'PassiveListen()' if it's on the first/last table element - like "If (TableRow < Size(List))"That will work too. :) Just so you know, though: any listener that the table doesn't use gets passed up the UI widget chain. So, in this case, if you put empty up/down listeners at the next highest widget level above the Table, it will accomplish the same thing w/o any extra code like those if statements.

On a different table w/wrap scrolling, those if statements would stop up/down usage at the first & last elements even when those items were in the middle of the table display. But, placed at the higher panel, it stops in those places when the table isn't full enough to scroll.

- Andy

[dflachbart]

That will work too. :) Just so you know, though: any listener that the table doesn't use gets passed up the UI widget chain. So, in this case, if you put empty up/down listeners at the next highest widget level above the Table, it will accomplish the same thing w/o any extra code like those if statements.

On a different table w/wrap scrolling, those if statements would stop up/down usage at the first & last elements even when those items were in the middle of the table display. But, placed at the higher panel, it stops in those places when the table isn't full enough to scroll.

- Andy

Thanks for the info Andy, this is even more elegant, and I am sure I would have ran into the scrolling issue sooner or later !

Dirk

[feilerd]

Is the actual filename still accessible from the interface? 2.2.8 (the default STV) used to show it under the show's details, which was useful when I needed to do something w/ the actual file (eg copy it to a laptop). I'm thinking that maybe I just have something configured wrong (too large a font for something?) but my show details ends w/ the length (eg 2 hours) followed by a comma--and I don't see a filename. I'm new to v6 and also to SageMC, so I don't know if it was ever there.

Thanks

[dflachbart]

Is the actual filename still accessible from the interface? 2.2.8 (the default STV) used to show it under the show's details, which was useful when I needed to do something w/ the actual file (eg copy it to a laptop). I'm thinking that maybe I just have something configured wrong (too large a font for something?) but my show details ends w/ the length (eg 2 hours) followed by a comma--and I don't see a filename. I'm new to v6 and also to SageMC, so I don't know if it was ever there.

Thanks

Press the 'Info' button when you are in the 'Program Info' menu...


Dirk

[feilerd]

Press the 'Info' button when you are in the 'Program Info' menu...


Dirk

Thanks!

And thanks for the amazingly quick reply!!

[JParedis]

I'm a happy SageMC user, and suddenly I can not play any DVD's anymore.

I'm running on my HTPC the Sage Service and SageMC.
I'm running on my MVP SageMC.
SageTV V6.0.19.120
Java Version 1.5.0_10
SageMC TV Version: 6.3.1

Recent behaviour:

Playing a DVD results on my MVP in a black screen.
Playing a DVD on my HTPC results in a very quick minimize and 'restore' of the SageMC screen. It is than no longer on the DVD select screen, but on the main screen (did it crash and restart?).

I'm not aware if I did change anything, the only change is a hardware change (replaced one of my 2 monitors by a Samsung flatscreen).

As someone may ask for log files, I enclose a service and a client logfile. These were not generated at same time. I did make the screen 'crash' about 3 times each and than stopped all. Nothing with the MVP, all on the HTPC.

Oh yes, I did got back to the Standard UI, and than I can play these DVD's ...

Any suggestion on how I can fix this would be appreciated (alternative would be to re-install from scratch :( ).

Jan

[geogecko]

Wow, that's the most diagnostic information I think anyone has provided in a first post about a problem. Great job! ;)

Could this be the dreaded drive letter assignment problem?

What drive letter is your DVD drive, and has this changed recently? Have any of your hard drive letters changed recently?

I can't remember the specifics of that problem or if it's related to the problem you were having. I think the way it was solved, is you had to search through the properties file, and make sure there were no SageMC related properties, set to the DVD drive letter. For instance, one would be to check the DVD Profiler Offline DVD path, etc., and make sure they don't point to the DVD drive...

I'm sorry if this confuses you more, I just thought I remember something like this happening before.

EDIT:

Actually, based on your log files, it looks like you are talking about ripped DVD's and not a regular DVD in a DVD drive, correct?

[JParedis]

Actually, based on your log files, it looks like you are talking about ripped DVD's and not a regular DVD in a DVD drive, correct?
That's correct, all ripped DVD's.

I'm not that familiar with the interior workings of SageMC, but did notice in the client log

Tue 1/23 20:28:41.895 Sage is going to SLEEP
Tue 1/23 20:28:43.707 Sage is going to SLEEP

For some reason it seems Sage is going to sleep (the 'crash' I observe?).

The server log does give some java errors:

Tue 1/23 20:24:19.881 Error communicating with server:java.net.SocketException: socket closed
Tue 1/23 20:24:22.984 Error w/SageTV client connection:java.net.SocketException: socket closed

But here my knowledge is below zero :D The log is just too much info for me.

[willemse]

Dear Dirk


First of all thank you for the outstanding work on SageMC Great work with high WAF and also very happy user myself

I have been building my Music library recently and come to a point to ask for a feature. Apologizes if it has been asked and answered before.

The situation is that I have for instance an album containing all piano concerts from Beethoven. Typically each concert contains three different tracks (files)
So track 1-3 Piano concert 1 track 4-6 Piano concert 2 and so on.
to play concert 2 or 5 I either have to create a play list or make separate album just containing the tracks for the specific concert. Disadvantage which I do not like, is to get quite a lot of albums for each specific concert in the library which makes it cumbersome to select/find. I rather keep one album with all piano concerts.
My question is:
would it be possible to add a menu item once an album is selected to play from a specific track (file) onwards?
Hope it is.

[MeInMaui]

Dear Dirk


First of all thank you for the outstanding work on SageMC Great work with high WAF and also very happy user myself

I have been building my Music library recently and come to a point to ask for a feature. Apologizes if it has been asked and answered before.

The situation is that I have for instance an album containing all piano concerts from Beethoven. Typically each concert contains three different tracks (files)
So track 1-3 Piano concert 1 track 4-6 Piano concert 2 and so on.
to play concert 2 or 5 I either have to create a play list or make separate album just containing the tracks for the specific concert. Disadvantage which I do not like, is to get quite a lot of albums for each specific concert in the library which makes it cumbersome to select/find. I rather keep one album with all piano concerts.
My question is:
would it be possible to add a menu item once an album is selected to play from a specific track (file) onwards?
Hope it is.

While you are waiting for a response from Dirk, a work-around for now might be to add each desired track to the queue and then play queue. It is essentially a quick and dirty playlist.

Aloha,
Mike

[dflachbart]

My question is:
would it be possible to add a menu item once an album is selected to play from a specific track (file) onwards?
Hope it is.
Certainly possible :)

For now, Mike's suggestion is a good workaround


Dirk

[dflachbart]

That's correct, all ripped DVD's.

I'm not that familiar with the interior workings of SageMC, but did notice in the client log

Tue 1/23 20:28:41.895 Sage is going to SLEEP
Tue 1/23 20:28:43.707 Sage is going to SLEEP

Can you test if those timestamps coincide with the time you press 'Play' on the videos ?


The server log does give some java errors:

Tue 1/23 20:24:19.881 Error communicating with server:java.net.SocketException: socket closed
Tue 1/23 20:24:22.984 Error w/SageTV client connection:java.net.SocketException: socket closed

I'm not sure either, but those might just be normal


Just to double-check - you didn't enable 'Use External DVD Player' in the SageMC options by accident, right ?

Dirk

[willemse]

Certainly possible :)

For now, Mike's suggestion is a good workaround


Dirk


Dirk

Thanks for quick response and yes Mike's suggestion is a good work around same as creation of play list for the time being, but I hope that play from here feature will get on shortlist to do and not the long list!?

Again thanks for this fantastic users interface


Jos Willemse

[dflachbart]

but I hope that play from here feature will get on shortlist to do and not the long list!?


It turned out to be so easy that it will be in the next version :)

Dirk

[dflachbart]

If I knew where to look, I could just fiddle with it until I got it where I would like. I am looking for something like an offset of RED to "pop" out at the eye just a tad.

Hi John, I'm trying to stay away from an 'option overkill', especially for such small things. Just edit the color/alpha of the widget selected in the attached screenshot. Well, if this will get requested from a lot of people, I might throw in a setting... ;)


Dirk

[JDizzy]

[QUOTE=JParedis]That's correct, all ripped DVD's.

I'm not that familiar with the interior workings of SageMC, but did notice in the client log

Tue 1/23 20:28:41.895 Sage is going to SLEEP
Tue 1/23 20:28:43.707 Sage is going to SLEEP

[QUOTE]

Just a thought,
Did you check in your SageMC settings to make sure 'Use external DVD' is not chosen?
That would cause what you describe.
-JD

[JParedis]

Just to double-check - you didn't enable 'Use External DVD Player' in the SageMC options by accident, right ?

Dirk

Just a thought,
Did you check in your SageMC settings to make sure 'Use external DVD' is not chosen?
That would cause what you describe.
-JD

:thumb: That was it, I had "External DVD PLayer" enabled in SageMC settings, and yes - did this very recently. I went through all the settings with installing the new screen, activated in Sage the setting "DVD ROM Drive" and must have read the SageMC settings not good enough and had it confused with DVD ROM Drive enabling. My error :bang: That'll teach me to not after a full day's work start changing settings after midnight :D

Thanks for that quick response, HIGHLY appreciated! I do read through some thread's to pick up knowledge, but hadn't picked this one up yet.

Jan

[Ted@TNT]

Would it be feasible to add a "Play CD" feature to SageMC? This is totally a WAF request, but occasionally, with a new CD, there are times when it would be more convenient to play it as you would a DVD. Of course, it would be ideal if Winamp visualizations would be supported with this as well.

Just a thought. Perhaps it wouldn't be a popular feature with others, I don't know. I suspect you've already got plenty of requests to keep you busy!!

Thanks,

[geogecko]

Would it be feasible to add a "Play CD" feature to SageMC? This is totally a WAF request, but occasionally, with a new CD, there are times when it would be more convenient to play it as you would a DVD. Of course, it would be ideal if Winamp visualizations would be supported with this as well.

Just a thought. Perhaps it wouldn't be a popular feature with others, I don't know. I suspect you've already got plenty of requests to keep you busy!!

Thanks,

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=137897

Good luck. It's not built-in to the SageTV core, and I've been asking for it since version 2.

They do not seem interested in adding it, even though I could show that 80% of the people that replied to my poll, wanted the feature.

I gave up. :(

[Ted@TNT]

For those that have not setup commercial skipping, and wish to use ShowAnalyzer and DirMon2 to do it, I've put together a little tutorial on how to go about it.

The one in the Wiki was done a while back, but the interfaces to the two programs have changed enough, that it's a little confusing.

http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/showthread.php?t=562

There are a bunch of screen captures to help people get up to speed pretty fast.

Good luck. :D

:thumb: Here's to Kirby for inspiring me.

Jason,

Just wanted to say thanks for the clear instructions - easy to find and easy to follow. Commercial skipping is off the checklist - DVD burning is next.

BTW, the ShowAnalyzer GUI has changed again. I'm really NOT trying to find work for you, but you might consider replacing that screenshot.

Thanks again,

[Ted@TNT]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=137897

Good luck. It's not built-in to the SageTV core, and I've been asking for it since version 2.

They do not seem interested in adding it, even though I could show that 80% of the people that replied to my poll, wanted the feature.

I gave up. :(

Jason,

That may be the first poll that made me laugh!! (And then turn a little red, as I can't believe I didn't find it in all my searching!) :blush:

Oh well, I'll keep my fingers crossed...

[Ted@TNT]

Oh, and in case your wondering, yes, I am posting over and over simply to get my post count up.

Isn't that what you did? :D

[geogecko]

Jason,

Just wanted to say thanks for the clear instructions - easy to find and easy to follow. Commercial skipping is off the checklist - DVD burning is next.

BTW, the ShowAnalyzer GUI has changed again. I'm really NOT trying to find work for you, but you might consider replacing that screenshot.

Thanks again,

Sure. I'll see about getting around to changing the screenshot. That should be easy enough. I guess I didn't realize they had changed.

[geogecko]

Oh, and in case your wondering, yes, I am posting over and over simply to get my post count up.

Isn't that what you did? :D

Yes, that is what I did, and what I'm doing now! :thumb:

[gotuitdan]

Hi,

I'm having some strange problem with my remote where it somehow convinces Sage that I want channel 7 from the main menu when I turn on the system. This problem could be solved by making the "Channel Jump from Main Menu" an option... Is it possible to make this an option? I know it's caused by the remote, but I'm hoping its easy to turn this into an option...

Thanks in advance, flachbar, if you are able to solve this!

Best wishes.

[dflachbart]

Hi,

I'm having some strange problem with my remote where it somehow convinces Sage that I want channel 7 from the main menu when I turn on the system. This problem could be solved by making the "Channel Jump from Main Menu" an option... Is it possible to make this an option? I know it's caused by the remote, but I'm hoping its easy to turn this into an option...

Thanks in advance, flachbar, if you are able to solve this!

Best wishes.
Hi,

I assume you are using the standard SageMC main menu, right ? Yeah I didn't anticipate any problems with this here, so I only put an option to disable the channel jump into the dynamic main menu. I can make this option global for both menu modes

Dirk

[dflachbart]

SageMC version 6.3.2 can be downloaded here (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=139).
Changes/additions worth mentioning are:


New Video Import Library metadata usage

To fix the issue with the SageMC video library metadata and the way the default STV handles it since v6.0 I changed the access of metadata in the SageMC STV, it now conforms to the default STV behavior of version 6.0. Unfortunately, this means that your currently existing info in the video library will not show up correctly any more, the titles will be empty. You have the following options:

- if you have everything in DVD Profiler, simply refresh the DVD Profiler metadata
- perform a new manual IMDB lookup for all your videos

You can also try the automatic 'migration' module which can be found in SageMC Settings/Extras. It will scan your database and update the titles of all imported video files automatically. Note that this utility has only to be run once, otherwise it will revert the info back to the original state. I tested it myself on my database without any problems, but I would strongly recommend to make a backup of your wiz.bin. If it doesn't work for any reason, revert to the saved database and update manually.



Fixes and updates for DVD Profiler integration

- I fixed an issue where the cover art imported from DVD Profiler would not be copied to the correct location (for existing 'online' videos). The refresh code copied it into the DVD folder instead of VIDEO_TS, so it couldn't be picked up by Sage. I was surprised that nobody has ever complained about this.

- the DVD Profiler import code was supposed to automatically select all new (non-existing) videos in the import list. This did not work, and has been fixed.

- I often ran into the issue where I mistakenly selected an already existing ('online') video when doing the DVD Profiler import. This generated a new 'fake' mpeg file in the offline folder, and resulted in having two icons for the video showing up in the library. I added a check to the import code to not generate an offline file if a real file already exists.

- Up to now the folder name of existing videos needed to be *exactly* the same as the title in the DVD Profiler database to get recognized during a metadata refresh. I added the ability to name your video folder any way you want, simply enter the real folder name into the 'Original Title' field in DVD Profiler. The metadata refresh will first try to match the folder based on title, and then it will try to match the Original title.



Extended weather maps

Previously the number of weather maps had been limited to 7 (since the left menu can't hold more than 7 buttons). I added a key mapping (configurable in the SageMC settings, it can use 'Custom1'-'Custom5' and 'Info') that will trigger the display of 7 additional weather map buttons, which can be configured in the usual way. I hope 14 maps will now be sufficient for everyone :)



Filtered Menus for Video and Music Library

It is now possible to have separate 'views' onto your music and video library, by pre-filtering the existing media files based on the import folder path. Basically, you can create one or more menu items for the 'My Videos' and 'My Music' menus and associate a specific import folder path with it. When you enter the library, only media files matching the import path will be displayed.

This filtering has been implemented with the 'doclet' functionality of the dynamic menus. Here is an example how to set it up:

1) Enter the following xml text into a text editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.3//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.3">
<internalScreenMenuItem
screen="My Music"
title="Classical Music">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "\\\\mediapc\\music\\Classic")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
</sageMenu>

2) Edit the 'PathFilterExpr' and change it to the import path you want to filter on. Note that this has to match the folder name in the import libraries configuration exactly (case-sensitive!) If 'PathFilterExcludes' is 'false', only media files imported from the path specified will be displayed. If it is 'true', all media files from this path will be *excluded* from the view. Set 'screen' to 'My Music' or 'Video Library Folder View", and set 'title' to the title for the menu item.

3) Copy the whole xml text into the windows clipboard

4) Bring up the dynamic menu options dialog and select 'New...', it should offer you a menu item 'Paste Menu Item from clipboard'.


I use this functionality to separate my wife's classical music collection from our Pop/Rock CD collection, but it can e.g. also be used to limit access to certain video files (parental lock) by defining two separate menus for the video libray, one freely accessible for anyone, and one protected with a PIN code.



External Screensaver

You can now use any external program (including any Windows screensaver module) as the SageMC screensaver. There is a new screensaver options menu in the SageMC options which offers a new style 'External Cmd'. Select the executable (or *.scr file for Windows screensaver) and optional any command line parameter (has to be '-s' for *.scr files), and the next time the Sage screensaver kicks in the external command gets executed. I've tested it with various screensavers (including an Aquarium screensaver), and it works like a charm :)


Here's the list of other fixes and additions in this release:


- fixed: incorrect hour display in diskbar
- fixed: dynamic weather map URLs for European date format
- fixed: ticker not updating, centered ticker headline vertically
- fixed: context sensitive Home cmd in std main menu not working
- fixed: dimensions of "Update DVD Profiler Metadata" dialog
- workaround for core bug: switch aspect ratio not always working in overlay mode
- fixed: bleeding stop dialog
- added: disable main menu side menus if a PIN has been defined on the menu
- added: vertical ticker scrolling
- added: "max characters" setting for RSS ticker headline to avoid resizing (sorry, scrolling out left is not doable)
- added: show "Watched" button for videos in left hand menu
- added: RSS ticker enable/disable to OSD options menu
- added: Media Extender Quality setting to Detailed Setup
- added: "Play Album from here" in Album view
- added: "Rescan Library Folders" button to Picture library
- added: option to display single pictures zoomed
- added: option to append "\video_ts.ifo" to the external DVD player call
- added: option to disable channel entry feature in standard main menu

I also updated the full installation package which can be found here (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=141).

Note that there have been quite a lot of feature requests in the last weeks, and I was only able to get some of them into this release. If a particular feature is not included, it doesn't necessarily mean that I decided against it :)


Enjoy,

Dirk

[JREkiwi]

Hi Dirk, I can't get either the link here or the one in the notify thread to work. Notify has a bad link and this thread send me to a page that says I don't have permission to Access the page. The link in your signature is OK

John

[dflachbart]

Hi Dirk, I can't get either the link here or the one in the notify thread to work. Notify has a bad link and this thread send me to a page that says I don't have permission to Access the page. The link in your signature is OK

John

Thanks John, I must have copied the wrong URLs... :blush:


Dirk

[MeInMaui]

:clap:

My ticker in SageMC just informed me that a new version was available!

How awesome is that? Thanks Dirk!

Aloha,
Mike

[heffe2001]

What effect does this have if you are using FSE?

External Screensaver
You can now use any external program (including any Windows screensaver module) as the SageMC screensaver. There is a new screensaver options menu in the SageMC options which offers a new style 'External Cmd'. Select the executable (or *.scr file for Windows screensaver) and optional any command line parameter (has to be '-s' for *.scr files), and the next time the Sage screensaver kicks in the external command gets executed. I've tested it with various screensavers (including an Aquarium screensaver), and it works like a charm :)

[clmolnar]

I just got around to using the new RSS ticker when I installed this new version of SageMC, however the ticker is just repeating "Untitled" over and over again at the bottom of the screen. I have the Slashdot RSS feed set up, and can view it just fine via the RSS Feeds menu. It is the only feed I have and it is selected to display on the RSS ticker. Has anyone else seen this?

[MeInMaui]

I just got around to using the new RSS ticker when I installed this new version of SageMC, however the ticker is just repeating "Untitled" over and over again at the bottom of the screen. I have the Slashdot RSS feed set up, and can view it just fine via the RSS Feeds menu. It is the only feed I have and it is selected to display on the RSS ticker. Has anyone else seen this?

Restart Sage. There is some initialization that needs to be done at startup.

[gplasky]

I just got around to using the new RSS ticker when I installed this new version of SageMC, however the ticker is just repeating "Untitled" over and over again at the bottom of the screen. I have the Slashdot RSS feed set up, and can view it just fine via the RSS Feeds menu. It is the only feed I have and it is selected to display on the RSS ticker. Has anyone else seen this?
Restart Sage.


Gerry

[gotuitdan]

Hi,

I assume you are using the standard SageMC main menu, right ? Yeah I didn't anticipate any problems with this here, so I only put an option to disable the channel jump into the dynamic main menu. I can make this option global for both menu modes

Dirk

I'm using the standard SageMC menu... I didn't anticipate problems either... :) In any case, thanks a lot!

[clmolnar]

Restart Sage.


Gerry

Unfortunately, this doesn't work. :( After reset it still says "Untitled". I am not running a Sage server or anything. Any other ideas?

[MeInMaui]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work. :( After reset it still says "Untitled". I am not running a Sage server or anything. Any other ideas?

I just updated. Same here. I e-mailed Dirk to let him know it is broken.

Aloha,
Mike

[clmolnar]

Ok, I can wait patiently for an update :) Glad to know it's not my setup!

[gplasky]

:( Broken ticker.

So far everything else is looking good. DVD Profiler refresh was fine and fixed dialog box worked.

Gerry

[dflachbart]

I just updated. Same here. I e-mailed Dirk to let him know it is broken.

Aloha,
Mike
Crap, I put the old sagemc.jar file from December into the update package (the full install package is fine). Just extract the attached file into your SageTV directory, after shutting down the UI. For MVP/Placeshifter you also have to shutdown the service.

Sorry for this faux-pas :blush:

Dirk

[dflachbart]

What effect does this have if you are using FSE?
To be honest, I don't know. I don't use FSE and haven't tested it yet. If you wanna try it then let me know how it goes, otherwise I'll test it sometime later myself

Dirk

[willemse]

Dirk,

Another goodie added to this great STV which makes me very happy:goodjob:
Thanks for the quick implementation.

Jos Willemse

[Madcoder]

Nice progress here!!!

Can we have an option on the left hand side of the screen while viewing a list of recordings under a grouping (view by group) to delete all? This is the screen where currently there is also an option to compress all on the left. I would like an option to delete all, and then perhaps that could have an "are you sure" kind of popup, since someone could accidently delete so much. Some people around here forget to clean up things they have watched. :p

[geogecko]

Thanks Dirk. Bloodbath and vertical scrolling on the RSS Ticker are awesome.

Also, the DVD Profiler implementation seems to work better. I knew there was always some fussing around with it that I had to do, but I just figured it was my fault. I deleted all my offline content, and did a fresh import, and it looks beautiful.

[flavius]

I have that issue with 6.3.1..

[evilpenguin]

You can now use any external program (including any Windows screensaver module) as the SageMC screensaver. There is a new screensaver options menu in the SageMC options which offers a new style 'External Cmd'. Select the executable (or *.scr file for Windows screensaver) and optional any command line parameter (has to be '-s' for *.scr files), and the next time the Sage screensaver kicks in the external command gets executed. I've tested it with various screensavers (including an Aquarium screensaver), and it works like a charm :)

Oh man, I'm going to have some fun with this. Thanks Dirk!

[MTuckman]

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I can't get the filtered video library list to work.

This is my menu:
<internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Kids Videos">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M\:\\KidsVideos")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>

And this is from my Sage.properties file:
seeker/archive_directory=P\:\\MyMusic,2;P\:\\Photo Storage,4;M\:\\MyDVDs,1;M\:\\MyVideos,1;M\:\\KidsVideos,1;


No matter what I do it brings up the entire video list, not the filtered list.

By the way :clap: This feature is a request that I have wanted to ask for, for the longest time. We have over 90 Sesame Streets recorded for my sons, and I had previously modified the SageMC STV to have a custom menu for them, but I got tired of rolling my code into the updated SageMC.

[gplasky]

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I can't get the filtered video library list to work.

This is my menu:
<internalScreenMenuItem screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Kids Videos">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M\:\\KidsVideos")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>

And this is from my Sage.properties file:
seeker/archive_directory=P\:\\MyMusic,2;P\:\\Photo Storage,4;M\:\\MyDVDs,1;M\:\\MyVideos,1;M\:\\KidsVideos,1;


No matter what I do it brings up the entire video list, not the filtered list.

By the way :clap: This feature is a request that I have wanted to ask for, for the longest time. We have over 90 Sesame Streets recorded for my sons, and I had previously modified the SageMC STV to have a custom menu for them, but I got tired of rolling my code into the updated SageMC.
Maybe you need to use UNC paths for this and not mapped drives. Don't know-that's what the example had.

Gerry

[briands]

Dirk,

Been using SageMC for a long time. Great work! I have a feature request that you might be able to implement within the code that you have for the RSS display. In the past, I requested a Weather Alert (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17164&highlight=weather) since we all rarely watch live TV now. After looking at your RSS implementation I got the idea of using the RSS feed from the National Weather Service (http://www.weather.gov/alerts/)instead of the originally proposed CAP feed. Could you add the options per feed? I really don't want news showing up on the OSD, but would like the Weather feed to show up everywhere and with higher priority.

My thoughts for the weather alert would be -
show on all screens
Bigger font, maybe a different color, or flashing
higher priority than other RSS feeds

Thanks again!

[dflachbart]

Maybe you need to use UNC paths for this and not mapped drives. Don't know-that's what the example had.

Gerry
No, it's not required to use UNC paths. But I spotted the error: use

AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M:\\KidsVideos")
instead of

AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M\:\\KidsVideos")

The '\' to escape the ':' is only necessary in property files, but not in Java strings.

Let me know if this solves your problem.


Dirk

[dflachbart]

I have that issue with 6.3.1..
Hi flavius,

which issue ?


Dirk

[gplasky]

Dirk
How hard would it be to get the RSS feed to continue to run off the left hand side of the screen instead of it stopping as soon as it hits it and fade out? I just think the effect would look more appropriate. But if it is too hard to program I understand.

Been using SageMC for a long time. Great work! I have a feature request that you might be able to implement within the code that you have for the RSS display. In the past, I requested a Weather Alert since we all rarely watch live TV now. After looking at your RSS implementation I got the idea of using the RSS feed from the National Weather Service instead of the originally proposed CAP feed. Could you add the options per feed? I really don't want news showing up on the OSD, but would like the Weather feed to show up everywhere and with higher priority.

My thoughts for the weather alert would be -
show on all screens
Bigger font, maybe a different color, or flashing
higher priority than other RSS feeds

Maybe you could make this an option in the weather section and over ride the current feed if something comes in? Just a thought.

Gerry

[technazz]

Dirk
How hard would it be to get the RSS feed to continue to run off the left hand side of the screen instead of it stopping as soon as it hits it and fade out? I just think the effect would look more appropriate. But if it is too hard to program I understand.


Gerry


I Agree but i think he stated in the release note that is was not possible to scroll off to the left.

Technazz

[dflachbart]

I Agree but i think he stated in the release note that is was not possible to scroll off to the left.

Technazz
Actually, in this note I was talking about scrolling off to the left to show headlines that are longer than the screen width, to avoid resizing. This is, as far as I can see, not possible. Scrolling off to the left in general might work, I'll look into it (it would look much better, I agree :))


Dirk

[bcjenkins]

Dirk,

The update is wicked awesome. I was able to figure out how to manipulate view restriction for a video folder with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.3//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.3">
<internalScreenMenuItem
screen="Video Library Folder View"
title="Kids Movies">
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "\\\\SageTV-Server\\Media1\\Movies")</evalExpression>
<evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", true)</evalExpression>
</internalScreenMenuItem>
</sageMenu>

By setting excludes to true this menu will exclude the directory with content not appropriate for my kids. Right now they have more content in the videos than my wife and I. However, when I add another drive for the the not kid friendly films, can I add a second PathFilterExpr? Or how do you combine multiples?

TIA

B

[Opus4]

Maybe I'm jumping in when I shouldn't & don't fully know what is being talked about... ;) ... to scroll text to the left until it reaches the end of the string: how about just animating its panel & remove the first char every X milliseconds? Text that is too long to fit ("..." on the right side) would eventually become visible. And, if there is more news, you could just keep tacking on the next news item when the current one gets short enough.

I haven't seen the display in question, so if yoiu already do this or something better, then never mind & I'll go back to reading other things. :)

- Andy

[GollyJer]

When using ssstars.scr (Starfield) as an external screen saver I can't get it to stop with the remote. It only works with a keyboard or mouse.

This will be awesome when it works with a remote.:goodjob:

[ke6guj]

When using ssstars.scr (Starfield) as an external screen saver I can't get it to stop with the remote. It only works with a keyboard or mouse.

This will be awesome when it works with a remote.:goodjob:

I have been doing a little testing with the new screensaver feature and did run into a similar problem with an Aquarium screensaver. I use sendmessages instead of actual keystrokes, so I don't know if that made a difference. But sspipes.scr worked ok, working with my remote and sendmessages.

Although, when recovering from the screensaver, SageMC goes back to the main menu and I have to resume the video, instead of recovering directly back into the paused video.

I also ran into a problem with the Aquarium screensaver only running for a second, and then coming back up to the main menu. It wouldn't work in VMR9 but would work in Overlay. I saw some DX9 errors in the logs, but went with sspipes and that worked, so I stopped troubleshooting it for now.

[GollyJer]

Yeah, forgot to mention, I'm using the Hauppauge silver 45 button remote.

[MTuckman]

No, it's not required to use UNC paths. But I spotted the error: use

AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M:\\KidsVideos")
instead of

AddStaticContext("PathFilterExpr", "M\:\\KidsVideos")

The '\' to escape the ':' is only necessary in property files, but not in Java strings.

Let me know if this solves your problem.


Dirk

Dirk,

Thanks - That did it!

[dflachbart]

However, when I add another drive for the the not kid friendly films, can I add a second PathFilterExpr? Or how do you combine multiples?

Hi B,

I was already expecting this question to come up. ;) Answer: still TBD. I'll probably have to move the filter code to java where it will be much easier to deal with multiple expressions.

Dirk

[dflachbart]

When using ssstars.scr (Starfield) as an external screen saver I can't get it to stop with the remote. It only works with a keyboard or mouse.

This will be awesome when it works with a remote.:goodjob:

All the ones I tested worked fine with my remote, but I'll check out the Starfield ssaver. It shouldn't matter which remote you are using

Dirk

[dflachbart]

I also ran into a problem with the Aquarium screensaver only running for a second, and then coming back up to the main menu. It wouldn't work in VMR9 but would work in Overlay. I saw some DX9 errors in the logs, but went with sspipes and that worked, so I stopped troubleshooting it for now.

I'll check out VMR9 at home (I only tested it with overlay). Which aquarium screensaver did you try ?

Dirk

[dflachbart]

how about just animating its panel & remove the first char every X milliseconds? Text that is too long to fit ("..." on the right side) would eventually become visible.
Hi Andy,

though this would certainly work, I don't think anyone would like it - I implemented *smooth* pixel-wise scrolling for the ticker headline, and removing a whole character would simply look too choppy... ;)

Last night I found a solution to continue the smooth scrolling off the left by using negative X anchor points, but I still think that for strings that are longer than the screen width it is very difficult or even impossible to achieve this without some support from the core.

But thanks for the suggestion,

Dirk

[geogecko]

LOL, just use a small font, and vertical scrolling! It's awesome. I have the font set to 10 on my 37" TV, and it's fairly readable at 8 feet or so (1080p). On the MVP, I have it set to 12, on a 22" 480p TV.

Now, if I could find a way for the icons (recording, first run, etc.) to not look gigantic on the MVP, everything would be perfect.

[ke6guj]

I'll check out VMR9 at home (I only tested it with overlay). Which aquarium screensaver did you try ?

Dirk

I was using serenescreen's marine aquarium 2.6. I get this in the sageclient log
Mon 1/29 12:55:45.510 Screen Saver Timeout expired....tv=true playin=false fs=true sleepy=false currSS=false
Mon 1/29 12:55:45.510 setUI(sage.b1@5b54d9[Screen Saver]) histIdx=9 uiHistory=[sage.b1@ab0e22[MC MediaPlayer OSD], sage.b1@13f13ad[Main Menu], sage.b1@bdb351[MC MediaPlayer OSD], sage.b1@13f13ad[Main Menu], sage.b1@ab0e22[MC MediaPlayer OSD], sage.b1@13af349[Program Info], sage.b1@ab0e22[MC MediaPlayer OSD], sage.b1@13f13ad[Main Menu], sage.b1@bdb351[MC MediaPlayer OSD], sage.b1@5b54d9[Screen Saver]]
Mon 1/29 12:55:47.340 DX9Renderer NATIVE WARNING (non-FAILURE) line 1158 hr=0x88760868
Mon 1/29 12:55:47.340 DirectX9 device is lost. Rebuilding it....

Regarding the command line parameters, what options are there. I was trying Water Illusion, an .exe screensaver, and it worked. But, when you wake up Sage, the screen saver was still running in the background. Remove the -s switch and it just opens up the screensavers control panel on sleep.

[briands]

Dirk,

Any comment on my request here (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=204398&postcount=3534)?

Is it feasable to have different setting for specific RSS feeds?

[dflachbart]

Dirk,

Any comment on my request here (http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=204398&postcount=3534)?

Is it feasable to have different setting for specific RSS feeds?
Not trivial, but certainly also not impossible. I'll have to work on the ticker internals for the next version anyway, so I'll take a look which of those I can get in


Dirk

[dflachbart]

I was using serenescreen's marine aquarium 2.6. I get this in the sageclient log

Jack, this might be a problem with this particular screen saver... I am using DreamAquarium, and it works just fine, Overlay and VMR9... :(


Regarding the command line parameters, what options are there. I was trying Water Illusion, an .exe screensaver, and it worked. But, when you wake up Sage, the screen saver was still running in the background. Remove the -s switch and it just opens up the screensavers control panel on sleep.
Yeah, as far as I know there are only -s to run it in screensaver mode, and -c (equivalent to no option) to open its configuration screen


I use sendmessages instead of actual keystrokes, so I don't know if that made a difference.

It shouldn't, I use sendmessage too


Although, when recovering from the screensaver, SageMC goes back to the main menu and I have to resume the video, instead of recovering directly back into the paused video.

This is something I can fix

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Now, if I could find a way for the icons (recording, first run, etc.) to not look gigantic on the MVP, everything would be perfect.

Jason, you are using Mike's smaller icon sets (30x30), right ;) ?


Dirk

[dflachbart]

When using ssstars.scr (Starfield) as an external screen saver I can't get it to stop with the remote. It only works with a keyboard or mouse.

This will be awesome when it works with a remote.:goodjob:
I just tested several Windows screen savers from Windows\system32 (including ssstars.scr), and they all exit fine. Did you disable 'Exit on any key' by any chance ?


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Nice progress here!!!

Can we have an option on the left hand side of the screen while viewing a list of recordings under a grouping (view by group) to delete all? This is the screen where currently there is also an option to compress all on the left. I would like an option to delete all, and then perhaps that could have an "are you sure" kind of popup, since someone could accidently delete so much. Some people around here forget to clean up things they have watched. :p

Yes, this isn't too hard to add :)

FYI: Right now you can already delete a group of recordings by focusing the group entry in the parent screen and bringing up the options menu

Dirk

[dflachbart]

What effect does this have if you are using FSE?
I just tested my aquarium screensaver with FSE on my machine, and it seems to be a no-go... :( I doubt I can do anything about it


Dirk