Feature Request: Indication for viewing progress on recordings

[jimbobuk]

One of the coolest things about this whole PVR thing is watch something... do something else.. including watch other recordings or tv... then come back to the original recording in the same place... great...

It'd be nice if either the colour of the recording filled up like a bar showing how much you'd watched of it... it'd be good to seperate easily between same named shows... ones that you've already watched.. and to also know without playing that you've seen 30% of that program...

Ooo i got my first crashes yesterday.. trying to playback a file that i'd watched to a point.. every time it went to play.. it just crashed... windows started creating a log... I tried it twice...crashed both times and then tried another program which was fine... the recording being made at the time obviously got trashed slightly but it was great that i could watch it and see the little pauses where i hadn't recorded it (almost like when you've changed off the channel mid recording) ... very impressed... I can send in sageTV logs if you think they'll have anything about the error.. dunno if it may have fatally crashed before outputing anything...

Also how stable is Sage usually in sleep mode... I'd assume that it rarely crashes in this mode compared to whilst watching/recording simultaneously... I doubt it crashes much at all anyways but if sleeped crashes DO happen sometime it may be nice to have a feature where it will automatically reload itself in 1 minute.. to carry on a recording it was doing rather than u losing the remaining recordings till you come back to the computer...

Need to register soon.. only got a few more days left... how long does registration info usually take to get to you!?!? a day? I wont lose setttings when I put the reg info into the program will i??

[dkardatzke]

Originally posted by jimbobuk
It'd be nice if either the colour of the recording filled up like a bar showing how much you'd watched of it... it'd be good to seperate easily between same named shows... ones that you've already watched.. and to also know without playing that you've seen 30% of that program...

Take a look at the OSD time bar when you are watching video, the green shows what has been recorded, but not yet watched. The white shows what has been recorded and watched and the red shows what wasn't recorded.

If you are in the Guide you can tell shows you've watched before because they will be in Italics.

Originally posted by jimbobuk
Also how stable is Sage usually in sleep mode... I'd assume that it rarely crashes in this mode compared to whilst watching/recording simultaneously... ...

Pretty stable, It's never crashed on me during Sleep mode going all the way back to the earliest version last fall...

Originally posted by jimbobuk
Need to register soon.. only got a few more days left... how long does registration info usually take to get to you!?!? a day? I wont lose setttings when I put the reg info into the program will i??

It's immediate. Once you submit your payment you will immediately receive a license key via e-mail. You also won't lose any settings.

[Mark Lamutt]

I haven't had a crash in sleep mode either since one of the earliest betas last fall. Sleep mode recording has been extremely stable, even with high definition being recorded through another card or dvd watching.

[jmeeks]

Dan, I think when jimbobuk said:

It'd be nice if either the colour of the recording filled up like a bar showing how much you'd watched of it... it'd be good to seperate easily between same named shows... ones that you've already watched.. and to also know without playing that you've seen 30% of that program...

He meant while he was reviewing the programs in the Sage Guide (EPG)

We have already made a request similar to that, where there could be an indication of how much of a particular show had been recorded, but that watched portion feature would apply to the recording listing only, and would be very informative as well, I think.

[jimbobuk]

Yeah.. i would like a similar bar as you see when watching a show in the EPG...

Don't get me wrong the tv watching display of the recording is excellent... white, green red etc... all the info you could possibly want.... but on the EPG guide screen there is NO indication... you would only really want to see your viewing progress here... you have the ACTUAL time moving along the top most time bar... a solid colour change, quite subtle would be enough to show you where you are in a show BEFORE selecting to watch it without cluttering the interface up too much....

Its not terribly important but I think it would be helpful... to me definately...

Registration will be happening with a day or two to spare just in case... but i really need to find a solution to not having my machine for anything else :)

If Sage is ultra stable in sleep mode.. how stable are people generally finding it in full use.. watching and recording... changing shows... etc... I defragged my hdd between recording and watching tho this should have NO effect... aside from this occurence last night i have had NO trouble... I wonder if something was corrupt somewhere.. I did notice that the stretch settings were mangled after the crash... force 4:3 was on but a full screen image was displayed (on my 16:9 projector) .. i had to go back to 16:9 setting.. and then finally back into 4:3 to get 4:3 again...

[Narflex]

The time bar in the EPG will be possible through skinning in V2.

In terms of stability, I've been using Sage for almost 2 years now. And I swear I NEVER wrote an application that would check to see if Sage is running and restart it in case it crashed. And for 1 1/2 years I've had no other way of viewing TV available to me in my home. That's how stable it is.

And for anyone who questions the power of Java. That's one of the main reasons why Sage is so stable. The additional layers of crash protection that Java provides, and the protected environment that it runs in, makes it ideal for applications like PVRs that must be up and running 24/7 constantly.