Feature Request following 3.0.3 beta

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by mightyt

See the PM I just sent you ...



Not sure if Neilm's Diskspace widget still works the same, but I just added it to any menu I wanted as an option (see below)

<subMenuItem
title="Recording Manager"
icon="STVs\OriginalV2\mlbdude\Default\mm_schedule.png">
<menu title="Recording Manager">
<option>showrecschedwidget</option>
<option>showdiskspacewidget</option>



See the PM I just sent you ...



Well believe it or not I use FrontPage 2003's editor for my XML editing ... Then printed to a file through Adobe Acrobat to retain the colors to make it an easy read.

Take care ... T.

Thanks man! I can't wait to get started.. just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Snoopy, Agreed ... I could not wait to mod my Sage menu

I've run into problems. I created one of Nielms custom menus. Each time I back out of one I get the "original menu" and then another click back and I am back to the screen that I started from. Having to do that twice creates even more confusion as If I had not started all of it to begin with. I would just love to have more control. Can you suggest anything?

[bpmmmm]

Has there been any thought to using antialiased fonts within Sage? I'm running at a fairly low resolution (720x480), and the fonts look like junk. Really ugly. Windows, with cleartype turned on looks great. This is one of the reasons I continue to use MCE -- I just can't look at the Sage UI for very long -- going back to v2.

Am I missing a setting somewhere? Is there some technical reason this can't be done?

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I've run into problems. I created one of Nielms custom menus. Each time I back out of one I get the "original menu" and then another click back and I am back to the screen that I started from. Having to do that twice creates even more confusion as If I had not started all of it to begin with. I would just love to have more control. Can you suggest anything?

Are you using the back arrow in the top left?

Another option I used was to create a "back to" menu item on the bottom of my screens. This allowed me to control the screen I went to, especially handy for two deep sub menus.

[broderp]

I just got SERENE SCENES Marine Aquarium after reading a post on this forum. It looks amazing on my 53" TV!

It would be nice that when you "powered down" sage instead of the BORING (sorry frey guys) SAGE logo, you could evoke the WIndows screen saver. Then when you powered up sage, return focuss to SAGE TV and shut it down.

• Windows screen saver integration
• Detailed install wizard, incorporating old properties and critical system files.
• COMSkip integration
• Weather Suite integration
• Flexible menu creation/modification

I think we need these things AT LEAST in this level of the game to stay competitive and be better than the competition.

The new version is great, but needs a few tweaks IMHO.

AND whats up with the SAME UGLY background VISUALIZATION for MP3's??? Give us Windows Visualizations from media player!

[dagar]

The custom screen saver is a nice idea

Hey, my boys (13 months old) love the music vizualization

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Are you using the back arrow in the top left?

Another option I used was to create a "back to" menu item on the bottom of my screens. This allowed me to control the screen I went to, especially handy for two deep sub menus.

I do use the left arrow which under normal circumstances takes me back to the previous menu. It doesn't with nielm's imports. Neilm thinks it's a characteristic of imports. Is there any way to make it go back when pressing left?

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I do use the left arrow which under normal circumstances takes me back to the previous menu. It doesn't with nielm's imports. Neilm thinks it's a characteristic of imports. Is there any way to make it go back when pressing left?

Check your email Snoopy ...

If that doesn't work then maybe something did change between Neilm's implementation of dynamic menus in his previous Combo STV and his new Import implementation.

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Check your email Snoopy ...

OUTSTANDING... What do I owe you

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by snoopy

OUTSTANDING... What do I owe you

Owe me?

Pass it on ...

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by snoopy

I do use the left arrow which under normal circumstances takes me back to the previous menu. It doesn't with nielm's imports. Neilm thinks it's a characteristic of imports. Is there any way to make it go back when pressing left?

Snoopy ... See my email ... looks like you were referring to the "left arrow" key on your keyboard, not the "left arrow" on the upper left corner of the Sage Menu.

OK ... so ... The "Left" arrow key is not the "Back" command ... the "Alt+Left" arrow key is ... Try it and you will see the difference. "Left" will take you back to the internal screens hard coded prior menu ... the "Alt+Left" will take you back to your prior menu ...

Hope this helps ... T.

[Halstead]

Another Media related request-

A Zoom Player like 'Resume DVD' feature. Even a default behavior like we currently have for video files would work.

[ghostlobster]

Originally Posted by reboot_this

An example scenario...

I would connect a Firewire cable between my STB and my HTPC. Next I would start Sagetv, go into the tuner setup, and I would see a new available tuner (i.e. the firewire connection). I would then (as I would with say a pvr150 or pvr250) setup my epg service info and the channels I wanted to be used with the "new" tuner and voila! I now have HDTV on a Firewire connection!

Wouldn't this be nice? any STB owners/users out there also wanting this?

I hope this can be implemented in the (near) future. How hard could it be to do this (I really want to know)?

Don't I WISH!!!! I wold switch from MCE to SageTV IMMEDIATELY if this were the case. I've tried to firewire setup in the hardware forum and have had pretty limited success with it.

[spfirman]

Originally Posted by ghostlobster

Don't I WISH!!!! I wold switch from MCE to SageTV IMMEDIATELY if this were the case. I've tried to firewire setup in the hardware forum and have had pretty limited success with it.

Ditto that and

How about - Transfer viewing to another set. - Perfect for kicking the kids off the big screen.

[badllama77]

I would like to see an inclusion of an offline dvd library.

[JUC]

Originally Posted by badllama77

I would like to see an inclusion of an offline dvd library.

mlbdude has been talking about this for a while using DVDprofiler and I for one think this would be AWESOME!! Hopefully this will happen soon.
JUC

[robinson]

DVDprofiler type of functionality is nice, but I think Sage should also improve the file and library management itself -- it is really clumsy now to move file from one directory/disk to another and still keep the information in Sage. Am not sure if this has changed in version 3.

I use Sage primarily for PVR and video-related tasks, so functionality related to file/library management is really important. At the minimum I would like to be able to move files at will between drives, or move a file to DVD or DVD-RW for archiving or off-line storage without worry that the EPG information for the file gets deleted. I wouldn't need Sage to actually burn the DVD -- I would just like it to be able to keep the entry from EPG for the file, and to let me enter the DVD disk label/name so I know where to locate it.

Sage already keeps internally information (or some of it) about watched and recorded programs even when the MPEG file is deleted, so perhaps it would just need to be exposed to the end-user. Add a free-text note field to let the user enter some type of DVD location or label and it may just work.

R

[teknubic]

Internet Radio, please.
Something like iTunes radio would be stellar but url : port support would do.

[mkanet]

I'm actually surprised these two features weren't part of the very first beta:

1) DVD resume (resumes where you stopped watching the movie and starts back up from there; just like TV recordings.

2) Search feature searches for upcoming shows that are in HDTV format.

[broderp]

I brought this up in another thread, but would also like to see it as an enhancement or feature over what we have now.

Simply put, you would:
1. select the Recording device with the conflict (notice how the selected PVR card has the "tatistics" as well. The card is showing total conflicts, but one has been resolved. The conflict shown is obviously the one remaining conflict.)
2.Select Show from list. In this case I selected "CHEERS" and pressed OK or enter. The "PRIORITY LIST POPS UP"
3. Select the priority of the show selected. You shouldn't need more than 3 selections as shown.

This gives me a few options to play with, as I have 2 cards listed, I can "visit" the recording schedule of that card and see whats to be recorded. SUppose I want CHEERS, but really also want FRESH PRINCE, I could select the DO NOT RECORD selection on the second PVR CARD, and SAGE will do it's thing and place one of the three shows over to the second tuner. so now my conflict involves only 2 shows and I can tell it just not to record the show this time. There are different ways around this system.

If a card has more than one conflict, then there are buttons to navigate to the next conflict on the same card.

I find this flexibility and EASE of use missing from the current system. This is how I would do it.

Love it or hate it , it's a suggesstion.

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...tid=2498&stc=1