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

[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... :-)

Originally Posted by flachbar

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]

Originally Posted by hfsoares

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!!!

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]

Originally Posted by 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!!

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!!!

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]

Originally Posted by JonTom

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]

Originally Posted by MTuckman

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]

Originally Posted by flachbar

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 !!

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by 95TBird

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 !!

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.