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

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Only for PS / MVP...


You shouldn't have to. Are you talking about DVDs or single video files ?


Dirk

This is for a full PC client, so I didn't think I needed a reboot. These are single files - they are "errant" recordings that Sage wound up automatically importing from the recordings directory when it lost track of them.

They had no meta data before the IMDB lookup, but they did have the video thumbnails already generated.

Thanks,
Mike

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by flachbar

The intelligent recordings icon is only displayed for scheduled IR recordings. Once it has been recorded, there is afaik no way to find out if an airing has been recorded via IR or 'normally' - there is no tag/attribute in the database which would indicate that. Hence there is no way to display an icon for existing recordings.

Or are you saying that you don't even get the icon on scheduled IR shows ?


Dirk

I have a quick thought on this. There are tags for series and manual recordings. I think the only other way to get a recording is through IR. So maybe treating everything that is not a series or manual recording as an IR recording might work? I just use the Intelligent Suggestions feature myself, but if I were to use IR I would personally like to see an 'Intelligent Recordings' folder in the grouped view. Just my .02 (which after inflation is really only worth .0002 at the most)

Aloha,
Mike

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I have a quick thought on this. There are tags for series and manual recordings. I think the only other way to get a recording is through IR. So maybe treating everything that is not a series or manual recording as an IR recording might work? I just use the Intelligent Suggestions feature myself, but if I were to use IR I would personally like to see an 'Intelligent Recordings' folder in the grouped view. Just my .02 (which after inflation is really only worth .0002 at the most)

Aloha,
Mike

Nielm developed something like that here for the main STV and I love the concept! I don't think he has time to do one for us but perhaps something like it could be developed. I wouldn't mind having the IRs hidden for the most part in the main list. In fact, no matter how well the IRs could be tuned, no way to separate IRs (icons or folders) is what keeps me from implementing them. I don't want the list of pre-recorded TV to fill up with this stuff and I REALLY don't wan't it to fill up if there is no way to add an even an icon for them. A separate folder would do nicely indeed.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by snoopy

Nielm developed something like that here for the main STV and I love the concept! I don't think he has time to do one for us but perhaps something like it could be developed.

Yes this is the functionality that I was refering to. You can get to it in SageMC by going to the Schedule screen and selecting 'New Suggestions'. This lists all of the programs that IR would record if it were enabled.

Aloha,
Mike

[snoopy]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Yes this is the functionality that I was refering to. You can get to it in SageMC by going to the Schedule screen and selecting 'New Suggestions'. This lists all of the programs that IR would record if it were enabled.

Aloha,
Mike

Yep, this is good. It's the 'would' record part that I would see expanded to include a folder. A folder for IRs that 'have been' recorded would be a nice feature. Of'course icons would work nicely as well but I don't something is lacking in the main code for this unfortunately.

[mailman]

In the default STV, there is an option to set manual record status on intelligent recordings. This feature is useful to ensure that recording I want to keep are not automatically deleted. I can't seem to find this option in SageMC. Am I missing something?

[GollyJer]

Originally Posted by feilerd

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!

Originally Posted by flavius

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

Originally Posted by flachbar

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

Dirk

Originally Posted by flachbar

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

Did this feature get implemented? I can't find it in the settings which doesn't necessarily mean it's not there.
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[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by GollyJer

Did this feature get implemented? I can't find it in the settings which doesn't necessarily mean it's not there.
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The configuration of wrap/no wrap has not been added yet. But the problem of

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.

has been fixed, it's the setting "Table Lock" in the SageMC options


Dirk

[JUC]

For DVD profiler offline videos--Should I be specifying where my offline videos are, or the folder that they are held in? I'm trying to set this up so if i want to browse by file system everything is not lumped together.

C:....\offline\offline dvd's
or
C:.....\offline

where the actual images and videos are stored in the offline dvd folder?
thanks,
Juc

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JUC

For DVD profiler offline videos--Should I be specifying where my offline videos are, or the folder that they are held in? I'm trying to set this up so if i want to browse by file system everything is not lumped together.

C:....\offline\offline dvd's
or
C:.....\offline

where the actual images and videos are stored in the offline dvd folder?
thanks,
Juc

Whatever directory you specify will be used to store the generated .mpg files and images for your DVDs in your profiler collection (during DVD Profiler import). Once this step is done, they have to get imported normally, that's why you need to add the offline path to your SageTV import paths.


Dirk

[JUC]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Whatever directory you specify will be used to store the generated .mpg files and images for your DVDs in your profiler collection (during DVD Profiler import). Once this step is done, they have to get imported normally, that's why you need to add the offline path to your SageTV import paths.


Dirk

Dirk,
Thanks. I understand that. But here is the problem i am running into.
In the sagemc paths setup-i select the folder where I want the offline videos to be stored. Then I also setup that folder as an import directory. BUT--when I do this and I go into My videos and sort by file system--I just get one large mass of videos mixed in with my other import folders. How can i avoid this?

Also--i can only 'tag' videos with custom groups if I am in the folder view. If I am already in the group view and hover over a folder, it won't let me add that folder to a custom view. Is this correct? Based on the above paragraph, if all my videos are mixed into the main my videos view-it would take forever to right-click on each one and move it to a custom group. I think i'm missing something simple.
thanks,
Juc

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JUC

Dirk,
Thanks. I understand that. But here is the problem i am running into.
In the sagemc paths setup-i select the folder where I want the offline videos to be stored. Then I also setup that folder as an import directory. BUT--when I do this and I go into My videos and sort by file system--I just get one large mass of videos mixed in with my other import folders. How can i avoid this?

Ah, now I see what you mean... Well, I never tried to set the offline path to a directory which didn't contain the video files directly, so I'm not sure if this will work. Did you try it ?

Also--i can only 'tag' videos with custom groups if I am in the folder view. If I am already in the group view and hover over a folder, it won't let me add that folder to a custom view. Is this correct?

In the group view, you should only see existing groups and the "Unassigned" group, but no folders, right ? Would it help if you could assign all "unassigned" videos (or all videos of an existing group) to a different group ?

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mailman

In the default STV, there is an option to set manual record status on intelligent recordings. This feature is useful to ensure that recording I want to keep are not automatically deleted. I can't seem to find this option in SageMC. Am I missing something?

No, you're not missing something, this is not available in SageMC. But I'll try to add this in a future version.


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I have a quick thought on this. There are tags for series and manual recordings. I think the only other way to get a recording is through IR. So maybe treating everything that is not a series or manual recording as an IR recording might work? I just use the Intelligent Suggestions feature myself, but if I were to use IR I would personally like to see an 'Intelligent Recordings' folder in the grouped view. Just my .02 (which after inflation is really only worth .0002 at the most)

I tried this a few months back, but couldn't get it right. Since your advice is alway worth more than just a few pennies (even after inflation) I had a go at it again, and this time I think I got it (almost)...

Originally Posted by snoopy

Yep, this is good. It's the 'would' record part that I would see expanded to include a folder. A folder for IRs that 'have been' recorded would be a nice feature. Of'course icons would work nicely as well but I don't something is lacking in the main code for this unfortunately.

Try the attached STV, it will also show IR icons for recorded shows, and lets you filter on "all", "scheduled", and "suggested". I used Mikes approach to determine if it's IR or not, and it works for all except these cases:

- if you watched Live TV and the recording still shows up in the list because it does not get deleted right away, it will show as a false "IR" positive, since it is neither a manual nor a a favorite

- if you remove a favorite definition but still have some recordings for this favorite, they will also show up as "IR" recordings


Let me know (this is addressed to anyone using IR and wanting IR icons) if those issues are minor enough, then I'll include this code in the future.


Dirk

[JUC]

Originally Posted by flachbar

In the group view, you should only see existing groups and the "Unassigned" group, but no folders, right ? Would it help if you could assign all "unassigned" videos (or all videos of an existing group) to a different group ?

Dirk

I think this would solve my problem. I still wouldn't be able to sort by file system because they would all be lumped together but i could sort by groups, and then do a batch assign to the unassigned videos.

Also--Is it possible to sort by file system and see folders instead of all the movies in one big list? this is where i think i am missing something. Are you're paths identical for imported videos and in sagemc setup?
Thanks,
Juc

[pjwerdna]

Originally Posted by JUC

Also--Is it possible to sort by file system and see folders instead of all the movies in one big list

Cant you just create another set of intermediate folders?

e.g. I've my import folders set somthing like

\\mytv\disk1
\\mytv\disk2
\\mytv\disk3
\\mytv\offlineDVDs

then put extra folders..

\\mytv\disk1\Films - For Films
\\mytv\disk1\Mythbusters - 
\\mytv\disk2\Films - more films when I ran out of space on disk 1
\\mytv\offlineDVDs\offline DVDs - offline DVD's folder

Then in SageMC's "File System" View I see Films, Mythbusters and "offline DVDs" at the top level. If you get the case the same you only see one set of folders even though there are two separate Films folders.

[JUC]

Originally Posted by pjwerdna

Cant you just create another set of intermediate folders?

e.g. I've my import folders set somthing like

\\mytv\disk1
\\mytv\disk2
\\mytv\disk3
\\mytv\offlineDVDs

then put extra folders..

\\mytv\disk1\Films - For Films
\\mytv\disk1\Mythbusters - 
\\mytv\disk2\Films - more films when I ran out of space on disk 1
\\mytv\offlineDVDs\offline DVDs - offline DVD's folder

Then in SageMC's "File System" View I see Films, Mythbusters and "offline DVDs" at the top level. If you get the case the same you only see one set of folders even though there are two separate Films folders.

Thanks,--i see where you are going. The one question I have is what do you then select in sagemc paths setup for your offline folder path? It seems that if I select the (in your case) \\mytv\offlinedvds folder--it will populate that folder with the offline dvd's and automatically add that to my import list. Thanks,
Juc

[bialio]

So I tried adding the YouTube menu to SageMC - I'm running SageMC 6.3.3. All the videos I try to play get the "unrecognized video format" error.

I saw a post where Opus4 responded to this issue by pointing to a post detailing how this was fixed in the default STV. Is there an easy fix for this in SageMC? I like having YouTube available on the TV, but I don't want to have to load the default STV just to use it!

btl.

[OHDino]

Is there a how-to or notes somewhere on how to create a theme for SageMC ?

What are the steps ?

Thanks.

Jamie.

[GollyJer]

Originally Posted by bialio

So I tried adding the YouTube menu to SageMC - I'm running SageMC 6.3.3. All the videos I try to play get the "unrecognized video format" error.

I saw a post where Opus4 responded to this issue by pointing to a post detailing how this was fixed in the default STV. Is there an easy fix for this in SageMC? I like having YouTube available on the TV, but I don't want to have to load the default STV just to use it!

btl.

Same here. And the problem exists for Google Video as well.