Console outputting, and stopping playback via the API.

[beelzerob]

Is there some way to capture the console output into a file, especially without having to go into the registry to enable the console? I'm assuming that System.out messages in java go SOMEWHERE and can be captured and output even if the console isn't visible.

Also, what is the api call to stop playback of a media file? I can find Play() and Pause() easy enough...but no stop(). I am currently using CloseAndWaitUntilClosed(). However, this doesn't have the same effect as clicking the Stop button in the media player. When I click stop, it takes me back to the video selection menu. When I stop via the CloseAndWaitUntilClosed() api call, it just turns the screen blank...then I have to hit escape to bring up a menu, and from that menu I choose "Halt playback", and then I get the menu. So, maybe I'm not using the right api call to stop playback?

Thanks for all the help!

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by beelzerob

Also, what is the api call to stop playback of a media file? I can find Play() and Pause() easy enough...but no stop(). I am currently using CloseAndWaitUntilClosed(). However, this doesn't have the same effect as clicking the Stop button in the media player. When I click stop, it takes me back to the video selection menu. When I stop via the CloseAndWaitUntilClosed() api call, it just turns the screen blank...then I have to hit escape to bring up a menu, and from that menu I choose "Halt playback", and then I get the menu. So, maybe I'm not using the right api call to stop playback?

CloseAndWaitUntilClosed() is what is called when you use the Stop command during playback, but the STV then executes additional code after that to determine what to do after playback stops. I'm not sure how you are doing this, but perhaps you could just try sending the Stop command via SageCommand().

- Andy

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by beelzerob

Is there some way to capture the console output into a file, especially without having to go into the registry to enable the console? I'm assuming that System.out messages in java go SOMEWHERE and can be captured and output even if the console isn't visible.

If you set debug_logging=TRUE in your properties file, all of Sage's debug output (including calls to DebugLog()) gets logged to a file.

But if you want a log of just your own debug output, open a PrintWriter onto a file and use that instead of System.out or DebugLog().

[beelzerob]

Originally Posted by Opus4

CloseAndWaitUntilClosed() is what is called when you use the Stop command during playback, but the STV then executes additional code after that to determine what to do after playback stops. I'm not sure how you are doing this, but perhaps you could just try sending the Stop command via SageCommand().

- Andy

All I'm doing in my java to execute the CloseAndWaitUntilClosed() command is:

sage.SageTV.api("CloseAndWaitUntilClosed", null);

I don't know how I'd tell it what to do next. However, that all sounds moot since I can use the Sagecommand() for this. Where is a list of valid commands? I can guess "Stop" is one of them, but who knows what else might prove useful!

Gkusnik, thanks...that's exactly what I wanted.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by beelzerob

Where is a list of valid commands? I can guess "Stop" is one of them, but who knows what else might prove useful!

As far as I know, the command name text you would use for that call is the same text listed in Detailed Setup -> Commands -> Link Command. All commands are listed there.

- Andy

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by beelzerob

Where is a list of valid commands?

P. 198 of the manual. (I can't believe Andy didn't say that.)

[Opus4]

I referenced the commands in the SageTV UI because that should be the actual text to use with SageCommand(), in case I wrote any of them slightly differently in the manual.

- Andy

[beelzerob]

Well, either way Stop appears to be Stop. thanks a lot. Looks like most other commands I can probably just use a direct api call, but that Stop command had me stumped.

[nielm]

if you want to manually call 'CloseFileAndWaitUntilClosed()' then call the code that goes back to the appropriate screen (as 'stop' is sometimed used for other things, like backspace when inputting NTE), then search and link the action tree labled:

"Return to menu where media may have come from"

(which should be in Stop listener in MediaPlayerOSD)

[beelzerob]

Well, I went with the SageCommand("Stop"), and it works just great...just like hitting Stop manually. That works for me!