STV Import: Sage Movie Wall (SMW)

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

personally i would NOT want it this way... if it says it is 720p... it better be 720p (if you wanted to mark say x700 to x768 as 720p and x1040p to x1090p as 1080p then i would probably be ok with that.. )

but marking something that is WAY off (to not even be considered close to one of the standards i would find annoying... maybe instead when the resolution is not one of the standards display the vertical resolution as text...

really? i think every bluray rip i have is a 1080p directly... and is labeled as such... i do not do any reencoding but rip the main movie plus main audio track to a bluray disc format.

I think the problem is if someone does encoding (lets say using Ripbot) and doesn't specify to retain original size (1920x1080) the encode may output a file close to but not exact (1920 x 900, etc...) in order to meet whatever the encoding requirements were set by the user. I have actually seen this before. However, I agree with razrsharpe that is it a far stretch to label 1281x721 movie 1080p.

[Fuzzy]

There are some apps out there (AutoGK, and others) that have an AutoCrop feature. So on letterboxxed movies, it iwll end up with odd resolutions. Since this autocropped letterboxxing is the most common source of these problems, I think it would be more accurate to group the classifications by horizontal resolution instead.

[PLUCKYHD]

Hey guys sorry late to my own party here in the process of a move and internet access is limited.

I agree with Razor I will add it to the request to maybe show it as a text if it is a different but that may be hard. The current way I do it is it searches the file detail that is in sage. I will add and look into alternatives.

cheers

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

The current way I do it is it searches the file detail that is in sage. I will add and look into alternatives.

This actually coincides with some other things i have been meaning to work on... will chat offline

[Jabroni]

Originally Posted by dbone1026

I think the problem is if someone does encoding (lets say using Ripbot) and doesn't specify to retain original size (1920x1080) the encode may output a file close to but not exact (1920 x 900, etc...) in order to meet whatever the encoding requirements were set by the user. I have actually seen this before. However, I agree with razrsharpe that is it a far stretch to label 1281x721 movie 1080p.

Exactly.. maybe the source is 1080p, but the AR isnt full screen, so most of the encodes actually crop the black bars and try to mantain the original resolution. So just like 10% of the encodes actually just show either the 720p or 1080p (at least in my case which I do the encodes with cropping so the rip doesnt have the black bars within the encode, rather l leave the media player handle the AR).

I mean its not a big deal.. i just have issues with movies I do 720p and 1080p (which are listed twice) I need to click and see what is the filename to see if its the 720p or 1080p.

Just my 2 cents

[Nutball]

First off, this has to be my favorite download so far for Sage, excellent work to all involved.

I am having one recurring problem with Grid View or Cover Flow View.

If I hold the left or right arrow key to scroll through the movies on coverflow flow or grid view, my extender will crash and power itself off.

Evertything works great if I tap the right or left direction buttons to cycle through the movies. However, holding a direction for 2-3 seconds will repeatedly crash my HD-200 extender. I do not have problems on the server itself.

Fortunately this isn't critical since I use list Wall or List View.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I am running:
SageTV V6.6.218
SageMC Version 6.9.9a
Current HD-200 Firmware

Thanks,
Nutball

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Nutball

First off, this has to be my favorite download so far for Sage, excellent work to all involved.

I am having one recurring problem with Grid View or Cover Flow View.

If I hold the left or right arrow key to scroll through the movies on coverflow flow or grid view, my extender will crash and power itself off.

Evertything works great if I tap the right or left direction buttons to cycle through the movies. However, holding a direction for 2-3 seconds will repeatedly crash my HD-200 extender. I do not have problems on the server itself.

Fortunately this isn't critical since I use list Wall or List View.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I am running:
SageTV V6.6.218
SageMC Version 6.9.9a
Current HD-200 Firmware

Thanks,
Nutball

Never seen this one did you make sure and perform all transformations and scaling? Is scaling on? What happens if you hit ff/rr?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Jabroni

Exactly.. maybe the source is 1080p, but the AR isnt full screen, so most of the encodes actually crop the black bars and try to mantain the original resolution. So just like 10% of the encodes actually just show either the 720p or 1080p (at least in my case which I do the encodes with cropping so the rip doesnt have the black bars within the encode, rather l leave the media player handle the AR).

I mean its not a big deal.. i just have issues with movies I do 720p and 1080p (which are listed twice) I need to click and see what is the filename to see if its the 720p or 1080p.

Just my 2 cents

I added as a request and will see what I can work out.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Never seen this one did you make sure and perform all transformations and scaling? Is scaling on? What happens if you hit ff/rr?

also whats your java heap size on the server... using smw it should be at least 512mb and more like 768 or 1gb

[Jabroni]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I added as a request and will see what I can work out.

Thanks!

I was thinking too if you could add up another media icon for the framerate, if its 24,30 or 60fps. In my case if its 24fps, I have to switch the output framerate of my vid card to 24fps so my tv can use the 120hz function correctly (so the PC wont do any 3:2 pulldown). What everyone else think bout this?

[mkstretch]

I installed SMW 4, a fresh copy. I installed Phoenix instead of BMI, but Phoenix doesnt seem to work as well a BMI, it only lets me do an IMDB search where BMI let me search IMDB or other sites. Can I install BMI with Phoenix already installed? Thanks much

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

I installed SMW 4, a fresh copy. I installed Phoenix instead of BMI, but Phoenix doesnt seem to work as well a BMI, it only lets me do an IMDB search where BMI let me search IMDB or other sites. Can I install BMI with Phoenix already installed? Thanks much

BMI contains phoenix so yes just extract the zip and overwrite everything.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Jabroni

Thanks!

I was thinking too if you could add up another media icon for the framerate, if its 24,30 or 60fps. In my case if its 24fps, I have to switch the output framerate of my vid card to 24fps so my tv can use the 120hz function correctly (so the PC wont do any 3:2 pulldown). What everyone else think bout this?

I don't know if that information is made available I will look into it.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

I installed SMW 4, a fresh copy. I installed Phoenix instead of BMI, but Phoenix doesnt seem to work as well a BMI, it only lets me do an IMDB search where BMI let me search IMDB or other sites. Can I install BMI with Phoenix already installed? Thanks much

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I don't know if that information is made available I will look into it.

the framerate info is available most of the time.... goes back to that same group of functions we were discussing this weekend... i have the logic all worked out in studio code somewhere just need to convert it to java

[mkstretch]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

BMI contains phoenix so yes just extract the zip and overwrite everything.

Thanks much PLUCKYHD. By the way outstanding job on SMW. All the views(3D,List,coverflow) are so good I dont know which one to use...lol

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

Thanks much PLUCKYHD. By the way outstanding job on SMW. All the views(3D,List,coverflow) are so good I dont know which one to use...lol

No problem and thanks glad you like it.

[mkstretch]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

No problem and thanks glad you like it.

Ok Im an idiot, I thought I shut down SageTV before extracting BMI but it wasnt. I dont think BMI is working because when i go to edit options it only gives me IMDB search and nothing else. any idea how to fix it?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by mkstretch

Ok Im an idiot, I thought I shut down SageTV before extracting BMI but it wasnt. I dont think BMI is working because when i go to edit options it only gives me IMDB search and nothing else. any idea how to fix it?

You have to import the BMT addin for sage before importing SMW.

[tmiranda]

Plucky,

Are you still planning to port this to the default STV or do I have more work to do

Tom

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Plucky,

Are you still planning to port this to the default STV or do I have more work to do

Tom

I am yes but you seem to have more time on your hands than I do so if you want to do it feel free to ask anyquestions/issues you run into.