Feature Suggestion: Event Timer

[Akjun]

Howdy from Alaska!

I have been following your site for quite some time and I must say I am impressed with your product and the timeliness of updates and feature additions.

I was unsure where to post this, but I think it should go here (please move this post if it belongs somewhere else).

I was wondering if your product line includes a playback timer, or if this feature could be easily added? I envision this as a modification to the scheduled recording module, where one could schedule a Sage product to play a particular file at a certain date and time (better yet, a playlist of files). For example, if I was having a party, I could schedule my own programming from previously recorded shows, create a play list, and have a Sage product automatically start the "show" at a determined time.

This would be very useful to me.

I am also wondering what file types the Sage products support (in terms of playback; besides mpeg)?

Many thanks for your hard work on a wonderful application.

[dkardatzke]

Both SageTV and SageRecorder support the playback of any media file (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, MP3, etc.) as long as you have the proper codec installed, i.e. divx.

The playlist request is something that isn't currently available but we can look at it for the future.

[Akjun]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I think I will try out J. River Media Center as an event timer (at least until it becomes an option with Sage Recorder; hopefully). Does anyone else out there have any ideas/suggestions for scheduled playback?

Thanks.

[Akjun]

FYI - I tried J. River Media Center's Media Scheduler, and it does not appear to be very stable (at all: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t). Does anyone have any suggestions for scheduled playback of media files? I could really use some help here. Please?...... I did a lot of searching for an app that would allow me to schedule playback of mpeg files, but I was unfruitful. I am not a programmer, but I would think that this would be fairly easy to do (but I could be totally wrong). I am willing to pay for this functionality. Thanks in advance.