Phoenix Screen Shot Sneak Peak

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by bialio

And yes, I really do record Thundarr the Barbarian.

Loved that show when I was growing up! I always wondered what the heck was a Moc, though... I guess he was a "mock" wookie.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by bialio

And yes, I really do record Thundarr the Barbarian.

Who doesn't?

Gerry

[jaminben]

The music screen video looks good

[OneOfMany]

OK.. I really, really liked that. And being a fan of the horiz menu.. I'm having trouble waiting lol..

Glad to witness the rising

Grant

[wrems]

Is the ‘Recording Today’ info on the background always there? Or, does it toggle according to the cursor focus being on ‘TV Shows’?

[bialio]

Right now it's always there unless there is video playing, which is in that same area. It can be turned off completely if you don't want to see it.

I put that in last night actually, because I found that one of the things I'm constantly going to look at is what is currently recording, and what is going to record tonight.

btl.

[wrems]

Love it! I really like that touch.

[ayjax]

Looks great! Cant wait to try it all out! Is there an ETA for public beta release?

[alton987]

Sagtv needs to add a beta option to the plugin section.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by alton987

Sagtv needs to add a beta option to the plugin section.

SageTV does have a beta option for it's plugins... not many people use it though.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by stuckless

SageTV does have a beta option for it's plugins... not many people use it though.

I do SMM will probably stay there forever

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I do SMM will probably stay there forever

That's OK... BMT should probably be listed as Beta but it isn't

[pjpjpjpj]

Just curious, in post #41 you guys were working on a 3-panel setup where you indicated that (at least) one of the panels would be changeable to various information. Is this still in the works, or was it scrapped?

Also, post #80 showed both vertical and horizontal menu screens? Still optional?

And there was also the discussion of there being a popup type menu heirarchy rather than a true "home/main menu". Still true?

If the answer to these is that they are all still in there, then, good gracious, you guys are filling this thing chock full of options! Nice!

[bialio]

Most everything you've seen is still in there. The popup menu hierarchy is sort of there, although I'm not sure it's exactly what you might think it is.

btl.

[JonTom]

This looks so awesome!

Two questions,

1 - Imported Videos: I organize them by folders, will that organization be usable in Phoenix UI or do I need to start thinking about metadata for Genre, etc? (I have a folder "aaNicholas Videos" for my kid's videos, "aaTv Shows" - can I filter these out somehow in PhUI?)

2 - Music Browser: Please say that I'll be able to view my music By Album, sorted by Most Recently Added. Please? That would be good for Imported Videos too but less urgent (if this UMB thing works like I think it does I guess if it works for one it will work for the other).

[bialio]

Music will be viewable and sortable to your hearts content.

Folder based organization will be fine, although excluding by location is not something we can do just yet.

btl.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by JonTom

2 - Music Browser: Please say that I'll be able to view my music By Album, sorted by Most Recently Added. Please?

Originally Posted by bialio

Music will be viewable and sortable to your hearts content.

Just out of curiosity, can you sort Albums by Most Recently Added?.... I never worked out how to do this and could only ever do it by Year (using default sage sorting, or are you doing it via phoenix).

[bialio]

You can do it with the sorting we have in phoenix.

Album, in this context, is really just a way to group individual media files - which makes it pretty much a folder. That being the case, assuming that all the files from an album are added at the same time, you can sort it so that the folders (ie albums) use the largest/smallest MediaFileID* of the folders children as the basis for comparison.

* MediaFileID increments as files are added to the wiz.bin.

btl.

[jaminben]

Ahhh, thats a very clever idea..... I would have never thought of doing it like that.

[JonTom]

Originally Posted by bialio

Music will be viewable and sortable to your hearts content.

Folder based organization will be fine, although excluding by location is not something we can do just yet.

btl.

Weeeeeeeeeee!

Yeah, I didn't mean exclude by location so much as filter for that location (ie: display aaTvShow's videos)