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Missing Functionality That is important to YOU
SO - given what we've got so far in the private beta - TV and Movies focus - what are the top 1 or 2 pieces of functionality you miss most from the other UI?
Music, Pictures, and Online Video integration are NOT answers I'm looking for here, they are important chunks that we have started on to some degree but aren't at all ready. But for what IS there, what do you wish you could do that you used to be able to but now you can't.......
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While watching a LiveTV show in the default UI, pressing the Info button brought up the dialog box allowing me to:
- View details of the show currently on (sometimes these are truncated in the viewing screen) - Allow me to view the future airings of the show (if I want to record it later) - Allow me to add the series as a favorite Grant Nevermind the last two items.. they have been found when pressing the record button. Makes sense as well. Thanks. Also, the first item would be fine if by hitting the Guide button I was taken to the show I am currently watching. From here it is simple enough to go to the Details. However, the guide remembers where I was last looking (could be days ahead). I am presuming this is by design, however, it can be confusing, especially where a TV is left playing, and another user sits in front and takes over. While on the guide screen, in order to view Future Airings, the user must select the Record as Favorite. Then after viewing, remove the Favorite. Sometimes this Future Airings is nice to look at when I am simply looking for an interesting episode to record. Can the Future Airings be put on the Detail screen instead? Last edited by OneOfMany; 03-21-2011 at 08:21 PM. Reason: Found them |
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I'll just keep editing this same post,but so far for wifey and I
- comskip autoskip -search - see which shows are currently recording or set to record in epg - change media browser screens per category. So for tv she would like to be able to set single list and for movies view horizontal for example. -Sticky views for sorting,filtering, etc. on UMB. Last edited by PiX64; 03-22-2011 at 03:00 PM. |
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I think that some of these have been mentioned before as possible improvements, but I'll put them in anyway...
-creation of views from the stv or some other webapp that is easier than editing raw .xml -same thing for the menus -a way to quickly change sort options within a view from the remote Overall, the thing that I love the most is the speed of it. Scrolling and navigating are insanely responsive. After selecting a media file, it could be a little faster to begin playback.
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So you want these markers down in the grid itself? ie something that is currently recording or scheduled to record has text to that effect in the description area...
btl.
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I think i agree what everyone has said thus far.
Below is my list as of now
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We dont watch DVDs very often, so I missed this one on mine. I am not sure if it is an issue or not.
When I use the DVD Media Browser filter, it correctly filters all our DVDs and displays appropriate fanart. However, in the double-list view, the right-pane displays a blank entry, and once selected, does nothing. I also agree on a recording indicator on the guide itself. Info at a glance. Agree on the option of reopening guide to last place, or if opened from Live TV, to current time/channel. Grant |
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Diamond does this now with stars for favorites. I believe the default STV does this with BOLD text and italics...maybe. I would really love to see the scheduled recording icon that you have so nicely incorporated into the epg detail at the bottom of the screen be placed in the grid of the guide itself. hope that makes sense. |
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Makes perfect sense. What is funny is there was already an icon there - it was just invisible! In the next load it'll be a blue version of the Rec button that is in use everywhere else (turns red once it is actually recording)
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There's also another plugin out there that allows you to do this as well. It's called stop options or something like that.I think it might work a lil differently
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You guys didn't like my suggestion (#8) ? A simple dot instead of that icon.. I like the shading it red(like on the info pane for recent recording) if it's recording as well. Just don't want it to look so busy, and keep it clean and simple. This is why I love your guys guide now |
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Context sensitive Fanart in the guide
A built-in Folders view - i use folders exclusively for my video library A way to disable/rename/add menu items in the UI Can you start conversions in the current version of the UI - if not that is a request. This might be far-fetched but in the same way that some folks want all TV shows together, whether they are recorded in Sage or ripped/iported, and all movies together, in the long run it would be great to be able to integrate online content into these views as well. In other words when you clicked on The Simpsons it would show Sage recordings, imported video files, and shows available on Netflix, Hulu, etc
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I'm not clear what you mean by a 'built in Folders view' - this is different from what Gustovier is asking for in a 'browse the filesystem' capability right?
Combining online and offline content won't be a problem - as soon as we support online it'll just be there. btl.
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1) Global Search - will search everything it knows about for the search string - so you search for 'Simpsons' we'll search all import paths, recording directories, and the future EPG for airings that match. 2) Focused Search - there are a few ways to do this currently, although you have no documentation to that effect so you probably don't know about them. In the UMB you can hit CTRL-F (skip forward) to open the action menu - and from there enter text into the 'Find' field. This searches the currently loaded view for a match. Very useful if you have for instance have 75 episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and want to find the one with 'Sir Goofy' in the title. Also, in the UMB, if you have the list search type set to RegEx you can enter in numbers to find matches in the current list. This is a good way to get to a show in the list without scrolling - if you are looking for "Fringe" you'd type 374643 - as you type you'll see it narrowing in. If you get more than one hit, the Stop key cycles through all of the matches. Quote:
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If watching content and at the same time you go to the menu. We need the Ability to press "play" to return back to the content that is playing This is not something we are going to do right away - it's a good suggestion, and a good candidate for a Phoenix plugin. Are you sure you dont want to do this right away? I was able to basiclly implement by copying the play button listener widget to different parts of the stv. It's incredibly efficient. Besides, this way the only way to get back to your currently playing video is pressing back. Now this can cause a problem if your watching a video, go to the main menu, go to umb to browse videos, make a change to the umb view. Now to get back to my playing video I have to press back like 5 times and then my umb changes got reversed. Makes sense? Kudos though to you addressing all of our comments! It was getting kinda quiet round here. I love this stv. Is a newer release around the corner?.. I've grown so used to always adding something new to my sage setup, I dunno what I'm gonna do after the final version comes out... Maybe actually watch some content |
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Regarding the folders view - stuck less did help with this in a post. What I meant is to have a folders view that doesn't require editing and works very much like the SageMC folders view, or even the default UI folders view.
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