Phoenix Build 312

[stuckless]

Follow the instructions in the install/update sticky.

1) Box Landing Zone enhancements
A) optimization of performance
B) Instant Status area can be customized.
2) future airings button added to detailed info.
3) browse views button added to video landing zone menu
4) customize landing zone menu adds moving up/down and renaming
5) Status Menu. I refactored the guts of this menu to utilize ViewMenu's instead of normal views. This moves a lot of the code down into java. From the UI side it looks identical and uses all of the existing STV code.
6) reorganized the option menu so that the various options are grouped more logically.

I've downloaded and tested this locally. Appears to work, from my limited testing.

[Gustovier]

Awesome gonna try it out in a sec. Stuckless, is there a new Phoenix core as well (looking for that original air date sort fix)?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Gustovier

Awesome gonna try it out in a sec. Stuckless, is there a new Phoenix core as well (looking for that original air date sort fix)?

Yeah, the ui will force a new phoenix core as well, (2.3.30) which has that fix (among other things).

[bialio]

A few other changes :

New Weather Menu
Added Subtitles under Playback Options (for MKV's played on extenders)
Fixed text entry for configuration settings through Global Options Menu. (Uses slide-up keyboard)
Added Recently Watched to Status Menu
Fixed Detailed Info buttons when launched from Status Menu
Play button returns to currently playing media
Made 'Home' command active from Global Options Menu
Made Play button hide osd if visible
Fixed text overrun in Status Menu

btl.

[Gustovier]

I'm trying to rescale all my fanart (I emptied the directories under "userdata\Phoenix\cache\imgtrans"..not removed..but emptied). I expected to see the Circle of time while the scaling happend, but I got nothing. I'm getting the following error in the phoenix.log


2011-04-26 21:07:40,244 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN phoenix.impl.ViewAPI - Invalid View: allsagefanart

I then went to check the cache area and nothing was created, I'm assuming runing the scale would create the images here.

I then tried going to browse TV and movies through the UMB, and that started adding the images to the cache area. I scrolled through everything which I believe added all my images to the cache area. Should I try and run the scale again?

[bialio]

I think the view it was using to scale them got deleted on accident

If you want to add it you can put this view somewhere that phoenix can see it:

		<view name="allsagefanart" label="fanart candidates" visible="false">
			<description>
				Includes all Sage media files, but does include things like online
				videos, trailers, etc.
			</description>

			<tag value="video" />
		
			<source name="expression">
				<option name="expression">
					GetMediaFiles("TVDB")
				</option>
			</source>
		</view>

But scrolling through all of your movies / shows will accomplish the same thing.

btl.

[PiX64]

Anyone having problems with the new build and the guide? I am seeing somethign similiar to what gustovier reported on 310 with his guide..

i get spinning circle of death for 1 minute
then guide shows up with no data, and trying to leave the screen or select something i get a spinning circle for infinite...doesn't recover..

only way is to shut off extender.

I haven't tried to debug yet, but wanted to ask if this was happening to anyone else.

[bialio]

I'm not sure what is causing it to show up when it does, but to fix it you need to go into the properties files for your clients and remove the phoenix/epg/* lines. I think that recent changes in the phoenix core (improvements!) exposed this, but I"m not 100% sure.

Basically what is happening is that each column in the EPG is using 180000 as the number of minutes, which is 125 days!

btl.

[PiX64]

Thanks! I will try that as soon as I get back home. Wifey is getting upset!

[bialio]

you can try to have her do this (from wherever she is watching):

From Landing Zone
1) options
2) Phoenix Settings
3) Global Configuration
4) Phoenix Settings
5) Program Guide (Left side of the window)
6) Column Duration (One of the options on the right) - it's probably at 180000, have her change it to 30.

btl.

[PiX64]

thanks bialio that worked like a champ!

love the new keyboard btw! works great on an hd300 but a bit sluggish on an hd200

[Gustovier]

A couple of things I've noticed.

1.) When pressing the info button to get to the instant guide. We should be able to press Info to dismiss it.

2.) when using the grid view in the umb. If I'm at the left most poster pressing the "left" button on the remote shouldn't work like the back button. I know this is how it works in most screens in sage but here it should just wrap around the selected movie. Or at least make it an option to do so.

3.) it would be cool if there was support for season posters/banners. I love the TV (series/season) vfs view that comes with Phoenix. I setup a menu that goes into the grid umb with that view. Now it would be cool if we could show those season poster images instead of listing out the season folders. This is how a lot of other media center skins work in xbmc/plex. (I might have talked bout this already, can't remember)

4.) along with #4 it would also be cool to add support for the episode images as well. Normally this is a thumbnail of the episode. I believe the Phoenix core/BMT gets these images now (or sage creates one for a recording). This should be an option for the user not forced.

[RedCoat999]

Originally Posted by bialio

I'm not sure what is causing it to show up when it does, but to fix it you need to go into the properties files for your clients and remove the phoenix/epg/* lines. I think that recent changes in the phoenix core (improvements!) exposed this, but I"m not 100% sure.

Basically what is happening is that each column in the EPG is using 180000 as the number of minutes, which is 125 days!

btl.

I have searched the sage.properties and sageclient.properties files and neither have thiere lines, and my guide takes forever to open up with blank

[bialio]

If you are on an HD200 you need to look in the clients/ directory in the SageTV install directory. Or use the method in post 10 of this thread.

btl.

[PiX64]

Is it possible in the most recent release to add "Play DVD" or "Play BD/DVD" to the main menu ->Videos on the landing zone?

This is part of the stock ui and part of the SageMC, but im not sure if it was ever possible to display that menu option on an extender. What im thinking here and what the wife has suggested is having the ability to easily play a bd/dvd from the main menu that is located in the DVD/BD drive on the server. Its kind of a PITA to have to rescan your library, and then dig through the videos to try and vind the VIDEO_TS folder in order to play the disc.

Any thoughts, or could this be a possiblity?

[bialio]

That's a good idea, but I don't think it would be very easy.

[PiX64]

Is there a way to maybe link the menu to the sage defined import directory or something... or perhaps make the menu configurable so that each user that uses phoneix could point the menu to its dvd/bd drive import directory?