Day one features

[wayner]

Another thing I would like to have is the ability to Sync media files be types. I have lots of video files (a few thousand) but I have TONS of music files and photos (tens of thousands). When I go to do a sync it takes roughly 5 minutes.

I have installed only video files on another Sage server and when I only sync video files it takes seconds.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by wayner

Another thing I would like to have is the ability to Sync media files be types. I have lots of video files (a few thousand) but I have TONS of music files and photos (tens of thousands). When I go to do a sync it takes roughly 5 minutes.

I have installed only video files on another Sage server and when I only sync video files it takes seconds.

+1. "Refresh photos", "refresh music", "refresh videos/recordings", or "refresh all media". That would be excellent.

[waynedunham]

Originally Posted by matterofrecord

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It won't do slo-mo rewind, but I do a pseudo slo-mo forward all the time. Just hit pause and then keep hitting pause to advance a bit at a time. I don't know if it is actually frame by frame, but it does a pretty decent job for those "was he in or out of bounds when he caught the ball" moments.

[Jabroni]

What I would love to see is make the Placeshifter mplayer be multithread friendly, so we can playback H264 content fine (without transcoding). Or make it use local filters for playback so we could get HW acceleration video playback

Just my 2 cents

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by waynedunham

It won't do slo-mo rewind, but I do a pseudo slo-mo forward all the time. Just hit pause and then keep hitting pause to advance a bit at a time. I don't know if it is actually frame by frame, but it does a pretty decent job for those "was he in or out of bounds when he caught the ball" moments.

Or on an extender remote, just hold down the pause button...

[skiingwiz]

I have very modest day one goals. I'd like to add

• Forced Subtitles in MKVs
• HTTPS plugin download support

Day two starts the real work

[tmiranda]

My opinion of "day 1" is to get it all to compile and install. I think that will be a bit of work in itself.

We need basic things such as:
- A place to host the source in a source control system.
- A development and build environment.
- A place to host the install download.
- A bug tracking system.
- A "release control" system.
- Probably more things that I forgot....


Day 2 we start making changes to the code and producing updates.

When I say "we" I don't even know who I am talking about My vision is there will be one main project (hopefully supported by the forum regulars) and then lots of other smaller projects (supported by people who have specific needs or don't like what the main project is doing.) Who knows?

When Google releases the source code all we will have is a pile of code with zero infrastructure to do anything with it. I am hoping Narflex will also release any and all makefiles and build scripts but again, we don't know that right now.

[KryptoNyte]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

When I say "we" I don't even know who I am talking about ...

I have created excel spreadsheet formulas at least twice, I'm ready when you are.

[jreichen]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

My opinion of "day 1" is to get it all to compile and install. I think that will be a bit of work in itself.

We need basic things such as:
- A place to host the source in a source control system.
- A development and build environment.
- A place to host the install download.
- A bug tracking system.
- A "release control" system.
- Probably more things that I forgot....


Day 2 we start making changes to the code and producing updates.

When I say "we" I don't even know who I am talking about My vision is there will be one main project (hopefully supported by the forum regulars) and then lots of other smaller projects (supported by people who have specific needs or don't like what the main project is doing.) Who knows?

When Google releases the source code all we will have is a pile of code with zero infrastructure to do anything with it. I am hoping Narflex will also release any and all makefiles and build scripts but again, we don't know that right now.

You're right it will be a bit of work. I'm guessing Narflex will put the code on Github. If so, Github could be used to host downloads (linked from a user friendly project web site), track bugs, and accept contributions (pull requests) from developers.

You're also right about zero infrastructure. Build environments will be important and I'm not sure how collaborative open source projects typically manage that. It would be great to have a centralized location to create official builds for all platforms. Up until now, plugin developers created builds from their own computers.

I would be surprised if Narflex didn't include Visual Studio projects (for native Windows libraries), makefiles (for native Linux binaries), and Ant or Maven scripts for the Java code. There was a brief discussion about this on one of these open source threads.

I think it will also be important to have a polished web site with product information, tutorials, howtos, etc. I may just be speaking for myself (but I doubt it) but this will need to be created and maintained by folks other than developers (being a developer myself).

[Fredo44]

My 1st priority:
Enable Sage supporting PBDA drivers.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58548

[gveres]

My three would be:

• fix the Mac Placeshifter to play back video using a modern playback mechanism so that it doesn't suck
• add an API for querying and setting the position in a video that has been watched so that I can use another viewer (like Plex) and be able to continue watching on Sage somewhere else in the house
• have Sage put the recordings into directories per show so that it is easier to use something like Plex as a viewer on more platforms. Oh I guess this would also mean that it would need to

Greg

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by gveres

My three would be:

• fix the Mac Placeshifter to play back video using a modern playback mechanism so that it doesn't suck
• add an API for querying and setting the position in a video that has been watched so that I can use another viewer (like Plex) and be able to continue watching on Sage somewhere else in the house
• have Sage put the recordings into directories per show so that it is easier to use something like Plex as a viewer on more platforms. Oh I guess this would also mean that it would need to

Greg

For #2, I'm pretty sure you can already read and write the watched times of an airing:

http://download.sage.tv/api/sage/api/AiringAPI.html

Have a look at GetWatchedDuration, GetWatchedEndTime, GetWatchedStartTime, and SetWatchedTimes.

Based on those api calls, it should already be possible for another source (i.e. Plex) to read and write this data back to Sage. In theory, Plex could read this data to implement the "start watching on Sage in the living room and finish watching on your tablet from where you left off". And vice versa: Watch a recording in Plex and Plex reports back to Sage what you watched; Sage then picks up where you left off. From what I've read about the Plex plugin here in the past is that the hard part is getting Plex to talk to Sage's API -- just not all that easy, which is why the Plex plugin never even managed to sync watched status, much less this kind of data. But it doesn't seem to be Sage preventing this kind of thing from happening.

[DIBU]

Originally Posted by Fredo44

My 1st priority:
Enable Sage supporting PBDA drivers.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58548

1+

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by DIBU

1+

Is there a utility with those cards than can, from a command line, tune a channel and record it to a file?

[7up]

Originally Posted by Fredo44

My 1st priority:
Enable Sage supporting PBDA drivers.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58548

Could you help me understand how SageTV would interact with DVBlink?

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Fredo44

My 1st priority:
Enable Sage supporting PBDA drivers.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58548

What I'd like to see is the ability to add capture driver support via some plugin structure. That way as new capture devices come on the market a developer can write a plugin and the Sage core will not need any updates at all.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

What I'd like to see is the ability to add capture driver support via some plugin structure. That way as new capture devices come on the market a developer can write a plugin and the Sage core will not need any updates at all.

You mean like the network encoder system that's been in sage for most of its existence?

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

You mean like the network encoder system that's been in sage for most of its existence?

Yes, but not using the network encoder system which is inefficient for capture devices connected to a local machine

[Damstas]

I would like to see Live TV artwork and metadata integration from Schedules Direct, TVDB and TMDB. Also later on plugin/support for Emby (former Media Browser), which has a nice interface to handle this data. WMC is becoming obsolete and I think many would benefit from a larger support in these area. This is just my opinion.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Yes, but not using the network encoder system which is inefficient for capture devices connected to a local machine

It's actually not inefficient at all. It does not send the stream over the network. All that goes over the network are some commands (START 125 \\SageTV\Recordings\ThisShowIsOnChannel125-123456.mpg), and the encoder is responsible for recording channel 125 to that file. I would actually like all future tuners to use the network encoder interface (though it would have to be expanded to include asking for channel lists, and initiating scans and such), as that would leverage the modulatity the network encoders use, while allowing for easy development of future sources as well.