STV: SageMC 16x9 11/26/2005 Sage 4.x Version 5_10

[jettman]

Originally Posted by geogecko

Yeah, that is kind of annoying. Try changing the case of the MPG (manually) to match exactly, and see if that fixes the problem.

I reported that as a possible bug a while back, but I'm not sure anything was done about it.

I tried that and tried reimporting and all that and still no jpeg showing in the offline folder or in SageMC.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by jettman

I tried that and tried reimporting and all that and still no jpeg showing in the offline folder or in SageMC.

Strange. Something is going on here, because I was stuck with this same problem.

Can you see the JPG's in the DVD Profiler path? I believe they are in some kind of "images" folder, if I'm not mistaken.

I haven't done it lately, but I'll add a DVD to my DVD Profiler app, and see if I can import it as an offline DVD, and see if I get everything. If that is the case, I'll go through all my settings, and post what I've got...

[jettman]

Originally Posted by geogecko

Strange. Something is going on here, because I was stuck with this same problem.

Can you see the JPG's in the DVD Profiler path? I believe they are in some kind of "images" folder, if I'm not mistaken.

I haven't done it lately, but I'll add a DVD to my DVD Profiler app, and see if I can import it as an offline DVD, and see if I get everything. If that is the case, I'll go through all my settings, and post what I've got...

I see the Jpeg's in C:\Program Files\InterVocative Software\DVD Profiler\IMAGES

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by jettman

I see the Jpeg's in C:\Program Files\InterVocative Software\DVD Profiler\IMAGES

I think I remember something.

Try changing this path:

mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline DVD's

to:
mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline_DVDs


(or something similar, without spaces or other strange characters).

Then, create that path, and delete everything in the old location, etc.

Give that a try, and see if it fixes things. That's about the only thing I can think of. I added a movie, and did the Meta Data, Import Offline DVD's, and that was all I had to do (well, selecting the DVD, and hitting import), and it showed up, picture and all.

My path, for reference, is:

mlbdude/offline_path=D\:\\MEDIA_D\\OFFLINE\\DVD

[geogecko]

Feature Request:

Any chance of making some little icon that is displayed in "My Videos" if a particular movie is offline (like down at the upper right or left of the picture of the movie, not in details, but where you are showing all your movie titles)? That would be awesome, instead of finding out when you click to play it... Not sure what that would look like, but I was thinking one of the little round ball icons.

Anyone like the idea?

Similar to this (please disregard my non-photoshop skills...)

[jettman]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I think I remember something.

Try changing this path:

mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline DVD's

to:
mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline_DVDs


(or something similar, without spaces or other strange characters).

Then, create that path, and delete everything in the old location, etc.

Give that a try, and see if it fixes things. That's about the only thing I can think of. I added a movie, and did the Meta Data, Import Offline DVD's, and that was all I had to do (well, selecting the DVD, and hitting import), and it showed up, picture and all.

My path, for reference, is:

mlbdude/offline_path=D\:\\MEDIA_D\\OFFLINE\\DVD

I tried C\:\\Offline but then the import button wouldn't sho up. I had to put it back to C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Offline
It put all of the mpeg's in there again, but still no jpegs.

Are there different versions of SageMC?
Maybe we have different releases.
All my metadata is showing up using SageMC but the covers. Seems to be something broke w/my installation.

[geogecko]

The import button doesn't show up, unless the folder (path) that you call out for the offline_path, has already been created. You'll have to create that path, and also add it to your library imports.

I'm using the Latest Dev Build, plus FB's addon.

[jettman]

Originally Posted by geogecko

The import button doesn't show up, unless the folder (path) that you call out for the offline_path, has already been created. You'll have to create that path, and also add it to your library imports.

I'm using the Latest Dev Build, plus FB's addon.

I did create the path first and then add it as a library import.

I will try the latest Dev build and see if that works.

[jettman]

I am trying to use the latest SageMC build.

where do I put the SageMC_169.xml file?
and is that the one I load thru Sage?

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by geogecko

Feature Request:

Any chance of making some little icon that is displayed in "My Videos" if a particular movie is offline (like down at the upper right or left of the picture of the movie, not in details, but where you are showing all your movie titles)? That would be awesome, instead of finding out when you click to play it... Not sure what that would look like, but I was thinking one of the little round ball icons.

Anyone like the idea?

If flachbar wants to add the functionality, I'll be happy to make the icons. (As soon as I get the transparency working properly )

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by jettman

I am trying to use the latest SageMC build.

where do I put the SageMC_169.xml file?
and is that the one I load thru Sage?

The 5_10 build is extracted to /Program Files/SageTV/SageTV

The Latest Dev Build (i.e., SageMC_169.xml file) is extracted to /Program Files/SageTV/SageTV/STVs/SageTV3

And yep, that is the one you want to load.

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

If flachbar wants to add the functionality, I'll be happy to make the icons. (As soon as I get the transparency working properly )

That would be cool. I have been watching the "Glassy" thread. Sorry to hear your troubles. As you can see, my PS skills are really lacking behind yours. But I'm using that Interface University web site to get better. Lots of cool tutorials there.

[bobrap]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I think I remember something.

Try changing this path:

mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline DVD's

to:
mlbdude/offline_path=F\:\\Offline\\Offline_DVDs


(or something similar, without spaces or other strange characters).

Then, create that path, and delete everything in the old location, etc.

Give that a try, and see if it fixes things. That's about the only thing I can think of. I added a movie, and did the Meta Data, Import Offline DVD's, and that was all I had to do (well, selecting the DVD, and hitting import), and it showed up, picture and all.

My path, for reference, is:

mlbdude/offline_path=D\:\\MEDIA_D\\OFFLINE\\DVD

My problem with offline import is if I select only one movie to import, it imports all of the movies in dvd profiler. I guess they automatically get put in My Videos, can't specify a seperate directory?

[jettman]

Originally Posted by geogecko

The 5_10 build is extracted to /Program Files/SageTV/SageTV

The Latest Dev Build (i.e., SageMC_169.xml file) is extracted to /Program Files/SageTV/SageTV/STVs/SageTV3

And yep, that is the one you want to load.

When I try to load it thru Detailed Setup|Advanced, it only shows .stv files. How do I load an XML file?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by jettman

When I try to load it thru Detailed Setup|Advanced, it only shows .stv files. How do I load an XML file?

Hi jettman,

see my related post here ...


Dirk

[bobrap]

Edit this line...
STV=C\:\\Program Files\\SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV3\\SageMC_169.stv
to read...
STV=C\:\\Program Files\\SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV3\\SageMC_169.xml

Basicaly changing the stv extension at the end of the line to read xml.

[jettman]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Hi jettman,

see my related post here ...


Dirk

When I open the sage.properties file, there is nowhere listed sagemc_169.stv.
What am I missing? That line doesn't exist.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by jettman

When I open the sage.properties file, there is nowhere listed sagemc_169.stv.
What am I missing? That line doesn't exist.

So you dont have a line starting with "STV=..." at all ? If you are using the service (or the client), you need to look in SageClient.properties ...

Dirk

[bobrap]

Shucks, I thought I was finally going to help someone instead of being helped.

[jettman]

I got the jpeg's to show up. I didn't use the xml file.
I didn't know that I had to use the SageClient.properties file since I was using the service. I just had to change the DVD Profiler path in the client properties file and now it works!