STV Import: Remember play position of imported videos

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by dvd_maniac

I would love to keep SageMC because of all the great features. The only problem with it seems to be navigation. Sometimes you just have to press the menu button to get out of something and it drives my wife batty.
But I am testing it out and we'll see.

Yeah, this seems to be the most common complaint ... In the latest version I tried to add the functionality to leave a menu with the "Left" button to any menu which was still lacking this option. If you find any I might have missed, just let me know ...

Dirk

[mkanet]

Does this plugin remember last played position when switching from the imported media to a TV channel (without having to manually press the stop button)? I use the "previous channel" button feature which switched from imported media playback to the last TV channel I viewed.

Also, what are the possibilities to have this plugin to also remember last played DVD position?

Thanks so much for all your effort!

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Does this plugin remember last played position when switching from the imported media to a TV channel (without having to manually press the stop button)? I use the "previous channel" button feature which switched from imported media playback to the last TV channel I viewed.

No, it does not intercept the "previous channel" call, but I could have a look if this would be easy to add ...

Originally Posted by mkanet

Also, what are the possibilities to have this plugin to also remember last played DVD position?

Not good ... I couldnt find a way to get a unique ID for a specific DVD through the Sage API, which is necessary for this to work ....


Dirk

[dvd_maniac]

Install on Server went without a hitch.

I installed SageMC on two of my clients so far and imported this as well...

I can't get it to work. Creates the properties file but does not populate it.
Is there a way to get the client to use the file on the server?
Can this be used on a Client?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by dvd_maniac

Install on Server went without a hitch.

I installed SageMC on two of my clients so far and imported this as well...

I can't get it to work. Creates the properties file but does not populate it.
Is there a way to get the client to use the file on the server?
Can this be used on a Client?

Hi dvd_maniac,

it should work on the client, I use it myself on client and server. You imported v0.3, right ?

Currently all clients use their own properties file, but it would probably be possible to add a setting for a fixed property file location

Dirk

[dvd_maniac]

Yes I used .3
I think a fixed file would be best.

Like I said, it did create the prop file it just didn't populate it.

As for the SageMC navigation. I will PM you after I play around with it.

[mkanet]

Actually, I wasn't asking for specific support for "previous channel", but something more useful than just detecting when STOP is pressed by the sageTV user.

More accurately, I think it would be better to look for when SageTV integrated media player is stopped (not necessarily when STOP is pressed by the user). For example in typicial scenerios... when switching to liveTV while Imported Videos are being played with the remote control, or when switching to playing a DVD while Imported Videos are being played...

Thanks!
-Michael

Originally Posted by flachbar

No, it does not intercept the "previous channel" call, but I could have a look if this would be easy to add ...


Not good ... I couldnt find a way to get a unique ID for a specific DVD through the Sage API, which is necessary for this to work ....


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Actually, I wasn't asking for specific support for "previous channel", but something more useful than just detecting when STOP is pressed by the sageTV user.

More accurately, I think it would be better to look for when SageTV integrated media player is stopped (not necessarily when STOP is pressed by the user). For example in typicial scenerios... when switching to liveTV while Imported Videos are being played with the remote control, or when switching to playing a DVD while Imported Videos are being played...

Thanks!
-Michael

That acually makes a lot of sense. I'll consider it ...

Dirk

[jominor]

I've imported the STVi, but I don't see the VideoLibraryTimes.properties file in the sage directory. I've left the jars in the stv3 directory with the stvi file and I've moved them to the JARs directory.

Any ideas?

[jominor]

Originally Posted by jominor

I've imported the STVi, but I don't see the VideoLibraryTimes.properties file in the sage directory. I've left the jars in the stv3 directory with the stvi file and I've moved them to the JARs directory.

Any ideas?

Does this plugin work with divx movies?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by jominor

Does this plugin work with divx movies?

Honestly, I dont know, I dont have any divx movies. But I guess if the FF skip works for those files, then this plugin should too. I would say simply try it out, nothing to lose ...

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by jominor

I've imported the STVi, but I don't see the VideoLibraryTimes.properties file in the sage directory. I've left the jars in the stv3 directory with the stvi file and I've moved them to the JARs directory.

Any ideas?

Did you restart Sage and redo the import after you moved the JAR files to the JARs directory ? One JAR file is required for the import to work ...


Dirk

[dflachbart]

I just uploaded v0.4 here


Changes:
- fixed tracking of times in GermSage
- added property "plugins/df/videolib_times/property_dir"

You can point the property to a directory on your server to share the VideoLibraryTimes.properties file among your clients. If the property is not set, it will create/use the file in the current SageTV directory as before.

Examples:

plugins/df/videolib_times/property_dir=d\:\\SageTV\\SageTV
plugins/df/videolib_times/property_dir=\\\\mediapc\\SageTV\\SageTV


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mkanet

More accurately, I think it would be better to look for when SageTV integrated media player is stopped (not necessarily when STOP is pressed by the user). For example in typicial scenerios... when switching to liveTV while Imported Videos are being played with the remote control, or when switching to playing a DVD while Imported Videos are being played...

I spent some time on this and tried to get it into the new version, but this doesnt seem to be possible at the moment. The only hook SageTV provides for this purpose seems to be 'MediaPlayerStateChanged()", but I found that it only fires on pause and play, but not on stop ...

Dirk

[jominor]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Did you restart Sage and redo the import after you moved the JAR files to the JARs directory ? One JAR file is required for the import to work ...


Dirk

I installed everything(the plugin that is!) from scratch and got the property file, but it didn't seem to put in any values for the divx(.avi) files.

Ah well...,

[chrisc16]

Originally Posted by jominor

Does this plugin work with divx movies?

I solely use this plugin with divx (avi) videos and it works as designed. This is on Sage client 5.

-Chris

[jominor]

Originally Posted by chrisc16

I solely use this plugin with divx (avi) videos and it works as designed. This is on Sage client 5.

-Chris

Accepted. I guess something about my setup disagrees with the plugin.

Maybe next time...

[AWS]

This plug in doesn't work for me at all for some reason. Oh well, I figure this STV does 9 out of 10 things right; I'll let this 1 feature slide by.



AWS

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by AWS

This plug in doesn't work for me at all for some reason. Oh well, I figure this STV does 9 out of 10 things right; I'll let this 1 feature slide by.



AWS

If you want me to look into it further, drop me a PM ...

Dirk

[BobPhoenix]

Edit: post edited because it had misleading information in it.