Plugin: TVExplorer for Sage7

[Zorglub]

A small problem:

If you set the option to keep the filters at all time, when you toggle the view from recording to recording schedule (the first button on the upper left side), when you return to the recording, the filters aren't applied, you need to re-apply them.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

2.) There seems to be a minor bug/conflict w/ Fuzzy's "Recording Schedule Shortcut" UIMOD installed w/ this plugin. If you hit the REC button in TVExplorer it will pull up the default SageTV Recording schedule (as designed by fuzzy if you are at the main menu). This happens if you are in the Navigation Panel on the left or any of the settings menu's in TVE. Otherwise, REC in the Group or Episode Panels works as designed.

That is because TVExplorer completely ignores the REC command unless you are focused on an item that could handle it (a group or item). Without my plugin, my guess is nothing would happen when there. So, if the RECORD event gets all the way back to the 'Global Root' section of the UI without being handled by anything, it will bring up the REC menu. The only way to make it NOT do this (though I'm not sure why) would be to add a handler to it in the TVE root that does nothing. Would be easy to add, but it's something Razr would have to do.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

The only way to make it NOT do this (though I'm not sure why) would be to add a handler to it in the TVE root that does nothing. Would be easy to add, but it's something Razr would have to do.

already done in the latest build

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

already done in the latest build

Yeah, I replied before i realized there were two more pages of thread to read.. ;-)

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Zorglub

A small problem:

If you set the option to keep the filters at all time, when you toggle the view from recording to recording schedule (the first button on the upper left side), when you return to the recording, the filters aren't applied, you need to re-apply them.

what about if you leave TVE and reenter it? do the filters come back? I'll add an issue so I don't forget about it.

[Skirge01]

This is (and was) a known issue I remember telling you about back in the SageMC days. It does keep the filter settings if you back out to the main menu. It's only when you toggle to the recording and scheduled that the filters get reset upon return.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

This is (and was) a known issue I remember telling you about back in the SageMC days. It does keep the filter settings if you back out to the main menu. It's only when you toggle to the recording and scheduled that the filters get reset upon return.

ahhh yes... i was just rereading the known issues list this morning and was wondering if they were the same issue...

[Rob]

razrsharpe

Thanks for porting this over. It has been missed since I wnet to Win7/Sage7 a few weeks ago. Can't wait to get home tonight and install it.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Rob

razrsharpe

Thanks for porting this over. It has been missed since I wnet to Win7/Sage7 a few weeks ago. Can't wait to get home tonight and install it.

you're welcome. But you should really thank tmiranda.... He did all the hard work

[Rob]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

you're welcome. But you should really thank tmiranda.... He did all the hard work

Well then thanks to tmiranda.

Also looking forward to V2.

[Peter_h]

Got a few more bugs to report.

1.) If I sort by Season/Episode and have double digit seasons, the right most season selection pane will display season 1, 10, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, etc. If I eneble the option to pad season/episodes w/ leading zero in options, it will pad all episodes correctly in the episode pane. However, in the Season Pane, it does not pad with zero's and displays as above, ie 1, 10, 2, etc.

Personally, I like it the way it is and don't want it to pad the Season Pane but if you could somehow make it display 10 after 9, instead of after 1, that would be awesome.

EDIT: This appears to already be bugged as number 4 on your defect list.

2.) When I toggle from recordings to the recorded schedule, the episode listings are not correct. The episode listings are from the first item in the "recordings" list. If you scroll down and back up, it will refresh and be correct. This happens every time i check the recording schedule. The show description, banner and fan art cover are all correct, it is only the episode listings which are wrong.

3.) I seem to have a problem playing back imported TV content from playon. Plucky and EvilPenguin put out a plugin that will import TV from your netflix queue. It creates dummy files that refernces the playon locations.

The shows appear in the listing fine with correct metadata but i can not play them back in TVE. I am getting a playon error. I can't see what the error screen says because it flashes so quickly. However, playback from the default V7 recordings screen and from the "TV Browser" plugin work fine.

Lastly, is there a way to dictate the location of the "Poster" separate from the preview window?

Thanks,
Peter

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Got a few more bugs to report.

1.) If I sort by Season/Episode and have double digit seasons, the right most season selection pane will display season 1, 10, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, etc. If I eneble the option to pad season/episodes w/ leading zero in options, it will pad all episodes correctly in the episode pane. However, in the Season Pane, it does not pad with zero's and displays as above, ie 1, 10, 2, etc.

Personally, I like it the way it is and don't want it to pad the Season Pane but if you could somehow make it display 10 after 9, instead of after 1, that would be awesome.

known issue (or at least it was and you just confirmed it) Is the episode list always correct? and it is just the right most filter pane that is not?

2.) When I toggle from recordings to the recorded schedule, the episode listings are not correct. The episode listings are from the first item in the "recordings" list. If you scroll down and back up, it will refresh and be correct. This happens every time i check the recording schedule. The show description, banner and fan art cover are all correct, it is only the episode listings which are wrong.

i must not be refreshing the episode list correctly... I'll look into it
Issue 23 added

3.) I seem to have a problem playing back imported TV content from playon. Plucky and EvilPenguin put out a plugin that will import TV from your netflix queue. It creates dummy files that refernces the playon locations.

The shows appear in the listing fine with correct metadata but i can not play them back in TVE. I am getting a playon error. I can't see what the error screen says because it flashes so quickly. However, playback from the default V7 recordings screen and from the "TV Browser" plugin work fine.

I have not used/installed that plugin so it's not surprising that it doesn't work. I'll have to install it and see what's going on... TVE just passes the mediafile to the player and switches to the OSD screen so I'm not sure what's going on but should be able to figure it out by examining what those other plugins do
Issue 22 added

Lastly, is there a way to dictate the location of the "Poster" separate from the preview window?

not right now and probably won't be changed in v1

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

known issue (or at least it was and you just confirmed it) Is the episode list always correct? and it is just the right most filter pane that is not?

That is correct. I just double checked to verify.

Sorting by Season/Episode:

• Episode pane: Episode is in the correct order ie. 1, 2,..10, 11, whether Pad Season/Episode is enabled or disabled. So no problems there.

• Season Pane: Season listing is displayed as 1,10,11,2,3 regardless of whether Pad Season/Episode is enabled or disabled.

-Peter

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I have not used/installed that plugin so it's not surprising that it doesn't work. I'll have to install it and see what's going on... TVE just passes the mediafile to the player and switches to the OSD screen so I'm not sure what's going on but should be able to figure it out by examining what those other plugins do
Issue 22 added

So I did some more testing and some digging and tried to read up on How EP/Plucky's plugin works. Here is the link to the plugin PlayOn Hulu/Netflix Queue Importer. EP even has a snapshot of the studio code being used to make the plugin work.

Here is a portion of EP's description of how the plugin works that I think is relevant.

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

...when you go to playback one of these dummy videos Sage will see the corresponding .playon file, call UPnPBrowser to get the actual video link, and then play it back like an online video.

I think what is happening is TVE is trying to play the file directly and is not seeing the playon file and consequently is not continuing on with the next steps. The reason i think this is playback starts immediately and displays an error messaging saying something along the lines of "... If you are seeing this make sure that playon is installed."

However, if you playback these files in the V7 recording screen or TV Browser,
playback will not start immediately. Instead i get a spinning wheel for a second while it access the UPNPBrowser and then it switches to the "Online Videos" default "Content is buffering box" then playback will start.

I get the feeling this might not be an easy fix but I hope I'm wrong. I Hope this helps.

-Peter

[Fuzzy]

Yeah, it looks like instead of TVE calling the Watch(Airing) command, it should instead just point to the "REM Start watching this airing" widget. That way any playback based mods would be able to work under it.

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Yeah, it looks like instead of TVE calling the Watch(Airing) command, it should instead just point to the "REM Start watching this airing" widget. That way any playback based mods would be able to work under it.

Maybe it was because he is doing some dynamic playlist creation?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Yeah, it looks like instead of TVE calling the Watch(Airing) command, it should instead just point to the "REM Start watching this airing" widget. That way any playback based mods would be able to work under it.

yup i was thinking the same thing... that i just need to link to the OSD in the right place... I'll look into it and adjust

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Maybe it was because he is doing some dynamic playlist creation?

That could complicate it a little bit but its probably not that hard to work around it. And the osd probably has methods to handle playlists so it might be a simple fix.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

3.) I seem to have a problem playing back imported TV content from playon. Plucky and EvilPenguin put out a plugin that will import TV from your netflix queue. It creates dummy files that refernces the playon locations.

The shows appear in the listing fine with correct metadata but i can not play them back in TVE. I am getting a playon error. I can't see what the error screen says because it flashes so quickly. However, playback from the default V7 recordings screen and from the "TV Browser" plugin work fine.

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

I have not used/installed that plugin so it's not surprising that it doesn't work. I'll have to install it and see what's going on... TVE just passes the mediafile to the player and switches to the OSD screen so I'm not sure what's going on but should be able to figure it out by examining what those other plugins do
Issue 22 added

So i just installed playon (on the server), the playon plugin (on the server and client), the playon hulu importer plugin (on the server). And I thought I didnt have any problem initiating playback in tve... then i tried to iniate playback with the play button...

Sooo...
What works:
-highlight an episode -> press options to bring up the episode options dialog -> press play
-map select on an episode to play (TVE Options -> Navigation -> Episode "Select/ok") -> press select on an episode

What does not work (currently):
-press play on an episode to bring up the play options dialog box, select play

Fix is in the next build...

[toricred]

Is there any way to set TVE as the default when you hit Recordings on the remote?

[Peter_h]

Awesome, thanks!