I checked the wiki and I have been using the web scheduler for some time now, but I've never been able to view recorded shows remotely. When I click the play button, it asks me if I want to open a .M3U file and when I say yes, it tries to connect from within Windows Media Player, but then it will fail to connect... do I need to open specific ports for the Windows Media Player? I'm using a cable modem and Linksys router... any tips from someone that has this working correctly would be greatly appreciated!
After some initial tests, I was able to get a very simple iTunes controller plugin working with GBPVR. It's very rudimentary, but it's given me all the information I need to start building a full-fledged plugin. I'm posting here for a couple of reasons:
1. There already seem to be several Music-related plugins. None of them really suit my needs - the main reason being that I chose iTunes as my "music management app" a while ago. iTunes is always running on my wife's PC with the Sharing option turned on, so I can access our music collection from any of the other PC's in the house. I know I could do similar things with network shares, but this is such a nice, slick, simple way to do it. All the management of the music takes place at one PC and I can access it pretty much anywhere. Having said all of that, am I missing something in the existing music plugins that would allow me to access my iTunes library easily?
2. I'm wondering about the best way to go about developing the plugin. A couple of questions pop to mind:
- Should it be a standalone plugin or should I attempt to build this so it can be integrated with one of the existing music plugins so it's not "YAMP" (Yet Another Music Plugin).
- Are there others interested in helping me build this? I'm considering hosting this on SourceForge to get some help. Specifically, in the GUI area. I had been hoping to use the widget library to get up and limping, but I'm not sure its in a usable state yet? I'm more interested in getting the integration with iTunes down than GUI development anyway, so help in that area had been great.
3. iTunes has a lot of features. What ones are people most interested in? Release 1 will provide the ability to play music from the various sources, including shared music libraries, but there are other features there that it would be really interesting to try and expose, like:
- Video (or is it worth it?)
- The Music Store! This one has a lot of interest to me. It'd be nice to be able to sit on my couch and order music through my TV. I'm into lazy, instant gratification.
- Podcast subscriptions.
Cheers,
Andrew
PS: I'm hoping to have a preview release ready at some point over the Christmas holidays. Expect it to be fugly but functional.
I came to GBPVR after giving MythTV a try. One thing that Myth had that I really liked was a separate executable that allowed you to display messages in the TV stream as it was displaying. It was fairly powerful as I could create daemons that would pop up messages as I was watching TV. For example, I had a simple calendar running, and would get message popups reminding me that I'm supposed to be heading to a meeting, etc. As another example, someone in the developer thread is writing a plugin for sports scores and would like to popup score updates on the LiveTV stream as its going.
Some broadcasts have as a title the series name followed by a ':' and then an episode name. Often the Subtitle is empty.
It would be possible to write a simple postepgupdate program that scans the programme list for programs with a title that matches '%:%' and then move the episode part to the subtitle.
By doing so it should be possible to use a recurring recording setting to record these series. One can do the same with some of the plugins but remember I only use webadmin to manage my recordings.
Before I actually start to write the code I have two questions:
1) I can imagine you can do the same with a small xsl script rewriting the xmltv.xml executed by saxon. Anyone out there that could help me how to write the rewrite rule that rewrites
<title>Cinema3:Tomb Raiders</title>
<sub-title>The first episode</sub-title>
into
<title>Cinema3</title>
<sub-title>Tomb Raiders:The first episode</sub-title>
2) When are the recording rules checked? At regular intervals? Triggered by an update? How to ensure the new name will be found by the recurring recording rule?
I am using "XWrite" under the skin "Flat Blue High Visibility". To make my wife working with it I tried to translate it in Italian, but there is no way to localize it (a part a few things).
There is also same parts that couldn't be seen because of the character size too big.
Anybody know how to do it?
sub would you consider giving api access to the form gbpvr uses? i know this wouldnt work for the mvp, xcard, 350. but for pc users this would allow a panel to be made that instead forces the entire screen to be repainted (which is slow) just to create a custom control and repaint that part of the screen. im just trying to think of ways to improve the new ticker refresh rate, at the moment its really ugly and requires a lot of cpu power.
of course this would be a panel plugin which would always return false from needs rendering, but it would also require that a deactivate method be called for the panel before anything else happens (so the control can be set to visible=false).
yeah i know this seems a silly thing to do but, err it should work, i did some animations on a project at uni and got much better results just repainting one control than the entire screen.
I'm now using a cheap 1.3ghz computer, but I'm not happy with it, I cant get it to sleep the power supply for a total computer sleep (noise free in sleep) I only want to buy a board and cpu (already have a case) I'd like it to handle DDR ram and to be able to do a full sleep, or @ least what am I looking for in a pc to be able to full sleep??
- Stopped the recording service for the old version of GBPVR
- Uninstalled the app via the Add/Remove Programs menu
- Renamed the directory containing the leftover files to gbpvr_old
- Installed version 95.16
The config app freezes (hogging all available CPU cycles) when I make changes and hit "OK". This is a problem, because the "default" capture source provided doesn't work for my system.
Anyone else seen this? Anything I can do to provide more debug info?
