PiP tweaks

[johnsonx42]

Whenever I use Picture-in-Picture I find myself thinking that the large inset size isn't quite large enough, and the small size is so tiny as to be useless. I imagine others have different opinions. I assume you have some sort of scaling factors hard-coded to define the two sizes of PiP screens... perhaps you could expose those in config.xml so the users could tweak the sizes?

Similarly, I like having the PiP window in the lower-right, at least for NFL Football, but it defaults to the upper-right and doesn't remember that I moved it once I exit NextPVR.exe (I have no mouse connected so the only way to move it is to remote in to the system with VNC, which requires getting up from the couch!). Could you add a setting such as <PiPDefaultPosition>UR/LR/UL/LL</PiPDefaultPosition>?

Both of these would be requests for 3.4, not something I'd expect to be implemented in a 3.3.8 patch.

[sub]

Yep, I should be able to do that.

[Grampz]

Is there a way to use pip between live tv and a movie, or listening to music? I use media monkey and movies plug ins..

[johnsonx42]

Another PiP request, this one is a little more 'out there' (literally):

can you add an option to push the PiP window out to a second screen? so it would be PooP - Picture out of Picture! (ok, I'm not actually suggesting it be called that in the UI... just make it a fifth position option, call it External).

aside from the PiP "window" being on a different physical screen, and filling that screen rather than just being a corner window, all the other logic and handling should be exactly the same (i.e. # to swap, audio stays with the primary picture, etc.)

[hpstephens]

I would also like the external screen option but I have one step more, being able to do this when using Kodi. I have a HD smart TV and a 24" monitor connected to this computer.

[mvallevand]

I would also like the external screen option but I have one step more, being able to do this when using Kodi. I have a HD smart TV and a 24" monitor connected to this computer.

That would be Kodi request.

For fun last weekend I run four separate instances of Kodi running live TV on my laptop (1 HDMI, 1 DVI, my laptop and WiDi) and it worked great.

Martin

[hpstephens]

I would also like the external screen option but I have one step more, being able to do this when using Kodi. I have a HD smart TV and a 24" monitor connected to this computer.

I'm sorry I copied you the same message I sent Kodi. My question is being able to use the PIP feature in Nextpvr to have the PIP image on the second screen.