live tv in the background

[reven]

i dont know if this has already been discussed, but i was just looking over mediaportal screenshots and saw a nice one of live tv (or any video i presume) that replaced the background image in the menus. and was thinking this could be done in gbpvr, not a small window (well, eventually hopefully aswell) but just if say you press menu on the remote when watching live tv or a recording or something, it would bring up the menus and just instead of drawing the background image it would just draw the foreground images and the playing video will be under it. and if you hit stop, that kills the video and brings you back to the menu.

only one thing im not sure about, do plugins draw the background image themselves or does gbpvr do this.  if its the former plugins would have to be rewritten (small amount of code thou).

well thats my wish for the day. what do you guys think?

[Bigted]

I look forward to being able to do this.

At the very least I would like to be able to bring up the
full EPG over the currently running tv channel and be able to
do anything that you can currently do with the full EPG.

Perhaps assigning one of the remaining coloured remote buttons to
this functionality?

[bryan]

Sub,

I'm also in favor of this. It would let me run my Home Automation plugin without exiting a recorded show or liveTV.

Bryan

[blader_se]

I'd also like to pause the TV, go to the Weather plugin, TVguide (or something), and then go back and continue watching the TV where I left off.