Mangled UI events with overlapping TV Guide & "Please Wait" box never vanishing.

[johnsonx42]

@sub - he is right, the EPG Minutes settings above 240 minutes do not display correctly. If you've no time for a fix right now, I'd suggest limiting the setting to 240 minutes. Or is this a skinning issue where some other skin could actually display a 6 hour guide correctly? seems like it'd need to use a smaller font for a 6 hour guide to be of any use...

[johnsonx42]

also, @GuruSR -

honestly, the ATSC EPG data sucks. I doubt NextPVR would support it at all if 90% of the same code wasn't needed to support the fairly good DVB EPG data which is used in most of the rest of the world.

[sub]

@sub - he is right, the EPG Minutes settings above 240 minutes do not display correctly. If you've no time for a fix right now, I'd suggest limiting the setting to 240 minutes. Or is this a skinning issue where some other skin could actually display a 6 hour guide correctly? seems like it'd need to use a smaller font for a 6 hour guide to be of any use...

It's a skinning issue.

Which can fixed by adding the following in guide.xml:
<Text text="@240minutes" location="@240minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
<Text text="@270minutes" location="@270minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
<Text text="@300minutes" location="@300minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
<Text text="@330minutes" location="@330minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
<Text text="@360minutes" location="@360minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>


It does manage to fit on a widescreen display, but the text is hard up against the adjacent text. A 4:3 display would overlap.

I'll drop the maximum down a bit for the next release, and include the missing skinning entries.

[GuruSR]

That said.... you could use the Windows Scheduler to run "NextPVR.exe -UpdateEPGOnly" at whatever times you want.

That does sound good, though will this work if it's already open or is it required to not be open to do this? Or will it work with it open but affect the current one showing anything?

On a side note, I'm noticing (while having to be annoyed with using a mouse until the remote arrives next week), that clicking on the progress bar to pick a location to play from, that I get about a second of audio before I see any picture change. Is this an EVR issue?

GuruSR.

[sub]

That does sound good, though will this work if it's already open or is it required to not be open to do this? Or will it work with it open but affect the current one showing anything?

It'll open a new instance in the background that does it's thing.

On a side note, I'm noticing (while having to be annoyed with using a mouse until the remote arrives next week), that clicking on the progress bar to pick a location to play from, that I get about a second of audio before I see any picture change. Is this an EVR issue?

It depends on how the broadcaster has encoded your streams. It's fairly normal to get half a second or so of audio before you get video.

[GuruSR]

also, @GuruSR -

honestly, the ATSC EPG data sucks. I doubt NextPVR would support it at all if 90% of the same code wasn't needed to support the fairly good DVB EPG data which is used in most of the rest of the world.

Well, for me and what I've been recording, it hasn't been an issue since DTV started for the US, since most of my channels are US channels with only a handful being Canadian, I had to switch back when the US did otherwise I lost most of my shows. My only Canadian channels are 5.1, 9.1, 11.1, (Omni channels I don't care about) and 57.1. They basically make up a handful in the 30+ channels I get. The US EPGs aren't nearly as bad as the Canadian ones (11.1 almost never has anything in it, which is fine, it's a SNOOZE channel since it was bought out), 9.1 is okay as is 5.1 (almost always has a full day of listings whereas others don't). Most US stations are crappy too with respect to EPG (11 hour distance for the lot of them, except 4.1 which is usually decent). I've been living with this EPG, other than just getting the show information, I've not set the guide to anything but "record at this time slot weekly". Just wish I could select the view for Recordings to "Ready", as I can't see a choice in the dropdown for picking which entry, would mean I can just pick from the recordings when I run it and exit when I'm done.

That above EPG update will be indeed handy, I can have it do it around noon hour (when I'm not recording anything) and it should be fine.

GuruSR.

[GuruSR]

It's a skinning issue.

It does manage to fit on a widescreen display, but the text is hard up against the adjacent text. A 4:3 display would overlap.

I'll drop the maximum down a bit for the next release, and include the missing skinning entries.

Okay, any idea on the max you're planning on locking it to is going to be?

GuruSR.

[sub]

I made the maximum 300 in 3.6.x. If you're on a 4:3 monitor or tv though, you may need to drop it down a little further. Not many people using 4:3 these days, so not worth setting the limits based on this small subset of users.

[mvallevand]

Just wish I could select the view for Recordings to "Ready", as I can't see a choice in the dropdown for picking which entry, would mean I can just pick from the recordings when I run it and exit when I'm done.GuruSR.

Ready is what I have selected for my default.

Martin

[GuruSR]

I made the maximum 300 in 3.6.x. If you're on a 4:3 monitor or tv though, you may need to drop it down a little further. Not many people using 4:3 these days, so not worth setting the limits based on this small subset of users.

Oh, no worries about the 4:3 resolution, I just have it because I do too much work that requires a 4:3 screen, was more concerned about the TV not having that extra scale at the top. I'll lower it to 300 to see how it looks.

Ready is what I have selected for my default.

Where? On the machine with the tuner (HTPC) and this one as well, I'm not seeing anywhere to select what Recording entry to look at, all I have is the ability to select where the GUI starts in (Misc->Startup-Default Activity). There's nowhere else for changing what Recording entry I see. General->UI Mode is set to PVR.

Oh, noticed: Paused the playback of a recording yesterday, moved the mouse to bring up the info at the bottom and the image changed to the next frame. Umm, that shouldn't have happened! Looks like the same issue with the GUI not refreshing the last scene? (As in the "Please Wait" not going away until you click.) This is all EVR, any suggestions on an alternative (no Dx9 on the HTPC, shouldn't require it), what other EVR would be a recommended over the recommended one that it was set to, that could fix this issue?

GuruSR.