LCDs & VFDs

[janviet]

Hi All,

I have solved my problems with jaLCDs (it no longer craches when my HTPC is going into standby). Don't ask me what the problem was... it's just too stupid for words... well OK, if you really want to know: I was running the latest version of jaLCDs on my development system, but an old version on my HTPC...  

Anyway, with this out of the way, I would like to continue developing my LCD plugin. I've sent it to a few of you and have received some feedback, but I would like to know if you have found any serious problems or have any feature requests.

reven, do you still have problems with duration and position?

sub, I noticed last night that when I exit the jukebox plugin, the music continues to play but the audio playlist (which I use to retreive the current position) is empty. Is this a bug?

Regards,

Jan

[Huw]

Quote[/b] ]sub, I noticed last night that when I exit the jukebox plugin, the music continues to play but the audio playlist (which I use to retreive the current position) is empty. Is this a bug?

I think this is to do with the way the Jukebox works, if you don't have a playlist it creates it on the fly, so there isn't an actual physical playlist, but I could be wrong

[reven]

yeah im still having the problems with duration and position 0:06 pos and duration=0:00. dont know why.

could you add a try/catch around your code aswell, getting some null exceptions

[arttext]

Quote[/b] (janviet @ Nov. 03 2004,10:03)]Hi All,

I have solved my problems with jaLCDs (it no longer craches when my HTPC is going into standby). Don't ask me what the problem was... it's just too stupid for words... well OK, if you really want to know: I was running the latest version of jaLCDs on my development system, but an old version on my HTPC...

Anyway, with this out of the way, I would like to continue developing my LCD plugin. I've sent it to a few of you and have received some feedback, but I would like to know if you have found any serious problems or have any feature requests.

reven, do you still have problems with duration and position?

sub, I noticed last night that when I exit the jukebox plugin, the music continues to play but the audio playlist (which I use to retreive the current position) is empty. Is this a bug?

Regards,

Jan

I am still waiting for a friend of mine who cab buy these things for a wholesale price, when it's installed I will also install the (then current) plugin.

cheers, arttext

[janviet]

Hi All,

Wow... has it been that long already! Anyway, I finally got arround to spending some time on my LCD plugin again. I made a few changes and added some stuff, and just sent it off to sub.

This plugin requires jaLCDs, which makes it compatible with all displays supported by jaLCDs (or one of its output plugins). Check http://www.jalcds.de for more information.

By the way, reven, I can't figure out why you are still having problems with the position. Nor, do I understand the exceptions you're getting. Are you certain it's the LCD plugin causing the problems, and not jaLCDs?

Regards,

Jan

[reven]

yeah im pretty sue its not jaLCD since everything else is fine. might be a the mp3 decoder im using or something (think it should be using lame). there is null exceptions (i think if fields are missing in the id3 tags (which i assume have null values) these are causing a null exception so a simple try catch would hopefully solve some of my problems (not to worried about the time for mp3s, not a biggy)).
major things i want is to show file/show name, channel number, the video position and length, err and yeah gbpvr status, like recording. fm/net info would be nice too, current picture etc. just the channel stuff is more important, well i think so anyway.

[janviet]

I assume sub will put the plugin up in the next couple of days, so please give the new one a try. I think the plugin has been catching most exceptions all along, so I still don't understand what you're experiencing. Then again, I could have missed something... Anyway, I appreciate the feedback.

By the way, if you try the new version, note that I have changed the variable names, so you will have to modify your jaLCDs configuration accordingly (check the readme for details).

I'll see if I can get at the video duration and position. Currently I only report the video file name to jaLCDs. My focus has always been on audio; when I'm watching video I prefer the VFD to be off...

Regards,

Jan

[sub]

Has any one got an appropriate LCD picture for me for the plugins page? If so email it me at support@devnz.com