Enhanced Web Admin

[ejeffers]

In the next realease, can a button be added benath the 'Play Program' button that will download the video file, called 'Download Program', because often times, streaming just isnt practical for use over the internet. Just a request.
- E. Jeffers

[psycik]

Has anyone figured out how to pass the video file to an external transcoder ( vlc, orb, microsoft encoder) from the web admin so it can be streamed at a lower bitrate suitable for internet streaming??

[normanr]

nope, we haven't even tried. If you want to attempt to figure it out, and send us a patch we'll incorporate it!

[normanr]

Hey guys, sorry that I've been unresponsive. It's been a conbintaion of very busy, and I haven't been getting email notification of update in this thread for some odd reason.

I've going to write a PPC web admin application, Do you object if I use your graphics, to present a common - look - and feel between the websites?

They're not my graphics, they're GB-PVR's. You have to check with sub what the licencing restrictions are on the web-siote graphics. I'd guess that it might be okay. PPC? (power-pc?). What are you going to write it in? Does gb-pvr web-admin work under Mono?

In the upcomming release (coming soon....honest ) when you are in Manage Recordings or Tv Guide and select the titile of the show that is already recorded your button options are now Delete Recording and Close - Take No Action.

That's not to say that it does anything different It still calls (and can only call) scheduleHelper.CancelScheduledRecording, which is the only API exposed to 'cancel/delete' a recording.

And so, with no further ado:

[UncleJohnsBand]

Has anyone figured out how to pass the video file to an external transcoder ( vlc, orb, microsoft encoder) from the web admin so it can be streamed at a lower bitrate suitable for internet streaming??

For alternative streaming of recordings I think KingArgyle had the best recomendation.....although this is not integrated into the Web Admin it does prrovide you with alternatives for streaming that are beyond the current capabilities of the GBPVR Web Admin.

Not exactly integrated, but possibly could be. There is a free Streaming Media server called Unreal Media Server.

http://www.umediaserver.net/

[normanr]

and now that UncleJohnsBand has broken my two consecutive posts:

build 29 is out:

- Added several new themes. (UncleJohnsBand and NormanR)
- Added ability for ZapTool users to view show credits. (UncleJohnsBand)
- Added ability to play entire Album in Music Library via single-click. (UncleJohnsBand)
- Added ability to view Web Admin Change Log from Statistics tab. (UncleJohnsBand)
- Fixed sorting on Manage page, if channel information was missing. (NormanR)
- Added download links to the manage recordings page and the library. (NormanR)
- The web admin now has a Change Log under statistics (hover over an item to find out who contributed). (UncleJohnsBand and NormanR)

party time!

[UncleJohnsBand]

In the next realease, can a button be added benath the 'Play Program' button that will download the video file, called 'Download Program', because often times, streaming just isnt practical for use over the internet. Just a request.
- E. Jeffers

Although this could be done I can't imagine why you would want to download the file over the internet rather than stream it. You are limited in your download speed by whatever upload speed is available on the GBPVR server....in most cases this is anywhere from 128K to 384k. I would hate to download a 2GB (1hour show in high quality) file with that type of throughput.

If you are interested in downloading files from the server I would recomend using FTP....it is the appropriate protocol for downloading files rather than HTTP based transfers. There is an excellent FTP server for Windows that is free for Personal use. I have used it for a few years...and can recommend it.

Cerberus FTP Server

[ejeffers]

Well my Internet provider just bumbed our speeds, and I get 9mbps download, and 1mbps upload, so it would upload at ~124 KBps. That FTP server looks pretty good though, thanks.

[j3flight]

Anyone else having problems getting this installed?
I've done this 1000 times before, but this time, when I copy over the web folder and restart the service, GBPVR goes through its "setup routine" again.

When I try to access the web interface, I get a horrific white page with all kinda layout problems. Obviously a style sheet or themeing issue.

Something missing?

[UncleJohnsBand]

Anyone else having problems getting this installed?
I've done this 1000 times before, but this time, when I copy over the web folder and restart the service, GBPVR goes through its "setup routine" again.

When I try to access the web interface, I get a horrific white page with all kinda layout problems. Obviously a style sheet or themeing issue.

Something missing?

Yep....it is the dreaded CSS bug....normanr will have to address when he reads his e-mail....the dreaded white is just the site without a theme.....not sure why this isn't working it worked fine when we were testing.