RSS Reader

[tmrt]

2. I wonder if it would be an idea to have some sort of caching of the feeds after they load as I found it a bit frustrating to wait for them to load again when I went back to one I had already visited before?

I have checked it in my setup and it caches for me. The cache does not survive restart of NextPVR though.

Another questions......does @details in the ListItems do anything or is it just left over for you getting up & running?

Code:

        <Text text="@details" location="2,54" size="96,50" font="NormalText" outlineWidth="1" borderColor="Black" align="Right" valign="Center"/>

Currently it is not really used. I just set it to an empty string and I will probably remove it in the next version.

[tmrt]

It plays for me using the podcast feature of WebRadio 3 (I've given up doing minor updates to WR here due to lack of interest). Yes you do need to buffer before playing on the MVP/NMT. Also for the PC you might need to strip id3v2 tags which are in some streams.

Martin

I do not do any caching, but I had no problems on PC. I plan to implement caching in the next version.

I call NUtil.....PlayMusicFile(..) and ShowMessage from the WebClient callback, which is on a separate thread. Could this be a problem?

P.S.

How do you handle the left over temporary media files?

[mvallevand]

Two threads is pretty much how WebRadio does it, but PlayMusicFile() isn't called until there is sufficient data to work well. on the the NMT/MVP I think I use 128k.

I simply followed the GBPVR Net Radio model of using the same temporary filename (1-5) saved in the Recording folder in a circular manner. They aren't deleted they get reused. I allowed 5 for PC+4 clients simultaneously.

Martin

[tmrt]

One more question. How to change an existing string to another one on an existing UiControl?

[Jaggy]

I have checked it in my setup and it caches for me. The cache does not survive restart of NextPVR though.

Pass.... I don't know what was happening the other day but it's seems to be caching fine now.

Apart from that podcast problem (& no zoom) it has been working flawlessly for me & it actually a lot better in a number of areas than the pvrx2 version. The only other thing I have notice is when a story is longer than a page you can't read the last of it as it just gets cut off.....if I remember right in the old version (which I haven't used in a while because of the time taken for it to update) entering on the first screen bought up the second page.

[Jaggy]

Here is a new enhanced version to try.

I think you might have attached the wrong file as it unzips into a source directory with a pile of sub directories under it?

[tmrt]

I think you might have attached the wrong file as it unzips into a source directory with a pile of sub directories under it?

Here I go again:

Here is a new enhanced version to try.

Fixes:

-Podcasts now play (see below) on MVP and hopefully on NMT.
-Some not so obvious bugs fixed.

Enhancements:

-Zoom for image feeds
-Scrolling text for longer feeds
-Possibility to download a static image of any web page

Instructions:

Press Enter for full screen image. PgUp, PgDown for zooming.


Problems not resolved yet (some input from sub might be neded):

-Progress monitor dialog box does not work with MVP. It seems that screen updates are missing. Pressing any key sometimes updates the display.

-On MVP only the first podcast plays immediately. After that MVP might be unresponsive for a minute, before one can choose another one.

[Jaggy]

Here I go again:
Enhancements:
-Zoom for image feeds
Instructions:
Press Enter for full screen image. PgUp, PgDown for zooming.

I'm having problems with this enhancement, when I enter on an image it goes full screen but PgUp & PgDwn don't do anything & when I try to back out by pressing Esc it throws the Windows error quoted below, there isn't anything in the logs apart from a minor skin error that I will PM you about shortly.

just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NUtility.Base.SimplePopup.GetRenderList()
at RSSReader.FeedPopup.GetRenderList() in D:\users\tmertelj\programs\NPVR\RSS-Reader\Source\FeedPopup.cs:line 69
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.ActivatePopup(IScreenPlugin popup)
at RSSReader.ZoomView.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e) in D:\users\tmertelj\programs\NPVR\RSS-Reader\Source\ZoomView.cs:line 75
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.OnKeyDown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

[tmrt]

I'm having problems with this enhancement, when I enter on an image it goes full screen but PgUp & PgDwn don't do anything & when I try to back out by pressing Esc it throws the Windows error quoted below, there isn't anything in the logs apart from a minor skin error that I will PM you about shortly.

At the moment I do not understand what is going on. I will look at it.

In my case it works on Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bit) with the skin which I attach below.

Does it work with the default skin? Which input locale do you use and which version of windows?

[Jaggy]

Sorry I should have said I am using the version off the wiki & does it with both the included BRVE+ & default skin, this PC is running XP sp2 & it was the Dilbert daily strip I was testing with.