Development ramblings

[reven]

well I'm a little disappointed with samsung support, they person closed the question I asked, saying "links did not play in VLC". of course the mega.co.nz links don't play, you have to download the files first then play those....

[reven]

Sorted, it was a firewall issue.
Was all excited when it started pulling in channel information, but then unfortunately it hung during the load and forced TV to restart..

Probably the wrong place for posting here, should I start a new thread for this?

yeah create your own thread following the same format "Model [year]" etc.

for some reason sometimes when syncing and launch it does make the device turn on/off, but this usually goes away the next time (out of the 100 odd times ive updated, its done it about 5-10 times for me).

[stustunz]

well I'm a little disappointed with samsung support, they person closed the question I asked, saying "links did not play in VLC". of course the mega.co.nz links don't play, you have to download the files first then play those....

Bugger
How the hell does Samsung actually make products they seem like a real bunch of muppets .

[reven]

another update.

I've added the following
- support for ?seek in playback, so problematic recordings should work a lot better now (still some issues to iron out but its a lot better, I can watch/skip the 2 samples I have without issue now).
- added seek steps similar to mediaportal to player. So pushing right, shows +15 seconds, right, +30 seconds, right, +45 seconds, right +1 min, right +2 mins etc. So its a staged step, and if you stop pushing left/right for 2 seconds it jumps the number shown, or you can push ok to do an immediate jump to the number shown. This makes jumping through commercials a lot quicker IMO.
- added some JSON support api calls, to speed up loading of recordings.

Thats mostly the current changes, the seek stuff took a long time but well worth it.

Hopefully get to comskip support later this week. As soon as a new version of nextpvr is made public I'll start releasing more builds.

[reven]

oh and the response from samsung was "you need to reencode the files"

[reven]

comskip working with auto skip

[reven]

after sub releases 3.0 this weekend, I'll upload a new build for the nextpvr for samsung.

its still in beta stages, but has had a lot of work done to it (i still need to do some work on scheduling/updating recordings though).

[reven]

sorry guys, was hoping to get some development in last weekend, but I spent the whole weekend at my folks house setting up in wall speakers, building shelves under the stairs, moving furniture, setting up pandora for music playback and control via tablets

hoping to get some time this week and get another release out, my goals are still

- turn off sequential skip via option
- add aspect ratio support
- turn off comskip auto skipping (already done)

[reven]

busy at the moment abstracting out the samsung specific code and making it client based, it will detect the client and load the client specific code dynamically. this allows it to run in a standard webbrowser and you can use the left/down/right/up/enter/escape keys to navigate around, really helpful for testing (the samsung emulator is pretty terrible at debuging and chrome is a lot easier). I'm planning on trying to get this running on a google tv device in the not to distant future, when i decide which one to actually buy.

I'm also adding in animations when you transition between plugins/main menu, and a few other places (like when you delete an item, a message box is shown etc).

[reven]

had a few issues getting the app running on a tv again after I took out all the specific samsung stuff and made it load certain files based on the client type. I did this so it now works in the webbrowser and hopefully a google tv (once I get a hold of one of those, or maybe just an cheapo android stick).

this also will speed up development since I wont have to use the samsung emulator all the time and can just use google chrome (the emulator is very terrible, sometimes takes about 10 attempts before it even starts, and you have to restart it after every code change...).

animations appear to be very quick on a 2013 device, but need fixing so Ill focus on that and fine tuning the abstraction between clients now. then I'll work on the mentioned bugs in the change log topic.

animations so far are things like main menu slides out to left and plugin (recordings, settings etc) slides in from the right (0.5s animations, nothing slow). message boxes will animate when shown and hidden. ideally I would like to animate the main menu selected item when it changes as well as in the lists, but that might be a little tricky with pure css animations (I dont want to go down the route of js animations as this should be left in the "theme").

also with it now running in the browser, people could retheme it if they wanted a lot easier.