2005-10-08, 09:20 PM
It would be good to able to selectively hide certain elements of the UI when running on the MVP, as opposed to when running on the PC. I'm thinking something similar to how it's possible to select which buttons show on the main screen.
Over the last 1.5 years since I discovered GBPVR, I keep going back and forth between the GBPVR and the native MediaServer software for the MVP. It's the features that make me run the GBPVR on the MVP. Such as currently, because of the awesome comskip driven auto-skipping. But historically, something bad happens and I just have to return to MediaServer with it's safer funcationality.
For instance, because of the way the MVP works with keyclicks on the remote needing to do a roundtrip to the server, there can sometimes be a substantial lag between when you push the button and when something happens. Sometimes nothing seems to be happening and you're not sure if the keystroke even made it, so perhaps you click again. Then you think maybe it's stuck and you try to recover with other keys. But all of a sudden, the MVP catches up and a backlog of keystrokes comes through all at once. And because the DELETE button is just below the PLAY button on the program guide, you end up erasing the very show you had intended to be watching!:mad: That time I went back to MediaServer MVP, and only used GBPVR for scheduling for quite a while.
As you can guess, the first thing I would like to disable for MVP playback is the DELETE functionality. I only want to be able to delete from the PC.
Another dimension is when the whole family uses the device. The kids might accidentally delete someone else's recordings. Or even worse, maliciously delete each other's! It's a bad scene when that happens - back to MediaServer MVP we go.
Over the last 1.5 years since I discovered GBPVR, I keep going back and forth between the GBPVR and the native MediaServer software for the MVP. It's the features that make me run the GBPVR on the MVP. Such as currently, because of the awesome comskip driven auto-skipping. But historically, something bad happens and I just have to return to MediaServer with it's safer funcationality.
For instance, because of the way the MVP works with keyclicks on the remote needing to do a roundtrip to the server, there can sometimes be a substantial lag between when you push the button and when something happens. Sometimes nothing seems to be happening and you're not sure if the keystroke even made it, so perhaps you click again. Then you think maybe it's stuck and you try to recover with other keys. But all of a sudden, the MVP catches up and a backlog of keystrokes comes through all at once. And because the DELETE button is just below the PLAY button on the program guide, you end up erasing the very show you had intended to be watching!:mad: That time I went back to MediaServer MVP, and only used GBPVR for scheduling for quite a while.
As you can guess, the first thing I would like to disable for MVP playback is the DELETE functionality. I only want to be able to delete from the PC.
Another dimension is when the whole family uses the device. The kids might accidentally delete someone else's recordings. Or even worse, maliciously delete each other's! It's a bad scene when that happens - back to MediaServer MVP we go.