2008-01-04, 09:22 PM
1. Exit menu replacements
How about the facility to change the "Exit" option on the main menu for a choice from "Standby" or "Hibernate" or "Shutdown" (perhaps configured in config.xml). It's possible to exit GBPVR from the system menu should the need arise.
2. Free space remaining indicator
I'd be interested to see this with "Recordings" space and "Other Used Space" in a different colour. This would give a 3 segment pie-chart showing space taken up by recordings, other stuff (OS / music, etc) and free space.
3. Audio Mixer
I've recently hit a shortage of inputs on my home theater amplifier and got thinking that instead of mechanical Phono switch boxes, why not use the Line-Inputs of the soundcard to switch audio.
If GBPVR could have an option to select between sources on the soundcard, it would give me a software phono switch. My soundcard has 1x 3.5mm line-in and 3x CD-ROM style line-ins, so I would need an option to configure and name them in an XML somewhere (i.e. Line-In = "VCR", CD-ROM = "Sky", AUX = "Portable Music Player" etc).
4. Channel updater / sorter from System menu
I'm fairly sure sub said he's working on this, but a facility to add new channels and organise favourites from the system menu would be nice.
5. Background music
Maybe this already exists, but what about background music in the menus like Sky have? Perhaps a folder /bgmusic that, if there is music in it plays the music, otherwise not.
6. VNC Friendly mode
I don't know if this is even possible, but if there is an API allowing GBPVR to detect VNC is currently serving a client that GBPVR will stop doing the nice swish animations and instead only show the final result from keystrokes. VNC gets confused by the animations and doesn't update the screen correctly (although to be fair, VNC gets confused very easily).
The idea is as an alternative to EnhancedWebAdmin; that there be an idiot-proof "remote control" interface for GBPVR.
Well, that should open some debate. I wouldn't class any of these things as system critical, just nice additional options to have.
How about the facility to change the "Exit" option on the main menu for a choice from "Standby" or "Hibernate" or "Shutdown" (perhaps configured in config.xml). It's possible to exit GBPVR from the system menu should the need arise.
2. Free space remaining indicator
I'd be interested to see this with "Recordings" space and "Other Used Space" in a different colour. This would give a 3 segment pie-chart showing space taken up by recordings, other stuff (OS / music, etc) and free space.
3. Audio Mixer
I've recently hit a shortage of inputs on my home theater amplifier and got thinking that instead of mechanical Phono switch boxes, why not use the Line-Inputs of the soundcard to switch audio.
If GBPVR could have an option to select between sources on the soundcard, it would give me a software phono switch. My soundcard has 1x 3.5mm line-in and 3x CD-ROM style line-ins, so I would need an option to configure and name them in an XML somewhere (i.e. Line-In = "VCR", CD-ROM = "Sky", AUX = "Portable Music Player" etc).
4. Channel updater / sorter from System menu
I'm fairly sure sub said he's working on this, but a facility to add new channels and organise favourites from the system menu would be nice.
5. Background music
Maybe this already exists, but what about background music in the menus like Sky have? Perhaps a folder /bgmusic that, if there is music in it plays the music, otherwise not.
6. VNC Friendly mode
I don't know if this is even possible, but if there is an API allowing GBPVR to detect VNC is currently serving a client that GBPVR will stop doing the nice swish animations and instead only show the final result from keystrokes. VNC gets confused by the animations and doesn't update the screen correctly (although to be fair, VNC gets confused very easily).
The idea is as an alternative to EnhancedWebAdmin; that there be an idiot-proof "remote control" interface for GBPVR.
Well, that should open some debate. I wouldn't class any of these things as system critical, just nice additional options to have.