2008-06-27, 12:02 AM
Just a couple of small things that I think could improve things for a lot of users, and to be honest myself!
1) When navigating a video folder with many videos in it there is no easy way to jump to the first letter of a video name. It would be nice if I could press a letter on my keyboard or a button on the remote to jump from A to B to C etc.
2) When watching episodes of TV shows it would be nice if I could select the episode to start playing from then after that episode finished the next one started playing automatically (sort of a playlist type setup).Adding further to this would be an option to remember the last file played from a folder so next time I navigated to that folder the selected file is the last one played not the first one in the list. This would be so useful as I quite often forget what episode number I last watched.
3) Is there still no way to move forward through the TV Guide using a mouse only? If not this would be a useful function.
4) I use the encoding to XVID option to save space on my hdd which is useful but I would like to see a slight change to this on the config tab so that after encoding the file can be moved to another location and then the database updated to reflect this. The reason being I have a 250gb HDD in my GBPVR machine but I also run an 'UnRaid' RAID data server hosting 3tb of storage and I would like to move the encoded recordings to a folder on that machine. There are two reasons for this, first of all space but also the machine runs RAID so has less chance of data loss and losing my recordings. Maybe on the directories tab of the config an option for a directory for encoded recordings. I would imagine quite a few people run separate data storage towers or NAS devices.
Any way food for thought.
1) When navigating a video folder with many videos in it there is no easy way to jump to the first letter of a video name. It would be nice if I could press a letter on my keyboard or a button on the remote to jump from A to B to C etc.
2) When watching episodes of TV shows it would be nice if I could select the episode to start playing from then after that episode finished the next one started playing automatically (sort of a playlist type setup).Adding further to this would be an option to remember the last file played from a folder so next time I navigated to that folder the selected file is the last one played not the first one in the list. This would be so useful as I quite often forget what episode number I last watched.
3) Is there still no way to move forward through the TV Guide using a mouse only? If not this would be a useful function.
4) I use the encoding to XVID option to save space on my hdd which is useful but I would like to see a slight change to this on the config tab so that after encoding the file can be moved to another location and then the database updated to reflect this. The reason being I have a 250gb HDD in my GBPVR machine but I also run an 'UnRaid' RAID data server hosting 3tb of storage and I would like to move the encoded recordings to a folder on that machine. There are two reasons for this, first of all space but also the machine runs RAID so has less chance of data loss and losing my recordings. Maybe on the directories tab of the config an option for a directory for encoded recordings. I would imagine quite a few people run separate data storage towers or NAS devices.
Any way food for thought.
