2013-11-26, 18:22
Please post your favorite feature requests for the WMC backend here.
(2013-11-26, 19:39)st0rmcat Wrote: I may be confusing what the PVR client is responsible for versus the back-end, but here goes:
1. In the situation where WMC steals the tuner from a live TV viewing, can the WMC backend start up the channel on a different tuner and keep the live viewing going? Or auto-switch to the live recording?
2. I want to be able to hit pause during live TV, go watch a youtube video or maybe a movie, and then go back to live TV and continue where I left off. Could this be handled by the backend keeping the channel tuned and recording until the PVR client re-attaches to it?
(2013-11-26, 19:25)spaceboy Wrote: an option to transcode on the fly both live tv and recorded tv ts streams to a format with lower resolution for lower powered devices. ideally a per client setting, but i'd happily take a server setting too. i know dvblink uses ffmpeg to achieve this and stream start up delay isn't significantly impacted
this would complete wmc pvr for me. thanks
(2013-11-26, 21:21)krustyreturns Wrote: 1)
If you are watching a live tv stream but the service needs to start a scheduled recording, the service should choose a different tuner if one is available. The only exception to this is if you are watching the same channel that the scheduled recording is about to start on - then (annoyingly) wmc will choose to take the tuner you are watching. This is what you are talking about right?
For this case, I like the auto-switch to the recording idea, let me think about it.
2) You can pause the live-tv stream for as long as you want and then go back to it, but obviously if you watch something else in xbmc the live-tv stream is stopped - I guess that is what you are talking about. Its an interesting idea. The downside is disk space, the remux could be paused, but the wtv file that is storing the tuner output would keep going. There could maybe be a tuner pref to stop the tuner after some settable amount of time if it not resumed.
It would weird to go back to a 'live-tv' stream and really be watching from a couple of hours ago - but I suppose then you could hit the stop button an restart it. So you kind of want the 'pause' button to put the live-tv stream into a kind of hibernation. That's an interesting idea too.
(2013-11-27, 00:08)bungee91 Wrote: The option to disable the server status message that states the server is running, awaiting connections.. IDK, it annoys me.. LOL
(2013-11-27, 06:06)spinnaker Wrote:(2013-11-27, 00:08)bungee91 Wrote: The option to disable the server status message that states the server is running, awaiting connections.. IDK, it annoys me.. LOL
Do you mean the popup balloon on the task bar?
Krusty,
I can take a look, I can add it along with the episode count. Anyone know the exact message it displays? I can try it myself but I am lazy.
(2013-11-27, 07:46)krustyreturns Wrote:(2013-11-27, 06:06)spinnaker Wrote:(2013-11-27, 00:08)bungee91 Wrote: The option to disable the server status message that states the server is running, awaiting connections.. IDK, it annoys me.. LOL
Do you mean the popup balloon on the task bar?
Krusty,
I can take a look, I can add it along with the episode count. Anyone know the exact message it displays? I can try it myself but I am lazy.
Look at 'InitializeTrayIcon()' in the code of mainwindow.xaml.cs. LOL, talk about a nitpick... I think you should change it to say Hello Bungee91!
(2013-11-28, 20:26)bandook Wrote: OK, I've got a feature request that I would pay for! When you are watching a program and say you are 20 minutes into it, and you decide you want to record it, wmc will only record from the current time stamp forward. On my old time warner DVR, it would save the recording from the beginning of the show (if you were watching it from the beginning). I guess it would go back in the live TV buffer and cut it from the beginning of the show on that channel. Actually it did even more. If you were flipping back and forth between two shows via its 2 tuners, it would still do what I said above when you pressed record. You could even flip back and forth and rewind. It kept a buffer for each tuner I guess. Wmc flushes the buffer every time you change a channel. This was really nice feature that I miss.
You can watch a 2 hr program, be 1 hour into it. Knowing that wmc will only start recording from the point you tell it to, you would think you could rewind to beginning and then press record and it would create the file from that point. Sadly it doesn't. It will still only record from the point of live TV. This makes no sense.
So do you think this is an impossibility to implement with what wmc offers you as a programmer, or is this fixable with your server?
Thank you! My PayPal is standing by if you can make this happen
(2013-11-28, 20:26)bandook Wrote: OK, I've got a feature request that I would pay for! When you are watching a program and say you are 20 minutes into it, and you decide you want to record it, wmc will only record from the current time stamp forward. On my old time warner DVR, it would save the recording from the beginning of the show (if you were watching it from the beginning). I guess it would go back in the live TV buffer and cut it from the beginning of the show on that channel. Actually it did even more. If you were flipping back and forth between two shows via its 2 tuners, it would still do what I said above when you pressed record. You could even flip back and forth and rewind. It kept a buffer for each tuner I guess. Wmc flushes the buffer every time you change a channel. This was really nice feature that I miss.
You can watch a 2 hr program, be 1 hour into it. Knowing that wmc will only start recording from the point you tell it to, you would think you could rewind to beginning and then press record and it would create the file from that point. Sadly it doesn't. It will still only record from the point of live TV. This makes no sense.
So do you think this is an impossibility to implement with what wmc offers you as a programmer, or is this fixable with your server?
Thank you! My PayPal is standing by if you can make this happen