2011-07-08, 08:07
Let me start off by saying I'm a former SageTV user who is running MediaPortal but would rather be using XBMC! Thank you Google for blowing up Frey (Sage) and giving me an identity crisis
Anyway - I'm waiting for a bit more PVR functionality before I can consider jumping over. I know a LOT of guys over at the Sage camp who would probably do the same, as well as many others from MediaPortal, etc.
When scheduling a series, presently the options are sparse (to my knowledge). Pretty much program name, channel, regular time.
In Sage, and most other legacy PVR apps, when you schedule a recording, your basic options are things like:
[ ] Record Series [ ] One-Time Record
Series Settings:
[ ] Occurrences On a Specific Channel: ____ [ ] Occurrences on Any Channel
[ ] First Run / Premiere [ ] Re-Runs [ ] First Runs and Re-Runs
Priority: __ (to allow the back end to decide what to record if there are conflicts)
Different back ends may have more features than this for series recording, but these are generally the basics. Sage did allow a per-series padding setting as well, for things like the shows that follow American Idol's floating end time, or shows that usually follow sporting events, etc.
Is there any way this can be integrated into the GUI and added to the API's for the PVR plugin developers?
Anyway - I'm waiting for a bit more PVR functionality before I can consider jumping over. I know a LOT of guys over at the Sage camp who would probably do the same, as well as many others from MediaPortal, etc.
When scheduling a series, presently the options are sparse (to my knowledge). Pretty much program name, channel, regular time.
In Sage, and most other legacy PVR apps, when you schedule a recording, your basic options are things like:
[ ] Record Series [ ] One-Time Record
Series Settings:
[ ] Occurrences On a Specific Channel: ____ [ ] Occurrences on Any Channel
[ ] First Run / Premiere [ ] Re-Runs [ ] First Runs and Re-Runs
Priority: __ (to allow the back end to decide what to record if there are conflicts)
Different back ends may have more features than this for series recording, but these are generally the basics. Sage did allow a per-series padding setting as well, for things like the shows that follow American Idol's floating end time, or shows that usually follow sporting events, etc.
Is there any way this can be integrated into the GUI and added to the API's for the PVR plugin developers?