2013-02-12, 13:13
Only watch recorded tv for me
(2013-02-12, 08:08)dbezerra Wrote: [///]
the two main ones for me are:
1. Live TV
2. Ability to schedule a recording (Series as a P1, individual as P2)
Nice to have:
1. Ability to define how many minutes I want to start to record before the guide data (and how many minutes after the scheduled time I want to record as well) - useful for sports, for example
2. ability to delete series
3. search the guide, schedule recordings from the search result
(2013-02-14, 14:15)thewarm Wrote: I just gave it a try. It works, but it opens a small DOS command window first... Is there any way to hide that? (maybe an @echo off line?)
BTW, launching the WMC TV Guide is great! I can watch Live TV, change channels with the keyboard, and then quit WMC and be back in XBMC (which does continue to run in the background... not a problem for my systems, but may be too much for less powerful setups)
Is there a thread for this, or any more info please?
Thanks for this!
(2013-02-14, 20:05)thewarm Wrote: Is advanced launcher the only way to run these from inside XBMC?
Running the links works perfectly BTW!
(2013-02-14, 17:19)krustyreturns Wrote:(2013-02-14, 14:15)thewarm Wrote: I just gave it a try. It works, but it opens a small DOS command window first... Is there any way to hide that? (maybe an @echo off line?)
BTW, launching the WMC TV Guide is great! I can watch Live TV, change channels with the keyboard, and then quit WMC and be back in XBMC (which does continue to run in the background... not a problem for my systems, but may be too much for less powerful setups)
Is there a thread for this, or any more info please?
Thanks for this!
Glad you like it.
QuickWMC doesn't open any dos window, it momentarily shows up in the tray icon but it immediately shuts itself off once it launches wmc. I think you are seeing the window advanced launcher opens (I can't do anything about that). To test it, you can just run the links in the start menu (i.e. don't use advanced launcher), if you still see a dos window I'll be very surprised.
I have not started a thread. Mostly to have people try it and get feedback, also because of laziness. The only more info I can think of is other stuff you can launch in wmc with it. See this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...14622.aspx
(2013-02-16, 17:27)Scott R Wrote: Problems:
A) Step 3 above does not work under XBMC Frodo. If I selected the show 2 minutes ago in my Ceton EPG app, when I start to play it in XBMC the time/status bar reflects a total runtime of 2 minutes. After 2 minutes of playback (or even a bit under), the show will abruptly stop and you'll be kicked back to the XBMC menu, even though the total runtime is now actually about 4 minutes. At that point, if you were to select it again, the time/status bar will reflect 4 minutes, and you'll get kicked out again once you hit that 4 minute mark. Important: Under XBMC Eden this is *NOT* an issue. You can keep watching the show all the way to the end. The time/status bar will show a seemingly bizarre total runtime which changes (and never looks correct), but it appears to let you continue to play the in-progress recording all the way to the end. This indicates to me that this is a *BUG* in Frodo (or, at least, a previously working capability that should be relatively easy to re-implement). Note: This is also a problem in the Plex client app (I don't know if it might have worked under previous versions of the Plex client app).
B) When running XBMC Frodo (I haven't tried this with Eden) on the same box as my WMC server, I use the Ceton smartphone app to select a show to record. But, then I navigate in XBMC to my SMB share to "Recorded TV" and I see the show, but if I try to play it, XBMC just clocks, and eventually kicks back an error. At that point, it also seems like my Ceton smartphone app starts having problems connecting to the Ceton server component. Again, this problem appears to only affect the box running both WMC and the XBMC client. On other XBMC clients (e.g., my MacBook Air), I can play these but have the issue described above (A).
(2013-02-16, 19:34)krustyreturns Wrote: I am surprised Eden worked fine (there is probably a good clue there, but my scars are too fresh to investigate). I started to get into xbmc last summer and I experimented using eden to play (completed) wtv files, but I found (like a lot of other people) about 20 minutes into the wtv file the video locked up.I should clarify that I actually haven't attempted to play an entire .WTV recording under Eden (or Frodo, for that matter). All of my experiences that I commented on were in my "test phase" where I try these things out to see if it looks like I can end up with a workable wife-friendly solution. For our actual daily usage, we watch live TV and recorded shows using the WMC UI (in the bedroom we have the actual WMC server, and in a couple of other rooms we have XBox 360's which we use as extenders).