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a big HI with bugs and wishes

Started by Harry, December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

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Harry

hello @all,

the "OOBE" with VOMP was very positive -
it's a quality product already!

i'd like to point out these possible bugs and wishes:

- the main-menu clock doesn't get updated

- pressing the green button and selecting "Standby" apparently doesn't
  trigger the same event.
  [my telly switches on and off with the SCART signal. however, it only
  stays off if i select "Standby". with the green button the telly turns
  off and then immediately back on again (while the MVP stays off)]

- a progress bar indicating how far a running (live TV) programme has advanced
  would be _very_ nice (similar to this one
  mvpmc.sourceforge.net/images/myth_osd.jpg but doesnt need to be alpha blended)

- EPG info is not scrollable if text doesn't fit into the box

- EPG info should include current time

- changing the channel via buttons 0-9 should accept one, two (timeout
  controlled) and three digit entries


that's all for now.
i hope i'm not being presumptuous by posting this.

cheers
Harry

Chris

Hi Harry, I am thinking that you might like the next version of VOMP.... :)

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- the main-menu clock doesn't get updated

- EPG info should include current time

- changing the channel via buttons 0-9 should accept one, two (timeout
controlled) and three digit entries


Done, done and done. Currently it's in CVS only, but all will be in the next dongle.

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- pressing the green button and selecting "Standby" apparently doesn't
trigger the same event.
[my telly switches on and off with the SCART signal. however, it only
stays off if i select "Standby". with the green button the telly turns
off and then immediately back on again (while the MVP stays off)]


Unfortunately this is really odd. Both of these ways of invoking standby run the same piece of code that shuts off the video signal. I have no idea at the moment how it could work with one but not the other.

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- a progress bar indicating how far a running (live TV) programme has advanced
would be _very_ nice (similar to this one
mvpmc.sourceforge.net/images/myth_osd.jpg but doesnt need to be alpha blended)


I have been planning this for recorded programmes but I hadn't thought about live. Maybe this could be done...

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- EPG info is not scrollable if text doesn't fit into the box


Do you mean the programme summary? If so then this is listed as a bug against VOMP already, I will get around to this at some point.

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

that's all for now.
i hope i'm not being presumptuous by posting this.

cheers
Harry


Not at all. The more discussion the better.

Chris


Schnurps

Quote from: Chris on December 08, 2005, 21:57:00
Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53
- a progress bar indicating how far a running (live TV) programme has advanced
would be _very_ nice (similar to this one
mvpmc.sourceforge.net/images/myth_osd.jpg but doesnt need to be alpha blended)
I have been planning this for recorded programmes but I hadn't thought about live. Maybe this could be done...

What function should this progress bar have in live tv?
a) progress of the actual programme (e.g. 20/45 mins). -> My suggestion is to put that information into the epg-box. (cp. http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins/displayimage.php?album=41&pos=1 - posted a while ago here in the forum)

b) in the future a progress bar for the timeshift-buffer (how far behind live-tv?)

Just my thoughts to that.
Such a progress bar would be nice, but I suppose there are more important things to do first.
It is really fantastic to persecute the progress and improvement of VOMP. :-)
Thanks Chris!!!  :)

Schnurps

Harry

Quote from: Chris on December 08, 2005, 21:57:00
[...]
Done, done and done. Currently it's in CVS only, but all will be in the next dongle.
thanks a lot!
i've already taken a look at the CVS repository and saw that there had been
made recent changes.
however... compiling a dongle is not that trivial (or so it seems).

[...sorry for ugly snipping...]

Quote from: Chris on December 08, 2005, 21:57:00
Unfortunately this is really odd. Both of these ways of invoking standby run the same piece of code that shuts off the video signal. I have no idea at the moment how it could work with one but not the other.
peculiar.
however.. it's not that important.

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- a progress bar indicating how far a running (live TV) programme has advanced
would be _very_ nice (similar to this one
mvpmc.sourceforge.net/images/myth_osd.jpg but doesnt need to be alpha blended)

Quote from: Chris on December 08, 2005, 21:57:00
I have been planning this for recorded programmes but I hadn't thought about live. Maybe this could be done...
hehe. i have this feature on my HUMAX DVB-S receiver and have to say this
is _such_ a cool feature.

Quote from: Harry on December 08, 2005, 21:00:53

- EPG info is not scrollable if text doesn't fit into the box

Quote from: Chris on December 08, 2005, 21:57:00
Do you mean the programme summary? If so then this is listed as a bug against VOMP already, I will get around to this at some point.
oops.. yes. you're right.

@Schnurps
yes... (@progress bar) that's exaclty what i had in mind.

cheers
Harry

davep

A small problem with the current CVS. Tuning to a channel which is not currently transmitting, the MVP locks up and does not respond to any keys on the remote - a power-cycle is necessary to regain control. The previous version would return to the menu after a few seconds when the 'back' key was pressed.

Chris

Dave: You are using UK freeview? What channel did you try to tune to and at what time? I have looked through my channels at the moment and I can't find any that are totally off, I just get other channels that share the same space.

I would expect some problems like this at the moment, I have made big changes to the way the program does things so the odd lock up doesn't surprise me. I managed to lock it up on the main menu the other night, unfortunately I have no idea how I did it!

davep

The most recent was "ITV News". OK it turns out I had two lines for that channel in my channels.conf and selected the wrong one - PIDs for that line were 2850, 2851 instead of 550, 551. The other was channel 302 around mid-day before the snooker started.

Schnurps

#7
I have the same problem with Dongle 16.
The German Music-Channels "Viva" and "Vivaplus" seems to be not reachable via DVB-S at the moment, and I have to power down the MVP to get it working again after accessing one of those channels.
I think the same is with our "Kinderkanal" in the night. (not completely sure).
Is it possible to check this and to respond with this "Chanal not reachable"-Box?

VIVA:12670:v:S19.2E:22000:309:310:311:0:12732:0:0:0
VIVA PLUS:12552:v:S19.2E:22000:171:172:179:0:12120:0:0:0


Schnurps

Chris

I think I have found this bug now. It seems that because VDR initially claimed that it could provide the channel, vomp was happy to sit in a loop of continuing to request the data. Current CVS code now stops and displays the "channel unavailable" message.

davep

Quote from: Chris on December 13, 2005, 00:34:55
I think I have found this bug now. It seems that because VDR initially claimed that it could provide the channel, vomp was happy to sit in a loop of continuing to request the data. Current CVS code now stops and displays the "channel unavailable" message.

Yes that works fine now, thanks.

Harry

hi again!

is it possible to pass the data that is sent during VBI to the telly so one
can browse teletext?

cheers
Harry

Chris

I don't think VBI data exists for digital TV ?

Harry

it does.
how else would i get teletext over a "normal" dvb-s receiver? *g*

cheers
H

Chris

Old style black screen with 1980s (?) look text and blocky graphics?

Harry

i see.
you don't think it would be worth implementing.
well... it was only a question. *g*

cheers
Harry