Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-26 Thread Hans Meine
On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:26, Matthieu Weber wrote: > are changing time every week). Actually, it might be useful to have a > list of overlaping shows (browsing the whole guide is not really > necessary for that purpose, there could be a function that looks for > overlaping and present them to

Re: Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Matthieu Weber
On Wed 25.08.2004 at 04:12:23PM +0300, Matthieu Weber wrote: > After downloading the TV program from the net with xmltv, I usually go > through the wole guide to see what's interesting in the coming week > (especially in the evenings when movies are scheduled). I forgot to add: I also use the TV g

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Richard van Paasen
Dirk, I agree to this, tailoring the user interface for specific tasks is always a good idea. For the "expert" user, we could always have the old-style tv-guide (all info on one screen) hanging around as a plugin or so. Richard. Dirk Meyer wrote: Richard van Paasen wrote: Another idea for th

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
--- Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I just had a similar idea. Why not two types of tv guides. We use the > tv guide for two reasons: watching tv now and recording. Both have > different needs: > > Watching now: I want to know what's up at this time on all > channels. This is the time

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread mikeruelle
No it was actually a freevo based rip off of what the tivo did. It was a working plugin for a while but got broken with some of the changes for 1.5. I was just wondering if the original author had fixed it for 1.5 or was interested in doing it. Will see if i have an old screengrab rshortt sent m

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Matthieu Weber
On Wed 25.08.2004 at 02:28:31PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > I just had a similar idea. Why not two types of tv guides. We use the > tv guide for two reasons: watching tv now and recording. Both have > different needs: > > Watching now: I want to know what's up at this time on all > channels. This i

[Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Dirk Meyer
Richard van Paasen wrote: > Another idea for the textual version of the tv guide is to restrict > the information on one page to either one channel or one > time-box. Browsing through the tv guide "pages" (either channels or > time boxes) then can be done with the left/right keys on the > remote. W

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Rob Shortt
Mick wrote: Hey (slightly OT). With DVB cards (attn rob..) can you grab analogue too? I was reading some PC mag and it mentioned this was a feature on some cards.. I didn't realise this.. Could this be utilised somehow? Some DVB cards capture analogue too, I'm not sure which though, maybe the dvb

RE: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Mick
> I plan on copying Media Center for MeBox. I think its guide layout is > nice: > >http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/xpmce_review_94.gif > I like this, more room for description and also grabing frames (or live video) from the card! Way cool.. Hey (slightly OT). With DVB cards (att

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-25 Thread Hans Meine
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:53, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > BTW, I don't like the current tv guide. Too much information in many > > small boxes. If anyone has a new idea, please post. I can create that > > guide, but I need ideas from you. > > How about that Tivo-like guide someone implem

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-24 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
--- Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Richard van Paasen wrote: > > I "only" have a 1 sec delay when switching chanels (20 in total) . > One > > could cache the channels and update them while the matrix is being > > shown (old pictures in greyscale, updated in full color) but hey, > that

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-24 Thread mikeruelle
speaking of which what ever happened to that tivoguide variant. I think we should include it with a different name for all the obvious reasons, but i actually liked it quite a bit. -- Michael Ruelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Richard van Paasen wrote: > > I "only" have a 1 sec delay when switching ch

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-24 Thread Richard van Paasen
Another idea for the textual version of the tv guide is to restrict the information on one page to either one channel or one time-box. Browsing through the tv guide "pages" (either channels or time boxes) then can be done with the left/right keys on the remote. Walking through rows on a page wi

Re: [Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-24 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 19:49 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > BTW, I don't like the current tv guide. Too much information in many > small boxes. I don't like it either. > If anyone has a new idea, please post. I can create that > guide, but I need ideas from you. I plan on copying Media Center for Me

[Freevo-devel] Re: New Idea

2004-08-24 Thread Dirk Meyer
Richard van Paasen wrote: > I "only" have a 1 sec delay when switching chanels (20 in total) . One > could cache the channels and update them while the matrix is being > shown (old pictures in greyscale, updated in full color) but hey, that > are implementation details. > > The guide can of course