For The Record 1.3.3 Released (2 Viewers)

[Paranoid Delusion]

Not sure the reason for rebooting if unnecessary, why not set this as a choice under Services recovery options for FTR\TVService and select reboot pc as first\second choice, any failure should then reboot hopefully in time to still start your recording.

Only a thought

 

[dvdfreak]

on my system (vista buisness 32Bit) standby/hibernate now works flawlessly, much better then powerscheduler or pvrscheduler.
The only thing that i'm missing is a reboot function that allows me to automatically reboot the pc once a week and to check that it's not recording during that time. Maybe i'll take a look at the FTR Api and try to see if i can use some of my rusty java skills and try to get something to work in c#.

We always like to brag about how easy the For The Record API is to use Check out the code below:

using (TvControlServiceAgent tvControlAgent = new TvControlServiceAgent())
{
    UpcomingRecording[] upcomingRecordings = tvControlAgent .GetAllUpcomingRecordings(UpcomingRecordingsFilter.Recordings, true);
    if (upcomingRecordings.Length > 0
        && upcomingRecordings[0].ActualStartTime < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(10))
    {
        // DON'T reboot now: a recording is either active or about to start...
    }
    else
    {
        // Safe to reboot.
    }
}

That's all there is to it. More information to help you get started here: Getting started.

 

[Bagal]

We always like to brag about how easy the For The Record API is to use

I can second that, when I wrote the MP Recordings importer it took me hardly any time at all to get something usable and I was very impressed with how nice the API was to use.

Bagal.

 

[rekenaar]

Compile

Sorry dvdfreak, I cannot access the 4therecord website to post this, so I will post here. Not sure if the problem is your site or my ISP.

I am still looking for a TVPlugin that will work with latest MP SVN. Last time I read your forums, you said you will recompile later.

Anyway, I am trying to compile myself. Hope you can assist someone not familiar with C#.
1. Is it possible to compile with VS2008 EXPRESS? I received an error when opening the solution, but after that I can open the files.
2. Any clues what the following problem is?
Error 9 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IList<TvDatabase.ChannelMap>' to 'System.Collections.IList'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) D:\Team MediaPortal\4TheRecord\ForTheRecord.RecorderTuners.MediaPortalTvServer\MediaPortalRecorderTunerService.cs 498 40 ForTheRecord.RecorderTuners.MediaPortalTvServer


Thank you

 

[dvdfreak]

Sorry dvdfreak, I cannot access the 4therecord website to post this, so I will post here. Not sure if the problem is your site or my ISP.

I am still looking for a TVPlugin that will work with latest MP SVN. Last time I read your forums, you said you will recompile later.

Anyway, I am trying to compile myself. Hope you can assist someone not familiar with C#.
1. Is it possible to compile with VS2008 EXPRESS? I received an error when opening the solution, but after that I can open the files.
2. Any clues what the following problem is?
Error 9 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IList<TvDatabase.ChannelMap>' to 'System.Collections.IList'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) D:\Team MediaPortal\4TheRecord\ForTheRecord.RecorderTuners.MediaPortalTvServer\MediaPortalRecorderTunerService.cs 498 40 ForTheRecord.RecorderTuners.MediaPortalTvServer

Ah, it seems some small changes will be needed and that a simple recompile will not work. The changes are very likely very very minor, but if you have little or no experience with C# I can understand you are a bit at a loss.

I've submitted a patch for better DVB-EPG support between TV server and For The Record and am hoping that will be included soon. That would then be a perfect time to add support for both the latest SVN and the better DVB-EPG integration.

Hang tight for just a little bit longer please.

 

[dvdfreak]

I have sorted the same channels into same groups like in MP, I noticed that groups with only a few channels are opening quite fast, never the less, the same group (e.g. My Channels~ 40 channels) is taking pretty long like I stated before...

I'm happy to say version 1.3.3 will have a much faster mini-guide.

In fact, 1.3.3 will be more a performance release than a maintenance release: browsing the guide will be faster, browsing your recordings will be a little faster, but most of all: schedules which use the "Description contains" or "With Actor/By Director" rules will be many times faster (one extreme stress-test with loads of schedules on 500 channels went from 6 minutes to 12 seconds).

 

[kiwijunglist]

I'm wondering if FTR adds some functionality that i wish the inbuilt MY-TV / TVserver could do.

Can it record from the timeshift buffer?

eg. I am watching a tv program from the start, 10 minutes into the program i decide, "hey, i want to record this program", if i timeshift back to the start of the program and hit record, it doesn't save the time buffer, it just starts recording from the live point, ie. you can't record the first 10 minutes.

 

[dvdfreak]

I'm afraid For The Record uses TV server as its backend recording system and can't offer this functionality either.

It's adds a lot on other fronts , but since this is purely about recording/timeshifting I'm afraid this will have to be improved in TV server first.

 

[joystick]

I have sorted the same channels into same groups like in MP, I noticed that groups with only a few channels are opening quite fast, never the less, the same group (e.g. My Channels~ 40 channels) is taking pretty long like I stated before...

I'm happy to say version 1.3.3 will have a much faster mini-guide.

In fact, 1.3.3 will be more a performance release than a maintenance release: browsing the guide will be faster, browsing your recordings will be a little faster, but most of all: schedules which use the "Description contains" or "With Actor/By Director" rules will be many times faster (one extreme stress-test with loads of schedules on 500 channels went from 6 minutes to 12 seconds).

Great! I am looking forward to your next release to give it another try!

thx!

 

[stoked]

dvdfreak,

There are two features I'm looking for: a way to record only first run shows, and have recordings renamed for import into MyTVSeries. However, I don't trust my provider's first run data and I don't think MP can even read it. Have you considered a newsfeed client to TVRage.Com? I think tvrage has an API as well but I haven't really looked into that. In each user's account, the user can add their favourite shows and tvrage provides a newsfeed for upcoming airing dates for your shows. If FTR could pull that newsfeed, just the Show and Date info alone would provide first run information. Users may have to manually map the show names manually since every provider uses different names, but I'd imagine some fuzzy logic matching would work pretty well. And for the 2nd part, could FTR record the shows based on for example TVRage's naming convention of 01x01 or something similar that MyTVSeries can import? My problem with regular MP recordings is that MyTVSeries can't tell what season/episode the recordings are.