For The Record - The rule-based scheduling suite (8 Viewers)

[dvdfreak]

I'm not at all familiar with the architecture behind your fantastic work, but are there any limitations you can imagine your software could have in comparison to the road that is being followed by the devteam for future TVserver and MediaPortal versions?

The architecture I'm using is very open and future minded, so it should go a long way And it's really not that complicated at all, just common sense and a service-oriented approach.

And the other way round?
Are there any (future) limitations of the TVserver, MediaPortal or TVE3 that you already know will not be possible but are possible for your software?

The only thing that's important to look at is the server-side of MediaPortal, and currently that is TVE3. Since TV Scheduler itself (the core) is also a server-side component.

I know there are soms undefined plans to redesign TVE3 but these are apparently plans for much later on. Currently TVE3 has very little design: (remote) clients and plugins access the database directly, there's only a small remoting interface, and everything all over the place is using Gentle.NET directly (so again all code does direct database access everywhere).

...I don't see why they are so reluctant to give this some proper attention....

EDIT: Isn't it possible to make a plugin out of it (unofficial or not) that can be implemented in the MP GUI? That way far more people could use this, as it is probeably not very known yet under simple and average MP users... I'm sure that once more users starting to notice this is out there, everybody wants to use this instead of what MP uses now. But for a lot of people the implementation of options and services into one general program/GUI is essential (there's the missis again ).

So...if there would be a GUI for your service...man... I see a bright future for this ahaid

StaticMan was going to look at this, but I'm not sure how far he got in the mean time.

In theory it is really easy to write a MediaPortal plugin for TV Scheduler. It's just a lot of work to get the GUI implemented I fear, but the actual communication with TV Scheduler is relatively speaking peanuts

Especially for editing the actual schedules you'd need a really good GUI design/layout to make this possible and also still powerful enough with a remote-controlled GUI.

 

[D4bFz3awSRYHKjr3]

Concerning my previous request, take a look at the following site:

http://epg.telenet.be/selectSchedules.html

If you could implement something like this,

-TV guide (shown like a timeline), here you can select the different groups or all the channels
-Channel guide, you get the view like it is implemented right now, but you can select the channel you want to watch.


And perhaps some sort of option to sort the channels, and maybe logo's.

What do you think of my suggestions, any chance they might get implemented?

 

[StaticMan]

Should I be using ASP.NET v1.1 or 2.0?

I get this trying to access te page:
The process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g. IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904.

I hate IIS.

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Nevermind. Switched to 2 and all is fine.

 

[dvdfreak]

What do you think of my suggestions, any chance they might get implemented?

Yes, definately, but no promises yet...

Nevermind. Switched to 2 and all is fine.

Ah good! I was just about to reply you do indeed need to be using ASP.NET 2.0. And also have the Ajax extensions installed.

 

[richy759]

How do you change the asp.net version. I can't seemt to find an update anywhere.
-found it.

It still says I do not have write access, any ideas?

Cheers,
Rich

 

[richy759]

OK, got it going, very nice job!

Rich

 

[dvdfreak]

Thanks!

And good to hear it's working for you now, I know setting up IIS isn't always a picknick

BTW, has anyone tried the TVE3 DVB-EPG syncing again with the latest version? In my tests this worked fine, so I was wondering if someone still had problems...

And perhaps some sort of option to sort the channels, and maybe logo's.

Just wanted to mention that channel sorting is already fully supported, but must be done from the Management Console. But once sorted, that order will be used in Web Access too.

There are some possibilities to support channel logos, but I guess a simple "Logos" subdirectory in the TvScheduler.WebAccess folder would be a reasonable one, perhaps I'll add support for this to the next version. Just like the "real" EPG grid-view I'd like to add.

 

[D4bFz3awSRYHKjr3]

There are some possibilities to support channel logos, but I guess a simple "Logos" subdirectory in the TvScheduler.WebAccess folder would be a reasonable one,

That would be the easiest solution, but isn't it a bad design future wise, when perhaps tv scheduler gets integrated
with mediaportal and there has to be a GUI, it would be easier the get al the data out of the database.
This way the logos are available for, web, managemant console and GUI.

I'm just thinking here, I could be completaly wrong.

 

[dvdfreak]

No, you are absolutely right, that's why I said there are several options.

But putting the logos in the database is first of all more work (obviously), but also bring up the interesting point: in what resolution do you store them? Since you have to be independant from any clients you'd have to store a reasonable resolution, and then perhaps offer a GetChannelLogo() method with width and height parameters so the logo is then resized to what the client likes...

Need to think this a bit through, so that's why I consider offering the Logos directory as a first possibility... We'll see...

 

[blackpaw]

Wow - have been away for a while and TV Scheduler has gained a web gui! impressive.

Quick question does it work with MySQL?

Regards the logos - I'd go with whats simple and works. See how it works out in RL and then decide on the "best" solution.