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I'm really impressed with how quickly the MP team has put a quality product on the table, and admire their dedication to the project. This dedication has led to an impressive product. However, I think at least the following is necessary for MP to start to become a leader in its segment.

1.) Commercial Detection - Just view what everyone else here has said. This would be very beneficial.

2.) PIP - Picture-in-Picture... Some people claim its not necessary with the idea of PVRs, but I still find it useful even with PVR functionality

3.) Client/Server Model - I have seen this listed several times but under different topics such as MediaMVP, BAckend/Frontend, uPnP, etc... This would be classic and allow for full scalability of a media protal system. For example, I only need one "media server" in the basement, and I can serve content to MP fornt ends in the den, office, living room, and bedroom all at one. This request, I realize, is a monster both logically and code-wise

Small other smaller enhancements include

1.) Previous/Last channel - I'm on station 10 and switch to station 31... It would be nice to have a one button command to return to channel 10

2.) This one would be cool to have (saw support for it on MythTV)... FIREWIRE support - This could potentially allow users to control their STB without the need of an IR Balser. Plus, the STB already encodes the stream allowing users to be able to use it as a tuner with "hardware" encoding.

3.) Configurable keyboard shortcuts.

Unfortunately I am not too fluent in .Net stuff (more of a Java person myself) so it may be too much of a task for me to figure out how to implement this stuff on my own :).
 

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jkoppenhofer said:
1.) Previous/Last channel - I'm on station 10 and switch to station 31... It would be nice to have a one button command to return to channel 10
Already implemented, will be in the next release version.

jkoppenhofer said:
3.) Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Not sure what you mean by that. If you're talking about shortcuts to jump to certain modules, Gucky is planning to implement the support for it. It's already in the config screens, sadly without any functionality yet.

All other things have already been requested many, many times. It's all on a long, long, long list of wishes. If you pray every night to the holy hobbit, before you go to bed, some of them might come true.
Well, or just give C# a try. Wouldn't be a real hard one for you, I'm pretty sure. :wink:
 
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I realize that C# is very similar as I have had an intro course on it. The learning curve is actually realized in the UI controls and window components such as DX9. I also have no experience with this type of app at all (graphics/rendering, etc...). Those points along with the fact that the app code itself has a high learning curve, and it is too daunting of a task at this point in time. I would be interested to know if there is any kind of developer doc out there that lists APIs etc (real dev stuff, not plugin stuff :) ). Something like a javadoc would be nice, but there I go again on my java stuff :) I wouldn't mind looking it over in my free time to see if I feel I can contribute.

Anyway... the ones I list as "major" in my original post are just ones I've seen mentioned over and over that seem to relate to general functionality that could benefit all users, and are included in most of you "competitors". I know the list is long, but this is just some analysis work by me where you guys may be able to get the most "bang for your buck"

As for Gucky's plugin, it has promise, but I have a few questions about it that I mention in the following post.

http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6699

In other words, I would like to manually assign a key to ANY MP Action. I would also like to use compound key strokes (ie Alt-m). Specifically I would like to launch the guide with one button press from fullscreen TV, but I'm sure I would like to add more in the future. Also, I noticed in browsing the available MP actions, that there doesn't seem to be a "ACTION_SHOW_TVGUIDE" action of any sorts :)
 

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mPod said:
jkoppenhofer said:
1.) Previous/Last channel - I'm on station 10 and switch to station 31... It would be nice to have a one button command to return to channel 10
Already implemented, will be in the next release version.

Really? What key is it on the MCE remote?
 

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CodeMonkey said:
Really? What key is it on the MCE remote?
It's the OK-Button or the ENTER-Key. And for the Hauppauge remote also on the Prv.Ch.-Button.
(CVS or 0.1.2.0 release)
 

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more of a Java person myself

Yea, well I'm more of a MicroC and assembly person myself.... and I'm not even good at those.... so don't complain. You've got an easy task learning C#.... I'm still trying to wrap my brain around classes.
 

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