Switzerland
again for the great plug-in!
Here are a few things I have run into lately that could use some improvement:
1. Downloading videos
This is a great feature which often gives me a better viewing experience than just calling up the desired video directly, but:
a) The "spinner" indicating that MP is busy only stays on the screen briefly. However, Online Videos doesn't seem able to do anything else while a download is in progress. It is probably too much to ask Online Videos to support multi-threaded, parallel downloads, so I would settle for having the "wait" indicator displayed until the current download is complete.
b) There doesn't appear to be any error checking for downloading the same file twice. When I inadvertently try to do this, I get an "unhandled exception" message box complaining about the duplicate. Fortunately, I can just choose "Weiter" (continue) and no harm seems to be done.
c) The PIN feature is handy to keep kids from finding things they shouldn't online, but there appears to be no such protection for downloaded videos. How difficult would it be to extend PIN protection to the download directory, or a subdirectory thereof?
2. SF1 (Switzerland)
hasn't worked properly since I upgraded to RC3.
When I select a video to play or download, I get a popup menu offering 3 FLV files of different sizes. None of them work, although other channels using FLV work OK. Even more confusing is the fact that the logs (attached) indicate that the referenced files are in fact MP4, not FLV!??
a) When I try to download a video (e.g. "10 vor 10"), I get an error dialog saying the clip can't be found, which I can close normally.
b) When I try to play a video directly from the Online Videos menu, I get a different error message (SF1.jpg, attached), which often cannot be closed other than by "killing" MP. I generally have better luck closing it with the "ESC" key or the "Back" remote button. Trying to close it by clicking on the "OK" in the upper right hand corner, or by just pressing "return" or "enter" doesn't seem to work at all.
These are all only minor inconveniences, and I will understand if there are higher priority things on the "todo" list.
Switzerland
Hi offbyone,1. Actually OnlineVideos allows you to download as many as you want at the same time because each download in done seperately in its own background thread. I have done so many times. the wait cursor will only display as long as the url to be downloaded is retrieved from the siteutil. I ddon't want it to display all the time the download is in progress, that'd be annoying.
There is no error check for downlaoding the same again that's true. I'll add that.
With the release of 0.21 the downloads will be put in seperate folders according to their site and pin protection will be applied. This is already in SVN
SF1 problems: SF1 has many clips that are split into smaller parts. This is not fully supported with downloading yet.
Greetings!
for the quick response.
