RED DOT recording state doesn't appear in video fullscreen playing (3 Viewers)

[framug]

If it's only 'adding 3 lines in MP code' why not just do that yourself and try it?

"adding 3 lines" is just an expression, maybe it's 300 lines, maybe only 1, I don't know.
Questions are :
- Is making "IsRecording" public inside TVServer enough ?
And if yes, will it work in multi-seats case ?
OR
- Should it be integraded in g_player ?
OR
- Would we prefer to make it each times MP client do actions where media fullscreen is possible ?
And if it is this choice retained, what about others 3rd parts plugins (OnlineVideos, maybe VLC,...) for manage red dot ?
OR
- Other.....

 

[Owlsroost]

Is making "IsRecording" public inside TVServer enough ?

It's the 'TV' client plug-in you should be looking at, not the 'server' part (which may be local or remote). But the TV plug-in source code is part of the 'TvEngine3' project - see MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1

And if yes, will it work in multi-seats case ?

The client and server communicate via the OS network stack, so it should work the same for all configurations (in theory).

Remember that the TV plug-in is an optional feature of the MP client - it might not be installed or enabled, so whatever you implement must behave correctly (e.g. not crash or throw error exceptions) when the TV plug-in is not present, TV Server is not installed, not running, or not available on the network.

I think if you work out how the TV plug-in updates the 'red dot' indicator information in the skin engine (when it's the foreground activity in the GUI), that will give you a big clue how to extend that to the other players, My *guess* is that it has a periodic task running from a thread which queries TV Server and/or the TV database for the recording status.

 

[ajs]

TVClient -polls the server constantly, I at the top gave an example of how to fill the property to show the red dot. This property will be available globally in the Media Portal. I just can not check. But there are changes - two lines.

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[catavolt]

Small update: Latest changes of @ajs in LMH works perfect: starting a recording from inside Live TV via context menu now immediately triggers the red dot
So at least we have the solution with latest LMH THX @ajs

 

[ajs]

LMH use the some method for detect active record, as I proposed to do in the MP, if make the above changes, the property will work without LMH.

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WBR, ajs

 

[ajs]

I Create JIRA: [MP1-4934] Add #TV.Record.Active (RedDot) property for Skin - Jira
And branch: MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1
Test build by TeamCity: http://tinyurl.com/y5wsmkxm
Property: #TV.Record.Active - true | false
PS: A lot of words , I remembered how this can be done without using my computer.

 

[catavolt]

Downloading/Testing Report back soon

 

[catavolt]

Hmm, the .exe to install won´t start

 

[ajs]

Hmmm, maybe bad build by TeamCity? Or? Error in log?

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WBR, ajs

 

[catavolt]

Bah, forget it - works now