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JRiver's Theater View and WMC Navigation

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mcq:
I appreciate that familiarity with WMC is an element - but then so it will be for all/any potential migrators from WMC in their free 30 day trial - first impressions count - is it love - or at least familiarity - at first sight?

That said for a WMC user's direct replacement's needs, JR's navigation is not as quick/good by some way - my view I know.

There are times when broadcasters show what are technically movies but are not identified as such in the xlmtv EPG feed.
If that's what JR uses to differentiate, then it's vulnerable to mis-categorisation - more likely my users will simply remember that they recorded it from a TV channel - hence Recorded TV.

I spent several months wrestling with Theatre view's options but didn't get very near where I needed to be - then because I couldn't find how to save it successfully, lost the lot with JR 31 upgrade - I also became limited by my lack of coding skills.

My real point here is, JR is a positive trove of options and all involved should be very very proud of their collective achievement.
But for WMC migrators - or if you like luddites - would it not be possible amongst all the other Theatre View developments - to have a WMC view please.

New/ ex WMC users in their intro email could then be guided to this link by @lello https://ibb.co/1Q6Nzb0 where there would be a WMC 'mode' - which would see them start with something familiar.
The rest of the welcoming message then explaining that there is a wealth of extra features to be discovered and enjoyed.

But first impressions count in these things and I have spent a large chunk of this year trying to massage JR into something that is user friendly to my users and have so far failed.
That is a great shame because the underlying expertise and programming skills that have gone into the product are stupendous.

We now have wtv recording fully fixed thanks to Yaobing's skills, so, can anyone on the Theatre View development side engage with me on this - please.

JimH:
If you can make specific suggestions, we can take a look at minor changes, but emulating Windows Media Center isn't going to happen.  In my opinion, it would be a major distraction, with little gain.

A recording of a single show of more than an hour is a movie.  It works pretty well.

datdude:
Navigation in Theater View is very easy as is, but there are a couple of small things that could make it better.

1) Any of the 3d views prevent the user from clicking left and backing out into the roller. Right now, nothing happens. All other flat (non-3d views) work as expected.

2) When jumping into a root library item from the home screen, MC automatically jumps to the file list in the previously viewed child library view. I always end up having to click left or up and then choose which child library view I actually wanted to view. At least make this an option to toggle on or off.


3) When drilling down more than two layers when clicking on a view i.e. viewing a file, viewing the genre for that file, and then clicking on another movie within that list, then backing out of that list result in zero results.

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