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Title: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 03, 2005, 05:06:16 am
Hi!

Since I got my rf remote, I've enjoying watching video/dvds on my TV through Theater View.

A question though; When I select a single file and choose 'Play', all files in that particular view are added. Should it be like this or did I set an obscure setting that I can't find anymore? I woke up to a screaming japanese ghost in 'The Eye' last morning...quite unsettling, especially when you fall asleep to 'Finding Nemo' :/

/Martin
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: raym on July 03, 2005, 07:14:53 pm
Unfortunately this is by design. For example, even playing a single song from an album will replace Playing now with the entire album. I've never really understood this logic  :-\. 

I'd like to see this logic configurable just like the double click behaviour options for standard view.

Cheers,
Ray.
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 03, 2005, 07:20:15 pm
Ouch. This one will definitively go into requests for next version. Perhaps one could configure it (play all or the selected item) where you choose if the View Scheme should be displayed in Theater view?
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: rpalmer68 on July 03, 2005, 08:39:20 pm
Instead of selecting "play" select "select" for each track/file you want to play, this puts an "X" beside the selected tracks/files then just select "Play Selected".

This works for Audio, I haven't tried with video files, but can't see that it would be any different.

Richard
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 10, 2005, 06:59:32 pm
Thanks! I'll try that!
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: rpalmer68 on July 10, 2005, 07:03:16 pm
Or you could sekect "Add" to add them to playing now and then go to Playing now and "Play"

Although I do agree, if you slect play down at the file/track level it should only play what you have selected. Track at track level, album at album level.

Richard
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 10, 2005, 07:16:18 pm
Mhm... I find the solutions usable! But I have another question regarding adding files to Playing Now; how on earth do you clear the playing now in TW??
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: brainsoup on July 11, 2005, 11:03:07 am
Yeah that would be something that is nice to see... or maybe something that clears everything except the currently playing track (so things dont just stop dead!)
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: raym on July 11, 2005, 06:56:00 pm
Mhm... I find the solutions usable! But I have another question regarding adding files to Playing Now; how on earth do you clear the playing now in TW??

You can do it (including leaving the currently playing file playing) via the MCC command:
MCC_CLEAR_PLAYING_NOW. Refer: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/MCCommands.h

I mapped this command to a button on my remote. You could also make it a custom button on the Theater View main menu if you prefer.
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 11, 2005, 07:00:25 pm
Even though I was looking for a submenu or similar to Playing Now (simple solutions works for me), I actually might try that command...when I figure out how to use it.
Thanks for the tip!
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: brainsoup on July 13, 2005, 01:11:49 pm
You can do it (including leaving the currently playing file playing) via the MCC command:
MCC_CLEAR_PLAYING_NOW. Refer: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/MCCommands.h

I mapped this command to a button on my remote. You could also make it a custom button on the Theater View main menu if you prefer.


Erm.... I dont get how to do this... cant find mjextman.exe on my computer... am i going mad... eek!
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Griff on July 13, 2005, 06:40:17 pm
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Mhm... I find the solutions usable! But I have another question regarding adding files to Playing Now; how on earth do you clear the playing now in TW??

In Mc10, you just hit clear

 ;D
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Griff on July 13, 2005, 07:42:40 pm
Oh

By the way

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cant find mjextman.exe on my computer

Its mc11.exe in MC 11.
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Marty3d on July 14, 2005, 03:04:27 am
In Mc10, you just hit clear

 ;D

No fun going back is it? :)
Title: Re: Play behaviour in Theater View?
Post by: Griff on July 18, 2005, 10:48:05 pm
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No fun going back is it? 

You always want to move foward, but

Sometimes "New" doesnt always means "Better"