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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: CYR1L on January 26, 2014, 10:51:26 am
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I have been using (and loving) MC19 primarily for movie playback, and have been trying to implement it as a live TV solution as well, but I've been having a few issues, which are rub to family-approval-factor.
Admittedly, I honestly feel like WMC nailed the Theater UI for an average-joe user-and-family, but JRiver nailed every-other-aspect of the home theater experience. Cheers to that, which brings me to my hope that we can iron out some of the sticking points.
-The live-tv-button solution that involves ["/mcc 30002,3" to watch channel number 3] doesn't work with my antenna setup with channels numbered 3-1 or 3.1, and ALL channels are numbered this way, so I cannot start directly into live tv. Is there a way around this?
(I'm in the US, ATSC, using Happauge 2250)
-Live-tv playback stops when I open the guide? is this correct? I was expecting that it would just darken, and throw an overlay (probably graphics intensive); or kill the graphics completely, but keep the audio until I actually switch channels.
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-thread bump- No solution or feedback regarding getting directly to live TV? ...or on the guide stopping playback?
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-The live-tv-button solution that involves ["/mcc 30002,3" to watch channel number 3] doesn't work with my antenna setup with channels numbered 3-1 or 3.1, and ALL channels are numbered this way, so I cannot start directly into live tv. Is there a way around this?
(I'm in the US, ATSC, using Happauge 2250)
Each channel has a "Channel Number" field. You can assign a number (pure number, without hyphen or dot) to each channel. Tools/Options/Television/Advanced/Edit Channels List
For example you can assign 31 to 3-1 (as long as it is unique). If you also have cable for example, then 31 is more logically assigned to cable channel 31 instead of ATSC 3-1, but you can consider 3001 for 3-1, 11001 for 11-1 etc.
By the way, the latest version gives you an option to automatically fill the Channel Number field during channel scanning.
-Live-tv playback stops when I open the guide? is this correct? I was expecting that it would just darken, and throw an overlay (probably graphics intensive); or kill the graphics completely, but keep the audio until I actually switch channels.
It pauses, not stops.
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in theater view settings you can select 'pause video play back when entering theaterview' if unchecked this will allow live tv to continue whilst in the guide
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Whether a pause or a stop, the break in playback is what I was attempting to communicate.
I can only hope that in the future JRiver will be able to natively support the hyphen/dot channel numbering, as well as a real "live tv" button, but these solutions are great for the time-being.
Thanks to both of you, this is helpful.
-Cyril
Each channel has a "Channel Number" field. You can assign a number (pure number, without hyphen or dot) to each channel. Tools/Options/Television/Advanced/Edit Channels List[...]
in theater view settings you can select 'pause video play back when entering theaterview' if unchecked this will allow live tv to continue whilst in the guide