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Windows => Television => Topic started by: tzr916 on April 25, 2017, 09:31:43 pm

Title: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on April 25, 2017, 09:31:43 pm
With MC32 online.... these are what's on my wish list:

- ATSC3 Encryption License (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,133604.msg936870.html?PHPSESSID=rcqth4saj3oo90sohrfh074cs6#msg936870) (without DRM/copy protection).
- Proper DMS Server-Client functionality.
- Bitstream audio for DMS Live tv.
- Slow Motion using IR Remote + disable DSP pop-up.


DONE- ATSC3 with AC-4 Audio support (non-drm broadcasts).
DONE- Dedicated Theater view page showing live view of what each/all the tuners are currently doing. Simple options could be = Idle, or Live Tv (channel + Server/Client), or Recording (channel + program name + duration).
DONE- Clients be able to see the Server's Tv logs and tuner status.
DONE- NEW episode badge in Theater View GUIDE.
DONE- Ability to toggle on/off automatic commercial skipping with remote while playing. In other words allow manual control of commercial skipping.
DONE- After finished watching a recorded show in Theater View (at the end of a show or when pressing stop), immediately show dialog box to Delete or Cancel (do not delete). Instead of having to navigate 6-8 button presses to Delete.
DONE- Watching Comcast music channels on Clients is horribly painful / impossible (select channel, wait 30 seconds for "buffering", press pause, wait 20 seconds, press play, pray that it works without hanging/crashing).
DONE- Option to automatically clear MC Logs on a configurable schedule. Resets based on file size.
DONE- Easier way to assign Tv Channel Logos.
DONE- The TBR list should at least highlight shows that WILL have tuner conflicts like late starts, or no tuner available at all, etc.

NA- Add a "button" in Theater View to restart MC (not restart PC). Done manually by assigning new button to MC Command Line option "MC25.exe /restart". Thanks RoderickGI
NA- Add a "button" in Theater View to perform Run Auto Import Now. Done manually by assigning new button to MC Command Line option for "MC25.exe /MCC 23020".

NITL:
- Enable MC to see/recognize ALL infrared signals coming into the PC for MC remote control LEARNING purposes, not just the handful of IR signals it currently allows.
- Easy Android App to view/edit recording schedule list.
- Fully functional MC Android App / Tv Client with Theater View UI.



EDIT for MC32 and reordered with most important at top.
Title: Re: Remaining MC Feature Requests
Post by: greynolds on April 26, 2017, 08:19:54 pm
- Easy Android App to view/edit recording schedule list.
- Fully functional MC Android App / Tv Client with Theater View.
Let's not forget iOS folks...  Seems to me these functions could be additions to JRemote.
Title: Re: Remaining MC Feature Requests
Post by: astromo on May 04, 2017, 05:12:33 am
Give me F6 functionality from the TV GUI please...  ;D

Asked for before and will ask here again.

It would make life a lot more straightforward if I could move and copy TV files without having to get out of TV and head over to Video.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: imugli on May 08, 2017, 12:46:17 am
- Tv Guide selection does not stay pinned to left edge when scrolling up/down. Suddenly jumps way to the right, off the screen, then have to find it and get it back to the left.
+1. This is so annoying.

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- After finished watching a recorded show in Theater View (at the end of a show or when pressing stop), immediately show dialog box to Delete or Cancel (do not delete). Instead of having to navigate 6-8 button presses to Delete.
+1. This would be nice to have.

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- Easy Android App to view/edit recording schedule list.

This. A way to remotely view the guide and schedule recordings, via app or webgizmo. I've been asking for this for years now.
 
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- Fully functional MC Android App / Tv Client with Theater View.
Theater View I'm not sure about, but I'm on board for being able to watch TV through Gizmo.

About the only other things I'd like to see (besides TV on Mac / Linux which *I know* isn't coming anytime soon) are Picture in Picture, and multiplexing of channels, so if i'm watching a channel, and recording another on the same stream, it only uses one tuner.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: amcneish on May 26, 2017, 11:08:30 am
I would love a few features in MC23
1) When the TV is recording that the Icon in the system tray (Lower right corner) would turn red
2) The scheduled recordings would highlight recording conflicts (IE when recording requests outnumber available tuners) (On the page "to be recorded)
3) For windows it would be great if MC23 server would run as a service and start with system startup... 

Thanks

Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Fangio on May 26, 2017, 02:05:27 pm
multiplexing of channels, so if i'm watching a channel, and recording another on the same stream, it only uses one tuner.
+1
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: CountryBumkin on May 27, 2017, 05:51:19 am
For MC23 TV feature request - I would like to see a small change. When in Theater View>TV after selecting the TV Channel to watch, when pressing the Enter button on the remote I would like the channel to start playing without any further action/input required. Just like on a standard TV set.

Currently when you press the Enter button it brings you to a new screen with "Back, Watch, Record, Subscription, Record by Time, ...". I don't need all that. I just want to watch the channel. I can still record the program on the fly using the remote's record button. The rest of those choices (like setting up a subscription) I do in the Standard View.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: greynolds on May 27, 2017, 08:47:13 am
For MC23 TV feature request - I would like to see a small change. When in Theater View>TV after selecting the TV Channel to watch, when pressing the Enter button on the remote I would like the channel to start playing without any further action/input required. Just like on a standard TV set.

Currently when you press the Enter button it brings you to a new screen with "Back, Watch, Record, Subscription, Record by Time, ...". I don't need all that. I just want to watch the channel. I can still record the program on the fly using the remote's record button. The rest of those choices (like setting up a subscription) I do in the Standard View.
At the same time, the user shouldn't be ~forced~ to go to Standard View to setup a subscription.  One of the relatively big things Yaobing worked on over the course of MC22 was to make it possible to perform nearly all TV functions from Theater View.  This was partly to help migrate Windows Media Center users over to JRiver, but it also makes sense to be able to use Theater View's "10 foot user interface" as a fully functional DVR with just a remote control.

Something I hope they'll put some focus on in MC23 is to add TV aware views to the remote control options, such as JRemote.  Just a few specific examples are a nice view of the guide data (ideally with functionality to watch or record a selected guide entry) and the ability to manage subscriptions / upcoming recordings.  This is one of the big pieces that's currently missing from JRemote.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: imugli on May 27, 2017, 08:52:24 am
For MC23 TV feature request - I would like to see a small change. When in Theater View>TV after selecting the TV Channel to watch, when pressing the Enter button on the remote I would like the channel to start playing without any further action/input required. Just like on a standard TV set.

What happens if you press Play instead of Enter, as in every other Theatre View screen? 
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: imugli on May 27, 2017, 08:55:13 am
At the same time, the user shouldn't be ~forced~ to go to Standard View to setup a subscription.  One of the relatively big things Yaobing worked on over the course of MC22 was to make it possible to perform nearly all TV functions from Theater View.  This was partly to help migrate Windows Media Center users over to JRiver, but it also makes sense to be able to use Theater View's "10 foot user interface" as a fully functional DVR with just a remote control.

Once you setup your default subscription settings, you can press the record button on a program twice and it will subscribe. Is this what you're talking about, or do you mean that actual setting up off your default subscription settings?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: greynolds on May 27, 2017, 09:08:27 am
Once you setup your default subscription settings, you can press the record button on a program twice and it will subscribe. Is this what you're talking about, or do you mean that actual setting up off your default subscription settings?
Yes, I know that you can double click Record to setup a subscription.  I also know that you can modify most of the subscription settings for upcoming recordings in Theater View now.

But here's a specific example of missing functionality in Theater View: I don't believe there's a way to modify an existing Recording Rule in Theater View when there aren't any recordings scheduled for it; you currently need to go to Standard View -> Television -> Recording Rules to do that.

The main point in my previous response was to be very careful that any changes that are made don't end up forcing the user to exit Theater View to do something that can currently be done in Theater View.  I'm all for making improvements that make the product easier to use, just not at the expense of losing functionality some find important.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: RoderickGI on May 27, 2017, 06:05:06 pm
What happens if you press Play instead of Enter, as in every other Theatre View screen?

You beat me to that answer. Play starts playing the TV channel in one click.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: CountryBumkin on May 28, 2017, 08:05:51 am
We're just talking about new features.

In my perfect MC, Theater View is about displaying the choices for watching/listening-to media and starting playback immediately, and Standard View is for all the back-end work.

On the remote, the thumb rests naturally on the up-down-left-right button with "Enter in the center". So after you move around the menu, when you want to start the activity your thumb is on the Enter button. Trying to locate the "Play" button (at top of remote) makes a simple task of starting playback more difficult. Just saying....

In my perfect MC, you would have an option "not have that intermediary screen" (Enter acts like the Play button in this case) or to have it work the same as it now does, depending how you like to use MC.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: greynolds on May 28, 2017, 09:47:19 am
On the remote, the thumb rests naturally on the up-down-left-right button with "Enter in the center". So after you move around the menu, when you want to start the activity your thumb is on the Enter button. Trying to locate the "Play" button (at top of remote) makes a simple task of starting playback more difficult. Just saying....
Maybe you just need to use a different remote. :)  On mine, the Enter and Play buttons are pretty close to each other.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: CountryBumkin on May 28, 2017, 11:10:37 am
Maybe you just need to use a different remote. :)  On mine, the Enter and Play buttons are pretty close to each other.

If I change remotes - then there would not be a need for a new "feature".  :D

This thread is about adding features (not removing any) - so the choice in the settings would be "Do it CountryBumkin's way" or "leave it as is". No one loses.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: BryanC on June 08, 2017, 12:59:49 am
I'd like the ability to set the extend recording time based on the type of TV show. For instance, I'd like to automatically extend sports programming out an additional 30 minutes, but don't need this buffer for sitcoms.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: RoderickGI on June 08, 2017, 02:11:22 am
I'd like the ability to set the extend recording time based on the type of TV show. For instance, I'd like to automatically extend sports programming out an additional 30 minutes, but don't need this buffer for sitcoms.

I'm sure you know, but you can set start and end padding times per Recording Rule. I do this for MotoGP and other sport recordings, particularly if they are late at night.

Isn't that good enough? I guess having different defaults by program Genre would make setting recordings in Theatre View quicker and easier.

If there were any rules around default padding amounts for a recording, I would like them associated with the time of the recording. i.e. In a previous application I used, there were three (or more) time zones used for default paddings; Daytime, Prime Time, and Late Night. Each had their own adjustable default, like 15 minutes for Daytime, 5 minutes for Prime Time, 30 minutes for Late Night, or similar.

Actually I find the padding functionality works pretty well in MC. I would love to have a quick and simple video trim function though, so that once a recording was made, if I wished to keep it, I could quickly trim the padding off the start and end, without having to do any conversion or re-encoding.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: BryanC on June 08, 2017, 10:49:34 pm
Yep, it's a request to enable my laziness. Sometimes I just like to hit the record button when I'm walking out the door and would like the padding to be handled automatically based on the genre. For sports recordings I usually just scroll over and record the two following shows and that usually does the trick unless it's an extremely long and therefore exciting event  :-X
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: RoderickGI on June 08, 2017, 11:26:05 pm
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: DeaneG on June 12, 2017, 07:42:34 pm
- Tv Guide selection does not stay pinned to left edge when scrolling up/down. Suddenly jumps way to the right, off the screen, then have to find it and get it back to the left.
- After finished watching a recorded show in Theater View (at the end of a show or when pressing stop), immediately show dialog box to Delete or Cancel (do not delete). Instead of having to navigate 6-8 button presses to Delete.

+1 These two changes would make everyday TV usage pretty much on par with what we used to enjoy with Microsoft's Media Center.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: CountryBumkin on June 16, 2017, 01:31:40 pm

 Tv Guide selection does not stay pinned to left edge when scrolling up/down. Suddenly jumps way to the right, off the screen, then have to find it and get it back to the left.


Yes - this was reported and fixed (once) a while back (.31 I think) then it stopped working.

I tried to find the earlier reports on this but couldn't. Hopefully Yaobing will see this thread and look into it. I believe the earlier last time was happening when you went from a channel with say a couple of shows with 30 minute time slots, to the next channel which has a longer running show (say 2 hours) and the start time of the show is already off the grid.
Title: Re: Remaining MC Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on June 27, 2017, 09:14:05 am
Give me F6 functionality from the TV GUI please...  ;D


These will be in an upcoming new build:

1. NEW: "Library Tools" context menu in standard television view, when TV recordings are listed.
2. NEW: F6 and F12 support in standard television view, when TV recordings are listed.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on June 27, 2017, 09:23:43 am
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- Tv Guide selection does not stay pinned to left edge when scrolling up/down. Suddenly jumps way to the right, off the screen, then have to find it and get it back to the left.

This has been done.

23.0.2 (6/9/2017)

23. Changed: Improved Theater View television guide grid navigation.  Moving around in the grid near a long program (12 hours for example) using arrow keys now behaves much more sensibly.

Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: BryanC on June 28, 2017, 12:22:37 pm
I would like the option to automatically save a live TV recording (w/ time-shifting so I can resume playback) until I start playing another channel. Here is the problem scenario that has bitten me a number of times:

If I am not recording a show but am watching it live, I'll frequently pause playback to let the show buffer in order to be able to skip commercials. For whatever reason the "Pause" button on my MCE remote sometimes triggers my TV to shut off. Other times I (or the pets) have accidentally hit the stop button on the remote during this time-shifting buffer where I might be 30 minutes or even an hour behind the live show. When either of these events happen I immediately lose all of the time-shifting and I have to start watching the show live again where I may have missed an hour or more.

I'd like there to be some way to recover the current time shifting if playback is accidentally stopped and I think that the current time-shifting options are insufficient. I don't want to ALWAYS save time-shifting temp since I record to an SSD and have limited space. I also don't want to be prompted to save or discard every time I stop playback. I think the functionality could be handled automatically (i.e. "Save until channel change or timeout"):

Ideally I think it would be nice if you were currently time-shifting, it would be automatically saved from the point the playback was halted or stopped, and re-entering the same channel would prompt MC to begin playback where you left off. If you enter a different channel or waited longer than some set amount (say, 5 minutes) then the time-shifting cache would be discarded.

Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on June 28, 2017, 01:21:14 pm
If I understand you correctly, you want to go back to the saved buffer.  That is not possible in a sense that a new session on the same channel is always started in a new buffer.  There is no way of re-using the same buffer the way it is now.  I will have to take a hard look at this and see if I can find a way to do it.  But it is an interesting idea.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: astromo on June 29, 2017, 04:05:32 pm
Give me F6 functionality from the TV GUI please...  ;D

This has been done.

... and nicely done too - works fine in the Beta build. Thanks.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: DeaneG on July 06, 2017, 05:46:54 pm
It's a small thing, but rewarding for wife and I, and probably easy: In Theater View, when the screen fades out after inactivity to prevent burn-in, allow it to come back on by pressing the remote's "Menu" or "Guide" keys, rather than only by the four direction keys. Right now pressing either "Menu" or "Guide" keys after fade-out has occurred navigates to the function you'd expect, but the screen remains black, and you still have to press a direction key to see anything.

Since we can't see the screen once it has faded out, pressing a direction button has a 1 in 5 chance of giving you what you wanted. But pressing the Menu or Guide button always takes you somewhere useful and should be enough to light up the screen again too.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Hendrik on July 06, 2017, 05:57:02 pm
It's a small thing, but rewarding for wife and I, and probably easy: In Theater View, when the screen fades out after inactivity to prevent burn-in, allow it to come back on by pressing the remote's "Menu" or "Guide" keys, rather than only by the four direction keys. Right now pressing either "Menu" or "Guide" keys after fade-out has occurred navigates to the function you'd expect, but the screen remains black, and you still have to press a direction key to see anything.

Hopefully it'll do that reliably in a future MC23 build.
Title: CI / CAM Support
Post by: rsbrux on July 24, 2017, 06:10:13 am
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Please support CI / CAM!
I have been following JRiver MC since 2007 because of its superior music features, such as extended metadata and multi-zone support.
However, CI / CAM support is essential for me, and I have therefore been using MediaPortal (https://www.team-mediaportal.com/ (https://www.team-mediaportal.com/)) since then, with various different (DVB-C) TV tuners.  My current tuner is Digital Devices DuoFlex CT & Octopus Single CI. 
While MP is an excellent all-around HTPC solution, I am obviously not alone in the wish that JRiver support this:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=99302.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=99302.0)
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=80302.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=80302.0)
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85676.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85676.0)
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=107943.0 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=107943.0)
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,71258 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,71258)
Presumably JRiver is afflicted by the same erosion in user base suffered by MP as a result of proliferating streaming services, smart TVs and OOB extenders, such as Apple TV and Chromecast.
MP is open source, so you can easily see how they are doing it.
Wouldn't you like to expand your user base to those seeking this feature?
I suspect that the target population would include most of Europe as well as a large portion of the rest of world.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: pge on August 18, 2017, 05:25:34 am
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Please support CI / CAM!


+1


What is a media center without TV?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on October 22, 2017, 10:20:45 pm
New request - The TBR list should at least highlight shows that WILL have tuner conflicts (like late starts, or no tuner available at all, etc).

Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: BryanC on January 01, 2018, 04:59:22 pm
Smooth(er) seeking when FF/RW a time-shifted TV show.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: skeeterfood on January 27, 2018, 02:02:22 am
I'd love the ability to trigger external(comskip) and internal(convert format) commands when a recording completes.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: David Sydney on February 03, 2018, 09:20:21 pm
I have a Compro VideoMate E900F TV tuner card which works fine with standard Windows 10 drivers and MC23 as the viewing software. The software that cam e with the tuner stopped working a long time ago. In particuler the FM tuner software crashes everytime it's started. So on recent Win10 reinstall I left all of the drivers and software off and pleasently surprised it works fine without loading anything else!

While I enjoy the TV tuner in MC93 - I miss the FM radio tuner that this card is capable of driving. Any possibility of modifying the Television code to add this capability? Most TV tuner cards can also pickup FM radio?

David
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: jgirado on March 01, 2018, 11:39:51 am
Any plans for Closed Captions  (Live TV and replay recorded shows)?
Thanks!
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 01, 2018, 02:30:01 pm
Any plans for Closed Captions  (Live TV and replay recorded shows)?
Thanks!

It is still in our plan, but I do not know when I will be able to finish it.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: audioriver on April 18, 2018, 07:55:05 am
Any chance we'll see this (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,71336.msg481769.html#msg481769)?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on April 18, 2018, 04:17:26 pm
Possibly.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: DeaneG on April 22, 2018, 08:26:18 pm
I may be a 0.01% case, but I'll gladly buy a license for a newer version of MC once it supports ATSC closed captions. Until then I'll likely stay put on MC23. EDIT: Thank you, works great!
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on May 25, 2018, 06:17:08 pm

- Enable MC to see/recognize ALL infrared signals coming into the PC for MC remote control LEARNING purposes, not just the handful of IR signals it currently allows.

New request.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: JimH on May 25, 2018, 06:26:09 pm
Unless you've found a bug that nobody else has seen, I don't think this is a JRiver problem.  Sorry.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on May 25, 2018, 06:28:51 pm
Unless you've found a bug that nobody else has seen, I don't think this is a JRiver problem.  Sorry.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,111678.0.html

Confirmed by RoderickGI. MC does NOT see all IR commands, only a handful.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: RoderickGI on May 25, 2018, 08:08:26 pm
Correct.

The Learn function for blasting IR commands may be able to learn all sort of IR codes (I've never checked as I don't use a blaster), but the Learn function for internal use in MC only seems to be able to use a slightly extended version of MCE codes... which somewhat defeats the purpose and has prevented me adding more functionality to using my remote.

I will qualify that I am using an internally mounted CIR Receiver from Inteset. It should receive all IR commands that use the same standard as an MCE remote, which is the RC6 protocol.

I use the Harmony 880 Media Center SE Profile, but MC can't see many IR codes available in that profile, including most Alt+?, Ctrl+?, Ctrl+Alt+?, Win+?, as well as several other commands. I have also tried in the past to use IR commands from other electronics, by using TV, DVD, CD remote controls. The MC learning function doesn't see commands from those remotes.

Attached is a summary of my findings if you are interested and can make sense of it. There is a legend, of sorts.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Len_Lekx on July 26, 2018, 08:34:08 am
One thing I'd like to see (posted this before as a separate message - sorry...)

When using an IR blaster to change the channel on a STB, an option to blast a 'Power-On' command before the channel numbers would be nice.  Even if it's a "Just-In-Case" option for boxes that turn themselves off after a programmed amount of inactivity.   :)
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Len_Lekx on August 24, 2018, 08:42:35 pm
Alternatively - the option to run scripts and external IR-blaster services instead of the built-in blaster...
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: loddie on August 25, 2018, 08:56:24 pm
Featured request: ability to delay video for live TV feed.  That way audio can pass through lengthy DSP filters and remain in sync with video. Would likely require ability to buffer video frames in RAM.

Discussions here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112495.0.html (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,112495.0.html)

here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,116904.0.html (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,116904.0.html)

and here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,109302.msg756539.html#msg756539 (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,109302.msg756539.html#msg756539)
Title: MC 25 TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on February 04, 2019, 07:09:52 pm
Please add a new episode "badge" in the Theater View guide. MC obviously knows which episodes are new so it will record them, right? So why not put a badge/icon in the Theater View guide?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Not Me on September 14, 2019, 05:08:52 pm
On an old help page (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/TV_Advanced_Properties#TV_Audio) is this

TV Audio
You can select audio mode offered by broadcasters. Usually you can choose among "Stereo", "Mono", "Language A", "Language B" (or SAP) etc.

There does not seem to be any way to do this now. If I try to watch football I get the audio from the overhead camera and can't hear the announcers. This is OK some time but it would be good to have a way to change this. If I use the HDHomeRun TV software I get the normal audio program so JRiver is using an alternate audio source.

On the TV I have choices under SAP but I am running jriver on a Windows 10 PC with a Roland Super UA DAC which does not have any selections for that. Can we get this selection back please?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on September 14, 2019, 06:34:54 pm
On an old help page (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/TV_Advanced_Properties#TV_Audio) is this

TV Audio
You can select audio mode offered by broadcasters. Usually you can choose among "Stereo", "Mono", "Language A", "Language B" (or SAP) etc.
That is for the old analog TV.

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There does not seem to be any way to do this now. If I try to watch football I get the audio from the overhead camera and can't hear the announcers. This is OK some time but it would be good to have a way to change this. If I use the HDHomeRun TV software I get the normal audio program so JRiver is using an alternate audio source.

On the TV I have choices under SAP but I am running jriver on a Windows 10 PC with a Roland Super UA DAC which does not have any selections for that. Can we get this selection back please?

While a channel is playing, right-click the video window and choose "Audio Programs".  You may have two or three choices there.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Not Me on September 29, 2019, 10:18:35 pm
It is hard to right click while something is playing when I am trying to set up recording for the show. How do I set this up for recording? My other TV recording software uses the correct audio channel by default.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on September 30, 2019, 10:20:37 am
You can set a stream to be your default audio stream.  The choice is saved in the channel object, so each time you start that channel, the same audio stream will be loaded.  While a channel is playing, right-click > Audio Programs, and make your choice first.  Then right-click and choose Audio Programs > Use current audio stream as default.

This reminds me, I need to try making this work for OpenCable/CableCARD tuners.  Currently it works for ATSC and DVB tuners. 
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: rsbrux on September 19, 2020, 12:12:34 pm
I can't believe that JRiver still doesn't support the European standard for encoding pay TV: Common Interface (CI) / Conditional Access Modules (CAM).
Are there any plans for doing so?
Does anyone at JRiver care about the European market?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on June 15, 2021, 04:34:36 pm
New Feature Request - ATSC3 OTA SiliconDust support

My local area now has ATSC3 signals for NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and others.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: JimH on June 15, 2021, 04:44:04 pm
Do you have a tuner that supports it?  It may work.

Where are you located?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on June 15, 2021, 05:46:11 pm
Yes, I have the tuner. Northern California area.
It works using the SiliconDust App in Win10, Android, Roku, FireTv, etc.
As for 3rd party software, the hurdle seems to be that tv stations are broadcasting ATSC3 using AC-4 audio and HEVC video. I am still testing MC - video may work, but audio is the gotcha.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on October 02, 2021, 09:05:10 am
Mentioned this request in other threads, added to this topic for more visibility:
- Clients be able to see the Server's Tv logs and tuner status.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: madbrain on November 03, 2021, 02:03:32 pm
I would like an option to allow closed captions to be enabled automatically when playing back recorded TV programs. Enabling them each time takes either several mouse clicks, or many presses of the remote in the OSD in theater view. I have several TV programs I record daily, and I believe Media Center should not require me to turn on closed captions manually for each file. NextPVR has a global setting for turning on closed captions that sticks around.

Note that I currently still record my TV programs with NextPVR at this time, but I want to watch them in Media Center due to better rendering.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on March 20, 2022, 08:11:14 am
Added request for Tv Tuner Info page for Theater view:
- dedicated Theater view page showing live view of what each/all the tuners are currently doing. Simple options could be = Idle, or Live Tv (channel + Server/Client), or Recording (channel + program name + duration).
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on May 11, 2022, 10:12:16 am
I would like an option to allow closed captions to be enabled automatically when playing back recorded TV programs. Enabling them each time takes either several mouse clicks, or many presses of the remote in the OSD in theater view. I have several TV programs I record daily, and I believe Media Center should not require me to turn on closed captions manually for each file. NextPVR has a global setting for turning on closed captions that sticks around.

Note that I currently still record my TV programs with NextPVR at this time, but I want to watch them in Media Center due to better rendering.

Playback of recorded TV shows is in the realm of "video playback" and the setting is already there.  Tools > Options... > Video > Subtitles & Language > Subtitle mode: Always show subtitles
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 09, 2023, 02:15:32 pm
@yaobing,

Being able to detect encrypted channels during a DVB-S/S2 scan would be a massive plus for a lot of us in the UK.

If there was a flag that could be set against an encrypted channel, we could then choose to hide or delete them after running a scan and get rid of hundreds of channels
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 13, 2023, 05:44:19 pm
@yaobing,

Being able to detect encrypted channels during a DVB-S/S2 scan would be a massive plus for a lot of us in the UK.

If there was a flag that could be set against an encrypted channel, we could then choose to hide or delete them after running a scan and get rid of hundreds of channels

Done.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 13, 2023, 05:56:49 pm
OMG, that's amazing!

Let me know when it's ready and I'll give it a whirl!
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 13, 2023, 06:17:08 pm
It will be in the next Latest build (80 or higher, when it is released on MC30 board).

We have been able to scan the "scrambled" bit for many years, but we just ignored it.  Now I just made sure we save the flag, and display it on Manage TV Channels dialog.  Hope it works as I am not able to test.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 17, 2023, 09:53:26 am
It will be in the next Latest build (80 or higher, when it is released on MC30 board).

We have been able to scan the "scrambled" bit for many years, but we just ignored it.  Now I just made sure we save the flag, and display it on Manage TV Channels dialog.  Hope it works as I am not able to test.

Beautiful!

Just upgraded to build 82. Ran a new scan. The scrambled flag was not showing for me under details in the manage channels dialogue. Went into smartlists, created a new list for tv channels with the keyword scrambled and had almost 400 channels appear that I could delete immediately.

Great work @Yaobing!
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 17, 2023, 12:57:34 pm
Ran a new scan. The scrambled flag was not showing for me under details in the manage channels dialogue.

This part is not working?  I tested it with a manually added fake DVBT channel.  It seemed to work.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 17, 2023, 01:58:37 pm
No, I'm not getting the Is Scrambled part show up there in Manage Channels.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: JimH on March 17, 2023, 03:24:44 pm
Yaobing, do you have to add a tag to the view?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 19, 2023, 08:01:01 am
Yaobing, do you have to add a tag to the view?

The flag is added to Keywords tag.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 19, 2023, 08:07:52 am
No, I'm not getting the Is Scrambled part show up there in Manage Channels.

What types of channels do you have trouble with this?

DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S, or SatIP?
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 19, 2023, 10:24:26 am
It's Dvb-s that I'm using.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: Yaobing on March 20, 2023, 10:19:33 am
Thanks.  I found the issue.  I thought I did it for all DVB channel types, but it turns out I forgot DVB-C and DVB-S.

Obviously, you did not need to rely on this part to work to achieve what you wanted.  Your method of using a TV channel smartlist is actually more efficient.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: konkeydong75 on March 20, 2023, 10:36:46 am
Thanks again Yaobing,

Really appreciate the work on this one!
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on March 25, 2023, 01:43:42 pm
Added new requests:
- ATSC3 Encryption License (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,133604.msg936870.html?PHPSESSID=rcqth4saj3oo90sohrfh074cs6#msg936870)
- Proper DMS Server-Client functionality.
- Bitstream audio for DMS Live tv.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: KeeterJ on March 25, 2023, 04:48:01 pm
This is not a feature request so much as a slight improvement suggestion: 

In Television mode, on the Recordings window, recorded programs are sorted by descending date order.  I can sort by Program by clicking on the column heading, but it does not "stick" and always reverts back to a date sort.  I find that annoying and want it to remember my preference.

I think most people use TV recording like an old VCR and only have a few things to watch then delete.  In my case, I have many recordings and would like to sort by Program name then date or episode number.
Title: Re: MC TV Feature Requests
Post by: tzr916 on April 04, 2024, 08:40:08 am
Adding my long time request to have slow motion playback put into the OSD, so that it can be easily accessed using an IR MCE remote control just by pressing the up/down arrow (like aspect ratio/zoom/shift/etc). And an option to NOT pop-up the DSP window when slow motion is activated.