Sorry for the delay... Favorites... new build will be some time Tuesday...
Posted: 2/17/2009 12:50:10 AM | By: Yaggs
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I wanted to get a build out on Monday but thought I had enough time to implement a favorites function into SecondRun.tv before I got the Monday build out... well... it took longer than I thought... I am done with most of the inital favorites implentation I just don't have time tonight to really clean up the build and get it out the door... It should be out some time tomorrow.
The favorites that I am putting in right now (even if I dont end up doing it this way down the road) should make it alot easier to use SecondRun.tv... since there are tons of shows and networks out there right now (and they are not even all being loaded yet) this should really cut down on the browsing and scrolling around all the menus!
A little about how favorites are working right now:
- I have implemented 3 menus of favorites (my thinking is I have one, the wife gets one, and the kids get one).
- Clicking either 1 or 2 or 3 on the keyboard or remote control will either add an item to your favorites or remove it.
- favorites lists are shown at the front of the list of networks (I will most likely be moving them when I have a better idea of the final layout of this thing down the road.
- They are not going to be finished... I still want to put indicators on the boxes to show that they are one or more of your favorites lists.
Here are some screenshots of the favorites implementation right now:
Again... sorry I didn't get the new build out today... but like I said... it should be out some time on Tuesday (which, since its 3:07am right now its really today).
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Content is coming... new build tomorrow...
Posted: 2/15/2009 10:11:38 PM | By: Yaggs
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I load a bunch more content over the weekend... I will be loading the rest over this coming week and all the images should be done by the end of the week as well.
Also... I will be posting a new build tomorrow some time... it will fix many of the initial bugs that were found and clean things up a little! Check back tomorrow some time! |
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A Special Thanks... To My Wife...
Posted: 2/14/2009 12:49:35 PM | By: Yaggs
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I just wanted to take a second on Valentines Day to take a minute to thank my wife... I have 4 young kids at home and she has put up with a lot over the last 2 weeks... without her this whole project would not be anywhere! I have been going to be between 3-4 in the morning everynight for the past 2 weeks and even when I am here I am only really half here because I am constantly thinking about how I can do certain things in the app.
I probably wont be doing much today but I will try to get more content loaded and more of the images up... A release should be coming out tomorrow some time that fixes a bunch of issues! Hope everyone has a great Valentines Day! |
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A Quick Note: Use Your Cancel/Clear Button
Posted: 2/14/2009 6:53:31 AM | By: Yaggs
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Lots of people have posted that once they are in full screen playing a video that they have to hit the green media center button to get out of the video and go back into SecondRun.tv from the beginnnig... JUST USE THE CANCEL or CLEAR BUTTON ON YOUR REMOTE! Im pretty sure ALL Media Center remotes have this button... basically its the same as pressing the ESCAPE key (which is how you exit full screen using the keyboard normally)... then you can just hit the back button to go back to the previous screen!
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Made some big progress last night! Not a new build but there will be soon!
Posted: 2/14/2009 6:39:56 AM | By: Yaggs
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OK... So I spent most of the night last night trying to find a new way to do the full screen stuff as well use the remote to play/pause, etc... I finally built a new routine that will do the following:
- Do a better job at consistently putting the video in full screen
- Automatically put the content in 480 mode
- Put content from non-hulu providers in full screen automatically
- Play/Pause video using the remote
- *Possibly* allow for some simply FF/REW via the remote
The struggle here is the fact that we are trying to interface with the flash content and not an actual video... From what I have see of vmcNetflix they actually get the URL to the .flv (flash video file) and have that transcoded and streamed via Media Center as an actual video file (that is how it works seamllessly with the remote)... hulu and other providers don't want you to do that because its their flash players that control the ads in the videos so while you are watching a video it will pause it and show you the 30 second ad every once in a while. Hulu and other providers actually make it very hard to get that URL and if you do get that URL and stream it to MC you are bypassing their ad serving component (which is not good)... that could actually get hulu and other content providers to start making changes to mess up how SecondRun.tv works because if we went that route tons of users would be using their content and their bandwith without displaying their ads.
So... as you can see... Ideally we play the content just the way we are... its the nice way to do it and it probably provides a great benefit to hulu and other because we are not bypassing their ads... since we are just opening the main page for the movie and playing it just like you would if you were browsing their site then we are actually probably providing a little bit of a boost to the number of people watching content on hulu.
So... to make a long post short (I know too late...) I have all along wanted to keep the content playing the way we are so we were looking at as a benefit to the content providers like hulu and now I think we have a solution in place that will allow us to interface with the videos pretty close to the way you would if you were watching them natively in Media Center! |
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New Build is up... Fixes 4:3... Should make full screen more consistent...
Posted: 2/13/2009 4:21:30 PM | By: Yaggs
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I just dropped a new build out that should fix the display problems with the 4:3 aspect ratio users! If you are running 4:3 and had a problem with the previous build just download it again and try the new one... please post comments to this post with your results! |
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A Quick Note... 4:3 aspect ratio?
Posted: 2/13/2009 2:19:55 PM | By: Yaggs
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If you are running in a 4:3 aspect ratio you may have a problem when you go to the screen for a show... if there are no episode icons and you are running in 4:3 post a comment here... I will try to get an update to fix this tonight! |
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Windows 7 Issues... Try again...
Posted: 2/13/2009 2:10:13 PM | By: Yaggs
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| I just put up another build that should correct the problem installing on Windows 7... Figures all the time I spent on this over the last week or two and I put up the wrong .zip file! Let me know if the new build installs on Windows 7 OK. |
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COME AND GET IT! FIRST BETA BUILD NOW AVAILABLE!
Posted: 2/13/2009 1:47:24 PM | By: Yaggs
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I have just posted the first beta build download! Grab it while its hot!!!! Just click the big red button to your right! Let me know what you think! Also remember... there are alot of images and content that are not in this build yet! I will fix that over the next day or so!!! I just wanted to get this out for people to test! |
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Oh... about the name Yaggs...
Posted: 2/13/2009 7:58:08 AM | By: Yaggs
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Several people have asked about it... it goes back to a nick name I had in high school and its also my XBOX Live GamerTag (my real name is Jason Jaegers... most people pronounce the "J" in Jaegers as a "Y"... so I got alot of Yaggs... and Yeagermeister... but I didn't think it was a good idea to use Yeagermeister as my Gamer Tag)... don't want anyone to think its some creapy alter ego/personality! |
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