Michael Drons wrote: > I have mythtv bookmarks working and I am looking for > some people to test.
I was wondering if this ever made it into the main repository, and I see from your recent wiki page on it: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/Bookmarks that it has. Quoting from the wiki: > ...but it is dependent on direct database access... Was that always the case? I never had database access setup back in February when I first tried testing out this feature. In some of your original correspondence on this feature you wrote: > There are myth protocol messages that set the bookmark > value (SET_BOOKMARK) and get the bookmark. implying that it was implemented with only the MythTV protocol. > A UI will be displayed if the bookmarks was set. I don't seem to be seeing this. I pressed each of the buttons at the bottom of the remote, waiting a second or two between presses, and I did see some jumping around in the video, but not what I'd expect, and no UI display in response to pressing the yellow button. Though I think the usual OSD items that are shown when you hit pause or skip did appear once. I'm running a nightly from last weekend. > Tom Metro wrote: >> Can you set only one bookmark? I'm guessing yes, as >> I think that's all the myth-frontend supports. >> >> I've been looking for a feature where you could tag >> "points of interest" in a video, though it may be of >> limited usefulness as the regular frontend would need >> to be patch as well to support it. > > Yes the frontend only supports one bookmark. A > feature would need to be requested for myth to support > more bookmarks. The UI and protocol messages are not > build to support more than one bookmark. Revising my thoughts on this enhancement idea...instead of having it set a bookmark, it could set a cut point. The infrastructure already exists on the back-end to handle multiple cut points, and the regular front-end permits jumping among cut points. If a cut point can't be set via the MythTV protocol, I'm sure it can via the database. Whether it makes sense to supplant the bookmarking feature with one that sets and jumps between cut points, is another matter. It may make more sense to implement it as a separate feature (though we're running out of buttons; time to start adding OSD menu items?). Also, if the cut list is used like a multi-bookmark list, one would need to figure out what to do about start and end cut points. Would you set a start cut point when the user hit the button, and then automatically place an end cut point right after it? Have you considered automatically bookmarking the video when the user hits stop, and automatically seeking to the bookmark, if present, when a video is played? -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
