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Sure but i never seen the same on a tv or a tvreciver. I think its really uggly and missplaced. Do we really nead a window for that type of info? I would rather see just the number maybe in corner
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As always you have to think about the poor Apple user with his four remote buttons. No direct number input for him.
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(This post was last modified: 2014-02-13, 02:18 by scarecrow420.)
How does the apple user get to the input though, if they dont have any number keys? Surely if a number key is input then the user must have a remote or keyboard with numbers, so in that case it could be displayed in the corner as an overlay? If there is some other way through OSD or whatever to get to a inscreen keyboard to enter a number, that could be a separate dialog to the one used when you directly key in numbers on the FullScreenLiveTV?
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I have no idea, there's probably a keyboard mapping at the least. In any case I really don't think there's anything wrong with that dialog, it is good that it is centered and noticable so people don't start swearing when XBMC magically changes channels when they hit the wrong buttons on their remote.
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@Jönke: I've noticed that too, the only way to see that the recording has stopped is from the channel list. Additionally I think it could make sense to make the Stop button cancel a recording (when in fullscreen) since that's the way many VCRs/STBs work.
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Although if you happen to be timeshifted in the live stream but have also actioned an instant recording... pressing stop might be expected to just stop watching the timeshifted live stream (not cancel the recording).
In our pvr.wmc frontend we actually have repeated presses of the record button while watching liveTV increase the duration of the instant record (eg when you press it, it starts recording the current show including the timeshift data since you started watching the channel, then if you press it again it adds say 20 minute to the end of the time, press it again for another +20 minutes etc).
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For that use case (extending recording time past the current program) perhaps the record button in the OSD should bring up a small menu (like the subtitle button does nowadays) where there would be options such as adding 20 minutes to the duration or what have you. Too many magic button presses can make the user interface hard to discover (see the hate about magic cornerns in Windows 8).
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For sure, I would very much be a fan if XBMC itself provided some of these options and popup dialogs (dependant on the backend indicating it supports that feature), for now that's just how we decided to implement extending recordings since receiving the recording request when "record" button is hit is pretty much the only interaction with XBMC we have in that case. We decided rather than canceling it (which there is already another way to do) we would do the extend instant recording time. Popping up custom dialogs (like we do for series recording) is something to be used sparingly since we then have to nag the popular skin creators to implement our dialogs etc
So yeah it would be great if in Gotham+1 we could extend the addon capabilities callback to add things like SupportsRecordingExtension, SupportsSeriesRecording and so on, and have more official XBMC dialogs/popups/input fields for these kind of things
