It contains an important fix for an exception which affected users importing data into Windows Media Center from any source other than DVB-S or an imported file.
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I keep looking at the "Release Notes" file that inside the Fixpack/Documentation area looking for changes. That file never seems to change. I now see that you release a "Fixpack xx Release Notes" in the Files area. I wish that you had include this file in the Fixpack itself.
I was interested to see that you had added a "Channel Scan..." feature to Fixpack 22. I was going to request this as a feature. I have run it on North America - Terrestial. It seems to work for the most part. It scan all of the channels and found ALL of the channels that I can receive. It displays the two VHF channels correctly. Once it gets to the UHF, it finds all the channels, but it displays "14(UHF)" as the "Phys Channel" for ALL of the UHF channels it finds. I don't have anything on channel 14, my first UHF channel is 15.
For my 57 channels, with a 20 second timeout, it takes almost 20 minutes to scan all the channels. I wasn't able to find a why to change the default timeout. It seem to only take a second or two once it gets to a good channel on my system. I'm guessing, but I would think that on most systems, a 5 second timeout would work 99% of the time. Maybe you could display a timeout slider on the Channel Scan screen next to the "Start Scan", set to a default of 5 seconds. A full scan would take less then 3 minutes to scan the NA Terrestial 57 channels, and if people didn't like the results, they could then increase it before doing another scan.
One more change, you need to add a "Update Channels" button to the Scan channels result page. This would populate the channels on the "Turning" tab, and a user could delete any channel they didn't want via the "Turning" tab.
Carl
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IseethatyouhavecontinueonmakingchangestotheChannelscaninFP23. FormyOTANAchannels, Iwasabletoscanall38channelsinmyareausing1and2sectimeouts. AsbestasIcantell, thescanchannelloghasall39channels. Thephyschannelcolumnlookscorrecttome.
ThefirsttimeIranit, Ididn't realize that I had to set the parameters (ATSC tab, NA-Terr). I had set them on the Tuning tab, I just expected them to carry over to scan tab. I forgot which setting there was, but the Scan caused a error. After the channel scan, I switched back to the tuning tab, then click on the "Load From Scan" button, but it had no effect. I'mguessingthatyouhaven't written that code yet, if so, just disable the "Load From Scan" button until you get it working.Nicework.
Carl
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Fixpack 22 is now available in the Files section.
It contains an important fix for an exception which affected users importing data into Windows Media Center from any source other than DVB-S or an imported file.
Steve,
I keep looking at the "Release Notes" file that inside the Fixpack/Documentation area looking for changes. That file never seems to change. I now see that you release a "Fixpack xx Release Notes" in the Files area. I wish that you had include this file in the Fixpack itself.
I was interested to see that you had added a "Channel Scan..." feature to Fixpack 22. I was going to request this as a feature. I have run it on North America - Terrestial. It seems to work for the most part. It scan all of the channels and found ALL of the channels that I can receive. It displays the two VHF channels correctly. Once it gets to the UHF, it finds all the channels, but it displays "14(UHF)" as the "Phys Channel" for ALL of the UHF channels it finds. I don't have anything on channel 14, my first UHF channel is 15.
For my 57 channels, with a 20 second timeout, it takes almost 20 minutes to scan all the channels. I wasn't able to find a why to change the default timeout. It seem to only take a second or two once it gets to a good channel on my system. I'm guessing, but I would think that on most systems, a 5 second timeout would work 99% of the time. Maybe you could display a timeout slider on the Channel Scan screen next to the "Start Scan", set to a default of 5 seconds. A full scan would take less then 3 minutes to scan the NA Terrestial 57 channels, and if people didn't like the results, they could then increase it before doing another scan.
One more change, you need to add a "Update Channels" button to the Scan channels result page. This would populate the channels on the "Turning" tab, and a user could delete any channel they didn't want via the "Turning" tab.
Carl
Steve,
The Load From Scan button should work.
I can only test it with live data with DVB-S so obviously there is something wrong if it's ATSC.