To complain about lacking TVnext progress

[arrbee99 1815]

From what I remember, there's supposed to be some actual progress after 4.9, which you've mentioned, but 4.9 is supposed to be the Smartlists edition, and I haven't seen a lot happening with that either.

[scb99 245]

1 minute ago, arrbee99 said:

From what I remember, there's supposed to be some actual progress after 4.9, which you've mentioned, but 4.9 is supposed to be the Smartlists edition, and I haven't seen a lot happening with that either.

I think Emby have got several 4.9 milestones being worked on in the background, which are probably in alpha test right now, the beta releases so far have been focussed on stabilisation / bug fixes. 

[Dibbes 514]

12 minutes ago, scb99 said:

Off topic but I had to smile seeing this! Because me too, I could still use a manual card punch if I had to  Those were the days when you sent the cards off in a box to be run ovenight, and got your compilation back in the morning - 1 compile a day… 

OK Everyone you can go back to complaining about Emby now!

At least we got the required 10k steps per day in... nowadays it laptop to fridge and back to laptop...

[softworkz 5066]

There are neither technical nor organizational blockers for restarting the TVnext beta channel. 

During the past year, I've been working on the new Windows and Xbox clients, which are built upon an entirely new architecture (regarding the outer, target-specific platform code), which is meant to serve as the basis for other clients as well in the future.
This is a very complex project, and TVnext is a very complex project as well. That's why I had asked that we conduct and complete the beta for the new Win/Xbox apps first, before resuming TVnext. 
What I cannot explain though, is the delay of the beta for the new Windows/Xbox apps. These are ready to go into beta for several months already.

[scb99 245]

Hmmm ^^^^

[Sammy 790]

1 hour ago, daldana said:

..But if you must know, as many of the older members of this forum, I have been programming systems since the punch card days and have stayed current through multiple languages.

 

37 minutes ago, scb99 said:

Off topic but I had to smile seeing this! Because me too, I could still use a manual card punch if I had to  Those were the days when you sent the cards off in a box to be run ovenight, and got your compilation back in the morning - 1 compile a day… 

OK Everyone you can go back to complaining about Emby now!

 

Oh those were the days..

I took Fortran V / 77 in High School and you'd do your flow chart, wright your program, sit at HUGE punch card machine, generate the stack (term still used today, BTW), wrap a rubber band around the stack and send it off to the District Office for compiling. As student work was of lower priority than actual needs of the School District, you might not get it back for several days and a lot of the time it was reams of error messages to sort out and then do it all over again. It took the whole semester to solve the Pythagorean Theorem! 

[kimmer2k 3]

25 minutes ago, softworkz said:

There are neither technical nor organizational blockers for restarting the TVnext beta channel. 

During the past year, I've been working on the new Windows and Xbox clients, which are built upon an entirely new architecture (regarding the outer, target-specific platform code), which is meant to serve as the basis for other clients as well in the future.
This is a very complex project, and TVnext is a very complex project as well. That's why I had asked that we conduct and complete the beta for the new Win/Xbox apps first, before resuming TVnext. 
What I cannot explain though, is the delay of the beta for the new Windows/Xbox apps. These are ready to go into beta for several months already.

thanks for the insight. will tvnext support linux?

[lightsout 156]

2 hours ago, softworkz said:

There are neither technical nor organizational blockers for restarting the TVnext beta channel. 

During the past year, I've been working on the new Windows and Xbox clients, which are built upon an entirely new architecture (regarding the outer, target-specific platform code), which is meant to serve as the basis for other clients as well in the future.
This is a very complex project, and TVnext is a very complex project as well. That's why I had asked that we conduct and complete the beta for the new Win/Xbox apps first, before resuming TVnext. 
What I cannot explain though, is the delay of the beta for the new Windows/Xbox apps. These are ready to go into beta for several months already.

Thanks for the update, windows client, not my thing but interesting none the less.

[daldana 122]

@Sammy

Yup, Fortran was my first! Heaven forbid, the rubberband breaks (I had that happen once) and the cards get out of order!

[kimmer2k 3]

21 minutes ago, daldana said:

@Sammy

Yup, Fortran was my first! Heaven forbid, the rubberband breaks (I had that happen once) and the cards get out of order!

But that’s why you drew a diagonal line on the side of your stack so you can put them back in order if this ever happened!

[daldana 122]

True, but it was still a lot of fun putting them back together with classmates giggling behind you. 

[TMCsw 248]

Fortran 77 was my first introduction to programing but I never created anything useful with it. (never used punch cards but it was still available!)

I was then thrown into the MS/PC-DOS era where I was able to automate a lot of stuff with ‘basic/basica and even .bat’

Fallowed by learning that .sh  on UNIX was/is very powerful….

But getting back to MS stuff ‘Turbo Pascal’ in it’s time was AWSOME!

Getting back to the point….

4.9xxx is not exactly a short beta by my standards as @Luke eluded too previosly

[softworkz 5066]

4 hours ago, kimmer2k said:

thanks for the insight. will tvnext support linux?

  Yes, and not just that. It has a "Remote Tuner" feature which allows you to use tuners in a Linux system from Windows and tuners in a Windows system from (Emby Server on..) Linux.

("remote" in this case means LAN, not WAN, though).

Though, TVnext betas which are delivered through its own separate channel are Windows-only (but can remotely use tuners on a Linux system). 
Emby with TVnext will only work on Linux directly, once it's included in the regular Emby beta channel.

[kimmer2k 3]

16 minutes ago, softworkz said:

  Yes, and not just that. It has a "Remote Tuner" feature which allows you to use tuners in a Linux system from Windows and tuners in a Windows system from (Emby Server on..) Linux.

("remote" in this case means LAN, not WAN, though).

Though, TVnext betas which are delivered through its own separate channel are Windows-only (but can remotely use tuners on a Linux system). 
Emby with TVnext will only work on Linux directly, once it's included in the regular Emby beta channel.

sweet. would love to see ceton pci tuner support, but will take what i can get. thanks for all ur hard work and can’t wait till it comes out!

[Armageus 78]

6 hours ago, lightsout said:

Thanks for the update, windows client, not my thing but interesting none the less.

Can't really imagine it being anyone's thing (can think of nothing worse than using a big noisy, power hungry pc to stream media), but presumably they have telemetry that tells them how many people use it

Edited September 4, 2024 by Armageus

[Dibbes 514]

2 hours ago, Armageus said:

Can't really imagine it being anyone's thing (can think of nothing worse than using a big noisy, power hungry pc to stream media), but presumably they have telemetry that tells them how many people use it

Just take a look at the support channels (both beta as well as release) for the Windows server releases. These are a lot busier than any of the other channels...

[ebr 16169]

14 hours ago, TMCsw said:

‘Turbo Pascal’ in it’s time was AWSOME!

My entire Collegiate project set was done with that.  It was an awesome system for its time. 

Complete topic derail but...

"You are standing in a clearing near a wood.  There is a white house on your left."

Another system that was really pretty amazing for its time.

[daldana 122]

Isn't that Zork?

[Armageus 78]

On 04/09/2024 at 09:43, Dibbes said:

Just take a look at the support channels (both beta as well as release) for the Windows server releases. These are a lot busier than any of the other channels...

I expect the Windows Server release to be, but not a Windows Client .

[emveepee 132]

18 hours ago, daldana said:

Isn't that Zork?

It is and I guess I am old school too because I found that it was still fun https://classicreload.com/zork-i.html# playing it yesterday.

[neik 873]

On 9/3/2024 at 11:02 PM, softworkz said:

What I cannot explain though, is the delay of the beta for the new Windows/Xbox apps. These are ready to go into beta for several months already.

Seems like somebody heard you  

As always, thanks for the insight, you're the only one of the officials doing so and many of us appreciate those insights.

[Dibbes 514]

It's been a while seen I've seen anything on TVNext... are there any updates?

[Ronstang 293]

22 minutes ago, Dibbes said:

It's been a while seen I've seen anything on TVNext... are there any updates?

Well, I was told it was ready for beta in a couple months EXACTLY 4 years ago and why I went ahead and bought a emby premiere lifetime subscription. Even though the as-is TV app sort of works it does not work to my liking to get rid of my cable box but Premiere was on sale so I bought it eagerly awaiting TVNext.    Still noting 4 years later and I still have my cable box.  Never hold your breath around here.  

[arrbee99 1815]

16 minutes ago, Ronstang said:

'Still noting 4 years later'

...just sayin'

[denz 501]

The way the current beta is going it’s not looking good it will be released soon very few releases very few posts. If they put tvnext that forum will be buzzing again. Its very disappointing the tv portion needs a lot if improvements tv guide is one of them after 7 years still not improved