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Sorry about that.

Please download again and reinstall. :)

It works now.  8)

All appears to be working well.  The hard padding is great.

Dave.

Check out the padding options. Feedback appreciated.

Luke,
I just installed the new Beta and Interactive wont start.  It keeps crashing before the interface comes up.
I'll restart the box when I can.  My wife is using the extender and I'll have to wait for her to finish.
Dave.

My bigest issue is the sync of the time on my PC.  It seems I was a few minutes different to that of the inband guide.
I did have an issue last night at midnight a recording should have started but didn't.  I am suspicious that my PC was having issues though.
I also had another issue today that Nine news (Melb) at 6:00pm Thursday failed to schedule and I had to request it be rescheduled via the web interface.

I am looking forward to the option of Hard Padding though in the next Beta.

Dave.

Looks great Luke.
Will the new Beta include the inband features in the current Beta?
Dave.

Sounds like a good plan Luke.
Does it make sense to allow option 1 (Smart Padding) with a configurable amount of padding maybe beyond the 2 minutes?  That way it's then my problem if I set it for 2 and it is out by 3?
Just a thought.
Dave.

Luke, I was using it normally, without enabling inband at that time.
I have only just enabled inband today.  I'll see what difference this makes to my recordings.  Should I now stop setting hard padding for each recording?
Dace.

Luke,

Have you had any feedback on the beta?

I've had two instances that recordings start failing to schedule and I've restarted interactive and it all came good.

Dave.

Hi Cuddon!

Thanks for your comments.

We are planning to provide a padding solution on the server side. By keeping it server side and sending down the padding options with each recording task we can enhance and evolve the padding strategies on the server according to what our customers want without having to rely on our PVR partners to integrate new functionality each time.

We are aiming at Interactive V4 for Media Center Beta to be released around the end of October / Early November.

Cheers.

Hey Luke, how's Interactive V4 going?

Dave.

Luke, it looks great.
When are you anticipating a Beta being available?
My bigest issue is the default padding in Media Center.  Basically Media Centre is dumb and doesn't realise that you may have free tuners when a program ends on one channel and another starts on a different channel (or even the same one).  It ignors the "if possible" option and just cuts the recording.
I manually change all my programs to hard padding (read between the lines, it's a pain in the a#$e) and deal with any conflicts that come up.  I'd like the option of setting hard padding via IceTV.
Dave.

C31 now appears in Melbourne as channel 44.

Do we know if the IceTV guide will be made available soon?