verminator
09-04-2010, 22:28
I have to say this really is a great tool, I'm currently watching three MLB-games in parallel :). After having issues with the Windows firewall enabling itself even though I had turned it off on purpose (if ST doesn't work always check if only your #1-firewall is enabled!), it works very well, the choppy signals aren't ST's fault I think.
However, some things that might be worth to fix/add:
- the full-screen icon in the player doesn't seem to work after stopping and restarting the stream with the right-click menu in the player. This sometimes is necessary and way faster than closing the player and starting it on the same channel again.
- it would be nice to change the aspect ratio of streams. Some stream out a 4:3-signal as a 16:9-signal (i.e. fat people) which of course looks rather dumb in that 4:3 player
- somehow extend the player to use VLC rather than WMP. I know that VLC works with the URL in the properties of the player, but it buffers again, and it's a little bit uncomfortable ;)
- if streams get choppy (that can even be one single black or red line within a green bulk in that buffer progress), add empty frames to "jump" over that missing chunk. In some situations the player fails to continue.
- add an option to start channels which got added as hyperlinks in a browser in another player, not in the foreground player. To speak for myself I'd like this to be a high priority as I already cursed a few times watching the foreground player die just because I wanted to watch another game in parallel. ;)
- make the properties of a channel available in the right-click menu of the window title of the player. Right next to "Always on top" if you want to.
- the volume-slider should allow louder output. It's really low on some streams.
- an internal recorder would be nice :). Start with a simple record-button and continue with scheduled recordings like a PVR...
Thumbs up for this tool :)
However, some things that might be worth to fix/add:
- the full-screen icon in the player doesn't seem to work after stopping and restarting the stream with the right-click menu in the player. This sometimes is necessary and way faster than closing the player and starting it on the same channel again.
- it would be nice to change the aspect ratio of streams. Some stream out a 4:3-signal as a 16:9-signal (i.e. fat people) which of course looks rather dumb in that 4:3 player
- somehow extend the player to use VLC rather than WMP. I know that VLC works with the URL in the properties of the player, but it buffers again, and it's a little bit uncomfortable ;)
- if streams get choppy (that can even be one single black or red line within a green bulk in that buffer progress), add empty frames to "jump" over that missing chunk. In some situations the player fails to continue.
- add an option to start channels which got added as hyperlinks in a browser in another player, not in the foreground player. To speak for myself I'd like this to be a high priority as I already cursed a few times watching the foreground player die just because I wanted to watch another game in parallel. ;)
- make the properties of a channel available in the right-click menu of the window title of the player. Right next to "Always on top" if you want to.
- the volume-slider should allow louder output. It's really low on some streams.
- an internal recorder would be nice :). Start with a simple record-button and continue with scheduled recordings like a PVR...
Thumbs up for this tool :)