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Originally posted by debennett2
What delay are you talking about? The delay it takes for the FSUI to come up? There cannot be a difference in how fast Snapstream loads from myHTPC or by itself.
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Well, yes and no. Yes, the delay that bothers me is the delay it takes to start up Beyond TV when it isn't already in full screen mode when I select it from myHTPC. But there exists a work around - sort of. First I start myHTPC, then I start Beyond TV in full screen and then I change focus to myHTPC on the PC. This way when I selected Beyond TV from myHTPC it is instantenous. The problem is that I haven't figured out a logical way to switch back to myHTPC without programming a key for Alt-tab. (which won't work if I have other things running in the background) It is already a stretch for me to get my husband to use a programmed key on the remote to "escape" when he's backing out of recording. He won't use live TV and won't use the E and L keys. If I mentioned alt+tab and remote together in one sentence he would probably never touch the remote again. So if Beyond TV is able to do the same thing myHTPC does but find a way to change focus through a menu item rather than having to program alt+tab or some other key, I could actually use their version of myHTPC even if it has no other benefit. To make it more complicated Beyond TV uses "escape" and myHTPC uses "backspace" to back out of screens. Yeah, my remote has 6 keys I can program all this stuff in - and I could use it - but my husband would refuse to learn all these functions.
There was another thing that bugged me which may be some setting that I haven't bothered to further look into; when I used the ATI remote with myHTPC and then switched to Snapstream, the behavior of the remote changed. I can't stand the way the ATI remote works when it is set to control individual applications (at least in Beyond TV). When it is set to work the same for all windows applications all the buttons work the way I would expect. But when I go to Beyond TV from myHTPC the remote seem to change to individual program setting (maybe this is the only way the myHTPC plugin works for it?) and then the ff/rw buttons no longer skip forward and back, they just open a dialogue asking me to select how much to skip forward or back - can't remember exactly but it was way too annoying to mess with. So basically if Snapstream offered a more integrated version of myHTPC it would be more usable for me and I would pay a little for it - even though technically I could get the same functions for free.