Showsqueeze interface needs a major overhaul

[lectro]

I was pretty suprised when I installed BTV4 and saw the same tired showsqueeze page on the web admin. It's pathetic.

When you have a huge list of shows that are all waiting and you want them deleted - say, for instance, because your drive filled up and BTV deleted a bunch of shows but failed to remove them from the showsqueeze list (and now your drive is getting even fuller because showsqueeze seems to have just given up since the shows on its list have disappeared and it can't figure out how to skip them - which is another issue entirely) - it is an enormous pain to have to select each show individually, wait for its page to load, click delete, wait for the next page to load, click a button to get back to the list (which needs MORE time to load) and then click the next show. There should be checkboxes by each show so that multiple shows can be deleted at once. This could save hours!!!

And when you go into the showsqueeze setttings on the full screen interface and change the drive that showsqueeze compresses to or the method of compression, that change should apply to all pending jobs - not just ones that are created from that point on. I sometimes have a backlog of 30+ showsqueeze jobs, and it seems like once they're created, there's nothing that can be done except to delete them.

Also, it would be nice if there was a 'clean up' button that checks all the files on the showsqueeze list and removes all the entries that are no longer on the source drive. It seems that every time my showsqueeze fails, it's because shows were deleted and never got removed from the list. This wouldn't be so bad if it could just skip the failed job and move on, but it often causes the entire showsqueeze process to stop running - usually at the start of a three day weekend when I'm out of town and some network decides to run a marathon of something I have set to record, so that I come home to deleted shows because nothing was moved to my external drive...

I'm quite happy that divx was brought back, though. It's very nice.

[tscales]

That's not all. Sometimes I have 20-30 shows I want to Showsqueeze, all with the same parameters.

Why can't I select them all and click ShowSqueeze. I have to pick them one by one and it takes four screens each.

Tom

[emagin]

Check out this thread, an addon now exists to let you do batch work on showsqueeze:

[addon] Batch Showsqueeze Submit

[Cmnore]

Originally Posted by tscales

That's not all. Sometimes I have 20-30 shows I want to Showsqueeze, all with the same parameters.

Why can't I select them all and click ShowSqueeze. I have to pick them one by one and it takes four screens each.

Tom

Tom,

You can choose multiple shows from the Web Admin under 'recorded shows'. There is a filter option, and subsequently, an action list - one of which is to showsqueeze your choices.

[Wolfie351]

I had the same complaint until I bought a 1tb drive. Haven't showsqueezed since

[mayhem70]

Originally Posted by Cmnore

Tom,

You can choose multiple shows from the Web Admin under 'recorded shows'. There is a filter option, and subsequently, an action list - one of which is to showsqueeze your choices.

You do realize that at the time the post was made...2 years ago...it wasn't.

[Cmnore]

Originally Posted by mayhem70

You do realize that at the time the post was made...2 years ago...it wasn't.

Yes. I do(see post previous to mine)

[Cmnore]

Originally Posted by mayhem70

You do realize that at the time the post was made...2 years ago...it wasn't.


Does anyone even bother to search the forum for issues?!?!

Guess how I found the two year old post?

[TomXP411]

Originally Posted by Wolfie351

I had the same complaint until I bought a 1tb drive. Haven't showsqueezed since

Hard drive snob!



Actually, I'm experiencing an interesting problem myself: I squeeze most of my shows to H.264 for transfer to my iPhone, but in order to archive some shows in high quality, I set a couple of shows to AppleTV resolution.

Unfortunately, even though I have these shows set to a custom quality in the recording settings, they're still converting to iPhone quality.

So I had to work around it by turning on the auto convert for iTunes and turning off auto-showsqueeze, then enabling it for the two shows I'm archiving.

So ya... ShowSqueeze is kinda borked right now.