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Title: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: JoeBorn on December 31, 2005, 01:48:03 PM We currently have the ability to make some fixes/enhancements to the R2 firmware, and we want your input.
Here is the current bugzilla list, ranked according to votes. http://bugzilla.neurostechnology.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&bug_status=__open__&product=%2AOSD&content=&order=bugs.votes,bugs.votes%2Cbugs.votes&query_based_on= In any case, please enter new bugs, vote and let us know here which ones you think represent our top priorities to fix in the new firmware. Joe edit: fixed url jborn (at) neurosaudio.com Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: Hostile on January 01, 2006, 02:25:07 AM I like the ability to pause and resume live tv one, that one got my vote! Put your votes in!!
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: erica on January 02, 2006, 11:10:35 AM My #1 wish? Play back avi/divx from memory cards.
Pause/rewind live TV would be great. IR Blaster (is the hardware there to support this?), and recording MP3 get my votes too. Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: Hostile on January 02, 2006, 03:21:12 PM Erica, The NMR II already supports playing back avi/divx/xvid back from the memory stick, drop a divx video file on the memory stick and go into the video play menu and try it out. Highly compressed videos might not play at full 30fps though.
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: tom2 on January 05, 2006, 02:03:17 PM quote: But isn't that the bugzilla of the Recorder 1? It's a bit confusing to have wishes in there that the R2 already has. And what would be the version of this improved R2 firmware? I tried an advanced search for the R2 such as this: http://bugzilla.neurostechnology.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short;_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short;_desc=&product;=Neuros+MPEG-4+Recorder&component;=Player+Firmware&version;=2.0&long;_desc_type=substring&long;_desc=&bug;_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug;_file_loc=&bug;_status=NEW&bug;_status=ASSIGNED&bug;_status=REOPENED&emailassigned;_to1=1&emailtype1;=substring&email1;=&emailassigned;_to2=1&emailreporter2;=1&emailcc2;=1&emailtype2;=substring&email2;=&bugidtype;=include&bug;_id=&votes;=&chfieldfrom;=&chfieldto;=Now&chfieldvalue;=&cmdtype;=doitℴ=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0;=noop&type0-0-0;=noop&value0-0-0;=negate&field0-0-1;=noop&type0-0-1;=noop&value0-0-1;=&field0-1-0;=noop&type0-1-0;=noop&value0-1-0;=rows&field0-1-1;=noop&type0-1-1;=noop&value0-1-1;=ARRAY%280x842a3f8%29 Is that what is needed? I'd like to help and give input (have some experience now :-), but am still a bit confused about your bugzilla setup. Thanks! -Tom -tom2 Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: claydubois(at)bellsouth.net on January 30, 2006, 12:38:03 PM SOrry, I posted a new topic before I saw this sticky, so I figured I would post it in here as well.
Ok, I bought the Recorder 1 last year. Liked it except it was hard to start a recording unless hooked to a TV to scroll through the menus. I just bought the Recorder 2 and it definately is a vast improvement. Now, to start it up and record, it only requires two button presses on the remote, the power and record. However, there is one thing I do not like. It is difficult to tell that you have powerd on the recorder. When power is supplied to the recorder the green led is on. That is fine, but, when you hit the power on button on the remote to turn the recorder on, there is nothing telling you that you have powered up the recorder. I plan on using this recorder remotely without any type of video display connected to it, so it makes it tough knowing when the recorder is actually ready to start recording. The only way to tell is to hit the record button and hope the red led comes on. If it does not, you have to hit the power button again, and then hit the record button. The actual startup to record time is critical to my application, so any lost seconds having to repeat the process to get it to record is undesireable. It sure would be nice if there way a way you could tell the unit is powered on. Why not have the red led turn on when the unit is powered up and then start blinking when it is recording. This would be a fool proof way to know you actually have powered the recorder on and its ready to start recording. The only thing that would be better would to allot the record button to power up the unit and start it recording automatially if it is pressed and held, and pressing and holding it again would stop recording and turn it off. I see a bunch of applications where an easy powerup and record cycle would benifit greatly. Anyway, you are definately on the right track now guys! Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: mardibloke on March 22, 2006, 03:42:26 PM quote: Have added my vote and comments to the AUTO record feature. It does not remain set, which is a real shame. If this could be fixed the device would be ideal for my use, and I would purchase more that the two I already own. However if this cannot be fixed, then all I need is a simple way to start recording and know 100% that it is recording. Just a button or switch I could attach to the Recorder II to start and stop recording. I do not want to have to use the supplied remote, or have a screen attached to the Recorder II. However the ideal would be to have it AUTO record when I power up the remote bullet cam video source. Thanks Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: misfit5 on March 28, 2006, 09:01:37 AM I definitely vote on having a light telling you it's powered on (besides the green one)--either that, or make the green light indicate the power is on rather than confirming that it's receiving power.
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: Jeeper4x4 on April 17, 2006, 08:48:33 PM How about something similar to the LANC controller used on some Sony and Canon camcorders ? I currently use a Sony camcorder with a LANC remote controller and it works very well. Green LED indicates ready to record, Red LED indicates recording, press and hold to turn off , press and hold to turn on , flashing Red LED indicates tape getting full, etc. The LANC controller lets me know positively what state the camcorder is in with it in the backpack and out of view. I know the intention of the Neuros Recorder2 is for something else, but, it has wider applications, especially for sport enthusiast's.
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: gopokes85 on May 12, 2006, 02:45:17 PM quote: I assume this means "to pause and resume RECORDING live tv"! Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: MaxZ on May 17, 2006, 04:30:30 AM Also I need only that the AUTO record feature remain set between connecting and reconnetting the video source. This would give me the ability to use MP4-II as alarm system connected to door/window microswitches
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: JoeBorn on August 24, 2006, 12:00:41 AM As I understand it, Tim has been testing a new version of the firmware that has the auto record feature fixed. Hopefully he'll post something soon.
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: mxracer95 on August 25, 2006, 01:15:06 AM Definately need TRUE and PERMANENT auto record (no remote needed, just plug in the power and when a video source is present it powers on and records)
AND loop record oh, and for this to work properly, it needs to handle power disruptions. right now if it's recording and i kill the power to the unit (as i would when it's powered in a vehicle) it leaves the file in an unusuable and even hidden state. it should record the files in a way that they can be used or repaired if recording is suddenly disrupted, or, when the unit is powered on it should detect un-finalized files and finalize them. Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: AlphaBob on August 25, 2006, 10:41:49 AM Fix the 2 hour time limit split which causes a loss of about 3 to 5 seconds of video, and a waste of time if you try to rejoin the files into one.
At least bump it to 2.5 hours, which will cover many more titles than 2.0 hours does. But unlimited would work. Second would be some smart algorithm that turns the record off when the video is no longer changing (like blue screen). Then the recording would stop when the source stopped. No device that I own quits outputting video when it is done, so the auto record function won't work Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: kleinbull(at)yahoo.com on September 07, 2006, 01:35:22 AM ???This may have already been mentioned before, but I would like to see less top/bottom of the frame cut off for PSP recordings. I realize this probably has to do with resizing for PSP's widescreen format, but if I record a football game, b-ball game, or poker show, I can't see stats such as score, down, time,..etc. When I try to record in letterbox, 640x480 or ipod, screen-size settings to preserve the full frame info, I can't view these movies on my PSP.
Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: kleinbull(at)yahoo.com on September 07, 2006, 02:19:14 AM The selections that come up to post on the bugzilla site don't seem to indicate a post preference for R2 firmware. When selecting "firmware" as the primary option, it looks like the secondary pull-down appears to be related to Neuros Audio Player.
My previous reply in this post is a request for the R2 firmware since I was confused about where to post on the bugzilla site. I think you have a strong product and thank you for your foresight to bring it to market...I hope you have a patent cause I saw there is a new gunslinger in town. From what I've experienced so far with my R2, you should be at least .75 to 1 with PSP owners considering the functionality you are providing to PSP owners. I think you have a great product, but keep moving strongly forward and don't rest on your laurels. Don't give up the fight, satisfied customers are one the the best forms of advertising you can hope for in the world. Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: JoeBorn on September 09, 2006, 04:45:18 PM You are definately right on all accounts. Bugzilla is confusing in that regard. Firmware refers to N1&N2 firmware. R2 Firmware is under MPEG-4 Rec >Firmware
And we're definately not resting on our Laurels, check out http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/Neuros_OSD Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: bobkart on September 29, 2006, 12:39:12 AM If you are still taking suggestions for firmware improvements for the R2, mine would echo those of several others in this Topic:
- visual confirmation that the unit is turned on - a way to turn on AutoRecord permanently Ideally as long as it has power, as soon as a video signal is present, it would start recording. But if that's not possible, then as long as it's turned on (with visual indication that it's on!), AutoRecord should work. This whole thing where AutoRecord is turned off after it is used makes it practically useless. At the end of each AutoRecording I must find a TV screen, hook it up, and navigate through menus to turn Autorecord back on. Or resort to manual recording which is what usually happens. Thanks for listening. Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: hrlaser on October 05, 2006, 09:01:47 PM Hi Joe
I wrote the 4000 word review of the Recorder 2 Plus that went up on TreoCentral yesterday. As you probably know, I had MANY phone calls with Johan while prepping to review the unit, and he was extremely patient and listened to everything I said. Give that man a raise! I trust you've read my review by now. I mentioned some of the quirks with the unit, but I'll list them here in what I think are order of importance - if you can fix any of these things in a firmware upgrade, I'd love to see it happen.. so here we go: (But first, let me mention that I play back files I've made with the Recorder 2 plus ON the recorder and my teevee, ON my laptop with VLC, and ON my Treos with TCPMP.. so I use all three methods of playback.. not necessarily with everything I record, but I watch the stuff I record all three ways..) .. - The "feature" I like the least: get rid of the two hour recording limit. I mainly record commercial-free movies from premium cable channels and MANY films run over two hours. I get a20-30 second gap (whether I've started the recorder manually or via timer) when it hits the two hour mark, closes the first file and opens the second to get the rest of the movie. This seems like an artificial limit and I can't comprehend why it's there -PAUSE during recording - let me pause during recording, same as I can pause during playback. This would be especially useful when recording shows with commercials in them and any VCR can pause during recording. - 12 hour timers with AM/PM indicators: Make the timers 12 hours with an AM/PM indicator like every VCR I've ever seen has. And when scrolling up or down through hours or minutes when setting a timer, say Iwant to set a timer for 9:30pm, if the digits are at 00 i literally have to punch the up or down button thirty times to get to :30.Fix it so holding down the button increments or decrements the timer hour and minute counters at an increasing speed the longer one holds down the button. - Zero out used timers: Zero out any timer after it's been used. In other words, like a VCR, if I set it to record a show from 10pm to midnight, and it records tothe tape, afterwards, that timer is gone from the VCR's timer screen. On the Neuros, the "old" timers are still set to the date and time they made a recording. This seems pointless and strange. - Visual recording or timer on indicator: Make the red LED blink when the unit is recording, or when timers are set for future recordngs. If this drives some people nuts, then make it a toggle. - When was this recording made? Put a timestamp on each recording so when it's played back ON the Neuros, and the white overlay is visible with the remote's display button, it shows when that recording was made: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm instead of showing the current time, or in addition toshowing the current time - FF/RW speed indicator: When using FF/RW mode, indicate on the overlay which speed FF or RW you're using. There SEEM to be five speeds but there's no visual indication as to which speed it's going - Card space remaining in real time during recording: Decrement the space available on the card, in real time, on the recording screen white text overlay AS the recording is in progress. In other words, I'm looking at the overlay and it says I have "1006 MB/260 Min" left on the card. I hit record. Those numbers stay static. I'd like to see them decrement to show me how much space is left on the card AS a recording is being made, not just AFTER a recording has been made and the file has closed. - Renaming files: How about an On Screen Keyboard so one can rename recorded files on the card while it's in the Neuros? "MV400023.MP4" doesn't tell me much about what that file is, and I usually have to play it because the preview window shows me one frame which may or may not be enough visual information to tell what show or film it is. Let me rename the files with an OSK so, for example, instead of displaying MV400023.MP4 in the list of files on the card, it would display "Unforgiven" or "Annie Hall" or "Curb Your Enthusaism #12" or whatever I typed into it. - Resume and Bookmarking. If I'm watching a movie play back on the Neuros, and I leave the playback screen, and go back to it again, I have to FF back to where I was to continue watching from that point. In other words, I'd like a "resume" feature. Make the unit either remember where it was if one leaves playback mode, or allow one to put bookmarks in a file AS it's playing and then jump to them. Like if I want to bookmark particularly memorable scenes in a film, how in the world am I supposed to remember where in a 2-3 hour movie a certain scene is only by its HH:MM:SS??.. I'll stop there. Don't get the impression I don't like the product. I gave it TreoCentral's highest rating in my review. I just think it needs the stuff I listed above. If you could only fix ONE Of those things, the two hour time limit per file is the one that drives me batty the most. ;D Regards, Harv Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: bobkart on October 05, 2006, 09:16:57 PM According to this Topic, the 2-hour limit is in the hardware (4MB RAM), unless a different file wrapper is utilized:
http://forums.neurostechnology.com/smf/index.php?topic=7398.0 Just FYI. Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: hrlaser on October 05, 2006, 09:27:12 PM According to this Topic, the 2-hour limit is in the hardware (4MB RAM), unless a different file wrapper is utilized: http://forums.neurostechnology.com/smf/index.php?topic=7398.0 Just FYI. I guess I simply don't understand how 4mb of ram in the machine translates to a 2 hour recording limit when I've created recordings up to 800mb in size (a two hour movie in 320x240 "normal" mode = an 800mb file).. how is the amount of internal RAM directly related to the 2 hour per file recording limit? Are you saying it buffers 4mb of data at a time and then writes it to the open file and then buffers another 4mb of data? If that's what it's doing, then why should it care about the final recording time limit? I'm not an engineer so as Denzel Washington might have said in "Philadelphia".. explain it to me like I'm a 9 year old ;) Harv Title: Re: Vote on bugs and enhancements Post by: bobkart on October 05, 2006, 09:33:30 PM Here are the relevant quotes from that Topic:
Yes, I'm with you, it's incredibly annoying. I've also asked if we could have it bumped to 2.5 hours. The trouble is that the .mp4 format requires some kind of table thats stored in ram. it's apparantly a big table that maxes out the 4MB of RAM on the system at 2 hours. Apparantly it could be fixed by using another recording format, but then that wouldn't play on the PSP or iPod. Unfortunately, those are the options we have with the R2 hardware right now. From what I have been told, the only software fix is to use a different file wrapper (ie. avi or asf). Let me get with the folks here to see what we can do about some kind of exchange or upgrade type program... So I am just going by what I have read.I agree it is a serious shortcoming. |