I am using a 360 to view my subscription videos on youtube and ove it, but It would really help if I could sort by date instead of by name, is this possible? This way I could see the latest videos released.

Jason

I apologize if this question has been posted in the past, but would it be possible to change the installation path for PlayOn? For those of us with high-end systems, we regularly have multiple drives configured for different things. In my case, I install everything to the D-drive. Everything that is, except PlayOn.

Thanks for your help and thanks again for such an awesome product. It really has changed the way we view media in my home.

I, like many users, suffer from dropped streams. Currently, there is no way to fast-forward or rewind supported for me. So, is there a way for the PlayOn server to watch the stream going to the client, and when that stream's traffic ends, create a 'marker' in the video they were watching.... Then keep processing that video behind the scenes. When the user comes back, present them with 2 options:
Video as usual
Resume Video

Since playon is performing the streaming to the client, and it can tell when the stream is dropped, I'm hoping there is a way to tell where in the video that stream was at when it dropped.

This would make playon about ten times less painful to use.

Support for HTTP proxy would be great. Most internet by satellite solutions are require to use an HTTP proxy.

Since MS hasn't allowed users to select which programs can bypass UAC, I'd like to be able to start Playon without interference from UAC. That way Vista and Win7 users could start Playon when windows loads so it would always be available. Some other third party services seem to start without UAC interfering. I don't know anything about programming, so maybe this isn't possible.

Hello,

Has anyone at playon considered developing a Yahoo Connected TV widget as a front end to the playon server? On most HD TVs the DLNA support is pretty limited. I have a Samsung HDTV and the DLNA doesn't support images for folder or files and the wait time for videos to start is very short and I often need to mark a video in my playlist so it keeps trying until the video is buffered.

I know it would not be feasible to implement a front end for every platform but Yahoo Connected TV widgets seems to be supported by all the major TV brands and they all seem to be moving in this direction. This would also be a way for you to expose your service to millons of users who have never heard of Playon before since the TV automatically updates new widgets.

http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/services/tv-widgets

I've downloaded the developers kit and they have pretty good documentation on how to develop. (I am a software engineer).

Any thoughts?

Marc

I watch those a lot and I know they have a big market share in Asia. I wonder if there is a plug in for them?

Hi,
I'm enjoying Playon, but find it almost unusable for netflix and hulu because I can rarely get through an episode or movie without something happening (mostly momentary internet loss or something related to the server I'm running it on). Because there is no resume, and ff/rw is so painful, my family has reverted back to hooking up a laptop directly to the tv instead of using playon via wii.

As a software program manager myself, I understand the technical issues surrounding resume and ff/rw on a live stream. I get why it's hard to fix.

So I'd like to suggest a different approach: select a start point from the playon screen. In other words, stop the stream (or when it stops by itself due to problems) and back up to the playon clip selection screen, then select a point in the stream to start at. The playon screen shows the clip/movie/show length already. It would be easy to divide that up into say 5 minute increments, or even let the user specify a time point. Then start playing the stream from that point. Since both netflix and hulu have time sliders in their native UI's, I assume there's a programmatic way to specify the time point to begin streaming.

It's not nearly as seamless as an in-stream resume/ff/rw, but getting to within 2.5 minutes (assuming 5 minute increments) of where you want to go would be a HUGE improvement over having to ff through 45 minutes of video. ff/rw would still suck, but you'd only have to deal with 2.5 minutes worth of it. And if what you want to do is ff or rewind more than 2.5 minutes, it's still way faster to pop out of the stream, select a different start point and start the stream.

Maybe you're already working on something like this, but I thought I'd suggest it since the problem is so bad right now that it's a real hindrance to using playon.
Jeff

I'd like to see shuffle, crossfade options for music folders/lists.

Since you made the Wii version which uses a web browser is it possible to use the same interface for the PSP? It has a built in browser and and has Flash. Is there some type of web interface like TVersity?

Thank you