evilpenguin

[evilpenguin]

[quote=”babgvant”]
So I shouldn’t call out the plugins I find useful?  To be clear the screenshot was intended to demonstrate an e.g. of a plugin that requires the UI to recycle.
[/quote]I’d say my concern is more with the structure of the guide.  The way you sandwich optional customizations between important steps will be confusing to newbies who will follow this guide word-for-word for their first setup.  Maybe just move all the customization stuff (Plugins + Hidden extras) to its own section at the end and include the relevant links to the plugin threads.

“Now that you’ve got your base Sage setup and running, here are some customization/enhancments that I enjoy that you might want to explore”…

[evilpenguin]

[quote=”babgvant”]
So I shouldn’t call out the plugins I find useful?  To be clear the screenshot was intended to demonstrate an e.g. of a plugin that requires the UI to recycle.
[/quote]I’d say my concern is more with the structure of the guide.  The way you sandwich optional customizations between important steps will be confusing to newbies who will follow this guide word-for-word for their first setup.  Maybe just move all the customization stuff (Plugins + Hidden extras) to its own section at the end and include the relevant links to the plugin threads.

“Now that you’ve got your base Sage setup and running, here are some customization/enhancments that I enjoy that you might want to explore”…

[evilpenguin]

[quote=”babgvant”]
2) Yep, that was an intentional scoping decision.  If I covered all of the stuff I do to make everything on the HTPC work the guide would be 20-30 pages, and then I wouldn’t have material for more guides 🙂
[/quote]In that case, i’d argue that you shouldn’t include any that invovle external setup.  I’d say just call out the Webserver as an example of the plugin process since its beneifts work for everyone right out of the box.

[evilpenguin]

[quote=”babgvant”]
2) Yep, that was an intentional scoping decision.  If I covered all of the stuff I do to make everything on the HTPC work the guide would be 20-30 pages, and then I wouldn’t have material for more guides 🙂
[/quote]In that case, i’d argue that you shouldn’t include any that invovle external setup.  I’d say just call out the Webserver as an example of the plugin process since its beneifts work for everyone right out of the box.

[evilpenguin]

Good read, I haven’t set up a PC for playback in a *long time*, so its nice to know what’s required these days.

Two things:

1) It might be nice to copy/paste/trim a version of this guide that shows just the steps nessisary for using an entirly extender based setup.
2) You spefically call out the comskip playback plugin, but never any plugin that actually runs comskip.

[evilpenguin]

Good read, I haven’t set up a PC for playback in a *long time*, so its nice to know what’s required these days.

Two things:

1) It might be nice to copy/paste/trim a version of this guide that shows just the steps nessisary for using an entirly extender based setup.
2) You spefically call out the comskip playback plugin, but never any plugin that actually runs comskip.

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