Suggestion: Process Queue Monitoring by SUI

Black Hole

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Apart from the Portal (which means interrupting live viewing), the main means we have to present information via the SUI is the media button. flatview, for example, creates a pseudo-folder within which a user-selectable subset of recordings are presented as short-cuts.

A similar mechanism could provide a means to monitor what CF processing is active and queued. EG:

Media/My Video/ [Queue Status]

Total Pending - 63​
Last - decrypt - The One Show_20210526_1859.ts - COMPLETE​
Current - qtube - https://www.bbc.co.uk_programmes_####### - PROCESSING​
Next - mp3 - [MP3]_The Archers_20210526_1859.ts - PENDING​
 
It could be done using a set of dummy .ts recordings and a timer task to check the queue and update the title in the hmt of the dummy file with the current queue status.
(Could just put current in title and use Description for the Last/Next)

Not too difficult to implement and nicely self contained but I'm not volunteering
 
Easy: create directories named according to the information you want to display. This neatly avoids having pseudo-ts files hanging about confusing matters, as per [Modsettings] for network-shares-automount. The downside is getting the listing to display in a sensible order, but that could be done by prefixing the directory names with a line number.

Deleting and creating empty directories is a lot easier than manipulating .hmt files.
 
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