LaVidaLisa's dashboard

ppgs replied on September 13, 2008 07:51 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This should be one of the priorities in improving RescueTime.
Watching videos has become one of the major modern usage of computers.

As a non-programmer myself, it still does not sound to complicated to detect when a video is playing.

Anything moving in this direction?

A comment on the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This sounds good to me! – wavey davie, on September 10, 2008 10:20

TravisM replied on July 01, 2008 22:58 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

My first day using RescueTime, I watched a bunch of work training videos in Windows Media Player. At the end of the day I had maybe 5 min worth of time logged, and I thought the app was broken! Now I understand what was really happening.

Allan replied on June 15, 2008 20:39 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

This problem is absolutely killing the validity of my stats, since my Mac accurately records movie watching time, the pc doesn't. A simple fix is to allow the user to change the time until logging stops (in general or even better for specific applications). This way, before watching a movie, I can change this parameter to the appropriate length of the movie (or off all together).

mickys replied on June 04, 2008 15:15 to the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime:

same problem here... using VLC ( videolan.org )

for the developers.. you might at least add an event that checks if the application ( media player / vlc / winamp / itunes ) has focus and if it does add it as tracked time running that specific application.
This seems a quick fix since the RescueTime already knows about application focus.

Also adding a "Media Applications" tab to the properties window would help, by giving the user some control over this
ex: " media applications -> add vlc / media player idle time as tracked time"

Micky

Alex Farran replied on April 07, 2008 20:14 to the problem "Too much time is labelled "Everything else"" in RescueTime:

I think this could be a bug in the linux uploader. Looking at its log files it doesn't always include the extended_info attribute for firefox, so presumably would be reporting a lot of unknown URLs. I've upgraded to the latest version as it looks like that bug has been fixed https://bugs.launchpad.net/rescuetime...

LaVidaLisa marked one of Dallas Despain's replies in RescueTime as useful. Dallas Despain replied to the question "How does RescueTime detect idleness? It didn't log all my hours yesterday and I was wondering what it's threshold was. Thanks, new user". LaVidaLisa and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

LaVidaLisa started following the problem "Too much time is labelled "Everything else"" in RescueTime.

LaVidaLisa started following the problem "I'm not working much at all" in RescueTime.

LaVidaLisa replied on April 06, 2008 13:56 to the problem "I'm not working much at all" in RescueTime:

I've noticed the same phenomenon. Last night, I spent at least three hours helping a family member with Crossloop (a VNC app made simple for end users), and RescueTime logged 1 hr, 39 minutes.

I'm using WinXP with SP2.

lisa started following the problem "Cannot capture time spent watching movies / listening to audio" in RescueTime.