Wow - this is an amazing beta. It's so darned close to perfect. I love the flexibility in spacing.
2 things from a first blush:
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Can something be added to allow opening this from watching live TV? Especially with PiP on, it's a lot of clicks to go back to guide, go to the channel, and get to watch multiview. Would be tremendous to have the option to additionally start that with "Start Multiview with this," dump the buffer, and be on your way.
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Audio. Almost every multiview struggles with this. From my look, it looks like Channels is inheriting the first channel's audio format (i.e. if you open a DD 5.1 channel on your first multiview channel, that's what you get for all subsequent).
To ease some questions - it would be nice to a) confirm that my assumption is correct, and b) if there is any possibility of changing this to renegotiate the audio per-channel.
Yes, the audio blip is jarring, but I've found that otherwise, audio tracks will end up getting messed up when forced a format. Easiest example would be if I open a 2-channel stereo TVE channel, and then a 5.1 OTA one as second. Does the stereo format force the 5.1 into 2.0 with only L/R fronts? Does it do something else? Hopefully you can see my point.