[mythtv] epg appearing behind video overlay?

[A Gill]

Speaking of no window manager.  Has anyone proposed an
RFE that would allow mythtv to run without X at all
... probably using directFB.  I think this would make
the most sense in the long run ... but definitely not
a necessity.

Is there any mechanism/website that is keeping track
off all these possible changes/enhancements as well as
tracking any bugs and maintaing documentation.

I'm not much of a C/C++ coder ... yet, but I'd like to
see all this stuff put in one place and managed as
best as possible.  If nobody's handling this at all
then I'd be willing to start something

-- Allen

--- Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Isaac Richards <ijr@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 November 2002 03:08 am, Shawn Pearce
> wrote:
> > > XFree86 4.2, no window manager.
> > >
> > > When running mythtv and I hit "M", video pauses
> and audio continues
> > > to run.  No EPG appears.  I can use the arrow
> keys, but can't see
> > > the results of my actions.  Hitting "Enter" will
> change channels,
> > > and at that point no more keyboard input works.
> > >
> > > Is this because I'm not running a window
> manager?
> > 
> > Probably, yeah.  I just run everything in kwin,
> kde's window manager.  I do 
> > have to set click-to-focus for full-screen
> operation to work properly, too.
> 
> I'll try setting up twm or something.  What I really
> need then is a
> very bare window manager (no decorations?)...  very
> lightweight, almost
> no CPU overhead.  This box is my mythical
> convergence box, it don't
> need no stinking window manager...
> 
> > > The MythTV code is well laid out Isaac, nice
> job.  :-)  Should
> > > be easier than nupplevideo to hack on and do
> things I want,
> > > like distributed recording and EPG management.
> > 
> > EPG management?
> 
> Heh.  Despite being in English, I do speak Greek. 
> Err Geek I mean.
> 
> What I want to do is throw the EPG into a different
> GUI entirely than
> the playback engine.  My current setup on Windows
> has it this way.
> A little Pentium 166 MMX has a GUI on it that I
> hacked up in Tcl/Tk
> quickly, and it speaks to my main WinXP system over
> the LAN.  The
> WinXP system only plays DVDs or runs DScaler
> (deinterlacer), but
> never shows menus or program guides, etc...  This
> allows me to view
> the program guide without powering up my big Barco
> projector and
> letting it perform a full warmup.  It also prevents
> me from trying to
> read an 8' wide program guide.  :-)
> 
> So by EPG management, I really meant that I want to
> put nearly all of
> the GUI on a secondary system/videocard from the
> main player and
> recorder system(s).  This would include the EPG,
> main menu(s), recorded
> program guide, etc.  I might consider leaving OSD's
> to be OSDs, but
> ideally I'd like to have those on the secondary
> display as well, as
> that's what I have now (and I really like it).
> 
> Granted, its not what everyone would want, so I'm
> most likely going
> to have to implement it myself entirely and send in
> patches, which is
> fine.  ;-)  But its something I'd like to attempt to
> setup with MythTV.
> 
> -- 
> Shawn.
> 
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