[mythtv] Some bugs, suggestions

[Leandro Dardini]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Brown" <ben at handcoder.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Some bugs, suggestions


> I think this is one case where we have to many key bindings.  It's just
> personnal preference, but I would think that m would bring up the EPG.  If
you
> wanted to leave the EPG you would use the ESC, if you wanted to change to
> that channel  you select it and press enter.

if you want to record a program, what key do you press? eheheh ... I found
key bindings satisfactory.

Leandro

>  This would make it work more like
> the TV remotes I've seen "m" Menu button, "esc" Quite/Exit button, and
"enter"
> Enter/OK button.
>
> I started looking through the source last night so I could set it up to
work this
> way for my install.  Unfortunately  I have next to no c++, and the last
time I
> coded in any flavor of c was on a QNX box using phab.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Merle Reine <merle.reine at lindows.com>
> Reply-To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
> Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:12:03 -0800
>
> >When watching Live TV, hit the "m" key to switch to the EPG.  Use the
> >arrow keys to go to the channel you want and then hit the "x" key to
> >select it then the "m" key to get back to live TV.  If you use the EPG
> >with the tv in the upper right corner, it will change when you hit "x"
> >so you can see what is on, them "m" to go to live tv.
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:53, James Knight wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I just got a mythtv setup working and thought I'd mention some
> >> problems I've had during the installation of version 0.8. If they are
> >> fixed in the latest CVS, great! Otherwise, maybe this will be helpful.
> >> Now that I've got it working, I find it really great, and hope there's
> >> more good stuff to come. :)
> >>
> >> 1) mythbackend segfaults way too easily. At first I couldn't get it to
> >> run at all, because all it did was segfault when I tried to start
> >> watching live TV. It turned out there were two problems, both of which
> >> caused it to crash horribly with no indication of what is wrong. 1) the
> >> directory I told it to write video to had the wrong permissions and was
> >> therefore not writable. 2) The vbi device was set to use /dev/vbi but
> >> that device didn't exist (it was actually called /dev/vbi0). This last
> >> one bring me to another bug...
> >>
> >> 2) In the setup program, in the device setup screen, it lets you type
> >> in the textfields (so for example the audio device field might say
> >> "/dev/dsp" and you can type "1" and it becomes "/dev/dsp1") BUT it
> >> completely ignores changes made in that way when you press enter to
> >> commit the changes. This problem stumped me for a while and is why I
> >> didn't notice the /dev/vbi problem...I *HAD* changed it to /dev/vbi0!
> >>
> >> 3) I initially selected the wrong channel lineup in the setup program.
> >> When I went to correct it, however, the setup program appeared to have
> >> frozen after selecting the correct channel lineup. Upon further
> >> inspection (killing the setup program) I noticed that tv_grab_na was
> >> waiting for my input on the terminal about whether it was okay to lose
> >> some channels! Oops. After reassuring it that it was really okay,
> >> everything worked again. Note that this happened even when selecting
> >> the "clear provider selections" option at the start of the setup
> >> program. (Oops - I see now that this is already in the documentation!)
> >>
> >> 4) Even after running mythfilldatabase to refresh the listings, it
> >> didn't delete the no-longer-available channels. I had to do that
> >> manually by connecting to mysql.
> >>
> >> 5) (This one I haven't solved) If I press fastforward (right-arrow) and
> >> it's already at the head of the recording, the frontend appears to just
> >> freeze for some amount of time. Is it setting the request stream
> >> position and just waiting until that comes up? It's a somewhat
> >> irritating bug, in any case.
> >>
> >> Okay, now onto things that aren't bugs but rather small enhancement
> >> requests:
> >>
> >> 1) There doesn't seem to be any way to change channels and stay in the
> >> EPG. Maybe I'm missing a key? (this relates somewhat to #4 as well)
> >>
> >> 2) Volume control doesn't work in the EPG screen
> >>
> >> 3) I can't find a definitive list of keys/functions for each mode.
> >>
> >> 4) It doesn't seem as if the key controls are really oriented towards
> >> remote control usage. For example, the arrows are
> >> fastforward/rewind/chanup/chandown AND do the menu movement. I'm
> >> planning to buy a TiVo remote control (unless anyone has a suggestion
> >> for a better one!) on ebay and use that with my system so it would be
> >> really nice if the keys were one-function enough to work with a real
> >> remote. It makes sense to have multi-use keys on a keyboard, not so
> >> much on a remote control where the buttons have specific labeled uses.
> >> (so, i'd want the chanup/down keys to always function as
> >> chanup/chandown, not menu movement in epg). Perhaps a configurable
> >> keyboard binding system would help.. of course, I'd prefer if it just
> >> had good bindings by default. :)
> >>
> >> 5) While watching TV, typing "045" doesn't immediately go to channel
> >> 45, even though there's only 3 digits of channels. Real TVs usually do
> >> this and it's convenient to not have to press enter.
> >>
> >> 6) The menu icons seem extraordinarily slow to draw... my computer is
> >> an Athlon 1600+, which is plenty fast enough to do live TV even
> >> underclocked at 1Ghz, yet the menu interface takes about 2 seconds to
> >> draw the options. Can something be done about that?
> >>
> >> Anyhow, I really love MythTV and just ordered a shuttle PC for a
> >> dedicated mythtv box, so, good going guys, this software is great, and
> >> I'm looking forward to future enhancements!
> >>
> >> James
> >>
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> >
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