[mythtv] cancel recording bug?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:47 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> David Engel <dlengel at attbi.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> At least in current CVS (as of around noon EST today) the former is
> >> true but the latter is not.  It's true that the show does not show up
> >> in the EPG but you _CAN_ watch it near-live.
> >
> > FWIW, making currently recording programs show as recording in the EPG
> > and elsewhere is on my TO DO list.  I know how to do it, but I'm
> > working on other things right now.
>
> That's fine.  Personally I consider the PVR-350 output work more
> important that the EPG showing currently-recording programs ;)
>
> The three PVR-350 issues I'd like to see fixed:
>
>     1) livetv + EPG crashes hard (this is probably an ivtv issue)
>     2) livetv + EPG -- play video 'clip' in black space on frame buffer
>     3) Picture in Picture (put the small video on the fb?)
>
> I already told Kevin I'd try to help him track down #1.  I don't know
> how hard it would be to do #2 and #3; I don't actually care about high
> quality video; just having some video is "good enough".. It's the
> feature that's more important to my wife than the video quality.  We
> can work on the video quality later....

#2's going to be pretty difficult -- you'd basically have to switch decoding 
methods mid stream, and I don't think that'd be easy at all with the way 
things are structured.  I have been meaning to make the alpha amount 
configurable, and fix it so that it displays the epg in the other mode, which 
should make things more useable.

#3 shouldn't be that bad, though.  I'd worry about how fast it'd be, and if 
updating the framebuffer that often would cause the same sort of problems 
you're seeing with the EPG.  You be willing to test this if I whip out some 
code for it?  I can't easily get a second stream going on my pvr-350 machine.

Isaac