[mythtv] cancel recording bug?

[Derek Atkins]

David Engel <dlengel at attbi.com> writes:

>> >     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?)
>> > [...]
>> #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 
>
> FYI, it turns out #2 is pretty easy, but Kevin will have to make a new
> ioctl in the driver to expose the required API call.

OOOH... Cool...

What kind of ioctl needs to be exposed?  I'm sure we can get Kevin
to add it....

-derek
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