[mythtv-users] Enhancement Suggestions

John Madill jmadill at joyousnoise.com
Sat Jul 5 21:05:26 EDT 2003


In the spirit of making a fantastic project even better, I humbly offer these
ideas based upon my limited, albeit enthusiastic use of MythTV. 

I don't know if these have been mentioned, so I'll fire them out.

1)  In MythWeb, there is the ability to view only movies.  I also know that
there are other categories available.  So, I suggest that, like my Comcast cable
box, MythTV could support a "View by Category" option.  UI wise, this could work
like the the other selection tools, where you are presented with a list of
categories on the left side of the screen, and upon making a selection, the
programs matching this criteria would be presented on the right side.

2)  In the Guide, there is no wat to junp quickly from one date/time to another.
 This capability is in MythWeb, so I suggest that it would be possible to "jump"
to a date/time with a selection tool similar to what is in MythWeb.

3) More like a question that a suggestion, but why can't the user be presented
with conflicts at the time of creation of the newly scheduled item?  If nothing
else, there should be an alert ... with a suggestion to resolve conflicts.

4)  I don't know if this is even possible, but on a system with a separate
frontend, I found it impossible to select a recording to view because of the
preview of the recordings being generated.  Perhaps this could default to off if
the system is a "remote" front end?

Thanks again to everyone, especially Isaac, for making this thing a reality!

-jm

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