[mythtv-users] well, I got it (mostly) working...

[Rob Rogers]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 22:38:08PM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> so I got things (mythtv, no extras yet) mostly working..   and now I
> have a couple of questions/comments...
> 
> I'm running it from within gnome in redhat 9, and though the frontend
> side of things goes fullscreen, the tv half still shows a window title
> bar, and is covered up by the panel.  Any way to get around this?  I've
> messed with the alignment stuff in the mythtv setup, but nothing changes
> the title bar positioning.

I'd recommend running MythTV in a more lightweight window manager (i.e.
blackbox, fluxbox), especially if you're going to use it as a
standalone. No need for the extra bloat of a large wm (Not just
code/memory footprint, but also extra features like this that get in the
way)

> the video looks a little washed-out (and extra-dark in some areas)
> compared to actual tv and xawtv's display.  Is there anywhere that I can
> tweak the brightness/contrast settings?  Or is this just an artifact of
> the video encoding?

Check out keys.txt

> And a question...  If I schedule a recording, and then try to watch tv
> when it's supposed to be recording, what happens?

Why not try it? Go into the EPG, tell it to start recording something
that's playing now, and then back out, and the try to watch TV.

Thinking of that though, I did see a nice feature for the first time
today. Probably not actually new, or just the first time I've run into 
it, but I was watching live TV, and a transparent box popped up over 
the video saying something like "Show XYZ is supposed to start recording
in 30 seconds. Would you like to:" and then the choices were something 
like a) Change channels, starte recording and continue watching. b) 
Record and don't watch, exiting back to the menu. c) Skip the recording 
and continue watching TV. 

Gotta say I really like that feature. ;)

Rob