[mythtv-users] Re: osd test

[gerhard aldorf]

Hi All
First of all thanks for the great response I got from you all.

>Looks great and would love to try it, but gunzip reports the download isn't
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>Wow! that's beautiful. My TV sucks and the fonts are just a *tiny* bit too
>small; the fuzziness of the picture makes the fonts just a tiny bit difficult
>to read.
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>I'll try to adjust that and make the fonts a touch bigger.
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>Let me start with, " I LOVE this osd"
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>BUT...looks like there is a bug, which I don't really understand....
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>It is acting like I have "Change Channel without select" set...I have
>satellite, so I have channels 100-900 give or take, but any number I
>type in, it changes to that channel immediately. i.e. typing "244" goes
>straight to channel 2. This does not happen when I go back to the myth
>default OSD. Not sure how the theme is doing this, but then I have not
>looked into what a theme CAN do (yet) :)
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>To be honest I havnt got a clue about that. I'm not a programer, I just copied blueosd and changed the graphics and where things are.  
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> If someone could help me out on that just let me know I would love to 
> work with someone on that.
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>After putting up with a hard to read font for almost a year now, I finally
>tried changing the OSD font from FreeMono to FreeSans and wow, what a
>difference.  So if you haven't tried that yet, I think you will be
>pleased.
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>thats what I use
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>The channel change issue is there for almost all themes except blue
>(didn't try default).  There is a commented out section of the visorosd
>theme (in osd.xml, look for channel_number) that I think fixes this but
>may cause other problems.  There was a whole discussion of this issue many
>months ago, search on visor and channel and you'll probably find it.
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>I'll look into that thanks
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Gerhard