[mythtv-users] Kick around an idea for MythTV

Ashley Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 12:32:59 UTC 2007


I thought there was a way to change the overscan of the picture independant
of the main menus  - which would achieve the same effect.

Ash.

On 4/3/07, Brent <brent at brentnorris.net> wrote:
>
> James Warden wrote:
> > It's not a bad idea (conceptually). But I would rather have the
> > possibility to toggle on/off such a feature. I really think that in
> > the long run, I would grow tired of having the temp. of the HD or
> > whatnot always displayed.  If you now talk about RSS flux, I think
> > it's worse, your eyes would be constantly caught by the frequent
> > updates of the news feed, a bit like the bottom banner you see on CNN
> > or other major news media. If you can toggle  it on/off, then I agree
> > with your idea. Personally, I'd rather have a chat window so you can
> > "bitch" online about the show you're actually watching ;)
> >
> > Along these ideas, it would be nice to be able to exchange e.g. video
> > playback snapshots, familly pics, etc, with remote friends via some
> > parallel chat system, within mythtv (like in the framed window you
> > propose). All this of course driven by a simple button press on your
> > remote or wireless keybd / mouse.
> >
> > J.
> Oh yeah I would definitely think it would be something that was
> configurable.  As a matter of fact I would think that it would be off by
> default and then just something else that was added and turned on.  I
> mean you could already do it by just opening a chat window on top of the
> MythTV playback, but that doesn't make the video itself move over, so
> you end up having it over the top of at least part of the video.
>
> Brent
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