[mythtv-users] Padding on Same Channel But Different Tuners

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Xesdeeni wrote:

> Yes, I've seen that.  But my coworkers tell me trying to build  
> MythTV put them into package interdependency hell.  Has that all  
> been addressed?  Because they had a horrible time with it, so I'll  
> certainly never figure it all out.

That has nothing to do with myth, but everything to do with the  
package manager you've chosen. That said, I've certainly been there.  
I've recently moved my production machine to SVN (to get early hd-pvr  
support) and built a brand new dev machine using the latest ubuntu. I  
didn't run into any dependency issues. I had the machine formatted,  
installed, packages updated, dependencies installed and myth built in  
about 3 hours.

I followed these instructions but updated the specifics to match  
hardy's needs:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Ubuntu_Breezy

To bring this post (sort of) back on topic, I would say if you're that  
reluctant to even build a development environment for yourself, you're  
probably not ready to write code and submit a patch. Therefore, your  
feature request should just be posted on the wiki until a developer  
who *is* ready to write code and submit a patch has a similar need to  
yours and fixes it for you. Then, of course, waiting until that code  
is in a released version of mythtv.

If you are motivated enough to fix this that you're willing to build a  
development environment, learn enough about the code (including coding  
standards) used in mythtv, learn enough C++ to fix it, and learn  
enough about svn to submit a proper patch, there are people who will  
help when you run into walls, but that advice doesn't belong in this  
thread.

I don't mean to completely discourage you, but it does take a lot of  
time. None of us were born with the knowledge of writing C++, fixing  
bugs, writing features and submitting patches, but people who do this  
have typically spent years of their life working on these types of  
projects. I have never submitted a single piece of code to mythtv  
(maybe a short perl script here or there) and I think I've only ever  
written a single bug report because even though I know how to set up a  
dev environment, read C++ well enough to understand what's happening  
and maybe even fix something easy here or there, and submit patches, I  
just don't have the time between my day job and family to commit to  
keeping up with all the work that's involved.

-Brad