<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Is it possible to plug some other viewer in as a LiveTV replacement? <br>Because the slowness of switching livetv channels is killing my WAF - <br>she's a chronic channel flipper.</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Add a new menu item to watch live tv without PVR functionality. This is how:</div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide</a></div><div>There's a section at the bottom specifically for this:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">EXECTV someprogram %s %s %s - Executes a TV program. %s args are video, audio, and vbi devices<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/skins/monobook/bullet.gif); "><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">Example: EXECTV xawtv -f -device %s -dspdev %s -vbidev %s</li></ul></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm happy to dedicate a DVB tuner for LiveTV viewing if thats what it takes.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>However I guess an external app would loose integration with the OSD/EPG</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> <br>etc.</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Correct. "etc." means you also lose all PVR functionality.</div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>