[mythtv] Some bugs, suggestions

[DanM]

I whole heartedly concur.
-dan

Leandro Dardini wrote:

>It is hard, it is hard because it is boring. Error checking and
>documentation are the boriest thing of programming.
>
>Leandro
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Hurliman" <jhurliman at myrealbox.com>
>To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at snowman.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv] Some bugs, suggestions
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>>How hard would it be to implement some error checking to prevent these
>>segfaults? Are segfaults a generally accepted way of telling the user
>>that he has something configured wrong?
>>
>>John Hurliman
>>
>>Cedar McKay wrote:
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>>>>1) mythbackend segfaults way too easily. At first I couldn't get it
>>>>to run at all, because all it did was segfault when I tried to start
>>>>watching live TV. It turned out there were two problems, both of
>>>>which caused it to crash horribly with no indication of what is
>>>>wrong. 1) the directory I told it to write video to had the wrong
>>>>permissions and was therefore not writable. 2) The vbi device was set
>>>>to use /dev/vbi but that device didn't exist (it was actually called
>>>>/dev/vbi0). This last one bring me to another bug...
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>>>>
>>>does it still seg fault now that you have the vbi device and write
>>>permissions worked out?
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>>>>4) Even after running mythfilldatabase to refresh the listings, it
>>>>didn't delete the no-longer-available channels. I had to do that
>>>>manually by connecting to mysql.
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>>>I think if you re-run setup there is an option to clear the listings.
>>>
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>>>>1) There doesn't seem to be any way to change channels and stay in
>>>>the EPG. Maybe I'm missing a key? (this relates somewhat to #4 as well)
>>>>
>>>>2) Volume control doesn't work in the EPG screen
>>>>
>>>>3) I can't find a definitive list of keys/functions for each mode.
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>>>keys.txt in the MC directory.
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>>>>4) It doesn't seem as if the key controls are really oriented towards
>>>>remote control usage. For example, the arrows are
>>>>fastforward/rewind/chanup/chandown AND do the menu movement. I'm
>>>>planning to buy a TiVo remote control (unless anyone has a suggestion
>>>>for a better one!) on ebay and use that with my system so it would be
>>>>really nice if the keys were one-function enough to work with a real
>>>>remote. It makes sense to have multi-use keys on a keyboard, not so
>>>>much on a remote control where the buttons have specific labeled
>>>>uses. (so, i'd want the chanup/down keys to always function as
>>>>chanup/chandown, not menu movement in epg). Perhaps a configurable
>>>>keyboard binding system would help.. of course, I'd prefer if it just
>>>>had good bindings by default. :)
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>>>I completely disagree. A keyboard has lots and lots of keys, therefore
>>>it is fine to have lots of buttons that do different things. Remotes
>>>have limited number of keys, and everyone's remote is different, so I
>>>would want as much key re-use as possible. Right now there are
>>>bindings to a lot of specific keys, for instance 'e' goes to edit mode
>>>and 'm' goes to epg while watching tv. Also as is I control myth
>>>without looking at the remote b/c I can do most things with 6 buttons.
>>>If we seperated out functions, for instance channel up down from menu
>>>up down for some reason I would have to start looking at my remote a
>>>lot more to find keys. Folks are talking about a popup menu system so
>>>you can just hit a single "menu" button, and a list of possible
>>>actions from any particular context would pop up. That would make it
>>>possible to do _everything_ with up, down, left, right, enter/space,
>>>esc and the number buttons. That sounds sweet to me. We could keep
>>>individual buttons for maniacs like you ;-) who need a different
>>>remote button for everything.
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>>>>6) The menu icons seem extraordinarily slow to draw... my computer is
>>>>an Athlon 1600+, which is plenty fast enough to do live TV even
>>>>underclocked at 1Ghz, yet the menu interface takes about 2 seconds to
>>>>draw the options. Can something be done about that?
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>>>>
>>>You have some sort of problem. Draws fast for me.
>>>
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>>>
>>>this should probably move to myth-users now.
>>>
>>>
>>>Cedar
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