[mythtv] Some bugs, suggestions

[Ben Brown]

I think this is one case where we have to many key bindings.  It's just 
personnal preference, but I would think that m would bring up the EPG.  If you 
wanted to leave the EPG you would use the ESC, if you wanted to change to 
that channel  you select it and press enter.  This would make it work more like 
the TV remotes I've seen "m" Menu button, "esc" Quite/Exit button, and "enter" 
Enter/OK button.   
 
I started looking through the source last night so I could set it up to work this 
way for my install.  Unfortunately  I have next to no c++, and the last time I 
coded in any flavor of c was on a QNX box using phab. 
 
Ben 
 
 
 
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- 
From: Merle Reine <merle.reine at lindows.com> 
Reply-To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at snowman.net> 
Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:12:03 -0800 
 
>When watching Live TV, hit the "m" key to switch to the EPG.  Use the 
>arrow keys to go to the channel you want and then hit the "x" key to 
>select it then the "m" key to get back to live TV.  If you use the EPG 
>with the tv in the upper right corner, it will change when you hit "x" 
>so you can see what is on, them "m" to go to live tv. 
> 
>On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:53, James Knight wrote: 
> 
>> Hi, I just got a mythtv setup working and thought I'd mention some  
>> problems I've had during the installation of version 0.8. If they are  
>> fixed in the latest CVS, great! Otherwise, maybe this will be helpful.  
>> Now that I've got it working, I find it really great, and hope there's  
>> more good stuff to come. :) 
>>  
>> 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... 
>>  
>> 2) In the setup program, in the device setup screen, it lets you type  
>> in the textfields (so for example the audio device field might say  
>> "/dev/dsp" and you can type "1" and it becomes "/dev/dsp1") BUT it  
>> completely ignores changes made in that way when you press enter to  
>> commit the changes. This problem stumped me for a while and is why I  
>> didn't notice the /dev/vbi problem...I *HAD* changed it to /dev/vbi0! 
>>  
>> 3) I initially selected the wrong channel lineup in the setup program.  
>> When I went to correct it, however, the setup program appeared to have  
>> frozen after selecting the correct channel lineup. Upon further  
>> inspection (killing the setup program) I noticed that tv_grab_na was  
>> waiting for my input on the terminal about whether it was okay to lose  
>> some channels! Oops. After reassuring it that it was really okay,  
>> everything worked again. Note that this happened even when selecting  
>> the "clear provider selections" option at the start of the setup  
>> program. (Oops - I see now that this is already in the documentation!) 
>>  
>> 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. 
>>  
>> 5) (This one I haven't solved) If I press fastforward (right-arrow) and  
>> it's already at the head of the recording, the frontend appears to just  
>> freeze for some amount of time. Is it setting the request stream  
>> position and just waiting until that comes up? It's a somewhat  
>> irritating bug, in any case. 
>>  
>> Okay, now onto things that aren't bugs but rather small enhancement  
>> requests: 
>>  
>> 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. 
>>  
>> 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. :) 
>>  
>> 5) While watching TV, typing "045" doesn't immediately go to channel  
>> 45, even though there's only 3 digits of channels. Real TVs usually do  
>> this and it's convenient to not have to press enter. 
>>  
>> 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? 
>>  
>> Anyhow, I really love MythTV and just ordered a shuttle PC for a  
>> dedicated mythtv box, so, good going guys, this software is great, and  
>> I'm looking forward to future enhancements! 
>>  
>> James 
>>  
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