[mythtv] New user review, DVB lockups and enhancement requests

[mian]

> - Manual channel input is a pain. Is anyone looking at integrating with
> the DVB
> scan utility? Shouldn't be too hard, surely? If nobody else will, I'll
> have a go
> at this if I have time. This would be a big win for the UK where freeview
> is
> starting to take off.

I believe someone is working on an auto-pid system, try viewing the
archives for around ~3-5 days ago.

> - If tuned to a channel with lots of errors, the backend gets too busy to
> accept
> any request to change to a good channel. Restarting it doesn't help,
> because it
> always tunes to the last channel it was on. Is there any way to force the
> backend to tune to a specific channel on startup? Where is this info
> stored in
> the database?

cardinput table, startchan.. I believe someone has also done a patch for
this so it will display a dialog on an untunable/errored channel but has
not submitted it yet.

>
> - I'm an experience programmer, but I've never done a lot with databases.
> I
> could learn sql, but I'd rather spend my time more usefully - are there
> any good
> gui tools to look at/modify the database?
>

I use the Windows version of the MySQL control center, there are also
Linux versions available, see http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysqlcc.html

>
>
> Also, as a new user I'd like to suggest a few enhancements.
>
> - Use the mouse in the dialogs if it's available! I have a small IR
> keyboard
> with a built-in trackball which is just great! But I can't use it in myth,
> and
> the whole left-right-up-down thing is confusing as hell. Tab/Shift-tab
> navigation would be nice to have, then it's at least consistent with other
> apps.

A mouse patch was submitted a few days ago so you can choose to have the
cursor visible.

> - Is there any way to record live TV as you are watching it? I couldn't
> figure
> this out at all.

R key

>
> - It's hard to remember what keys do what when you're a newbie! Is there
> any way
> to pop up a help on active keys using the OSD? I've still not figured out
> how to
> change the volume ;-)
>

see keys.txt