[mythtv] new OSD

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 22:02:38 UTC 2006


On 12/12/06, Mitchell Gore <mitchell2345 at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to MythTV and really like most of the application.  I was really
> disappointed with the OSD.  I know you can make your own themes/osd's by
> editing the config file but i am a newbie!  I need some help or maybe a
> development group.
>
> I have attached a link to the picture of what I envision a perfect OSD.
> The basic operation is that the start and end times are listed according to
> when the program started, if watching LiveTV.  If it is recorded the times
> could just be 0 and 1:00, or something similar.  Back to LiveTV the green
> bar would grow as you had the show recorded.  And the Black icon around the
> bar would be your current position that you are viewing.  On the bottom of
> the icon you could signify Play, Pause, FF, Rec, etc.
>
> Also on the top the program name and if in LiveTV, if the program is set
> to record.
>
> The OSD is much like dare i say the word, TiVo.
>
> Would this be possible to create in Myth?  It seems you could grab the
> data from Myth as all this could be pulled from the database or derived.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9011/osdzg5.png
>
> Thanks,
> Mitchell
>

That would be nice, but I think it would take more than a theme to achieve.

-- 
It was supposed to be so Easy.
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