[mythtv-users] feature request

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue May 13 13:28:05 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:51 am, John Kelley wrote:
> I know you put up with a lot of stuff Isaac but I think you're being rather
> petty here, most TVs I've seen do have this feature and if people want it
> and someone submits a patch why reject it?

Well, first off, I'm not blindly copying a TV or anything else, I'm writing 
something that I want to use.

I happen to think that having too many configuration options is a bad thing.  
Adding one for this would be superfluous, in my opinion, as there is already 
a way to get it to display the OSD at any time.

Making the OSD show up when live-tv starts would probably take the addition of 
a single line of code to tv_play.cpp.  Maybe two, if you got really fancy.  
If someone wants this behavior, they can easily add it to their local copy of 
the source.  That's one of the nice things about open source projects =)

And finally, I really don't take too kindly to people telling me what my 
software should or should not do or what I should or should not be working on 
in my free time.  You'll notice there was no mention of anyone submitting a 
patch.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject of accepting patches from people, just take a 
look at the transcode stuff, or the teletext support.  They're both in CVS, 
but they're both currently disabled.  Both of the features are buggy to the 
point of causing crashes.  Both of the people that submitted these features 
haven't shown much interest in fixing their work, and I certainly don't have 
the time (in the case of the transcoding stuff, which I have no use for right 
now, personally) or the ability (can't use the teletext stuff at all in NTSC 
land) to fix them myself.  Granted, the transcoding stuff hasn't been 
disabled for very long yet, but still.  It'd be _really_ nice if someone 
(original patch authors, most preferably) were to fix those.  Or, same 
situation with mythvideo.  Original author submits code, walks away 
(insisting that he's going to continue to work on it, of course), leaving me 
with a bunch of stuff to maintain.  Not exactly fun.  It'd be nice if someone 
took that over, too, though John Danner's doing a bit of work on it now.

Isaac


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