[mythtv-users] Features / Operation
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Thu Apr 15 17:31:29 EDT 2004
James Armstrong wrote:
> Does everybody like the way the 'TV' menus/functions of myth are
> organized? After having a Tivo for years I have gotten use to another
> way of doing things and would like to put this out. Currently to do
> anything to a recorded show you need to go to TV, then to 'Watch
> Recordings, or Recording Priorities, or Delete Recordings, etc'. The
> way the Tivo worked was all this was available from the 'Recorded
> Shows' menu. It listed all the recorded programs then when you have
> one of them selected (right arrow on the show) it would show the
> details and have easy to access menus at the bottom of the details fo
> 'Play Show', 'Delete this Show', 'Change Recording options (quality,
> priority, season pass, new shows only or repeats)'. It makes managing
> all the shows from one place really nice. Instead of going one place
> to watch a show then another to delete then another to change
> recording options.
All of the menus are xml based. You can edit them to your hearts
content. Once .15 rolls out the sky is pretty much the limit since you
can use jump points within your menus. The current menu structure I'm
toying with looks something like this:
Watch TV
My Media
View Recordings
Watch videos
Image Gallery
Play Games
Manage Recodings
Schedule
Program Guide
Program Finder
Search Listings
Manual Schedule
Set Priorities
View Upcoming
Delete Recordings
Guide Data Status
Optical Disks
Play A DVD
Play a VCD
Archive DVD
Archive Music CD
Info Center
News
Weather
WWW
Setup & Tools
Scan for New Music
Video Manager
Restart Backend
Setup
Some of these have additional menus off of them, but things that
logically fit together are close to each other, and none of my menus
have so many options that they require scrolling.
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