[mythtv-users] Keyboard/Remote only partially working in MythTV/View Live TV

[Douglas Wagner]

Yep, i'll take a look at it, great idea.  You know, that's ENTIRELY possible
now that I think about it.  I copied the theme from my prior
installation...that COULD very well be the problem.

I'll check it out thanks VERY much for the info.

On 5/16/07, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> Douglas Wagner wrote:
> > This is getting a bit more nuts:
> >
> > When I go into a recorded video and go into "edit" mode on the
> > keyboard (hitting "E" the default key) the video stops and
> > pauses...and i'm assuming goes into edit mode.  I can then hit "Z" to
> > load commercial cutpoints and step through the thing with no problem,
> > but I get NO overlay of a timeline.  Meaning I can't see what i'm
> > doing.  So while I can step forward and backward, page up and page
> > down take me to cutpoints and all that, pressing the up and down keys
> > do change the ratio of how far I can step at a time...
> >
> > I simply can't see what's going on.  The video is still there but none
> > of the on screen information shows up in any way.
> >
> > When i'm in live TV however things are slightly different.  When I do
> > things like press the next channel / previus channel buttons there
> > again is no overlay that comes up with the channel...HOWEVER also when
> > I press like channel up and then select (which SHOULD change the
> > channel) nothing happens.  I can use the "exit" button to escape out
> > of the live TV show.  However when I hit the menu button the On screen
> > menu comes up with no issues...so I don't know if that's different.
> >
> > Can anyone think of any reason what-so-ever why the overlays for the
> > channel you're changing to or the info area at the bottom with
> > channel, what's on, signal strength/etc. won't come up?
> >
> > Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated, my wife is home in about
> > a week's time and if this isn't back working i'm going to get that
> > "Gee, it doesn't work again, i'm shocked" look that I hate so much...
> >
> > --Doug
> >
> >
> > On 5/16/07, *Douglas Wagner* <douglasw0 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:douglasw0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     All:
> >
> >     So I reformatted my system this week to get a 64 bit version of
> >     the OS installed on it (new chip) and put MythTV back up.  Things
> >     are working OK right now (still a lot of re-configuration left).
> >
> >     Some quick info:
> >     Fedora Core 6 / 64 Bit distribution
> >     MythTV 20.1 (From Axel's repository: atrpms)
> >
> >     However the oddest thing is happening now when I view TV and
> >     Recorded programs.
> >
> >     First, when I skip forward (or rewind) I'm used to seeing a gray
> >     bar pop up at the bottom with the position of the video, that is
> >     no longer happening (the stuff fast forwards, but my "position" in
> >     the video doesn't show up anymore).  When i'm in live TV I can
> >     still fast forward/reverse, and I can still get the OSD Menu up,
> >     but I can't seem to change channels anymore (the channel up,
> >     channel down doesn't pop up the overlay at the bottom of the
> >     screen with the channel info anymore) and typing in numbers (like
> >     30_1) to change to a specific channel no longer works
> >     either...however Exit (esc), Fast Forward (Left arrow), reverse
> >     (right arrow), and the menu key still seem to work...so it's like
> >     I have PARTIAL functionality in my keyboard/remote but not full.
> >
> >     Help?  When I re-installed I backed up my .mythtv/lircrc file and
> >     restored it (and re-linked it) so I know a used to be working
> >     version is back on the system now.
> >
> >     What info do you guys need off the system to help me figure out
> >     what's going on here?  I've been using Jarod's install guide, but
> >     i'm planning on walking back through the default myth
> >     documentation as well to see if there's something i've missed.
> >
> Can you run mythfrontend in a shell window so you can capture/see the
> logging output?  It sounds to me like your OSD theme is messed up.  The
> MENU displayed during TV watching is different and doesn't use the theme
> which could explain that.
>
> Kevin
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