[mythtv-users] Frontend as cable settop box--using Live-TV

[glen]

On 08/10/2013 12:59 AM, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
> Hi, I'd just like to add my personal experience with live tv.
>
> I run master, and I have analogue TV (my area has not yet switched to DVB-T), also a DVB-S2 card and I recently added the HLS channels (A very big thanks to JY for that).
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> The most frustrating thing in live tv is when I switch channel to one that will only partially lock or will lock and be unstable, eventually exiting live tv. Then the DB gets updated with this channel as the last successful channel for that FE and I won't be able to enter live tv unless I dig in the db to change the channel the host will tune to upon live tv startup.
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> It would be great if we could have a prompt to choose channel upon entering live TV (yes, feature request without a patch, I know ;) )
I agree this would be a great feature. I share the same frustration.



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> Also, while in the TV guide (I've noticed this on the frontend with digital sound), the sound disappears momentarily when I press up/down arrows and the guide gets redrawn.
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> Additionally, and this happens while watching movies, recordings and live tv, the first time I press "i" to get info, playback freezes momentarily (I guess while the program fetches the data I request). It doesn't happen on subsequent presses.
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> Maybe I should open tickets for these symptoms?
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> And, especially for the following 1-2 weeks I could offer my systems as testbeds for bugs that I can reproduce with my setup, since the kids will be mostly away (well, they don't carry guns but being girls you know "the look"...)
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> That's all for now,
>
> Yianni. 		 	   		
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