[mdlug] HD-Homerun + MythTV

[R. Kannan]

Mouse support is the least of my complaints. The Myth Front End interface in general is not intuitive.

For example, if I try to do manual recording it brings up a screen with a button that reads something like (I don't have access to it now) 'Set recording parameters'. This needs to be modified for recording to be successful.  To be consistent with other menu's, I would have expected something like 'Next' at the bottom right. Also, after you select parameters (some of them are mandatory, some can be default which again is unclear from the interface), you need to select 'Save recording infor..' (or something like that) from a list. I would have expected a 'Finish' button at the bottom right like other menus. 

Also, is there a way to gracefully terminate the backend. I just killed the process (rather ungraceful) to change setup parameters. It looks like one of my recordings got deleted automatically (I need to investigate why).

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Blanchett <muteid10t at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2008 10:39 PM
>To: "R. Kannan" <rkannan at peoplepc.com>, MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] HD-Homerun + MythTV
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>MythTV is not ment (and never will) to be used with a mouse.
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>On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:28 PM, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I bought a HD-Homerun Network TV tuner (http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun) and used my laptop + SuSE10.1+MythTV to watch, record and play TV programs.  I also used WindowsXP + TotalMedia software provided by SiliconDust for comparison. I thought I will share my experience from last week.
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>> Firstly, I think the hardware itself is pretty solid and the Linux support is very good. SiliconDust provides configuration files for Linux. With the configuration executable (CLI) you can tune to channel, save the video stream to a file, etc. It seems to work very well. There is also a MythTV forum on their website.
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>> The MythTV backend seems to work pretty well too and handled the recording schedule correctly.
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>> But I was very disappointed with the MythTV frontend. The menus were not very intuitive and would not respond to mouse. A lot of times it was unclear what needed to be done (for example to set up a manual recording). Also, MythTV would not lock on to some channels which TotalMedia had no trouble with.
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>> MythTV is feature-rich compared to TotalMedia and I am hoping to overcome all problems and use MythTV.
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>> Thanks
>>
>> Raj K
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