<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Brett Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blmiller@slingshot.co.nz">blmiller@slingshot.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
>>On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Brett Miller <<a href="mailto:blmiller@slingshot.co.nz">blmiller@slingshot.co.nz</a>><br>
>>wrote:<br>
>>LiveTV should work flawlessly because this should have been debugged<br>
>>months/years ago.<br>
<br>
>It works flawlessly for me. Not that I use it.<br>
<br>
</div>Sorry but how can you be so sure then ?
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Perhaps I should have said "I don't use it, but the other people who have used my system have never complained". I do use it for testing occasionally and sometimes for sport like cricket. I've never seen any problems. <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
>>Playback of an active recording using navigation (pause, FF etc) should<br>
>>work.<br>
<br>
>Again, works for me.<br>
<br>
</div>It just does not work, it screws up the current position & you can not<br>
navigate into parts of the recorded file.<br>
This has had displayed the same behaviour for all my experience of MythTV.<br>
Please try it inside of first half hour of the news.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I do this a lot with sports. I've never experienced the problems you're describing.<br><br>I've been using MythTV for 5 years. In my experience, and from what I've seen on the main MythTV mailing list over that time, the issues you are seeing are not typical. They are most likely caused by something specific to your setup.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
>You seem to think there is some sort of major problem with Live TV. There<br>
>isn't. There are certain setups or >situations where it doesn't work as<br>
>well as it could.<br>
<br>
</div>I think the problems are not major, I would imagine the problems are really<br>
simple.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>If they were really simple they would probably have been fixed, even with disinterested developers. I suspect that any problems that remain are due to difficult corner cases and odd configurations<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
> There have been complaints about these problems and the standard response<br>
> has been this:<br>
> "the >developers don't use that functionality and so these issues are not<br>
> a priority for them.<br>
> If you want them fixed then submit a patch".<br>
>What do you think is unreasonable about that position?<br>
<br>
</div>There is absolutely nothing unreasonable about that position except if it<br>
denies there is a problem.<br></blockquote><div><br>It doesn't deny there is a problem. It simply states that the developers have higher priorities and if you don't like it you're welcome to do something constructive about it. Continuing to complain is not constructive. Produce some debug traces at least, or better yet a patch.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Could I suggest the notion of paying for some hours of code debugging for a<br>
specific issue ?<br></blockquote><div><br>You're certainly welcome to approach any developer with a contract offer. I suspect it's unlikely that you'd be able to agree on a price. OTOH, a "bounty" has worked at least once with MythTV as the multi-record functionality was developed that way.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Or an on-line user voting system ?<br></blockquote><div><br>No. The idea has been raised in the past and dismissed. Open source software development is not a democracy. Developers work on what they want to work on and generally don't take to kindly to "suggestions" that they should be working on something else.<br>
<br>The tone of your initial message ("
Spoken like a true software developer that can not / will not debug her/his code. LiveTV should work flawlessly because this should have been debugged months/years ago.") is pretty unpleasant. You should realise that you have no entitlement - all you can do is politely ask (beg even) someone to do something about it. I don't think your message was particularly polite.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve <br></div><div> </div></div>