[mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester

[Tortise]

I recently pointed out the obvious inconsistency on the main list - that Live TV is the first and main option usually presented to the user, which is inconsistent and misleading to the new user.  Apparently the right people are aware of this dichotomy.  I understand someone (possibly JYA?) is skilled enough and interested enough in this feature, so it may be that the bugs there get some attention (I welcome and support his recent re-alignment) 

The bounds between Live TV and reducing ones weight (as described below) are interesting, as soon as one introduces a pause we are no longer talking about live TV, however as best I can tell the dev's recent interest has been replaying COMPLETELY recorded programs, and not mere paused Live TV.  I hope I have read this wrongly here!  

The HDHomerun is a good option for distributed Live HD TV, however pausing it is an issue....


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nick Rout 
  To: MythTV in NZ 
  Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester





  On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

    On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

      One of the general things you will find about mythtv devs is that they don't care much for livetv "thats not how its designed to be used, record what you want to watch and watch it when you have the time, its a new paradigm, change your life forever blah blah blah."


    It's not that the devs don't care about it, it's just that they don't use it. So they don't see the issues that some people seem to have and don't fix them. If the issues were consistent I'm sure that they'd get attention, but them seem to only affect certain setups and don't seem to be that easy to diagnose.

    Ultimately the nature of open source is this: if you want it fixed you either have to fix it yourself or find someone who already cares about it and can fix it. You'll struggle to convince anyone that a feature they don't use is important enough to them to put much effort in.

    The other point I'd make is that if you don't care about the "new paradigm", if Live TV is your main thing, then you're probably better off with a MySky box or another good PVR. Live TV is simply not one of MythTVs strengths. If you must have MythTV then it'll annoy you less if you make a conscious effort to adopt the paradigm and forget about LiveTV and to convince the other users in your household to do the same. There are good advantages to recording, even if you watch while it's recording: commercial skipping and time stretch are the obvious biggies. 

  Taking a pee, answering the door to JW's, answering the phone etc etc.






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