[mythtvnz] The Paradigm Shift

[Brett Miller]

>>On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Brett Miller <blmiller at slingshot.co.nz> 
>>wrote:
>>LiveTV should work flawlessly because this should have been debugged
>>months/years ago.

>It works flawlessly for me. Not that I use it.

Sorry but how can you be so sure then ?

>>The pausing & recording LiveTV should be flawless.

>Again, works for me.
I admit I can not use due to sound breakup, pause & record may work.

>>Playback of an active recording using navigation (pause, FF etc) should
>>work.

>Again, works for me.

It just does not work, it screws up the current position & you can not 
navigate into parts of the recorded file.
This has had displayed the same behaviour for all my experience of MythTV.
Please try it inside of first half hour of the news.

>You seem to think there is some sort of major problem with Live TV. There 
>isn't. There are certain setups or >situations where it doesn't work as 
>well as it could.

I think the problems are not major, I would imagine the problems are really 
simple.

> There have been complaints about these problems and the standard response 
> has been this:
> "the >developers don't use that functionality and so these issues are not 
> a priority for them.
>  If you want them fixed then submit a patch".
>What do you think is unreasonable about that position?

>Cheers,
>Steve

There is absolutely nothing unreasonable about that position except if it 
denies there is a problem.
Interesting that LiveTV is moved down the list, bet it still doesn't work 
right.

It would take me 100-1000 times longer to debug/submit patch  than say 
someone like JYA.
It would be pointless to try, the result would be redundant.

Could I suggest the notion of paying for some hours of code debugging for a 
specific issue ?
Or an on-line user voting system ?

B.