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Ok, so now I've got a supported TV tuner card (WinTV), tested & working
with xawtv, and it's finally time to get MythTV running.
I'm using the 0.7 tarball (latest CVS segfaults when running setup, and
I have a Pentium III so I know it supports the Pentium Pro instruction set!)

Couple of quirks

1) For some reason the setup program did not associate the Television
cardinput on the WinTV with the "default" videosource. So when I start
mythfrontend, I get: "default is defined, but isn't attached to a
cardinput." This should have been handled by selectSource(...) in
setup. I don't remember seeing the selectSource prompt text. Maybe I
just zoned out and missed that prompt? Anyone else had this problem?

Checked the database, nothing there.
mysql> select * from mythconverg.cardinput
-> ;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

I'll add the row manually. I'd re-run setup but it is a major pain to
re-key in IDs for the 90+ cable channels in my area.

Which leads me to quirk #2.

2) Why the need to enter in unique IDs for every single channel? These
lines in mythfilldatabase main.cpp indicate that it's just a way to
identify which channels to keep or skip in the listings,

if (chanid == 0)
{
// Default is 0 to allow rapid skipping of many channels,
// in some xmltv outputs there may be over 100 channel, but
// only 10 or so that are available in each area.
chanid = atoi(getResponse("Choose a channel ID (positive integer) ",
"0"));

// If we wish to skip this channel, use the default 0 and return.
if (chanid == 0)
return(0);
}

This is tedious and error-prone. As a cable TV subscriber the majority
of channels listed by xmltv ARE available to me, therefore I'd prefer
the default to be "keep", not "skip".

It seems reasonable to me to remove the mythfilldatabase --manual
requirement. Automatically assign a default unique ID for every channel
(so you initially have listings for every channel.) Then have an option
to go back and remove unused channels, as a completely optional step.
Perhaps integrated into the EPG ("remove this channel" option?) How
many people really have a need to tweak the channel names and fine tune
settings on the first setup? Making this completely automatic would be
a friendlier setup.

I'll submit patches to accomplish the above if Isaac is agreeable.

Regards,

Dan