Hi, I'm using an oct 26 snapshot of the cvs, RH8. I finally got
everything compiled, installed, and now I have a couple of issues to
work out. I'm getting pretty excited, everything looks really slick,
polished and I think the gui is going to be great.
1) sound issues: I'm having some sound sync issues, the sound far
ahead of video problem mentioned in the faq. The faq instructs me to
mute the line in etc etc. Now I have no sound. It occurs to me that in
the myth command line setup routine, the default video device was
called /dev/video, where mine was really /dev/video0 which I discovered
via xawtv. Is it possible that the default sound device is also not
appropriate for me? Would the setup program complain if I had the wrong
sound device chosen? How do I figure out what my device name my sound
card is actually using? ps, the sound card is working for other apps.
2)if I run the command line app mythtv I successfully can watch tv,
pause, ff, rewind etc, all perfectly except for the sound issue
mentioned above. Similarly mythfrontend seems to be working ok too. I
can schedule shows, resolve conflicts etc, but I can't switch to
watching live tv. I've tried it a few times and it either just pretends
that I haven't pushed the live tv button, or once, switched to a
picture of the blue background. No tv in site though. As a side note, I
assume the "setup" button doesn't do anything yet? Not on mine anyway.
3)finally, mythtv and mythfrontend seem to have a bit of a life of
their own. Mythtv takes over the screen, obscuring other apps, and if I
try to select other running apps via the control strip at the bottom,
or perhaps switch to a different virtual desktop, mythtv refuses to
give up. The only way I can quit it is to use a contextual menu on the
mythtv icon in my control strip, the blindly grope (or use a key combo)
for the "close" option, because mythtv obscures any menus I manage to
open. mythfrontend is even worse. It completely hides my desktop (which
is good until I want to quit), doesn't let me select another app, hides
the control strip, and does not respond to the esc key, control-c or
anything else I can think of. I end op having to kill x11 in order to
quit the darn thing.
oh, is there a comprehensive list of key strokes and commands that the
mythapps use that I've missed somewhere?
Great job Isaac! You have a tivo killer on your hands with just a
little more work!
everything compiled, installed, and now I have a couple of issues to
work out. I'm getting pretty excited, everything looks really slick,
polished and I think the gui is going to be great.
1) sound issues: I'm having some sound sync issues, the sound far
ahead of video problem mentioned in the faq. The faq instructs me to
mute the line in etc etc. Now I have no sound. It occurs to me that in
the myth command line setup routine, the default video device was
called /dev/video, where mine was really /dev/video0 which I discovered
via xawtv. Is it possible that the default sound device is also not
appropriate for me? Would the setup program complain if I had the wrong
sound device chosen? How do I figure out what my device name my sound
card is actually using? ps, the sound card is working for other apps.
2)if I run the command line app mythtv I successfully can watch tv,
pause, ff, rewind etc, all perfectly except for the sound issue
mentioned above. Similarly mythfrontend seems to be working ok too. I
can schedule shows, resolve conflicts etc, but I can't switch to
watching live tv. I've tried it a few times and it either just pretends
that I haven't pushed the live tv button, or once, switched to a
picture of the blue background. No tv in site though. As a side note, I
assume the "setup" button doesn't do anything yet? Not on mine anyway.
3)finally, mythtv and mythfrontend seem to have a bit of a life of
their own. Mythtv takes over the screen, obscuring other apps, and if I
try to select other running apps via the control strip at the bottom,
or perhaps switch to a different virtual desktop, mythtv refuses to
give up. The only way I can quit it is to use a contextual menu on the
mythtv icon in my control strip, the blindly grope (or use a key combo)
for the "close" option, because mythtv obscures any menus I manage to
open. mythfrontend is even worse. It completely hides my desktop (which
is good until I want to quit), doesn't let me select another app, hides
the control strip, and does not respond to the esc key, control-c or
anything else I can think of. I end op having to kill x11 in order to
quit the darn thing.
oh, is there a comprehensive list of key strokes and commands that the
mythapps use that I've missed somewhere?
Great job Isaac! You have a tivo killer on your hands with just a
little more work!