--- Michael Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> here's one useability suggestion that would require > some v4l > support...autodetect / enumerate all cards (and then > of course allow > deletion of individual sources via mythtv-setup). This isn't a bad idea. But, I do think that it is better to force the user to set the card up because card enumeration is tricky and prone to error (and imagine what could happen if the detection was wrong). > second, more tightly integrate mythfilldatabase into > mythtv-setup...the > setup tool should be able to know if you're the > backend or not and know when > you last ran mythfilldatabase...and it should let > you run it from the gui. This doesn't work for a lot of people. There are people who need to manually fetch their listings using one of the XMLTV grabbers, and then run mythfilldatabase manually. They typically do this via a script, therefore mythfilldatabase has to be seperate from the backend and mythtv-setup. > also, since myth effectively has its own scheduling > engine (for obvious > reasons), how about making an option to have > mythbackend handle scheduling > mythfilldatabase runs? > I don't know if the backend or frontend handles this, but there is an option in the frontend to enable mythfilldatabase to be run within the context of MythTV. This is in SVN, and I think (but am not 100% sure) that it is in 0.18.1. > those are just two ideas that came to me off the top > of my head. > > > On 1/9/06, Tom E. Craddock Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If MythTV had fewer usability issues, it would > probably decrease mail > > > volume on the -users list at least, and also > lead to a lot less wasted > > > time by newbies trying to set it up and/or use > it, and less time by > > > more-experienced users trying to help them. > > > > > > But improving MythTV usability is currently a > giant Catch-22. Why? > > > > > > (g) What new user is going to run SVN? For one > thing, it takes a > > > large committment to do so having not even > tried the product at > > > all, and for another, it requires monitoring > both -dev and -commit > > > (and maybe -users), all incredibly > high-volume, before even > > > starting to compile anything, much less use > it. > > > > > > > > > > > The OP is already a member of -dev...they posted > thier "USE"ability > > report, not on the -user list, but on -dev; and > they are not running > > SVN. Am I the only one who thinks this is Bass > Ackwards? > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-dev mailing list > > mythtv-dev@mythtv.org > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > mythtv-dev@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > -- Joe __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
