[mythtv] Good work on the DVB/ATSC live TV!

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:22 -0500, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> I just want to send a brief thank-you to all of those who have been
> working on improved ATSC / DVB support, especially Daniel.  I've just
> upgraded to SVN 7671 and I'm very impressed with how well Live TV
> works even when reception fails.
Glad to hear that :)
Jack Kelliher and pcHDTV deserve credit too, if it weren't for them
I wouldn't have been able to take time away from other projects to
work on improving the HDTV support in MythTV.

> For the first time, MythTV does not crash or hang when it tries to
> tune to a channel that's unavailable, making it much easier to
> experiment with US broadcast HDTV and its unreliable channels.
:) I was just adding some hard drives to my dev box last Tuesday
and forgot to plug the antenna cable back in. I tried changing 
channels and still didn't get a lock. Hmm.. Then I checked the 
cables, and plugged the coax in, and video showed up... no fiddling
with the start channel in the DB, no checking things with command 
line utilities, etc. it felt good.

> As the U.S. Congress holds yet another hearing today on Broadcast Flag
> proposals, thanks for a great way to demonstrate how well flag-free TV
> can be used.  (Hearing details at
> <http://www.publicknowledge.org/news/events/20051103-house-hearing>.)

I find it bizarre that something like a broadcast flag would even be
considered in a country that still holds elections. Keep up the good
work fighting the evil-doers :)

-- Daniel