[mythtv] Browsing across multiple tuners

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 11:32 -0500, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> Yes, I'm aware of Ticket #978 and the "wontfix" status. Yes I'm aware
> of the "use the EPG" response...that works for me, but not for all
> people. I've seen this feature requested enough, and my wife would
> definitely be happier with it.
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> What other features would need to be considered for this to be
> accepted as a patch? The discussion from ticket #978 is a bit
> outdated, as I believe that was before LiveTV was completely
> overhauled. At the moment I can't really see any other issues that
> don't already exist when directly typing in the channel number for a
> channel on another tuner.

Does it work with the changes in the multirec branch? I agree
that the comments in #978 are outdated with the current LiveTV
implementation.

> ***Question about the OSD***
> What I wanted to do was be able to put the title in red if the program
> wasn't available on a tuner. I thought I'd try to do this by
> overlaying 2 textarea boxes with the title: one in white and one in
> red. I then added another notunerflag attribute that was an empty
> string if there was a tuner available, or a single space (so it would
> appear invisible). I then added %NOTUNERFLAG|||% before each of the
> %TITLE% variables, and embedded a few newline chars in the appropriate
> spot to try to force one of the two outside of it's clipping rect (so
> in effect, only the appropriate one would be visible). The problem is
> that it left ellipses ( . . . )  in the display. Is there a way to
> prevent this, or even a more elegant solution to the matter ( other
> than modifying OSDTypeText to support something like a fcnfont )?

Probably modifying OSDTypeText to support colors would be the best
option. We are planning on replacing the OSD stuff with MythUI
widgets but this is far enough in the future that improving 
OSDTypeText is still valuable.

-- Daniel