[mythtv-users] Frontends
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Thu Oct 30 23:56:26 UTC 2008
jedi wrote:
> I don't see it as that big of a deal. MythTV running in a window
> on the desktop does well enough. I am not sure a separate app would
> do any better while potentially doing remarkably worse.
For the most part it works OK. If I were going to put together a
wishlist, though, I think it'd look something like this:
- On-the-fly window resizing.
- Honoring the window manager's window placement. Right now the window
rudely pops back to the upper left corner whenever it feels like it.
- Mouse support. Right now it's maybe 25% there. For example, you can
click "Watch recordings" in the main menu, but once you're there,
nothing on the recordings screen responds to mouse input. Same with
"Watch videos" -- those yellow folders look so nice and clickable, but
they aren't.
- Ability to toggle the window aspect ratio on the fly.
- Being able to crop would be nice, too -- for example, if the recording
is a 16:9 broadcast that was letterboxed to 4:3, show it in a 16:9
window, with the black bars cropped out. The old Windows ATI TV player
would let you do this just by drawing a rectangle on the video window
with the mouse.
And yes, I know if I ever want to actually see any of this stuff I'll
probably have to submit a patch. A guy can dream, though. ;)
> Having the internal player being a separate app could be cool
> though.
That would be handy. I often end up using mythfrontend to play non-Myth
content just because it works better than mplayer or xine for many file
types. The audio sync is more consistent and seek works better.
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