User:GBee

Hardware Wishlist

Case

I gave up on the idea of using an Asus Pundit, it was just impossible to get hold of the right model with the required spec. Instead I found this excellent, brushed aluminium case for just £40:

I ended up building a HD capable combined frontend and backend with HDMI out and HD Audio for £140, excluding drives and cards which I salvaged from the old backend.

More photos and details of the box

Tuners

DVB-T x 4 for Freeview and a DVB-S for FreeSat (BBC HD).

Themes

Metallurgy, my first theme, for 0.21 only, includes the first HD OSD theme. It's about 95% finished and a beta version can be downloaded here: http://www.miffteevee.co.uk/themes/metallurgy.html

Code

My Task List:

• Sort out settings to make setup quicker and easier. This means creating two modes, novice and expert, splitting settings in into each group. Using a locale based auto-config, settings which are defined by where you live e.g. Video format, languages, interactive TV etc should all be automatically populated simply by choosing the correct locale from a list on the first startup. Some settings might be replaced with more intelligent auto-detection and some text-entry settings replaced with pre-populated lists.

• Improve streaming on remote frontends. Current buffering/streaming just isn't sufficient on connections which are just a little slow e.g. Patchy wireless. It's perfectly possible to get perfect streamed playback on such connections using Kaffeine and the mythweb ASX stream, so the solution shouldn't be too difficult.

• Handle the correct muting/recording of line-in from within mythtv setup to simplify framegrabber setup (Might not be possible, but if it is, then it's simple fix)

• Allow 2 or more listings sources for one video source. (Don't add channels. Don't run grabber twice for single source)

• Don't buffer keypresses - e.g.scrolling programme guide

• Add option to liveTV recording starting menu to watch remainder of liveTV buffer

• Add disk based caching of mheg stuff, images etc

• Move filters into playback groups

• The duplicate check method "Record New Episodes Only" either needs re-wording or making a little smarter. It doesn't work as it should like it should for users with no 'Repeat' information in their guide data.

Working on now

• Replace current mythmusic playlist editor using the new table structure to it's full advantage. - Currently on hold but I intend finishing this, hopefully before 0.22 is released.

• All things MythUI

Finished Recently

• Mythtv setup needs to use the theme cache to reduce it's load time - it can take upto 45 seconds without displaying anything leading users to assume it has hung.

• Add time container to Menus

• Watched flag doesn't take hard-offsets into account or incomplete recordings

• Add a range of possible new video, audio and subtitle properties along with icons to reflect the possible values.