Keybindings

FAQ

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Keyboard commands

The keys.txt file describes what the various keyboard commands are. If you have loaded mythweb, you may change the default keys to your liking.

mythfrontend

Arrow keys
used to move the highlight point around

ALT-F4
exit out of the application

Space/Enter
take action on the item under the highlight point

P
play in both "Watch a Recording" and "Delete a Recording"

D
delete in both "Watch a Recording" and "Delete a Recording"

I
edit recording options from the EPG, "Program Finder", "Program Recording Priorities", or "Fix Scheduling Conflicts" screens. From the Playback and Delete screens, 'I' presents options for recorded shows such as Auto Expire or Stop Recording. Pressing 'I' while on the Recording Options screen will take you to the Advanced Recording Options screen.

Watching TV or a recording

Up or down
keys change the channel

num pad
Type a number to enter a channel number or jump amount (HHMM format)

P
pause / play

C
change inputs on TV Tuner card

ESC
quits

I
puts the On-screen Display up again. During playback, 'I' toggles between position and show description info. If a jump amount is entered, jump to that position.

M
brings up the electronic program guide (Grid) -- see the EPG section

Page Up
jump back the configured number of minutes (default is 10)

Page Down
jump ahead the configured number of minutes (default is 10)

End or Z
skip to next commercial break marker

Home or Q
skip back to previous commercial break marker

T
toggle close caption support

F
rotate between the various Picture Adjustments (Colour, Hue, etc.) While Picture Adjustment is on-screen, use Left and Right arrows to adjust. These settings adjust the look of the video playback, and are independent of the G-key settings used at record-time.

[ or F10
decrease volume

] or F11
increase volume

| or F9
toggle mute

/
jump to the next "favorite" channel

?
mark/unmark the current channel as a "favorite"

U
increase the play speed

J
decrease the play speed

W
cycle through 4:3 aspect ratio, 16:9, 4:3 Zoom (like Pan and Scan), 16:9 Zoom, and 16:9 Stretch (eliminates black sidebars in TV signal)

Left
(if a jump amount is entered) to jump back that amount

Right
(if a jump amount is entered) to jump ahead that amount

Without the stickykeys option selected 

Left
rewind the configured number of seconds (default is 5)

Right
fast forward the configured number of seconds (default is 30)

<
starts rewind mode as if stickykeys are selected

>
starts fast forward mode as if stickykeys are selected

With Stickykeys option selected 

Right
starts fast forward mode

Left
starts rewind mode

In fast forward or rewind mode: 

Left/Right
increases the ff/rew speed

0
plays at normal speed, but leaves the time indicator on screen

1 or 2
plays back more slowly than normal ff/rew speed (1 is slowest)

3
plays back at normal ff/rew speed

4-9
plays back faster than normal ff/rew speed (9 is fastest)

Space
exits fast forward or rewind mode

While video is paused: 

Left
rewind 1 frame

<
rewind 1 second

Right
advance 1 frame

>
advance 1 second

Watching TV only

G
rotate between the various Picture Adjustments (Colour, Hue, etc.) for recording. These values affect the look of the resulting .nuv file, and are independent of the playback picture settings. While Picture Adjustment is on-screen, use Left and Right arrows to adjust.

H
Channel history. Each repeat steps back through the previous channels.

O
Turns on 'Browse' mode, allowing user to browse channels and program info while watching current show Full Screen.

F8
toggle the sleep timer 30m->1hr->1hr30m->2hr->Off

Y
switch between multiple capture cards.  NOTE: you lose your LiveTV buffer on your current card. Useful for different-sourced cards (such as Dish Network on one, HDTV over-the-air on another card.)

Watching a recording only

Space/Enter
set a bookmark at that point. Next time you start the recording, you will automatically jump forward to this point and clear the bookmark.

X
queues the current recording for transcoding

O
brings up menu to allow toggling settings such as Commercial Auto-Skip, Auto-Expire, etc.

E or M
enters/exits edit mode.

In edit mode 

Left/Right
move forward and backward

Up/Down
alter the amount of time you jump forward and backward. Increments are: nearest cutpoint, nearest video keyframe, 1 frame, 0.5 seconds, 1 second, 20 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes.

Page Up/Page Down
move forward and backward to the nearest cut point

< or >
move forward or backward by 10 times the normal jump amount

Space/Enter
allows you to set or delete a cut point

Z
loads the commercial skip list (if one exists) into the cutlist

C or Q
clear all cut points in the cutlist

LiveTV Browse Mode

Left
browse program prior to current listed program

Right
browse program following current listed program

Up
browse program on channel above current listed channel/program

Down
browse program on channel below current listed channel/program

/
browse program on next favorite channel

0-9
enter a channel number to browse

Space/Enter
change channel to channel of current listed program

R/r
Toggle recording of current program (cycles through types)

ESC/O
Exit Browse mode

Playback Recording Zoom Mode

Left
Move video to Left

Right
Move video to Right

Up
Move video Up

Down
Move video Down

Page Up
Zoom In

Page Down
Zoom Out

Space/Enter
Exit Zoom mode leaving picture at current size and position

ESC
Exit Zoom mode and return to original size

If you have two or more tuner cards

V
toggle Picture-in-picture on or off

B
toggles the window focus (lets you change channels on the PiP window)

N
swaps the two channels by changing channels on both cards

EPG

Arrows
are used to move the highlighted program point around

A, D, S, W
perform the same as left, right, down and up

Page Up/Page Down
move the channel list up or down a page

Home/End
move the highlight left or right by one day

Ctrl+Left or <
move the highlight left by one page

Ctrl+Right or >
move the highlight right by one page

9, 3, 7, 1
(like a numeric keypad) perform the same as Page Up, Page Down, Home and End

I
bring up more information about a show, and allow you to schedule a recording. If you select "Record this showing" while watching Live TV you can "Instant Record" a program.

Space/Enter
allow you resolve conflicts or change overrides. If the program is not already scheduled to record, it will instead act like pressing 'I'.

M
when on a channel will change to that channel

ESC or C
exits without changing the channel

R
change the current item from Recording/Not-Recording. Successive keypresses cycle through the scheduled recording type list.

X
change the channel to the currently selected channel without leaving the EPG (Most useful in the alternate EPG)

/
mark/unmark the current channel as a "favorite"

4
toggle the guide listing between all channels and filtered "favorites"

Setting Program or Channel Recording Priorities

Right
increases priority value

Left
decreases priority value

1
sorts by title

2
sorts by priority

Home/End
toggle sort priority

I
edit recording options

ESC
commits changes and exits

Viewing Scheduled Recordings/Resolving Conflicts

1
show all recordings

2
show only important recordings

Home/End
toggle show showing all/important

I
edit recording options

Space/Enter
resolve conflict or override

Viewing Search Listings

Home
change to the previous view if applicable

End
change to the next view if applicable

M
select another view if applicable. In the title and description search popup, press M again to edit or delete the selected view.

Recording Profiles Setup Screen

D
on a custom profile group displays a popup to delete the group

Recording Groups

In the Watch Recordings screen, Recording Groups allow you to separate programs into user-defined categories, such as "Kids", "Alice", "Bob", etc. This can be used to reduce clutter, or to segregate content if you use the PIN function.

M
change the view or to set a group password

I
move a program from one Recording Group to another

Remote Controls

If you are using MythTV with just a remote control then it is suggested that you map the remote control keys as described below. Your remote control may not have the same set of keys as those named below, the names are only a suggestion that roughly correspond to the function.

If you are adding new key bindings to the program then consideration of this suggested list will help users with remote controls.

This list assumes a minimal remote control that only has 20 keys, nearly all features can be used with this configuration. If you have more keys then you can access all of the features. With only 16 keys most features are usable.

REMOTE CONTROL

LIRC KEYSTROKE
FUNCTION

0 - 9
0 - 9
channel selection, EPG navigation, ff/rew speed setting (with stickykeys)

Left Arrow
Left
scroll left, rewind

Right Arrow
Right
scroll right, fast forward

Up Arrow
Up
scroll up, channel change up

Down Arrow
Down
scroll down, channel change down

Select / OK / Play
Space
Select item, play (with stickykeys) set bookmark

Cancel
Escape
Cancel, quit playback

Menu
m
EPG (from watching TV) edit (from playback).

Pause
p
Pause

Other key 1
i
Information

Other key 2
c
Change tuner card input