--- "Tom E. Craddock Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Why can't I change inputs from inside the EPG? > The backend knows how to > > do this. If I turn on my TV it defaults to > DirecTV, which is what I want, > > but if I browse the EPG looking for something to > watch or am just flipping > > around, it would be really nice if I could select > an HDTV channel. > > HDTV channels are on a different card (pchdtv3k as > opposed to the svideo > in on the freestyle). There is no mechanism in > place to have the EPG > know that it needs to, in effect, press the C button > to change cards, or > to know that it needs to, in effect, press Y to > change inputs. If youd > like to code it up, a patch is always welcome. > Plenty of people have > asked for this, but apparently its not wanted/needed > that bad as its not > been worked on. I just bound a key on my remote to > the C and Y keys and > use it, not that much harder, one extra keystroke. > > > Tom
I poked around a bit before sending that email, please correct me if I have things wrong, but I don't think the epg does anything for changing channels other than passing a channelid to mythfrontend which makes a request to the backend to change the channel. So AFAIK the feature I requested would be for the backend to honor a chanid of xXXX wher x is the input and XXX is the channel and know what to do if x is not the current cardinput. Having said all of that, which is quite probably completely wrong, there is no way that I could write a patch to make that happen. So if someone brighter than I can't/won't do it then I'll live with it. Yes dear I'll be right down to switch the TV for you to American Idol during this commercial break, luckily I was on the way to the fridge to grab another beer anyway.
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