Numeric input is cleared immediately during playback

[ijc@…]

Qobject::startTimer and hence TV::StartTimer? take a timeout in milliseconds. This means that the queueInputTimer is set to expire after just 10ms which isn't really long enough to hit a second button before the queued input is cleared and therefore jump to and arbitrary seek type functionality doesn't work properly.

The attached patch changes the timeout to 10s which I suspect is what the author intended.

It would be nice to fix this in 0.23-fixes as well.

[ijc@…]

Increase queued input timeout to 10s

[anonymous]

FWIW I also don't see the queued input on the OSD but I've not had a chance to check if this is down to the theme or not yet.

[Ian Campbell <ijc@…>]

I've just tested and the lack of OSD display seems to be theme specific. FWIW I was using Glass-OSD.

[mdean]

The described behavior only occurs if:

Change channels immediately without select
When a complete channel number is entered MythTV will switch to that channel immediately without requiring you to hit the select button.

is enabled and only when the numeric input matches a channel number. I don't know if this is a bug or if it's the desired behavior (since it /is/ in fact changing channels immediately).

[mdean]

Attached patch, mythtv-remove_smart_channel_change_setting.patch , "fixes" the issue by removing the "Change channels immediately without select" setting.

IMHO, the "Change channels immediately without select" setting cannot be justified since a) enabling the setting means that other MythTV functionality (such as the arbitrary seek functionality) will not work properly with certain numeric input (any numeric input that matches a channel number--meaning users will see confusing results) and b) with the setting disabled, the channel is changed upon the input timeout, which seems to be about 3s (and is the behavior the reporter desires).

Unless someone provides a reasonable argument for keeping the setting, I plan to commit this change to trunk in the near future. Note that the setting is disabled by default, so likely the majority of users have it disabled and will see no difference in behavior after the setting is removed.

icj, please disable the "Change channels immediately without select" setting (in Utilities/Setup?|Setup|TV Settings|General , first screen) to get the behavior you want. Thanks for bringing this old setting to our attention.

[Ian Campbell <ijc@…>]

The "Change channels immediately without select" setting is already disabled in my configuration ( doubled checked the DB and SmartChannelChange? == 0). Did you mean for me to enable it? (From what you say I don't think so).

Note that I see the issue with recorded rather than live TV (I haven't tried live), does "change channel" have any meaning in that context?

I have heavily instrumented tv_play.cpp and I am definitely seeing the queueInputTimerId timer firing pretty much immediately after I press any numeric button and causing the queuedInput to be wiped. 10ms for this timer can't be right, can it?

[mdean]

Reporter found that the problem was due to an out-of-date OSD theme, as described at ​http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2010-July/068928.html .

[marc@…]

The Glass theme has been updated and now works correctly - ​http://castlesblog.com/2009/november/30/mythtv-glass-osd