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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 19886"><p><strong>I voted yes</strong></p><p></p><p>MP is a big project and big projects can get bogged down in the details and lose sight of the bigger picture. I, for one, did not get MP to work until I upgraded to 0.1.3.0 and then the latest Dvico drivers. To me this would indicate that MP would not work until these two things came together but I know other people had it working with earlier versions of both pieces of software. Therefore it must have been something I was doing wrong, what, I don't know. But what I do know is that I don't know a lot about digital TV and I think a lot of other users are in the same boat. I only get a short time to 'play around' with MP, maybe once a week, and I have to go over ground I've already been over to get back to where I was. This slows me down considerably but my frustrations have led me to make the following suggestions.</p><p></p><p>If some of the keen people out there who fully understand digital TV and MP could put together some sort of 'manual', one that explains what is being transmitted by the stations, how it is decoded and how MP uses that information etc. </p><p></p><p>Maybe even some sort of glossary so that you can use the correct technical terms when doing a search, eg how do you do a search on 'autotune' when you don't know that it is autotune that you are looking for? (You'd never guess that my card originally wouldn't find stations would you?)</p><p></p><p>There's a heap of basic stuff that seems to crop up regularly as well, setting up scheduler to start after going into standby, what resolutions to set video cards to, what is a PID etc. These could be covered in the 'manual' mentioned above or the glossary.</p><p></p><p>A set of guidelines to point people in the right direction when starting out, some (simple) explanations of the technical side and maybe the number of questions being asked in the forums would decrease and the programmers could concentrate on a stable platform for the rest of the features.</p><p></p><p>Today is the one day of the week, so it's time to get back to MP and find out why I can't get it to playback video recorded by the Dvico card.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 19886"] [b]I voted yes[/b] MP is a big project and big projects can get bogged down in the details and lose sight of the bigger picture. I, for one, did not get MP to work until I upgraded to 0.1.3.0 and then the latest Dvico drivers. To me this would indicate that MP would not work until these two things came together but I know other people had it working with earlier versions of both pieces of software. Therefore it must have been something I was doing wrong, what, I don't know. But what I do know is that I don't know a lot about digital TV and I think a lot of other users are in the same boat. I only get a short time to 'play around' with MP, maybe once a week, and I have to go over ground I've already been over to get back to where I was. This slows me down considerably but my frustrations have led me to make the following suggestions. If some of the keen people out there who fully understand digital TV and MP could put together some sort of 'manual', one that explains what is being transmitted by the stations, how it is decoded and how MP uses that information etc. Maybe even some sort of glossary so that you can use the correct technical terms when doing a search, eg how do you do a search on 'autotune' when you don't know that it is autotune that you are looking for? (You'd never guess that my card originally wouldn't find stations would you?) There's a heap of basic stuff that seems to crop up regularly as well, setting up scheduler to start after going into standby, what resolutions to set video cards to, what is a PID etc. These could be covered in the 'manual' mentioned above or the glossary. A set of guidelines to point people in the right direction when starting out, some (simple) explanations of the technical side and maybe the number of questions being asked in the forums would decrease and the programmers could concentrate on a stable platform for the rest of the features. Today is the one day of the week, so it's time to get back to MP and find out why I can't get it to playback video recorded by the Dvico card. [/QUOTE]
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