[mythtv] [PATCH] Record what I'm watching

[Ian Forde]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 12:58, Ben Levitt wrote:
> I agree, that would be awesome.  But I imagine it
> would be hard to do it well...  We wouldn't want to
> interrupt the recorder, so we'd need a special way to
> switch from LiveTV to Recording without stopping and
> restarting the encoder.  Also, we'd have to deal with
> moving the file from the ringbuffer location to the
> stored programs location... presumably after recording
> is done(?)...  

Yeah... my ringbuffer is on the same filesystem as my recorded programs,
so that would just be a renaming the file issue.  But if they're
configured for 2 different filesystems, you're going to have to deal
with copying the file over to the other filesystem, which will take
time.  It would probably have to take place after the recording is
finished...

Not to mention if you're using a master backend/slave backend combo,
with the ringbuffer local and the stored files remote, you're looking at
quite a bit of network traffic after the recording...

	-I
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