[mythtv] Next Scheduler Patch

Tako Schotanus quintesse at palacio-cristal.com
Wed Mar 3 19:02:40 EST 2004


Yes, but rewinding in Live TV would be made a lot more difficult (or 
would not display the same thing you saw before).

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:43:21PM -0500, Keith Bonawitz wrote:
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>>>But why would you ever want to reconstruct a program that consists of only
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>>fragments? 
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>>Suppose you were watching a baseball game, but during commercials you flip
>>to MTV, watch a 3-minute music video, and then flip back to the baseball
>>game.  Halfway through the game, you realize it's getting really good, and
>>you wish you had recorded it for your friend to see.  Hit record, and wizzo!
>>it gathers up all the fragments you've seen, stitches them together, and
>>records the rest of the game for you.
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>>Perhaps it's a little contrived, but I came up with it pretty quickly; maybe
>>others would have more convincing situations.
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>This wouldn't be as hard as all that; rather than storing fragments and
>gathering them up, you'd just append to the existing buffer.  So there would
>be one file for the game (corresponding to a program entry), and it might or
>might not actually contain the complete program at any given time.
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