[mythtv] [PATCH] Cancel a recording when no free recorder for live tv

Brad Templeton brad+mydev at templetons.com
Fri Jan 21 12:15:58 EST 2005


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:06:54PM +0900, Jack Porter wrote:
> Ideally I'd like the option of either cancelling or watching, but I 
> wasn't sure of the best way to present that to the user.
> 
> For me cancelling is the option I preferred because I have a low 
> priority schedule to record the latest news every hour, so I've always 
> got the latest news.
> 
> I'll see if I get a chance to implement both options this weekend & will 
> submit.
> 
> - Jack

Tivo's done a reasonably decent UI job here.  If you ask for live TV it
takes you to the current recording in progress, and if you attempt to
change the channel, it asks if you want to cancel the recording.

However if the recording is one of their "suggestions" (what we might
interpret as low priority) they try to make that invisible -- and the
channel changes with no warning and the suggestion is cancelled and
erased (not even the beginning is left as a fragment)

I bring this up because I'm building analogs to the suggestions and
having behaviour depend on the priority of the recording makes sense.


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