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

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Fri Jan 21 13:41:35 EST 2005


On Friday 21 January 2005 01:09 pm, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Which doesn't exactly work if you have more than one tuner.
>
> Why not have it switch to a new tuner if one is available then perform
> the channel change?  If one isn't, then ask if one wants to cancel a
> current recording in a popup?

Um.  You're not really thinking about it at all.

If you have more than one tuner, and all are being used for recording (or live 
tv elsewhere), how does it pick which recording to automatically take you to?  
If all available tuners are being used for live-tv elsewhere, it can't even 
do that.

Isaac


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