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

Brad Templeton brad+mydev at templetons.com
Fri Jan 21 16:15:53 EST 2005


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:50:37AM -0800, Eskil Heyn Olsen 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.
> 
> I have a Tivo with two tuners, what it does in that case, is it just
> switches to the other tuner. If both tuners are recording when you
> switch, it cancels the one you're currently watching. So to cancel the
> other, you hit "Jump" to get to the other tuner, then switch channel.

I presume the 4 tuner tivo is similar?  It has the more complex problem
of the tuners being different sources (as myth also has)

I personally see no problem when a user says "Watch live TV" if the
box decides what to do then, and what channel to put you on.

It seems good behaviours might be:

a) If a tuner free, go to that tuner, tune the default channel (or
    last channel viewed)

b) If no tuners free, go to a recording (it doesn't matter which one)
and start playing it at the _end_, ie. near live.   Put up a quick
OSD saying that's what you did. 

b2) Some might prefer it pops up a dialog saying, "No tuners free,
but you can watch one of the following programs, currently being
recorded"

c) If user tries to change channel while really in a recording, and
no tuner is free,
it pops up a warning (similar to what it does when viewing behind
in the buffer if you turn that on)  "This program is being recorded.
and no tuner is available to watch anything else.   Would you like
to cancel this/a recording, continue watching this (or watch another
recording if available)


Does that sound like a good interface?



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