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

Kyle Rose krose+mythtv at krose.org
Fri Jan 21 17:12:27 EST 2005


>> > 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?
>>
>> It arbitrarily chooses the first tuner today; it could choose the
>> first tuner's recording under this system.
>
> Myth doesn't arbitrarily choose anything.  In this situation, it makes the 
> user go to the playback screen and decide for themselves.

False.  On my system, when I choose "live TV", MythTV takes me to the
first tuner card that isn't already recording something (or playing
live TV elsewhere).  I call this choice "arbitrary."

> Nice job repeating a thread from the users list.  This is planned (and has 
> been for about a year now), but no one's done any work on it.

What can I say.  Great minds think alike.

Kyle


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