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

Jeremiah Morris jm at whpress.com
Fri Jan 21 17:24:13 EST 2005


On 21 Jan 2005, at 5:12 PM, Kyle Rose wrote:

>>>> 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."

The original question specified that "all are being used for 
recording", that's not the situation you describe here. You're applying 
Isaac's response to a different question.

- Jeremiah



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