[mythtv] Live-TV & Recording nightmare

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 06:26 pm, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 22:58, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > I thought the point of the new live TV code was so that you could
> > > record everything of a show which you were watching through live TV.
> > > This way you cannot win - either you create a rule and record the
> > > ending OR hit 'R' and potentially only record the start.
> >
> > Jeez.  It's not finished yet.  Stop acting like a baby because something
> > that's still being worked on didn't work exactly as you expected it would
> > and chill.
>
> I am chilled :) I'm not complaining, or acting like a baby. My original
> email was in the form of a question - asking if the behaviour was expected.
> It was the prelude to opening a ticket.
>
> The thread then developed into a discussion with Michael based on our
> various opinions of expected behaviour, and the available information. In
> this case a misunderstanding resulted from the quotation of Chris:
>
> "I believe that 'R' in LiveTV just toggles whether a recording will be
>  saved (by moving it out of the LiveTV group into the default
>  recording group), I don't think it says "record the rest of this
>  program" anymore)."
>
> With confusion arising at 'anymore'. I presume that substituting the words
> 'for now' or 'at the moment' would render a better description of the
> situation??

Yup.  There are 4 major items left on my live-tv todo list.  They are:

- Pause OSD doesn't update.
- ToggleRecord needs to have warnings for channel changes if it's the 
currently recording program.
- Exiting live-tv when the currently recording program was set to keep through 
togglerecord needs to keep recording.
- Get the live-tv -> previously scheduled recorded program transition working 
(where it asks if you want to record/cancel/etc).

So, half are fixing togglerecord to work better when you use it on a currently 
recording program.  It already works as you'd expect for a non-current 
program, of course.

> We know that the code is unfinished - but if we assumed every bug was just
> the result of unfinished code then nothing would get reported! ....

Right.  Sorry, it's just incredibly frustrating having to deal with stuff like 
this sometimes.

Isaac