[mythtv] LiveTV recordings

jack snodgrass mrlinuxgroups at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 15:24:59 UTC 2007


On 9/4/07, Ahmed Toulan <azazel11998 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes but my question is if the user wants to record a whole show (without
> having EPG). Is it possible to have it in one file (by any means) ?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie>
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:38:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] LiveTV recordings
>
> Ahmed Toulan wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have a question about livetv recording. From what I have read when a
> > user press the record "r" button the recording is toggled and a
> > scheduled recording is started with end time to the nearest half hour,
> > and of course the start of recording is recorded in the database. Of
> > course this behavior causes the recording to be in chunks.
> >
> > I got that information from here:
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LiveTV
> >
> > What I really want to know, is there a way to configure mythtv
> > (without alterng the code) to do this recording in a single file?
> >
> > If not I think that I will have to join all the recording files when
> > the recording is off, or is there a better way?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ahmed Toulan.
>
> that is the situation if you have no programme data
> if you have, then the programme is recorded in one file
> --
> simon
> _______________________________________________

I believe you can schedule a manual recording on channel X at time Y
for length Z minutes.
It's not pressing one button on live tv... but it lets you record a
large show in one file.

jack


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