[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10765: HD-PVR: Rework SignalMonitor to avoid reading from device

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:59 AM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I proposed integrating the HD-PVR killer into the myth code, and the idea
> was rejected -- too specialized.
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> It has been a while since I looked at the "recovery" path when there are
> HD-PVR problems.  We probably should be "backing off" a bit, when the
> StartEncoding is repeatedly failing.
>

Would it be possible to have a System Event that would trigger on such
a failure, then the user would be responsible for creating the script
that does the killing?

Tom