[mythtv-users] Feature request

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jul 15 00:01:52 EDT 2003


On Monday 14 July 2003 10:16 pm, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 15:37, Steve Hill wrote:
> > When I was watching TV tonight, I had an idea for a useful feature - in
> > the same way as you can prioritise recordings, would it be possible to
> > set a recording priority so low that it is overridden by LiveTV?
> > i.e.  I want to record episodes of the simpsons when nothing else
> > interesting is on.  But if I'm watching live tv I don't want my viewing
> > to be interrupted by "MythTV wants to record the simpsons".  So I'd like
> > to be able to flag a recording to only happen if nothing else is using
> > the TV card.
>
> Umm... that wouldn't work, since if you it in the mythtv module, and the
> TV were off, you wouldn't get your recording and you weren't watching
> the TV anyway.  Wouldn't it be better if it prompted (a la Tivo) that it
> was about to start a recording (a minute early) and gave the option to
> cancel the upcoming recording, while defaulting to "record as planned"?

You mean exactly how mythtv's done it for ages now?  Except it defaults to 
watching it while it records.

Isaac


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