[mythtv-users] Feature idea: Instant record -discussed alread y?

[Boyd II, Willy]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey Perry [mailto:jeffperry_2003 at yahoo.com] 
>Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:06 PM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Feature idea: Instant record 
>-discussed already?
>
>
>Hi everyone!
>
>Myth is great, I just got it going...I do have some recording 
>issues with my PVR350 but judging from the ivtv list, these 
>are par for the course when using the framebuffer and TVOUT 
>and they are working on the solution. (The problem in case you 
>are interested is that sometimes the mythbackend does not seem 
>to record all of a show, or even start recording it. Near as I 
>can tell from my ivtv mailing list research, this is due to an 
>ivtv-fb bug - which causes a driver problem - perhaps 
>something to do with DMA/buffering - as a result mythbbackend 
>can't access the hardware to record)
>
>My question is this, has anyone thought of adding a feature to 
>allow you to simply press record while watching live tv to do 
>recording? It could then display a dialog w/some preset 
>recording times including a choice for user specified amount 
>and user unspecified amount (ie: from now until I say) I 
>imagine this idea has come up, it's just a question of time 
>before someone decides to implement it.
>
>The implementation should also be clever and offer to tape 
>retroactive to the time you joined the channel. This way you 
>could watch for a bit and say this is neat, I think I will 
>tell myth to record it and you might be able to get more of 
>the segment or even the whole show if you caught the beginning.
>
>PS. I would have looked this up but there is no search 
>function on the archive page. Is there another site with 
>searchable copies of the mythtv-user and mythtv-devel archives?

Umm.. which archives are you reading?  There's a "Search Posts" link at the
top of:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/

BTW... I don't believe the above is implemented yet... IIRC it was before,
then wasn't maintained, and the non-working version was removed.

- Willy
>
>--Jeff
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