[mythtv-users] channel switching only by hand, not when recording

IvanK. chepati at yahoo.com
Mon May 10 15:01:35 EDT 2004


Ron,

are you using an external cable box with ir blaster?  Perhaps your channel 
changing script is not working?

But then again, it must be working if you can change channels while in LiveTV.

Can you confirm that LiveTV channel changing works?

IvanK.

On Monday 10 May 2004 02:17 pm, Ron wrote:
> Hi Ivan
>
> Thanks for the reply. But I did not mean two processes at the same time.
> The problem is that while not running any other processes, the recorder
> will not switch to the channel it should record. It will stay at the
> channel last seen with LiveTV. So when LiveTv is off, the recorder will
> still not switch to the right channel!
>
> Ron
>
> IvanK. wrote:
> >> Ron,
> >>
> >> this is on purpose and for a reason -- when you are recording and
> >> watching, you are not in LiveTV mode anymore, you're watching a
> >> constantly growing recorded show (or a film).  And changing channels
> >> while viewing a recording is meaningless.  This also prevents you
> >> from accidentally changing the channel and recording the wrong
> >> thing.  If you decide you don't want to continue recording the
> >> current show, exit from viewing it, go to the Watch Recording
> >> screen, highlight the show, hit "i" and choose either stop or
> >> delete. Then you'll be able to go into LiveTV mode again and change
> >> channels.
> >>
> >> Now the reason why you're not in LiveTV mode while recording (this
> >> is on a single tuner system) is that you can have only one process
> >> controlling the tuner at any one time.  In order words you can't
> >> have two horses pulling one cart in different directions...
> >>
> >> IvanK.
> >>
> >> On Monday 10 May 2004 07:55 am, Ron wrote:
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> I succeeded in building a MythTV system on Fedora (Core 1) without
> >>> major problems and using a PVR350.
> >>>
> >>> One problem remains: the system does not switch to the proper
> >>> channel when recording. It uses the channel currently tuned to. I
> >>> am able to switch channels while viewing TV.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone having a clue as to what might be the cause of this?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Ron,
> >>> Netherlands
> >>>
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