[mythtv-users] RE: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:22AM -0500, Greg Depasse wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:49:47 -0800, Brad Templeton
> <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On the Tivo, which is what I used before mythtv, you had the nice ability
> > to pause the live show (without turning it into a recording) and watch
> > a bit of something else just to build your buffer.
> > 
> 
> Hi-
> Long time lurker, nearly a myth owner (and soon to be an ex-owner of tivo).
> 
> Brad, can you clarify the above statement?  Does it mean that you
> can't pause live TV?  Or does it mean that you can't pause live TV and
> watch a recorded show at the same time?


Correct.  Myth lets you pause live tv, but you can't do anything else in
myth while it's paused, except what you can do in the live tv mode, like
browse the program guide.    You can do other linux things.   You could,
in a pinch, go and manually play other recordings with mplayer.  You can
call up mythweb.  You can also do what most people do, namely ask it to
record the live program that
is currently on, and that leaves you free (if you were not watching behind
in the buffer) to go watch other shows and come back to your other
recording.