[mythtv-users] MythTV - few tweaks needed

[Bryan Halter]

Fedor Pikus wrote:

>I've assembled a home media PC running FC3 and MythTV (0.18, the
>latest from ATRPMs, following Jarod's guide for the most part).
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>I'm mostly happy with the setup, but there are few problems I can't
>quite figure out how to fix:
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>1) When MythTV is recording and I select "Watch TV" I'd like it to
>show live TV, the channel is's on now. Instead it tells me that it has
>no more tuners and directs me to another menu where I can manage and
>watch recordings. Rather long process for a very straightforward
>operation. Any way I can change this?
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No, I suspect it was done this way to accomodate multiple tuners and 
multiple frontends

>2) Some of the operations on my recordings are done from one menu
>(Watch Recordings), other operations from a totally different place
>(Utilities/Setup). In particular, I can't find a way to delete a
>recording from the same place I can watch it from.
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When in the watch recordings screen push the 'm' button or the right 
arrow button this will bring up a menu where you can delete a recording 
among other tasks

>3) Any way to get MythTV to keep running the live TV buffer while I'm
>crawling around menus? Say, I want to go play with settings and
>whatnot, and in the meantime I want it to keep buffering TV so I can
>watch it later. Kind of like TiVo does, it always records something.
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Not that I know of, though I *think* if you press 'r' this will start 
recording what watch tv is currently on and you can then come back to it 
in the recordings menu

>4) If I watch TV and send "record" command, it records from the
>current time, losing the live buffer. Can I change this? (again, Tivo
>does it: if I'm 10 minutes into the show and select to record, I get
>the first 10 minutes into my recording).
>
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Not a bad feature request, but I don't believe so

>Thanks in advance,
>Fedor
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