[mythtv-users] Correct LiveTV Behavior during conflicts?

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 17:19 +0200, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
> [snip]
> > If a front-end crashes while watching LiveTV the back-end continues to
> > show the tuner as in-use.  That means that the tuner cannot be used
> > until a future recording demands that tuner (ie only if all tuners are
> > scheduled to record).  I'm guessing that the back-end should require a
> > keep-alive message from the front-end, and free up the tuner if no
> > response is received after some time-out period.

In SVN head there is a timeout, something like 4 or 8 hours. But
you can also cancel the recording by changing your group view in
the recordings screen to include the LiveTV recordings, and then
canceling or deleting the recording.

As for the single user paradigm, one of the Summer of Code projects
is intended to address that.

-- Daniel