[mythtv-users] How do I change the default 60mins setting when I press the R key while watching a channel ???

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Monday 04 Dec 2006 23:09, J. Addington wrote:

Thanks J.

Appreciate the confirmation to what I had found elsewhere, will be trying that 
later today,,,,

> I had the same issue.  Nick Morrott finally helped me
> solve it in another thread.  In the Mythtv-setup under
> the Input Connections for Composite. place '/bin/true'
> in the box labeled 'External Channel Change Command'.
> This fixed the manual scheduling for me.
>
>
> --- Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > On Monday 04 Dec 2006 20:51, Robert Johnston wrote:
> >
> > Ah sorry I missed some information..
> >
> > > On 12/4/06, Stephen Kitchener
> >
> > <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > Hi List,
> > > >
> > > > Simple question really -how do I change the
> >
> > seemingly default 60 mins
> >
> > > > that is set when I press R while watching a
> >
> > channel....
> >
> > > > I have tried to extend the recording by going
> >
> > into the recording whilst
> >
> > > > its being played and adding minuts to the
> >
> > "finish late by" option, but
> >
> > > > this has no effect.
> > > >
> > > > I also read from the wiki that pressing R/r will
> >
> > cycle through the
> >
> > > > options, but the only ones I get are record and
> >
> > stop recording......
> >
> > > > What am I missing ??  ....
> > >
> > > You're missing the fact that pressing "R" tells
> >
> > Myth to record the
> >
> > > current program. The "options" you get are to
> >
> > record the current
> >
> > > program only, to find multiple matches and so
> >
> > forth.
> >
> > > It's presumed that you press "R" to record this
> >
> > program, and you can
> >
> > > then use the program guide or program finder to
> >
> > tell Myth the other
> >
> > > programs after the current one to record.
> >
> > I am using the R key to record on a channel that is
> > connected to an S-Video
> > input, and as such there is no program guide.....
> >
> > I did try to setup a manual schedule using this
> > input but I got an error when
> > it started to record and the recording stopped.
> >
> > The error in the mythbackend log was
> >
> > 2006-12-04 11:10:33.914 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> > 2006-12-04 11:10:34.277
> > Channel::GetCurrentChannelNum(): Failed to find
> > Channel ''
> > 2006-12-04 11:10:34.279
> > Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(): Error, failed to
> > find
> > channel.
> > 2006-12-04 11:10:34.279 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to
> > set channel to 999.
> >
> > Not sure what is wrong here.....has to be with how I
> > set the channel up, but
> > what - Not sure.
> >
> > Steve
> >
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