[mythtv-users] Why is MythTV recording shows I just watch?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Robin Hill wrote:
> On Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 03:57:04PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> Is it possible to have the backend always watch a certain channel(s)
>> even when the frontend is not running?
>> The frontend sometimes get stuck in the video stream but I hope the
>> backend does not suffer that problem. It would save decoding the stream
>> since it just needs to stream to disk.
>> This would be ideal for my single channel setup (for now, in a month or
>> so I will have three dutch free channels, wew!).
>>
> You could create a custom rule to record everything on a given channel,
> yes.  Seems rather like overkill to me (it's as easy to go through in
> advance and select what to record as it is to go through afterwards and
> select what to watch) but I don't see why this shouldn't work.
> 
> I'm not certain of the details of how to do this, but I'd guess a title
> match of .* should do it.

Ah. Thanks! Anyone can confirm?
As it looks some regexp like matching from e.g. a description of a TV
show might give interesting results.