[mythtv-users] Manual recording nitpick.

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
>  > Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>  >  > On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >> I was watching a show last night and decided I would be better off
>  >  >> going to bed so I hit the record button on my remote and exited live
>  >  >> TV. Right afterwards I wondered if it was going to complete the
>  >  >> recording in the background and apparently it does not. Is there a
>  >  >> specific reason for this or has it just not been implemented?
>  >  >
>  >  > It is supposed to keep recording unless something has gone terribly
>  >  > wrong. Are you sure it didn't?
>  >
>  >  I would say something went wrong for him.  Mine starts a new recording as
>  >  soon as I hit "record" button on my remote.  A popup on the OSD tells me it
>  >  is recording the current program and my tuner locks (I can't change the
>  >  channel).  If I leave livetv and go to Media Library>Watch Recordings I see
>  >  the program currently recording in the list.  If I enter livetv again,
>  >  another available tuner is selected while the other one is now tied up
>  >  recording a program.
>  >
>  >  Brian
>
>  I may have to scan through the logs then. I'm using an HDHomerun if it
>  matters. The way I verified it was not recording is I had a laptop in
>  front of me and used mythweb to check the backend status and it showed
>  both tuners as idle.
>
>  Richard
>
Forgot to mention. I did get the "Recording" statement from the OSD so
it appears it did at least start recording.

Richard