[mythtv-users] Am I on crack

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Ronald Frazier wrote:

> B) This isn't about random stuff that happened to be on at some random
> time while you are away. It's more specific than that. For example:
>
> Lets say you have some spare time and nothing record, so you watch
> live tv and find something reasonably interesting. Yeah I know you
> probably don't work like that, but just try to pretend for a moment
> that not everyone in the world is like you. You decide you need to do
> something else on the system (maybe something in mythflix, or checking
> the weather, or movie showtimes, or 100 other things). You can't exit
> LiveTV because it will stop recording the program, so you need to
> start recording it first. You go do whatever you need to, but now in
> order to continue, you can't go back to LiveTV.

That's not true. I can go back to LiveTV because I have 5 tuners (plus  
2 virtual tuners). It'll just pick the next one in the line and  
happily present me with what's on right now. Maybe adding another  
tuner is the solution to your LiveTV woes.

But because I like to argue, let's assume I have only 1 tuner in my  
system. Something's recording. I *can* go into LiveTV and be presented  
with a dialog box that tells me, "Hey, your tuner is in use. Do you  
want to watch what it's recording on it right now?"

This solution makes much more sense to me. I would NOT want to watch  
LiveTV, hit record because what was on happened to be interesting,  
then have my kid on another frontend in another room hit LiveTV, see  
the crappy "dad show" on, and change the channel to watch something  
else.

> You have to go to a
> recording instead. But that now means you can't switch channels if you
> lose interest in the show. You have to exit, stop the recording, and
> switch back to live TV.

Right. Because you're not watching LiveTV any more. As soon as you hit  
the record button, you're saying, "This is not LiveTV that I don't  
care about and want it to be expired as soon as possible to make way  
for other stuff. This is a recording I want to keep and watch later.  
Please don't destroy this recording because I (or someone else)  
accidentally hit CHAN +."

That being said, someone did write a patch a while back against 0.20  
that would allow you to watch LiveTV, exit out and have it continue to  
record while you did other stuff, then when you entered LiveTV again,  
it brought you back to where you left off. I don't remember who did it  
and it seemed like a cool feature to have but it never made it into  
trunk. If you are looking to implement something like this, I would  
search for this patch and use it as a starting-off point.

-Brad