[mythtv-users] Why isn't LiveTV as smart as a regular recording?

[Nick Morrott]

On 14/11/2008, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Brad DerManouelian
>  <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>  > On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:39 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Thu, November 13, 2008 6:12 am, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  >>> Either way, this has devolved into another "fix LiveTV yourself
>  >>> because I don't use it" discussion, and it appears that the OP has
>  >>> found some assistance with the problem.
>  >>
>  >> Part of the issue here is it affects only users that use mutirec,
>  >> which
>  >> rules out most people in the U.S. from being able to code up and
>  >> test a
>  >> fix.
>  >
>  > Actually, it only affects people who use multirec *and* LiveTV and use
>  > the multi-rec tuner as their first choice for LiveTV which rules out
>  > most people. (I have this set up, but when I enter LiveTV, it will
>  > choose 3 tuners before it hits a multirec one so I've never run into
>  > it.) Convincing a developer to set up their system this way to track
>  > down the problem and fix it may prove rather difficult.
>
>
> OTOH some people only have multirec tuners (me, NZ, DVB-S Freeview, 2
>  real tuners each as 4 virtual tuners)

My thoughts too. In Europe/Australasia, I would guess that a very many
users (most?) running 0.21-fixes are _only_ using DVB-{T,S} with
multirec.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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