[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Jul 2 06:17:46 UTC 2009


On Thursday 02 July 2009 02:11:49 David Brodbeck wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > And, as for sports, schedule them to record, too.  /If/ you happen to 
> > be home when the game starts /and/ you happen to have all your snacks 
> > ready to go and all your friends showed up on time and ..., then go 
> > ahead and watch it as it records.
> That works until the game enters extra innings.  Then you get to miss 
> the ending, unless you use LiveTV.  (Unless there's a way to extend a 
> recording "on the fly" that I don't know about.)

There is.

> > ...and, even though I have 4 free inputs--I can't be bothered to exit 
> > LiveTV and re-enter it...
> What I wonder is why Myth isn't smart enough, if an input is in use, to 
> check whether the same channel is available on another input instead of 
> forcing the user to bail out.  This could be useful in other situations, 
> too -- e.g., if the input fails to gain a lock, or if the channel change 
> script fails, it'd be nice to have the recording "fail over" to another 
> input.

That would probably be more optimal. As they say, "patches welcome!" ;)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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