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

Marc Tousignant drayson at net1plus.com
Thu Jul 2 13:00:11 UTC 2009


> > 2009/7/2 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> >> Because Myth is meant to record TV, and LiveTV is for people who
> haven't
> >> figured out how to use a DVR.  :)
> >
> > I think that view of MythTV is very restrictive for no real reasons
> > other than LiveTV is really lacking there.
> >
> > LiveTV isn't implicitly bad, there are many channels where recordings
> > make no sense other than watching it live: sport and news channel
> > being the 2 most obvious categories.
> >
> 
> I have actually used the livetv feature for sports more often than any
> other sort of programming. I mean this way I can show up 1 hour late
> for a 3.5 hour football game and still see the game from the beginning
> and miss the highly annoying commercials in the process.
> 
> John
> _______________________________________________

Technically that is not Live. In order for this to work you would have had
to either started recording the game via a schedule and to then start
watching the recording while it is in progress.

I do see 2 ways for this to be considered live.
Someone else being home or you having remote access to start LiveTV and then
pausing it, while you run home.
Or I could suppose, you turn on LiveTV, pause, and then run out to get the
snacks.

Marc



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