[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/19/2010 07:25 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2010 05:10:05 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> On 04/19/2010 07:03 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
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>>> On Monday 19 April 2010 04:47:09 pm Christopher Kerr wrote:
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>>>>> I'm busy for the next few days but will be looking over the source
>>>>> after that to get a handle on what's going on and what can be done to
>>>>> correct this.
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>>>> I'm curious: am I the only person around here who's using an antenna
>>>> splitter with enough outputs that I can use the TVs own tuners for
>>>> watching LiveTV?
>>>>          
>>> What a novel concept: Actually use the TV for what it was designed for.
>>>
>>> Of course the advantage of watching live TV with Myth is the ability to
>>> just hit "R" and save the program for posterity, as well as being able to
>>> pause things when the phone rings or another "student" selling magazine
>>> subscriptions rings the door bell.
>>>        
>> Which is never necessary if you record everything you might /possibly/
>> want to watch rather than only recording things you know you want to
>> watch.  If you do, Live TV has absolutely no use whatsoever...
>>      
> Of course you never know what's going to pop up on live TV. I still have some
> VHS tape from mid-September 2001 that I could not have anticipated.
>    

But had you--when you decided you wanted to see what's happening--just 
set up a rule to record some/all the TV on some/all of the news channels 
you like, you could have started watching any of the news 
recordings-in-progress.  Then, when they started talking about the 
latest celebrity news that you don't care about, you'd just use the MENU 
to select a different news recording, then when you caught up on it and 
wanted to go back to the original channel, you'd use the H key to switch 
back and...basically use it like LiveTV with all the news recordings 
you're currently recording--but you'd actually record the parts you 
didn't view live.  Unfortunately, the news networks /don't/ synchronize 
their schedules so that only one of them is showing interesting 
information at a time--though they do seem to synchronize commercials 
and boring stuff pretty well.  And if you're only able to view what you 
actually viewed live, you end up viewing commercials and other 
garbage--and wasting time you /could/ have been using to watch the 
interesting stuff from another channel when they all go to commericals.

> I think  many Myth users almost never use the live TV function (I use it
> rarely), but it seems to be the first thing complained about by new users when
> their systems are not set up properly. It takes new users a while to figure out
> that eliminating live viewing is a feature, not a problem.
>    

Agreed.

> One large advantage to Myth, IMHO, is that I do not have to watch live TV,
> along with its commercials, and I can watch what I want when I want.
>    

Definitely.

Mike