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

mugginz feed.mugginz at internode.on.net
Tue Apr 20 09:54:19 UTC 2010


> >> 
> >> That's what I'm getting at.  It appears that there's no way to get it
> >> to intelligently select a tuner by itself.
> > 
> > To emphasise the point: why should the wife/etc. know that the normal
> > process of up or down/find channel select suddenly changes under
> > random circumstances to require her to press a totally different key
> > to allow her to select a channel?
> 
> Because you said, "If it doesn't change channel when you choose a
> different channel, hit this button."
> 
> > She will probably not know (or care) at that point that all tuners are
> > busy with recordings. She's just going to ask: "Why do I have to do it
> > this way sometimes and this other way other times?"
> 
> But she doesn't have to know when to do it with NEXTCARD...  The simple
> fact that it doesn't change channel the other way will tell her to try
> the next card.

This is fairly sub-optimal though.


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