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

[Tortise]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Perkins" <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 05:22 PM, jedi wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:35:34AM +1000, mugginz wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:16:05 am Clay wrote:
>>>
>>>>   On Mon, 4/19/10, mugginz wrote
>>>>> I really don't understand all on the anti-LiveTV
>>>>> sentiment.  There are some
>>>>> really valid use cases that include LiveTV....
>>>>>
>>>> I really can't think of any valid use case for watching live TV.
>>>>
>>       How about Tornado season?
>>
>> [deletia]
>>
>>       Sometimes, information is temporal. Sometimes this sort of information
>> even shows up on Television.
>>
>
> That's what, "Delete oldest if this would exceed the max episodes," and, "Keep only one episode," or, "Keep at most <#> episodes," 
> are for. Or, you can just schedule recordings in the LiveTV recording group and they'll be deleted (by default the day after 
> they're recorded).  Or some combination thereof.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387302#387302
>
>With respect, Mike, this entirely misses the point that was made. Okay, so you
keep 1 or 2 of the most recent tornado warnings to watch whenever you find it
convenient. When are you going to watch these? After your house has been
flattened? After the insurance guy has paid out? The key word in that posting
was *temporal*. Stuff you need to know about /now/.

AND....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.


>The point is that you should not use Live TV for severe weather alert
information--because it /necessarily/ requires you to be viewing a
channel at a specific time when they give the information.  You
should--as soon as you decide you want to know about the severe
weather--start recording from each channel providing information
regarding the alert (or your favorite X channels or whatever).  Then,
you can flip between recordings (using the menu or using JUMPPREV or
PREVCHAN (H))--just like surfing in Live TV--*but* you don't have to
actually be viewing the channel when they give the important
information.  Most channels will overlap the useful info.

> I do this all the time with hurricanes.  It works--and /much/ better
than Live TV.


It seems to me there is a lot of user mis-understanding (I speak for me anyway) on the practical use of mythtv for some particular 
purposes.

I suggest that a Wiki page might be good for some brief youtube like videos that demonstrate how to do these things?  It might be 
entitled something like "Mythtv Use Scenario Video Demos"?

Examples that occur to me:

"Example of receiving best available Pending Tornado/Hurricane information from multiple channels"

"Example of selecting best available channel from multiple same channel content / different channel routes"     (Reminds me of the 
FM radio RDS best available channel system)


As this is a recurring topic it might well be useful to refer future similar topic threads to an appropriate wiki page, and it might 
form a useful organised repository summary of the key points that are now scattered over a number of threads.  Sending new threads 
to the wiki page might avoid a lot of list repetition bloat as well as have a central place for the interested parties to evolve the 
arguments in an organised fashion?   (I suppose someone's going to post me the URL to show it already exists....!)