[mythtv-users] Live TV channel restrictions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/23/2010 05:09 PM, Ian Oliver wrote:
> In article, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> so that you can waste your time with LiveTV
>>      
> Pardon? Just because person A might not like watching news or sport live doesn't
> mean that person B is wasting their time by doing so.
>    

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387302#387302 --even 
news and sports should be recordings and not LiveTV.

>> or the EPG (which is pretty much how it's designed to be used).
>>      
> What do you mean by using the EPG?  We use the guide to record programs, but I'm
> talking about watching Live TV without recording it.
>    

MENU|Program Guide (or something to that effect)

or, better,

GUIDE (by default, S)

while watching LiveTV.

> Currently, we're using our sucky old dual-tuner PVR for watching Live TV as it
> does a better job of it than our 4xtuner+4xvirtual mythtv setup. We can continue
> to do this, but it does seem a shame that mythtv isn't rather more flexible in
> this regard.
>
> I'm happy to add more hardware if it helps, but it sounds like mythtv doesn't
> current make best use of available hardware, so I doubt it will help,
>    

You have to configure it as I described.  What you get with MythTV is a 
Digital Video /Recorder/.  If you want to make LiveTV important, you 
have to configure it to be.

If you want to understand my attitude, write a patch to make MythTV work 
the way you want and /without/ any of the issues/downsides I've 
mentioned.  Only then will you understand that you're asking for the 
impossible.  You /must/ give up something to get what you want.  All the 
info you need is in the linked posts, plus my previous post with the 
mention of the "Browse all channels" setting.

Mike