[mythtv-users] Live TV channel restrictions

[Andrew Herron]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>
>> Really, I think the only new feature your code adds (though I haven't had
>> a chance to go through the code, yet--this just based on description I've
>> heard here) is the ability to go from a "later" tuner (i.e. virtual tuner 2
>> on physical tuner 2) in use for Live TV back to an "earlier" tuner (i.e.
>> virtual tuner 2 on physical tuner 1) when changing to a channel on an
>> already-tuned-for-a-recording mux in LiveTV.  And this would further
>> complicate things, as the show you want to watch in LiveTV may be a 1hr show
>> ending in 45 minutes and the show that the scheduler has tuned for a
>> recording may be a half-hour show ending in 15 minutes--meaning that the
>> scheduler may have already planned to change the channel/mux tuned by that
>> physical tuner in 15 minutes.  That would mean that the user watching LiveTV
>> would be interrupted in about 13 minutes with a dialog saying that the tuner
>> is needed for a recording and asking whether to cancel the recording, watch
>> the same show as it records, or exit Live TV.
>>
>>  I think a lot of the conceptual difficulty that some of us have is this:
> all preselected recordings represent *scheduled* events, whereas by it's
> nature, LiveTV is an *unscheduled* event. I would even go so far as to say
> unschedule-able.
>
> However, your point above, may be solved in a straightforward (note: does
> not say simple) way, that is, whenever a channel change is made in LiveTV
> why not force a reschedule? That would enable the scheduler to take notice
> of the fact that resource availability has changed, and allocate resources
> required for forthcoming recordings according to latest availability.
>
> I note this would /not/ be optimal for your average channel-surfer, because
> you'd trigger a reschedule every few seconds. Perhaps a timer which delays a
> reschedule for perhaps 1 minute would suffice to ensure that the user was
> actually watching the channel. i.e.
>
> LiveTV channel change --> start 1 minute timer
> Timer completes --> Force reschedule
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins



Well my concern with the approach you suggest above is that even with the
'delay' you might end up with some kind of 'race condition' fairly easily.
But I do agree something needs to be done to keep the LiveTV & scheduler out
of each others 'hair'.

Andrew
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