[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.24 Live TV Returns to last channel/tuner watched - Not good for me!
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Nov 12 20:04:57 UTC 2010
On 11/12/2010 02:35 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
> On 12/11/10 19:11, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/12/2010 02:06 PM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>>> On 12/11/10 18:56, Robert McNamara wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Dave Pearson wrote:
>>>>> Although it is entirely logical for Live TV to start playing on
>>>>> the same
>>>>> channel and tuner as was last watched, for me this is not so good
>>>>> as it
>>>>> means my Sky + box is often tuned to a different channel when my
>>>>> son is
>>>>> watching it in another room.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way I can return MythTV 0.24 to the old behaviour of
>>>>> always
>>>>> starting on the last Tuner?
>>>> No. Myth expects to have exclusive access to all equipment.
>>> Hmmm, I can understand it wanting exclusive access to internal
>>> adapters, but exclusive access to external Set Top Boxes is not
>>> always desirable - especially where the Set Top Box is shared with
>>> other people.
>>>
>>> I definitely preferred the old behaviour in this instance -
>>> everything else I've looked at in 0.24 is really good, so please
>>> don't take this as a complaint. Who would I need to send a request
>>> to to make this a user selectable option?
>>
>> Please explain this old behavior of which you speak. Then I can tell
>> you your options. I don't understand what you're trying to do, and
>> I'm pretty sure nothing has changed regarding input selection (in
>> Live TV or otherwise).
>>
>> I need to know what behavior you're seeing and what behavior you're
>> expecting.
> OK, here goes:
>
> Up until I upgraded to MythTV 0.24, whenever I started Live TV it
> would always start on the last channel selected on the Last Tuner in
> the list of Tuners.
Because you had selected "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled
recordings."
> Since I've upgraded to 0.24, it now starts on the last channel that
> was being watched on the last Tuner being used. For me, this is not so
> good since it could be the Composite Channel on my PVR250, which means
> the IR Blaster changes the channel on my Sky Box (and my son gets
> cross with me!).
No, MythTV has always (before 0.24 and after) chosen the best-quality
local input for MythTV /unless/ you specified, "Avoid conflicts between
live TV and scheduled recordings," in which case it uses the default
input on the last-defined card.
> I'd like to be able to change it back so that it always starts on the
> last tuner (in my case a DVB-T card).
Set the setting.
Mike
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