[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

[Pieter De Wit]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 08/08/2012 03:01 PM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:15:53 -0400 Jim Morton wrote:
>> 
>>> Mostly people that use DVRs for any length of time get away from
>>> watching live tv. The advantages of recording everything you might
>>> possibly want to watch and then then picking from what has been
>>> recorded are many. I don't know of any advantages to watching live tv.
>> I beg to differ. I've used MythTV since 0.21. I do not have a TV in my
>> bedroom, the secondary monitor of my PC serves as a TV. And I like
>> watching old movies on TCM at bedtime. I do not want to record them,
>> just relax watching.
>
> You /are/ recording them--Live TV is recorded, too.  If you do this often, 
> why not set up a rule to record TCM movies every night, then you can watch 
> them even if you get to bed late.
>
>> Plus, when watching live sports I want to see what is happening as it
>> is happening.
>> 
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387302#387302
>
> Whether you watch it while it's recording or not is irrelevant, but there's 
> really no reason not to record it.  The point is make your DVR work for you 
> instead of making yourself to watch your TV.
>
> Besides, when Live TV fails a bunch of times and breaks up the recording into 
> several pieces, and your fellow viewers start to curse MythTV, doesn't it 
> make you think, "Hmmm, now if the backend knew to keep recording this..."?
>
> Mike
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Oh - now I remember why we don't "just record everything" - Mike, take a 
single tuner and setup two shows to record back-to-back, then, on another 
channel, record another show at the same time....see what Myth does (using 
0.26 or any 0.25)

Your (and other's) method would only work once that is fixed.

Cheers,

Pieter