[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

[mikkel at broerne.dk]

On 23-08-2012 11:10, Nick Rout wrote: 

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at
8:16 PM, <mikkel at broerne.dk> wrote:
> 
>> I thought I would through in
my thoughts and the reason why I chose Mythtv. Reasons for me choosing
Mythtv: 1) I live in Denmark and have only access to SAT-TV and had a
sat-box with buildt in DVR... so a combo of live tv and DVR. 2) I could
not watch my shows at the same time as the kids or wife and the other
way around. Open war when I wanted to watch sports. 3) I did not want to
install full coax cable throughout the house and have sat boxes all over
the place. I had gigabit network and wifi. 4) I love the stability and
simplicity of linux 5) I am no fan of Microsoft or Apple and fully
support open source
> 
> Same for me to all the above ('cept I don't
have gigE, but 100 is fine).
> 
> But I HAVE trained the family off live
tv. The kids often used to ask
> "Can you set up X to record, it's on
Thursdays on Prime" - once I did
> it a few times they learned how to do
it and now they do it
> themselves.
> 
> I really have worked hard on
the "don't watch crap just cos it is on,
> watch something you like,
something we have recorded".
> 
> Mind you I was never a channel surfer,
always preferred to watch a
> whole show, or if I didn't know there was
something on I wanted to
> watch, do something else. Read a book, go to
the pub, go to the art
> gallery, visit a friend. I also have a rule
against changing the music
> half way through a song, at worst you fade
it out, otherwise change
> the music in a quiet bit!
> 
> While I have
never had to ban liveTV to change habits, it might be
> worth banning
yourself from it for a week or two and see how it goes
> :)
> 
>> Why is
Live-TV essential for for my family 1) bad TV habits - and I say bad
because life is too short to spend on ½ a show or mindless reality junk,
but then again so is eating at McD's compared to cooking a meal from
scratch. I do both so shoot me. 2) Recording everything would call for
better organization of the recording i.e. moving movies to MythVideo -
Mike you support mythvidexport.py, but I tried and it does not work,
which is do to my EPG not being in English (see thread on this topic.)
And by the way Mike thanks for the help - you were spot on. 3) WAF 4)
The "thrill" of watching sports live is completely removed by watching a
recording even a 10 minute delay sucks in my book. I wish I could do
some programming at the level all the dev's can. This way I could help
improve the organization of recordings. Sadly, as it is now, we have a
hard time sifting through all our movies and favorite shows. I cannot
imagine also recording stuff that I might like and all the junk my wife
and kids watch :-D Currently I am stuck on .24 and based on the dialog
in this thread I will be for some time.
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My day-to-day work
can be summed up to Change Management. So I will always argue to try a
change, but it can not be forced without a risk of it blowing up in your
face. 

As I tried to write, we record everything of interest - only
exception is sports. 

We have used it for 1½ year and recorded close to
750 shows 

The kids do record, but don't always watch it - there is too
much unorganized stuff. 

As I see it there is a general need for 1)
stable LiveTV + 2) improved interface/organization for recording i.e.
moving recordings to Video which is a superb idea, but the method I
tried does not work. 

What I want to do is 

1) always (job queue) move
all movies to Video -> does not work 

2) have a general rule that
records new shows all the time on our most favorite channels (and delete
within 24 hours) Allowing users to "time travel" -> the interface is not
that good for this purpose. 

In general I guess the GUI/OSD is why many
users use xbmc as a "frontend"?? 

Cheers 
 

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