[mythtv-users] Bolstering a system for Watch TV
Stephen P. Villano
stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 21:57:41 UTC 2013
On 11/17/13 4:51 PM, Matt S. wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Matt S. <skd5aner at gmail.com
> <mailto:skd5aner at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:10 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org
> <mailto:jedi at mishnet.org>> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:25:51PM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Eric Sharkey
> <eric at lisaneric.org <mailto:eric at lisaneric.org>> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Matt S.
> <skd5aner at gmail.com <mailto:skd5aner at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > to have something on
> > > > in the background while you get the kids ready for school.
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> > > This is a completely alien concept to me.
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> > > I'm either watching TV or not watching TV. I've never
> understood the
> > > desire to have something on "in the background".
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> > > As far as I'm concerned, LiveTV could easily be re-labeled
> "Tuner Testing".
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> > > Eric
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> > It's a good thing it's not your decision :)
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> > It's really cool how whenever somebody has a question about
> LiveTV, the
> > "you're using it wrong" crowd comes out.
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> Yeah. I think that crowd goes by another name... "the
> developers".
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> Sure, many of them don't use it regularly... there's also several
> developers who value live TV, and have put many hours in to it to
> make it a very usable feature over the last several releases. In
> fact, several new Live TV enhancements have already been commit to
> master and some of them even backported to 0.27. The code for
> Live TV is quite complex - if they didn't think it was worth it,
> it would have been ripped out years ago so they could focus
> exclusively on other stuff.
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> In fact, a few key developers think it's silly every time this
> "debate" comes up and use it themselves - as do I. No one is
> forcing you to use live tv, ever. I don't know why this always
> turns in to something reminiscent of a political or religious
> debate.
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> People who use TV aren't "using it wrong" - they're just "using
> it". Yes, that may be different than the way you use it, but what
> good does it do to ridicule? What's next, people who make phone
> calls on smart phones are "doing it wrong" because they should
> only use Text Messaging or Email so they always "time-shit" their
> conversations? :P
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> Also, just wanted to mention that I just watched Live TV for the last
> 2 hours as we had a a handful of tornado's come through our state as I
> spent some quality time in our basement with my family while the
> tornado sirens blared outside. I figured real-time storm coverage was
> better than setting up several manual recording rules on the fly for
> the next few hours (for shows that were being interrupted with
> non-stop storm coverage for 4+ hours now), and then watching
> time-shifted Doppler radar of a storm that was moving at 50-80MPH.
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> I suppose there's still people that would probably suggest I was
> "doing it wrong". :-/
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Ohio?
Most of my inlaws are offline right now for that reason.
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