[mythtv-users] Live TV fast forward jumps immediately to live after a pause.

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:17:15 -0800, you wrote:

>On 11/11/2017 11:08 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 21:27:14 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. Pressing the right arrow after pausing live TV jumps to live TV. I have tried to avoid this by pressing the left arrow a
>>> few times first, but this does not work reliably.
>>> I have also seen the right arrow work correctly a couple of times before jumping to live TV.
>>> One thing I have noticed is that once it has jumped to live TV, I can use the left arrow to get back to where I was supposed to
>>> be, and the right arrow will work correctly until the next time the video is paused.
>>>
>>> It can get rather frustrating to try and re-wind 20 minutes of live TV while trying to avoid seeing the game score.
>> Obviously, this bug needs fixing.  But one simple solution to avoid it
>> is to pre-program a recording for the game.  I have never seen this
>> problem when playing a recording that is still in progress.  Or you
>> could try the option that I think is somewhere in the menu for a
>> LiveTV recording that converts it to a normal recording that will stop
>> when the EPG says the game ends.
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>There is a serious drawback to watching a recording of a game while it is recording, it stops when the EPG says it will stop,
>not when the game actually ends. I missed the end of a Superbowl game once when I was watching about 20 minutes behind real
>time, and the game went into overtime. This is not an acceptable solution for sporting events that can be delayed (rain in
>baseball or auto racing) or extended (overtime in football, or extra innings in baseball).

True, but you can always use the "End xxx minutes late" option to set
a couple of extra hours of recording beyond when the EPG says it will
finish.  And you can change that setting while it is recording.  And
you can manually tell a recording to stop at any time.