On 3/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 03/05/2006 01:57 PM, Stefan Haflidason wrote:<br>> On 3/5/06, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> On 03/05/2006 07:15 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
<br>>><br>>>> Is there an alternative way to just record until I say stop?<br>>>><br>>> Nope. Not with Myth. With other (non-PVR-type) applications, perhaps...<br>>><br>> Unless he was watching the channel in live tv and pressed 'R', right? That
<br>> is of course little use in terms of automation.<br>><br><br>Still no. If you're in LiveTV and press "R", MythTV will begin<br>recording the current program and will end the recording at the end of<br>
the current program.<br><br>If you have no guide data for MythTV to use to determine the appropriate<br>length/name of the recording, it will record for 30 minutes or 60<br>minutes (don't remember which) and give the recording a very bad name
<br>(which is why manual recordings are better than LiveTV recordings when<br>you have no program listings--they allow you to set an appropriate stop<br>time and recording name).<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________
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Thanks for the clarification. My assumption came from recording ~30
minutes of a program yesterday, from LiveTV, without guide data.<br>
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