<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Derek Schartung wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I don't want Mythtv to record any live tv at all. I just want to use the tuner to watch live TV and to be able to watch archived AVI files.<BR>How do I turn off live recording?<BR><BR>thanks,<BR>d<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Modify your LiveTV menu item in myth to launch an external viewer like xawtv or something like that.<DIV>This page can tell you how to modify menus:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's an example at the bottom for launching an external application like this:</DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">EXECTV someprogram %s %s %s - Executes a TV program. %s args are video, audio, and vbi devices</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Example: EXECTV xawtv -f -device %s -dspdev %s -vbidev %s</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>