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<br> <BR><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:58:32 +1000<br>> From: jyavenard@gmail.com<br>> To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Change startup channel<br>> <br>> > I don’t understand where this attitude of “Live TV is a red headed step<br>> > child” comes from. I know I certainly use it (and installed myth with the<br>> > intention of being able to use it). I watch the news every night....live.<br>> > I watch sports all weekend long....live. There’re plenty of “nothing to<br>> > do...flip through the channels” days....live.<br>> <br>> This is an unfair assessment.<br>> <br>> In fact, lots of fixes have been put into LiveTV for 0.25.<br>> in my opinion, the general behaviour in LiveTV is just like anyone<br>> would normally expect.<br>> <br>> That is you can start watching a channel, and if you want to watch<br>> another you simply tune to it.<br>> <br>> This was never fully possible earlier, you could have found yourself<br>> stuck to a particular capture card or encoder or multiplex.<br>> <br>> This has been fixed thanks to DanielK hard work (and awesome<br>> diagnostic report by others :) )<br>> <br>> So now there may be a bug here and there but it certainly isn't the<br>> norm. From a feature point of view, everything is now there for liveTV<br>> to work the same way it would work on a normal TV.<br>> Except of course that you can rewind, record, pause, see what's on<br>> another channel without tuning etc..<br>> <br>> JY<br></div><div>You're correct, there has been a lot of work done on Live TV, and I apologize (especially to danielk, who's been a rockstar on this front) if I appeared to dismiss that. However, I think the assessment that there is a definite "why are you using Live TV anyways?" attitude among some of the developers when Live TV problems / questions arise. This attitude is neither helpful to solving the problem, nor conducive to making the FULL MythTV product the best it can be.</div> </div></body>
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