<div class="gmail_quote">If I'm channel surfing, I'm most likely doing it in the Program Guide. So I'm in the Guide, and I choose a show that's already being recorded (the Guide should already show a green box around this program anyway). I should be taken to the "live" recording of that show. That is to say, I should be taken to the absolute latest part of the recording. Then the BE can free up that tuner I was using. There's no need to have 2 tuners recording the same channel if there's a current recording of that channel. A little message should be put on the screen indicating that I'm watching a live version of the recording. Maybe give me the option to go back to the beginning of the recording that will eventually fade out after 15 seconds (or let me hit STOP or BACK to remove the OSD Option and continue to watch LIVE).</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Or is this scenario not likely as people don't use the Guide to channel surf? Flipping through channels seems like a huge waste of time for an adult. Of course, I'm saying this as a man with no children around that like pressing buttons. (But that gets into the whole debate of labels/users with permissions like the ability to watch LiveTV and/or only watch certain labeled recordings, etc).</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I guess I'm not familiar with the caveats of LiveTV as it is now in 0.25.2/0.26. Isn't LiveTV just a recording that's playing 1-3 seconds behind broadcast? Or are we viewing the actual stream from the HDHomeRun/PVR-x50/HDPVR? If we're viewing the actual stream, I guess that'd be why there are LiveTV crashes. If it was a recording that's 1-3seconds behind, why are we seeing crashes when normal recordings aren't crashing? Is it a disk IO issue? I hope I'm not re-iterating what others have said.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Either way, I love MythTV!</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jim</div>