[mythtv] [PATCH] LiveTV Override

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Isaac Richards wrote:

> It ignores it, as he ignored my comments about moving the logic into the 
> scheduler.

I did reply to those comments.  I'm not clear how it decides which card is 
going to do the recording - it would make sense for it not to prompt you 
if you're watching live TV and there is a free tv card and just use the 
second card (in which case, since my patch is a modification to the "Myth 
would like to record..." prompt this would all work too).  I don't really 
understand how the scheduler works, or the advantages or moving this code 
into the scheduler.

I've attached my original reply below.

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> > Adds an option to let you set a priority for Live TV. Recordings lower
> > than this priority won't interrupt your live TV viewing. You will also
> > need to patch your theme so the scheduling conflicts screen will 
highlight
> > the overridden recordings. At the moment the only patch available is 
for
> > the Visor theme.
>
> So it marks all programs in the 'view scheduled' screen that are lower 
than
> the live tv priority, regardless of if they'd actually be overridden or 
not?
> That doesn't seem right to me.. A potentially better solution would be 
to

In the "view scheduled" screen it marks any recordings that are going to
be recorded (i.e. they haven't been overridden by a higher priority
recording, etc), but will be overridden if you happen to be watching live
TV at the time they're on.

> let the scheduler handle it, and re-run the scheduler when live tv mode
> starts/stops anywhere.

On a system with multiple tuner cards, what decides which tuner card to
use if one of the tuners is being used for live TV? Would it not be best
to both choose the tuner card and do the live TV overrides in the same
place (is this handled in the scheduler?)