[mythtv] [PATCH] LiveTV Override

[Derek Atkins]

To answer your question from another message, no, even with multiple
encoder cards I still get the "myth wants to record this" box -- even
when I'm only watching LiveTV and nothing else is in use.

So, in effect what your patch means is that if I'm watching LiveTV
I wont get anything recorded if it's lower priority than what I'm
watching.

I agree with Isaac -- you should hook into the scheduler and consider
LiveTV to be a recording program of whatever priority.  So if there is
a lower-priority program it will automatically reschedule to another
encorder rather than being ignored.

-derek

steve at nexusuk.org writes:

> 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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>
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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?)
>
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