[mythtv] [PATCH] Cancel a recording when no free recorder for
live tv
Isaac Richards
ijr at case.edu
Fri Jan 21 15:05:04 EST 2005
On Friday 21 January 2005 02:07 pm, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > If you have more than one tuner, and all are being used for recording (or
> > live tv elsewhere), how does it pick which recording to automatically
> > take you to?
>
> It arbitrarily chooses the first tuner today; it could choose the
> first tuner's recording under this system.
Myth doesn't arbitrarily choose anything. In this situation, it makes the
user go to the playback screen and decide for themselves.
> > If all available tuners are being used for live-tv elsewhere, it can't
> > even do that.
>
> Well, I'd argue that the right way to handle live TV is to treat it
> exactly as recordings of single programs and simply keep track of
> which programs are ephemeral and make sure to clean them up upon exit
> from live TV or when the live TV buffer limit is exceeded.
Nice job repeating a thread from the users list. This is planned (and has
been for about a year now), but no one's done any work on it.
Isaac
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