[mythtv] Breaking Live-TV
Isaac Richards
ijr at case.edu
Fri Nov 11 20:22:13 EST 2005
On Friday 11 November 2005 03:09 pm, Bob Cottingham wrote:
> Speaking of my family's viewing habits, I have seen my wife occasionly
> watching a show on LiveTV that is recording on another tuner at the
> same time because the show came on LiveTV after another show she was
> watching. What happens in a situation like this? I assume the
> filenames are the same whether recording from LiveTV or scheduled if
> you start at the beginning of the show?
The filenames are the actual start time of the recoding, so they _should_ be
different. I'll probably add a check for an existing file, though, to catch
this for sure.
> With LiveTV shows being autoexpired first, I wonder what will happen
> in certain situations such as pausing LiveTV and going away for
> several hours. It can't autoexpire a recording in use, so the show you
> are currently watching is safe and I assume it would delete the next
> show.
Yup.
> This could be a problem if you are watching a sports game that
> runs late and you missed the end of the game. What if there is only
> one program that is still in the process of being recorded after the
> show that is paused? Would it delete the in-progress recording? I
> think in these cases I would rather have it delete an old scheduled
> recording.
Anything being watched or recording will be exempt from being expired, so in
that case, it will delete something else.
Isaac
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