[mythtv] Live-TV & Recording nightmare

[Michael T. Dean]

Stuart Morgan wrote:

>Has anyone else tried to record a programme they are watching in Live-TV and 
>had problems?
>  
>
What version?  Stable and SVN have very different implementations of LiveTV.

>I was watching a film, about 5 minutes in I decide I would like to record it. 
>I hit record, the "Recording XXXXXXX" message appears and the in-progress 
>recording appears in the recordings screen.
>
>I was a little puzzled because the Programme Guide didn't show the film as 
>recording but I shrugged that off. Later I discovered that it had only 
>recorded the first 45 minutes of the two hour film.
>
The important question here is actually why did it stop recording?  Bad 
program guide data?  Godd program guide data, but a network that was 
broadcasting 1 1/4 hours off schedule? ...

> Annoyed I deleted and 
>'allowed re-record'  but found the the next showing was not scheduled.
>  
>
Delete and allow re-record simply deletes the file and removes the 
"recorded" recstatus from the oldrecorded table so that any rule that 
matches the program--even if using duplicate detection--will record it.  
If you don't have a recording rule that matches the program, it won't be 
recorded.

LiveTV makes a recording rule that only matches the one specific 
showing--the one you're currently watching.  Therefore, you must create 
a recording rule for the program.  IMHO, making a recording rule is 
always a better idea, anyway--that way, Myth may see a later showing of 
the program and decide to record it in its entirety instead of recording 
the current partial showing.  Then again, I don't even understand why 
people watch LiveTV, so I may be^H^H^H^H^H^Hprobably am biased...

Mike