[mythtv] Live-TV & Recording nightmare

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 19:00, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 06:26 pm, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 22:58, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > > I thought the point of the new live TV code was so that you could
> > > > record everything of a show which you were watching through live TV.
> > > > This way you cannot win - either you create a rule and record the
> > > > ending OR hit 'R' and potentially only record the start.
> > >
> > > Jeez.  It's not finished yet.  Stop acting like a baby because
> > > something that's still being worked on didn't work exactly as you
> > > expected it would and chill.
> >
> > I am chilled :) I'm not complaining, or acting like a baby. My original
> > email was in the form of a question - asking if the behaviour was
> > expected. It was the prelude to opening a ticket.
> >
> > The thread then developed into a discussion with Michael based on our
> > various opinions of expected behaviour, and the available information. In
> > this case a misunderstanding resulted from the quotation of Chris:
> >
> > "I believe that 'R' in LiveTV just toggles whether a recording will be
> >  saved (by moving it out of the LiveTV group into the default
> >  recording group), I don't think it says "record the rest of this
> >  program" anymore)."
> >
> > With confusion arising at 'anymore'. I presume that substituting the
> > words 'for now' or 'at the moment' would render a better description of
> > the situation??
>
> Yup.  There are 4 major items left on my live-tv todo list.  They are:
>
> - Pause OSD doesn't update.
> - ToggleRecord needs to have warnings for channel changes if it's the
> currently recording program.
> - Exiting live-tv when the currently recording program was set to keep
> through togglerecord needs to keep recording.
> - Get the live-tv -> previously scheduled recorded program transition
> working (where it asks if you want to record/cancel/etc).
>
> So, half are fixing togglerecord to work better when you use it on a
> currently recording program.  It already works as you'd expect for a
> non-current program, of course.
>
> > We know that the code is unfinished - but if we assumed every bug was
> > just the result of unfinished code then nothing would get reported! ....
>
> Right.  Sorry, it's just incredibly frustrating having to deal with stuff
> like this sometimes.
>
> Isaac

I don't know if this is something related to the Live-TV update as far as 
coding it, but lots of people want the ability to set a specific input for 
live TV only, ie no scheduled recordings.

Any thoughts in this area?

-- 
Steve