[mythtv-users] Losing buffered TV in Live mode (feature request)

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 17:21, Jean-Francois Perreault wrote:
> Tyler Drake wrote:
> 
> >Can we add functionality, so that when you change a channel while watching
> >live, and you are behind live, Myth pops up a menu, asking for 
confirmation,
> >to lose X time in live?  If you don't understand, let me give an example:
> >
> >I'm on channel 61.  I have it paused for 2 hours, off to do other things.  
I
> >come back, and unpause it, then try to (stupidly) use the
> >up-arrow/down-arrow to skip/go back 10 mins.  Instead, I change the 
channel,
> >and lose all my buffered TV. 
> >
> >This has happened (my fault) many, many times, and I want to stop it.  I
> >would be willing to help write code, (when I learn C++ again =).
> >
> >Thanks!
> >--Tyler
> >
> >(cross-posted to MythTV-Dev and MythTV-Users)
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> I've had the same problem , this is so irritating.
> like you are watching a movie it's finished in live but you are 20 
> minutes behind , then
> for some reason you accidentaly switch the channel and you just missed 
> the ending .
> 
> Could it be possible to have some kind of remanent buffer ? instead of 
> deleting the buffer at exit or changing
> channel , mythtv would alway keep the buffer full (even when not 
> watching live tv) maybe recording could read
> the data from the buffer so when you have the 15 first minutes of a 
> program in the buffer and you start recording it
> mythtv read those 15 minutes from the buffer.
> 
> Also I think before the buffer only got deleted when you exited live tv 
> , so you were watching something you
> switched channel , then you rewinded and saw what you were watching 
> before on the previous channel (I think
> mythtv seeked to the end of the buffer on changing channel too). I think 
> , for most , this would be prefered behavior .
> 
> regards,
> 
> -----
> Jean-Francois Perreault
> 


This issue has been discussed recently... if someone cares to implement 
something like this:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=98204

-JAC