[mythtv-users] FYI: pvrusb2 5 default minute recording sizes

[Michael T. Dean]

roger wrote:

>When I press R/r while in live tv viewing mode, mythtv will respond by
>saying "Recording ..." and fades away.  No icons or any info are
>displayed showing tv is actively being recorded.    (Think I'm finding
>out later, mythtv schedules the entire 30 minute + section for recording
>or something, but I usually find pressing R/r not doing any recording.)
>
>Pressing R/r again, simply shows "Recording ..." again. 
>
>>From mythtv documentation, R or r should toggle start/stop recording.
>(cycles through types?)
>  
>
Think your interpretation of the documentation is off a bit...  From 
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.1 section "LiveTV 
Browse Mode"

R/r  - Toggle recording of current program (cycles through types)

Says nothing about start/stop.  ;)  If you look through the code it 
becomes quite obvious that "start" and "stop" are not the "recording 
types" to which they're referring--especially with the nice comment 
explaining how it works.  (The hard part is finding the right code if 
you're not a programmer.  ;)

Below is the comment documenting the ToggleRecord() function from 
libs/libmythtv/programinfo.cpp (which is eventually called in response 
to pressing the TOGGLERECORD button):

/** \fn ProgramInfo::ToggleRecord()
 *  \brief Cycles through recording types.
 *
 *   If the program recording status is kNotRecording,
 *   ApplyRecordStateChange(kSingleRecord) is called.
 *   If the program recording status is kSingleRecording,
 *   ApplyRecordStateChange(kFindOneRecord) is called.
 *   <br>etc...
 *
 *   The states in order are: kNotRecording, kSingleRecord, kFindOneRecord,
 *     kWeekslotRecord, kFindWeeklyRecord, kTimeslotRecord, 
kFindDailyRecord,
 *     kChannelRecord, kAllRecord.<br>
 *   And: kOverrideRecord, kDontRecord.
 *
 *   That is if you the recording is in any of the first set of states,
 *   we cycle through those, if not we toggle between kOverrideRecord and
 *   kDontRecord.
 */

Mike