[mythtv-users] Correct LiveTV Behavior during conflicts?

[Richard Freeman]

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Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 17:19 +0200, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> If a front-end crashes while watching LiveTV the back-end continues to
>>> show the tuner as in-use.  That means that the tuner cannot be used
>>> until a future recording demands that tuner (ie only if all tuners are
>>> scheduled to record).  I'm guessing that the back-end should require a
>>> keep-alive message from the front-end, and free up the tuner if no
>>> response is received after some time-out period.
> 
> In SVN head there is a timeout, something like 4 or 8 hours. But
> you can also cancel the recording by changing your group view in
> the recordings screen to include the LiveTV recordings, and then
> canceling or deleting the recording.
> 
> As for the single user paradigm, one of the Summer of Code projects
> is intended to address that.
> 

Thanks for the many responses - I agree that this sounds like a good way
to handle this situation in general.  I actually looked in the LiveTV
group and didn't see the show that the front-end had been tuned to, but
some time had elapsed since the front-end crash and there might have
been some other behavior going on.  In any case, I wouldn't say it is
anything reproducible at this point and even if it were I wouldn't be
surprised if it were fixed in SVN.  My main concern was making sure the
intended design is right - implementation glitches will get fixed sooner
or later I'm sure...  :)

I think I saw the SoC project for multiple users - I'll be VERY
interested to see how that turns out.  I know that was something else
tossed around on the list a while ago - it would be really nice if the
system could keep track of who has seen what shows already and allowing
deletions once everybody has.  Kind of link having a link count in unix...
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