[mythtv-users] LiveTV related ideas/comments

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Jan 18 22:12:43 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:07, Ross Campbell wrote:
> > The Watch Recordings menu seems a little clunky with
> > respect to this new LiveTV, however.  What do you guys think of having a
> > LiveTV
> > program group?
>
> DISCLAIMER: I'm not running SVN, but I've followed this discussion and the
> questions/flames/etc about it closely. I *THINK* I understand how this
> works...

You don't.

> The enhancement I'd like to see to LiveTV based on my understanding of how
> it will work for 0.19 is the ability to set a minimum time threshold for
> keeping LiveTV recordings when changing channels.
>
> For me, I'd set that to something like 10 minutes. This would ensure that
> anyone who uses mythtv to channel surf "old school" style won't fill up the
> recordings menu with 15 second snippets of garbage.

Short recordings (< 2 minutes) are auto-expired almost immediately.  No 
'LiveTV' recordings are shown in the recordings menu _at all_ unless you 
specifically select the LiveTV group.

Isaac


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