[mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/22/2006 07:06 PM, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> I wrote, a week ago:
>   
>>> d) display live tv, but show a message over the OSD that storage space
>>> is not available, so time-shift capability and recording are disabled.
>>>       
>
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:50 -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
>   
>> Which would happen every single time the user entered live-tv.  Nor is it 
>> exactly optimal for remote frontends.  Why would you want to put up with the 
>> extra latency and delay of compressing video for transfer when you're not 
>> saving it to a file?  Then I'd get bitching about how slow it was to change 
>> channels _and_ "why won't it let me pause?" and "I was watching a movie I 
>> didn't know I'd like, but the ending was so good and it wouldn't let me keep 
>> it!"
>>     
>
> Now this resembles a good justification, thanks Isaac :) "that would
> mean pause wasn't available" is much better than "that's the way it was
> made to work and changing it would be not according to PVR ideals".

Don't worry.  (Due to popular whining, ;) Isaac committed a fix that 
prevents any LiveTV recording from being more than 8 hours in length 
(and adjustable through an undocumented setting).  So, no one will ever 
lose everything (unless, of course, they made the mistake of setting up 
a Myth system with 2GB of storage capacity--in which case they should 
lose everything to get the motivation to get a new hard drive).

Mike