[mythtv-users] Switch to enable "TiVO" like experience? WAS Re: mythtv keeping recordings of everything i watch?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Chad wrote:
>> The Tivo of course always has a hardware encoder, so it makes sense for
>> it to always be recording.  Many myth users have software encoding of
>> raw capture cards, and would not want it to do this.   I suppose
>> if somebody wants they could implement code to always record if you
>> have a hardware capture card, with possible ability to disable it.
>>     
>
> Has anyone worked on, or thought of working on enabling this type of
> behavior with a toggle button to turn it on and off?  There have been
> a handful of times that this would have been useful to me.  I think
> with the way LiveTV is handled now, it would be a lot easier to
> integrate something like this since it would be a simple change of
> recording group basically is what the toggle would 'change', call it
> something like "Continue recording last program during menu exit" or
> something like that.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> I can definitely see a lot of pitfalls with this too though.
>   
It wouldn't be that hard at all.  Like when you exit a normal recording 
by pressing ESC, you could have an option to present the user with a 
choice such as "Continue recording this show", "Delete the buffer for 
this show", and "Exit".  And just like Watch Recordings, there could be 
an option to have one of those choices automatically made.  Of course, I 
would never use that choice because it would just tie  up my tuner 
likely causing problems for things I really wanted to schedule.  It 
likely would be little use to have those options until the system could 
choose to interrupt a live recording in progress for a scheduled 
recording and I don't see alot of effort going into that when the same 
thing is basically achieved by having the user only press R before they 
exit when they want to keep something going.

Kevin