[mythtv-users] Am I able to stop auto-recording?

[Martin Ereth]

William schrieb:
>> Nonsense. Users don't care. Except for the few very vocal 
>> ones who believe space is being wasted and don't believe that 
>> those shows will be expired as needed. In fact, I'd say that 
>> you'll get more users by *always* recording, even if nobody 
>> is watching. This is what Tivo does, and adds the advantage 
>> of being able to go to live TV and then immediately back up 
>> 30 minutes (the default size of Tivo's buffer) and play from 
>> there. It also allows you to go back to the menu and do 
>> things there (like schedule some recordings or check out the 
>> weather), then go back to live TV and pick up where you left 
>> off. Now, be honest: wouldn't you like to be able to do that? 
> 
> A completely useless hard drive killer in my mind. Also the reason tivo
> drives last about 18 months on average. I dont want the drives thrashing
> unless its actually usefull stuff being recorded. Fortunately this is open
> source and I can modify my systems live tv behavior to the way I like it.
> Once done I will post a patch for those who want to use it if there is any
> interest.

I am very interested.
If developers (if responding people are developers) don't care about simple user
wishes, then they shouldn't worry about decreasing user numbers.

Martin