[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Nov 17 20:18:36 UTC 2006


On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Waiting 2-3 seconds to watch a program isn't "serious" to me. A more
>> "serious" issue would be to add in the ability to resolve LiveTV
>> conflicts. If one person is watching LiveTV on a tuner, it should
>> give you the ability to watch the same program they are from a
>> different Front End.
>>
> I believe you can do this by exposing the "LiveTV" recording group and
> then selecting the in-progress recording to watch.  I'm not sure  
> what it
> does if the person that started the recording leaves it.
>
> Kevin

There are a couple of issues with this work-around. Aside from having  
to traverse the menus/group filter stuff, the recording does stop  
when the first person leaves Live TV. Also, when the program finishes  
and another one starts, the original person watching LiveTV happily  
continues on to the next program, but the other person exits with a  
message that they've finished watching and need to pick the next  
program manually. This also prevents being able to rewind/ffw between  
live programs like you can with LiveTV. I sometimes leave Live TV  
running, forget to pause, and come back. It's nice to be able to  
easily rewind to the last program while continuing to record Live TV.


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