[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Chris Ribe]

> > When you change channels on a TiVo, you go into "real time" mode where
> > you are watching the stream directly from capture card.  You don't
> > play out from the buffer until after you hit pause or rewind for the
> > first time.  This way, that unavoidable 3 second pause takes place
> > while you have the system paused anyway.
> >
> And Myth records from the beginning so that if you want, you can press R
> and save the entire buffer and record the show from this point forward,
> not losing anything of the movie you just started watching and want to
> keep.  If the Tivo does as you say, it cannot do this.

TiVo certainly can do this.  When in "real time" Live TV mode, the
feed from the capture card is routed to the playback outputs AND the
buffer file.