[mythtv-users] Watching LiveTV while Recording

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 00:13:57 UTC 2006


On 11/21/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 11/20/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> >> On Nov 20, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Rich West wrote:
> >>> I have what I think might be a "Duh.. I missed that option" kind of
> >>> question, but, since I couldn't seem to find an answer, I thought I
> >>> would ask.
> >>>
> >>> I have a single BE/FE setup (temporary.. I plan on splitting it and
> >>> having multiple recorders in the BE.. etc.etc.) with one PVR-150.
> >>> Now,
> >>> when the recorder is active and we go to select "Watch TV", it
> >>> (obviously) complains that there is no available tuner, and, if I
> >>> wanted
> >>> to watch what was being recorded, I could go to the recordings page
> >>> and
> >>> select the current recording.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to configure it such that when you select "Watch
> >>> TV" in
> >>> this situation that it either immediately bumps you to the
> >>> "Recordings"
> >>> page or that it lists out what each of the recorders is doing,
> >>> giving
> >>> you the option to jump right to any one of the recorders?
> >>>
> >>> -Rich
> >>
> >> you can modify the menu xml to take you to the Recordings page. Or
> >> you can simply remove LiveTV from the menu completely which I've done
> >> for my daughter since I only want her watching what I've recorded for
> >> her.
> >
> > Thats not quite what he's asking. What he's saying is, instead of
> > giving the error message, to just jump to the recordings screen for
> > the recording thats currently being recorded.
> >
> > It would be possible to do this, if someone wrote a patch for it. I
> > know TiVo would just jump you into the recording at the current time.
>
> Yeah, I mentioned the same request in another thread that went mostly
> unnoticed.

I wouldn't say it went un-noticed just because noone replied, its just
that, its minor on the list of things the active dev's are working on.
I'm sure if someone put together a patch it would get looked at and
included in SVN for further testing.

-- 
Steve
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