[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:17, Dewey Smolka wrote:
> > mythtv has tv and recording in it. xawtv or tvtime have just tv in
> > them.
>
> No. MythTV has recording and playback, but not true 'Live TV', that's
> what all the traffic on this list for the last three or four weeks has
> been about.
>
> What has been stated over and over is this: 'Live TV' begins a
> recording and begins playing back a recording immediately. It does not
> and cannot currently pass a signal straight through to the display.

Why can't Myth run with a "null" buffer? Sort of like a loopback.

And, to chuck my bit into the argument, maybe MythTV should become MythDVR 
or MythPVR instead of MythTV so that no one gets any wrong ideas. ;-)