[mythtv-users] Am I on crack

[Skitals]

John A. Andrunas wrote:
> 
> So maybe I was smoking crack or dreaming, or having crack dreams, but I
> would swear that I saw somewhere the following features would be in .21.
> Maybe I just haven't found them yet.
> 
> 1.  Per tuner volume controls.  I have 2 tuners and one is much louder
> than
> the other.
> 2.  Continuous recording.  (kind of like Tivo) where the back end is
> always
> recording, and the frontend is just streaming.
> 3.  The ability to stop a tuner that thinks it is on liveTV after the
> frontend crashes.  If my FE crashes on liveTV the backend still thinks it
> is
> watching, and the only way I can stop it is to restart the backend, which
> sucks when I am recording something.
> 
> Again maybe I dreamed all of this, as I can't find any references to any
> of
> these features now.
> 
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> John
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I didn't read the entire thread because I got tired of all the bickering,
but I do agree you should be able to keep LiveTV going while you do
something else on the frontend. If I recall correctly Windows MCE does this
more or less by keeping the live tv window in a picture in picture box if
you back out to the main menu while watching tv. It's no different than
keeping the stream going in a pip when you enter the program guide. Seem
kind of silly you cant do the same when you want to check the weather, read
rss feeds, or do whatever else.

An even less intrusive way to implement this (and completely ignorable for
people that are too cool for live tv) would be to change behaviour when live
tv is exited while being paused. If you pause livetv before backing out, it
could tell myth "hey, hold my spot, I want to keep watching this in a bit"
and keep recording that program as livetv in the background. Do what you
need to do, just back into livetv and it will leave off right where you
paused it.

What do you think?

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