[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[bhaskins at chartermi.net]

---- Philip Nourse <pjn at pobox.com> wrote: 
> 
> > Yeechang Lee wrote:
> >> And, looking back, you don't wish you could've saved it for watching
> >> again later? Or that there weren't moments when it'd have been nice to
> >> skip back a few seconds to watch a moment of the coverage again, like
> >> to figure out whether Armstrong said "One small step for man" or "for
> >> _a_ man"?[1] The latter is possible with MythTV's Live TV, but not the
> >> former for any meaningful length of time.
> > 
> 
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:18:56 -0700, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> > Yes it is.  Hit 'R' to convert to a recording, and it'll be stored like 
> > any other recording.  One of many LiveTV features that we're apparently 
> > not supposed to use. Has anyone written a patch to remove LiveTV 
> > entirely yet?  It seems like it's about as popular as Windows ME with 
> > the MythTV "in" crowd that calls the shots here. ;)
> > 
> Live TV is recorded in exactly the same way as recorded TV except that it
> starts when you switch to a channel, and stops when you change channels (or
> at the end of the show if you set it to record).  The recordings are
> expired after the time you set (usually 1 day) but you can move them to the
> another group to turn the expiration off, and keep them, or like David
> said, you can just press R during recording to turn expiration off, and
> move it to the default group.  This is one of the great things I love about
> MythTV.  When I had the DVR provided by my satellite company, I had to
> rewind the show to the begining, press record, and manually stop at the end
> of the program.  
> 
How do you stop live Tv?
On both of my myth systems ESC or ctrl F4 kills the picture but the sound 
continues and I think that both of the FE and BE continue to run.
Reboot seems to be the only way of stopping.
And yes, I have googled the daylights out of this to no avail.
Thanks

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