[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Apr 22 16:40:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:40:14PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 April 2010 02:32:22 pm jedi wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:22:14PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:07:58 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > > > On 04/21/2010 01:47 PM, jedi wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:27:19PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> > > > >>> With respect, Mike, this entirely misses the point that was made.
> > > > >>> Okay, so you keep 1 or 2 of the most recent tornado warnings to
> > > > >>> watch whenever you find it convenient. When are you going to watch
> > > > >>> these? After your house has been flattened? After the insurance guy
> > > > >>> has paid out? The key word in that posting was *temporal*. Stuff
> > > > >>> you need to know about /now/.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> And his point is that you either watch the news or you don't. If
> > > > >> you're in the habit of watching something with MythTV, you should
> > > > >> set it to record so the the scheduler knows about it - ie. if you
> > > > >> watch
> > > > >
> > > > >      How precisely do you propose to schedule severe weather reports?
> > > > >
> > > > > [deletia]
> > > > >
> > > > >      Engineering a "MythTV bypass" while certainly easy enough to do
> > > > > is not something that is obvious to many people (or even possible to
> > > > > some). It's also rather disappointing that it's even necessary.
> > > >
> > > > The point is that you should not use Live TV for severe weather alert
> > > > information--because it /necessarily/ requires you to be viewing a
> > > > channel at a specific time when they give the information.  You
> > > > should--as soon as you decide you want to know about the severe
> > > > weather--start recording from each channel providing information
> > > > regarding the alert (or your favorite X channels or whatever).  Then,
> > > > you can flip between recordings (using the menu or using JUMPPREV or
> > > > PREVCHAN (H))--just like surfing in Live TV--*but* you don't have to
> > > > actually be viewing the channel when they give the important
> > > > information.  Most channels will overlap the useful info.
> > > >
> > > > I do this all the time with hurricanes.  It works--and /much/ better
> > > > than Live TV.
> > >
> > > If you want severe weather alerts getting a WeatherAlert (r) type radio
> > > is probably the best solution. I wouldn't depend on TV, especially cable,
> > > for such alerts, severe weather tends to do bad things to cable systems
> > > and satellite antennas.
> > 
> >    Not so much in practice. The weakest link here is MythTV.
> 
> 
> Myth can be made redundant and reliable. TV distribution systems can not.

    You shouldn't even try to go there.

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