[mythtv-users] How MythTV Works / Custom Front End

[Simon Hobson]

Mike Perkins wrote:

>It very rarely is the case that one can just say "I want to record this only".
>Do you really want to have to search the schedules every day and 
>pick up every  program you might wish to record? There is a very 
>good reason why mythtv has the  program selection and scheduling 
>mechanism it does, and I suggest you spend some time and become 
>completely familiar with it before attempting to build something 
>which only provides a limited subset of its facilities.

I'll second that. Before getting MythTV running, I used to use EyeTV, 
along with remote scheduling via tvtv.co.uk. Manually selecting 
showings to avoid conflicts was, to be polite, a right pain in the 
posterior and I'd never willingly go back to it. What Myth can do 
(even with a single DVB-T tuner) is "quite awesome" and a mind 
blowing achievement when you start to look at the complexity of the 
job.

Even if I'm browsing listings and selecting individual programs to 
record, I'll still normally select the "find and record one showing" 
so that the scheduler can pick a repeat if it avoids a conflict.

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