[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:16 PM,  <mikkel at broerne.dk> wrote:

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> I thought I would through in my thoughts and the reason why I chose Mythtv.
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> Reasons for me choosing Mythtv:
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> 1) I live in Denmark and have only access to SAT-TV and had a sat-box with
> buildt in DVR... so a combo of live tv and DVR.
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> 2) I could not watch my shows at the same time as the kids or wife and the
> other way around. Open war when I wanted to watch sports.
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> 3) I did not want to install full coax cable throughout the house and have
> sat boxes all over the place. I had gigabit network and wifi.
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> 4) I love the stability and simplicity of linux
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> 5) I am no fan of Microsoft or Apple and fully support open source

Same for me to all the above ('cept I don't have gigE, but 100 is fine).

But I HAVE trained the family off live tv. The kids often used to ask
"Can you set up X to record, it's on Thursdays on Prime" - once I did
it a few times they learned how to do it and now they do it
themselves.

I really have worked hard on the "don't watch crap just cos it is on,
watch something you like, something we have recorded".

Mind you I was never a channel surfer, always preferred to watch a
whole show, or if I didn't know there was something on I wanted to
watch, do something else. Read a book, go to the pub, go to the art
gallery, visit a friend. I also have a rule against changing the music
half way through a song, at worst you fade it out, otherwise change
the music in a quiet bit!

While I have never had to ban liveTV to change habits, it might be
worth banning yourself from it for a week or two and see how it goes
:)

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> Why is Live-TV essential for for my family
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> 1) bad TV habits - and I say bad because life is too short to spend on ½ a
> show or mindless reality junk, but then again so is eating at McD's compared
> to cooking a meal from scratch. I do both so shoot me.
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> 2) Recording everything would call for better organization of the recording
> i.e. moving movies to MythVideo - Mike you support mythvidexport.py, but I
> tried and it does not work, which is do to my EPG not being in English (see
> thread on this topic.) And by the way Mike thanks for the help - you were
> spot on.
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> 3) WAF
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> 4) The “thrill” of watching sports live is completely removed by watching a
> recording even a 10 minute delay sucks in my book.
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> I wish I could do some programming at the level all the dev's can. This way
> I could help improve the organization of recordings. Sadly, as it is now, we
> have a hard time sifting through all our movies and favorite shows. I cannot
> imagine also recording stuff that I might like and all the junk my wife and
> kids watch :-D
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> Currently I am stuck on .24 and based on the dialog in this thread I will be
> for some time.
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