[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

Myth Steve stevemyth at priorityelectronics.com
Thu Aug 23 22:34:29 UTC 2012


On 08/23/2012 03:22 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> However, what this commercial PVR got right, which Myth doesn't, is that the
>>>> content is the heart of the experience.  Not LiveTV, not recordings, but
>>>> just TV.
>>>>
>>>> You could setup a recording and watch it live from the recordings list (as
>>>> is the recommended method in Myth).  However, if you were channel surfing
>>>> and stumbled across it (perhaps you'd forgotten it was on but fancied
>>>> watching it there and then), you could wind back to the start of the show
>>>> without going to the recordings list.  It just used the recording file when
>>>> you reached this channel when surfing.
>>>>
>>> I honestly question whether this works how you have explained it. How
>>> could it let you go back to the beginning of a LiveTV broadcast unless
>>> it had been recording every channel in the event you might want to
>>> watch "Live TV". Now it might always be recording the current show on
>>> the channel that the "Live TV" tuner is tuned to, but that A) isn't
>>> what you described, and B) doesn't lend itself at all to using
>>> multiple types of tuners/sources.
>> I think you misunderstood. He meant that he had a scheduled recording
>> going, and then while watching live TV happened to change the channel
>> to the one that was currently being recorded (by the scheduler). Live
>> TV in Myth doesn't know anything about using (scheduled) recordings in
>> progress.
>>
>> Karl
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> I must have missed that the first time I read it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
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Ya, my old time warner hd-dvr from about 5 years ago did this same 
function. Was a great feature.

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Sincerely,

Steve Peters




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