[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

[Paul Gardiner]

On 28/08/2012 11:01, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 28/08/12 09:28, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 27/08/2012 18:09, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>
>>> The user isn't prompted if they want to release the tuner. This also
>>> makes the logic easier as you don't need to account for no tuners being
>>> available after you finish watching the recording.
>>
>> I was thinking always drop the tuner if possible. That way you are not
>> holding a tuner unnecessarily while someone on another frontend is
>> being refused use. I realise that the downside of that is possibly
>> being refused a channel change and being restricted to only what
>> is already currently recording, but we already have the possibility
>> of being restricted to only certain multiplexes. Not sure really -
>> seems like swings and roundabouts.
>>
> One way to solve this particular problem is just to buy more tuners.
> Perhaps the best plan would be to have two tuner pools, one which is
> only ever used for scheduled recordings and the other which is only ever
> used for live tv.

Certainly buying more tuners is the way to solve the conflicts. Not sure
about pools: although I like having the Live TV features, I still think
it's one of the least important things MythTV does, so I don't like
the idea of having tuners that I cannot use for scheduled recordings.

> Doing that would resolve most of the conflicts present in this thread,
> apart from the problem of potentially making multiple recordings (one
> scheduled, one or more live) of the same channel.

Actually I should remind myself, I got into this thread only to attempt
to argue against those that claim people shouldn't use Live TV. I'm
pretty content with its current implementation. The only really annoying
problem that I see is glitches while crossing program boundaries. I'm
sure the first version I used (0.22 or 0.23) didn't do that!

Cheers,
	Paul.