[mythtv] [PATCH] Allow recording of shows that have already started

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 11:31 am, Jim Radford wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:40:52AM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 18 October 2002 12:28 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
> > > Would you accept a patch to save partially recorded shows?
> >
> > I just applied this to the CVS tree, thanks again.  And yeah,
> > in-case I wasn't clear in my last email, I'd accep a patch to save
> > partially recorded shows =)
>
> You were. :-)

Heh, well, I wasn't sure when I read it over, so =)

> I've been using your vacation as a chance to get other
> parts of my system, like sound, working.  It still doesn't work (the
> echos are gone but the quality still sucks), but it's better (I had to
> switch to alsa to be able record the line-in without getting the PCM
> output fed back as well).  I have yet to be able to watch (listen to)
> a show I've recorded. :-( I'm using the cmpci and snd-cmipci drivers.
> Anyone else having sound problems?

Someone else had said they were really unhappy with the recording quality of 
their built-in soundcard and just bought a cheap sblive to replace it.

> The number one thing on my mythtv TODO list right now (beside PGUP and
> PGDOWN which someone just mentioned) is channel changing speed.  In
> other programs like xawtv and avview the channel changing is zippy.
> In mythtv it's a dog.  Any thoughts before I dig in?

Well, xawtv isn't doing stuff like pulling program info out of a database, 
verifying that the channel actually exists, and most importantly, it's not 
recording and playing back that recording =)  Most of the delay is waiting 
for the record threads to get a little bit ahead of the playback threads..  
There's a couple usleep() calls in tv.cpp that you can remove to speed things 
up a bit, but then you'll be playing back _right_ behind the recording, and 
that doesn't work all that well for some people (though it does for others).

Isaac