[mythtv] [PATCH] Record what I'm watching

[Ben Levitt]

--- "Bruce C. Dillahunty" <bdillahu at peachbush.com>
wrote:
> Is it possible to somehow roll the ringbuffer "over"
> into the recording 
> (or even fancier, go back to the beginning of the
> show from the program 
> guide info, even though the ringbuffer might go back
> longer than that or 
> less than that)...
> 
> In other words, if I'm watching live TV, have
> watched for a while, then 
> start recording, the recording will include what I
> have already watched 
> live... apparently Tivo will do this and it sounds
> like a neat feature.

I agree, that would be awesome.  But I imagine it
would be hard to do it well...  We wouldn't want to
interrupt the recorder, so we'd need a special way to
switch from LiveTV to Recording without stopping and
restarting the encoder.  Also, we'd have to deal with
moving the file from the ringbuffer location to the
stored programs location... presumably after recording
is done(?)...  

I was thinking that if they had been watching from
before the show started, we could be clever and cut
out the stuff from before the preroll... but I think
the right thing to do in these cases would be to just
keep the entire ringbuffer.  People can always edit
stuff back out if they want...

Any 2nd opinions on how hard this would all be, or
(Isaac?) on how this should work?

Ben


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