[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2960: Powering off or killing
Martin Ebourne
lists at ebourne.me.uk
Fri Mar 9 00:34:27 UTC 2007
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:46:01 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> I plan on adding a timeout somehow so that the backend will abort the
> LiveTV session if it loses contact with the frontend for X amount of time.
> I know this can be done via the socket, but another project that I am working
> contains a forced disconnect of the frontend from the LiveTV session, followed
> by a reconnect elsewhere (or potentially even multiple connects to the same
> session), so a timeout is the only way to guarantee that the backend will
> stop recording if no frontend is watching the session. This will probably
> be a very short timeout, I'm not talking hours, because that defeats the
> purpose.
Might be worth recording to the end of the current program. Thinking of
the case where you are watching a program and FE crashes, would be nice
to reboot and pick up the program without missing any.
Cheers,
Martin.
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