[mythtv-users] Live TV recoding behavior?

Albert Santoni GameGod at sympatico.ca
Tue Apr 8 22:17:08 UTC 2003


Yeah, I think the user should have the option of selecting how many
ringbuffers they want to have (1 per channel).
Eg. I select in the options menu that I want 2 ringbuffers.
When I switch to channel A, buffer 1 starts. When I switch to channel B,
buffer 2 starts, but buffer 1 is not erased. This will allow the user to
flick back to channel A without the buffer being erased. If the user were to
go to channel C, buffer 2 would be erased (the buffer that was first used).

Although I don't believe this is difficult from an implementation
perspective, I think it will be weird because there will be gaps in each
ringbuffer unless the user has multiple tv-tuners...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Benoit" <ipso at snappymail.ca>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 9:43 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Live TV recoding behavior?


> First I'd like to thank all the MythTV developers for their hard work.
> It's an excellent piece of software.
>
> I recently got MythTV up and running on my box, so I'm still not 100%
> familiar with it. But the live TV behavior seems odd to me.
>
> The ring buffer doesn't seem to get used until I press the pause or
> rewind buttons. So if I'm watching a hockey game or something, and I
> want to rewind to watch a play again, I can't unless I had the foresight
> to previously pause the game for several minutes and watch it slightly
> "behind". In theory shouldn't the ring buffer be constantly full, always
> recording live TV, so I can rewind at any time? Or is there a setting
> somewhere that enables this functionality that I've over looked?
>
> It would also be nice if the ring buffer wasn't reset when the channel
> was changed. Perhaps separate ring buffers per channel, so if your
> channel surfing during an ad, you can go back and still rewind? Or
> simply record all channels to the one ring buffer, so rewinding will
> show channel changes as well? Has anyone else requested such a feature?
>
>
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> Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca>
>
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