[mythtv-users] Live TV recoding behavior?

[JC]

I've suggested this before also.  I think it would be terrific if it just
didn't "kill" the buffer when you change channels.  I mean, what does that
accomplish by resetting the buffer?  Nothing.  It just destroys information.

My wife "paused up" the news the other day and once the kids were in bed she
sat down to watch it.  She accidentally hit the wrong button (channel up
instead of volume up) and BAM!  The whole thing was lost.  News was over,
she missed it.  No getting it back.   She said to me, "Why does it have to
wipe it out?"  I couldn't give her a good answer.

Simplest solution is to just let the darned buffer keep spooling.  If you
change channels, it jumps forward to "real time" and continues recording
from there.  Only throw out the buffer when it wraps around to its
beginning.

I'll work on it if nobody else does when I finish my current two projects
for work.  It's a biggie for me.

JC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Santoni" <GameGod at sympatico.ca>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Live TV recoding behavior?


> 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?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca>
> >
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