[mythtv-users] Re:Multiple frontends watching the same backend program.

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:16 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:43 pm, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:43:00PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > > > <discussion going in completely the wrong direction removed>
> > > >
> > > > http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24
> > > > (and ignore the dumb secondary comment)
> > >
> > > Actually, I think there is merit behind the secondary comment.
> >
> > No, there's no merit there.  It's dumb to chunk things in sizes less than
> > one show long.  Breaks easy playback by other programs, takes longer to
> > coalesce them if you want to transcode, etc.
>
> Indeed, it creates issues, and requires tools to understand.  The merit
> lies in making livetv and recording as identical as possible.

Which is the entire point of what I was saying in the top of that bug report.  
Chunking things into little tiny bits totally defeats that purpose.

Isaac