[mythtv-users] MythTV - few tweaks needed

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Wed May 18 06:07:58 UTC 2005


I've assembled a home media PC running FC3 and MythTV (0.18, the
latest from ATRPMs, following Jarod's guide for the most part).

I'm mostly happy with the setup, but there are few problems I can't
quite figure out how to fix:

1) When MythTV is recording and I select "Watch TV" I'd like it to
show live TV, the channel is's on now. Instead it tells me that it has
no more tuners and directs me to another menu where I can manage and
watch recordings. Rather long process for a very straightforward
operation. Any way I can change this?

2) Some of the operations on my recordings are done from one menu
(Watch Recordings), other operations from a totally different place
(Utilities/Setup). In particular, I can't find a way to delete a
recording from the same place I can watch it from.

3) Any way to get MythTV to keep running the live TV buffer while I'm
crawling around menus? Say, I want to go play with settings and
whatnot, and in the meantime I want it to keep buffering TV so I can
watch it later. Kind of like TiVo does, it always records something.

4) If I watch TV and send "record" command, it records from the
current time, losing the live buffer. Can I change this? (again, Tivo
does it: if I'm 10 minutes into the show and select to record, I get
the first 10 minutes into my recording).

Thanks in advance,
Fedor
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