[mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching

[Steve Daniels]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Osma Ahvenlampi
> Sent: 14 July 2006 14:18
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching
> 
> On pe, 2006-07-14 at 12:29 +0100, Steve Daniels wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:41:40AM +0300, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> > > > d) display live tv, but show a message over the OSD that storage
> space
> > > > is not available, so time-shift capability and recording are
> disabled.
> > >
> > > The intuitive solution when you don't have any room to record live
> > > TV is simply to not record live TV.
> > >
> > However if you've been using your system for any length of time you have
> > long filled your storage space and *rely* on myth to delete the oldest
> stuff
> > to allow you to continue recording new stuff. So there will never be
> free
> > space for live tv, so you will never be able to just go to live tv, you
> > would always be informed that you can't enter live tv because you have
> no
> > storage space... Which would be a pita.
> 
> Steve, I don't think you actually read what me and Chris said above.
> Please read it again. I did not suggest that entering live tv would be
> blocked. I suggested that perhaps it would be logical that automatic
> RECORDING of live tv would be blocked if there's no room for that. It
> does not preclude a user for VIEWING live tv, unless you happen to think
> that "what MythTV does right now is the only way things can work". I
> don't think so.

But then that's going back to the age old (well argued) debate of - why
can't I just watch TV? Why does it *have* to record? It has to record
because it's a PVR and that's one of the design decisions that where made,
and that's the way it's been implemented.

If you want to go watch TV in non PVR mode that's your choice. Most people
run a PVR for PVR features. You can always make a menu item that starts up
kaffeine or something.


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