[mythtv-users] Freevo, Tivo & MythTV

[Marco Nelissen]

>> > When you change channels on a TiVo, you go into "real time" mode where
>> > you are watching the stream directly from capture card.  You don't
>> > play out from the buffer until after you hit pause or rewind for the
>> > first time.  This way, that unavoidable 3 second pause takes place
>> > while you have the system paused anyway.
>> >
>> And Myth records from the beginning so that if you want, you can press R
>> and save the entire buffer and record the show from this point forward,
>> not losing anything of the movie you just started watching and want to
>> keep.  If the Tivo does as you say, it cannot do this.
>
>TiVo certainly can do this.  When in "real time" Live TV mode, the
>feed from the capture card is routed to the playback outputs AND the
>buffer file.

No, that's not how tivo works.