[mythtv-users] Am I on crack

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/21/2008 10:35 AM, Ronald Frazier wrote:

> >> 2.  Continuous recording.  (kind of like Tivo) where the back end
> >> is always recording, and the frontend is just streaming.
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/254066#254066
> > Especially the part starting with, "However, IMHO, the patch is
> > completely unnecessary..."
>
>  That logic is flawed.


No.  The logic isn't flawed.  You just disagree with the premise that 
whatever channel you were on when you exited LiveTV is less interesting 
than some favorite channel(s).


>  I don't want CNN (or whatever station)
>  recording 24x7. I want it to keep recording whatever channel I was
>  watching while I exit out of TV, go do something else, and then come
>  back.

Yeah.  I'm sure there are tons of jewels of TV programming that air when 
you're not watching that channel and when you don't have anything 
scheduled to record on that channel.  Especially since "that channel" is 
whatever channel you happened to be on when you exited LiveTV.  What a 
great way to find what's on.  I guess you play the lottery a lot, too.  :)

>  I understand this stuff isn't a priority for the core developers, and
>  I have no problem with that. However, it bugs me when they try to
>  impose upon others the way they like to use the system, and suggest
>  that that is how everyone else SHOULD want to use the system, too.


There has /never/ been a case of the MythTV developers imposing their 
will on others and forcing them to use MythTV the way they think it 
should be used.  MythTV is open source, after all--you can make it work 
however you want.

>  Maybe some day I'll get around to trying my hand at this stuff.

*That* is what's imposing upon others how to use MythTV.  No one has 
ever felt it was worth their time to write a patch that makes MythTV 
work the way you want--presumably because they've already set up their 
systems to record far more TV than they can ever watch, so they never 
waste time watching the garbage that wasn't even interesting enough to 
say, "record this for me at low priority."

Mike