[mythtv-users] Mythtv smart recording

[dcw]

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 2:07 pm, Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
> Because of commercials, that might be impossible. But, somehow if you could
> tell myth to record the same show but start where you stopped, but have it
> start 5 minutes before you stopped, that way it doesn't miss
> anything...that would be cool...then to have it merge the recordings so
> that you don't have to worry about two recordings...that would be cool. It
> would then delete out the cut points before merging so you don't have
> interlapping portions of the program.
>
> So you watch tv from 12:00 to 12:45, then stop it, but that show is on
> again later at 3pm, so the recorder would record from 3:40 till the end of
> the program.
An other option is to use a splitter so that one connection goes to mythtv and 
the other goes to the tv directly. 

We do not watch liveTV from Mythtv but from the tv itself. That way if there 
are recordings to be made they will not be interrupted.

David
>
> What i'd like to see is to somehow be able to specify a time slot to always
> leave one of your tuners free. My wife loves to watch live tv at a certain
> time each day, usually for around 45 minutes to an hour and a half...She
> has to cancel recordings often during that time in order to watch tv, so if
> myth just dind't schedule recordings during that period, tv would be free
> for her, and the schedule would adjust and record those movies/shows at
> other times.
>
> -Steve
>
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>
>  Let's say that I have one (analog) tuner in my box and that I have a
> scheduled recording, from 5:30 to 7:30.  For some odd reason ( e.g major
> newsbreak) I need to watch live tv around 6:30, I am assuming that my
> recording will be interrupted once I switch to livetv.  How can I set
> Mythtv to find the next broadcast of the scheduled recording and resume the
> interrupted recording at the point where it was previously stopped?  Is
> that even possible?  If not wouldn't that be a great use case?