[mythtv-users] Why isn't LiveTV as smart as a regular recording?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:39 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>> On Thu, November 13, 2008 6:12 am, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> Either way, this has devolved into another "fix LiveTV yourself
>>> because I don't use it" discussion, and it appears that the OP has
>>> found some assistance with the problem.
>>
>> Part of the issue here is it affects only users that use mutirec,
>> which
>> rules out most people in the U.S. from being able to code up and
>> test a
>> fix.
>
> Actually, it only affects people who use multirec *and* LiveTV and use
> the multi-rec tuner as their first choice for LiveTV which rules out
> most people. (I have this set up, but when I enter LiveTV, it will
> choose 3 tuners before it hits a multirec one so I've never run into
> it.) Convincing a developer to set up their system this way to track
> down the problem and fix it may prove rather difficult.

OTOH some people only have multirec tuners (me, NZ, DVB-S Freeview, 2
real tuners each as 4 virtual tuners)