[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[Philip Nourse]

> Yeechang Lee wrote:
>> And, looking back, you don't wish you could've saved it for watching
>> again later? Or that there weren't moments when it'd have been nice to
>> skip back a few seconds to watch a moment of the coverage again, like
>> to figure out whether Armstrong said "One small step for man" or "for
>> _a_ man"?[1] The latter is possible with MythTV's Live TV, but not the
>> former for any meaningful length of time.
> 

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:18:56 -0700, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Yes it is.  Hit 'R' to convert to a recording, and it'll be stored like 
> any other recording.  One of many LiveTV features that we're apparently 
> not supposed to use. Has anyone written a patch to remove LiveTV 
> entirely yet?  It seems like it's about as popular as Windows ME with 
> the MythTV "in" crowd that calls the shots here. ;)
> 
Live TV is recorded in exactly the same way as recorded TV except that it
starts when you switch to a channel, and stops when you change channels (or
at the end of the show if you set it to record).  The recordings are
expired after the time you set (usually 1 day) but you can move them to the
another group to turn the expiration off, and keep them, or like David
said, you can just press R during recording to turn expiration off, and
move it to the default group.  This is one of the great things I love about
MythTV.  When I had the DVR provided by my satellite company, I had to
rewind the show to the begining, press record, and manually stop at the end
of the program.