[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/21/2010 04:57 PM, Tortise wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/20/2010 05:22 PM, jedi wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:16:05 am Clay wrote:
>>>>>   On Mon, 4/19/10, mugginz wrote
>>>>>> I really don't understand all on the anti-LiveTV
>>>>>> sentiment.  There are some
>>>>>> really valid use cases that include LiveTV....
>>>>>>
>>>>> I really can't think of any valid use case for watching live TV.
>>>>>
>>>       How about Tornado season?
>>>
>>> [deletia]
>>>
>>>       Sometimes, information is temporal. Sometimes this sort of 
>>> information
>>> even shows up on Television.
>>>
>>
>> That's what, "Delete oldest if this would exceed the max episodes," 
>> and, "Keep only one episode," or, "Keep at most <#> episodes," are 
>> for. Or, you can just schedule recordings in the LiveTV recording 
>> group and they'll be deleted (by default the day after they're 
>> recorded).  Or some combination thereof.
>>
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387302#387302
>>
> With respect, Mike, this entirely misses the point that was made. 
> Okay, so you keep 1 or 2 of the most recent tornado warnings to watch 
> whenever you find it
> convenient. When are you going to watch these? After your house has been
> flattened? After the insurance guy has paid out? The key word in that 
> posting
> was *temporal*. Stuff you need to know about /now/.


Note how you quoted the "Or, you can just schedule recordings in the 
LiveTV recording group and they'll be deleted (by default the day after 
they're recorded)" part, which explains how to record something such 
that it's automatically deleted tomorrow?  This was likewise explained 
in my other post that explained why sports and news should always be 
recorded and never be Live TV.

I don't keep them.  I don't keep news.  I don't keep sports.  However, I 
don't delete them--I don't have to.  I let my computer do the work for me.

Clearly, though, no matter what I say, it's not good enough.  And this 
thread is way too long and needs to die.  This is my last response, so 
feel free to put in all your comments/criticisms of my posts and I won't 
even try to correct any misunderstandings/misinterpretations/misquoting/...

I will say, however, that almost everything that people in this thread 
have asked for is possible with today's MythTV if they just take the 
time to learn how to configure their systems properly--even the 
automatically switch inputs when I ask for a channel and the current 
input is locked to the wrong mux (and even through browse mode).  I'm 
sure, though, it's far more fun to just say that things don't work and 
assume it's because of some limitation of MythTV or some mean developers 
refusing to write code to solve such a "simple problem."  (But, hey, 
let's throw in some more settings, because obviously we don't have 
enough--ignore the fact that no one in this thread seems to know how to 
use the ones we have.)

Until someone has some code for review, there's no use continuing the 
discussion.

Mike