[mythtv-users] Cancel recording to watch Live TV

Don Brett dlbrett at zoominternet.net
Sun Aug 15 13:55:50 UTC 2010


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, 2010 07:14:05 am Greg wrote:
>   
>> On 08/15/2010 07:12 AM, James Thorpe wrote:
>>     
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have a single tuner.  A use case in our house that's currently
>>> affecting the WAF is if it's currently recording a show, is there a
>>> simple way to cancel/override it with the remote in order to watch
>>> live tv?  The show it's recording is available to record at least 3
>>> subsequent times, so it's not an issue to cancel it.
>>>       
>
>   
>> You could allow it to keep recording and go in to the Watch Recordings
>> and watch it there while it's recording.. There is no live TV with with
>> Mythtv it's all recorded...
>>     
>
> Sounds like he wants to be able to watch something else beside what's being recorded.
>
> I know it goes against the Myth philosophy, but he could set things up to send the RF feed to the TV set directly, and 
> watch "live" that way, while the recording continues. This obviously won't work if an STB of some sort is required, and a 
> second one is not available.
>
> Of course the first complaint would be "why can't I pause, rewind etc. and why am I seeing all those commercials?".
>
> Canceling and re-recording would also work, I'm not sure of the best way to do that, it's never come up for me.
>
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>   
It sounds like he just want to abort the recording so he can use the 
tuner for something else.  The only way I know is to go to recordings, 
select the "Live" category, highlight the currently recording show, 
press the menu button, select "Stop recording".  Probably not very 
simple on the WAF scale.



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