[mythtv-users] Live TV playback frustration

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> However, what this commercial PVR got right, which Myth doesn't, is that the
>> content is the heart of the experience.  Not LiveTV, not recordings, but
>> just TV.
>>
>> You could setup a recording and watch it live from the recordings list (as
>> is the recommended method in Myth).  However, if you were channel surfing
>> and stumbled across it (perhaps you'd forgotten it was on but fancied
>> watching it there and then), you could wind back to the start of the show
>> without going to the recordings list.  It just used the recording file when
>> you reached this channel when surfing.
>>
>
> I honestly question whether this works how you have explained it. How
> could it let you go back to the beginning of a LiveTV broadcast unless
> it had been recording every channel in the event you might want to
> watch "Live TV". Now it might always be recording the current show on
> the channel that the "Live TV" tuner is tuned to, but that A) isn't
> what you described, and B) doesn't lend itself at all to using
> multiple types of tuners/sources.

I think you misunderstood. He meant that he had a scheduled recording
going, and then while watching live TV happened to change the channel
to the one that was currently being recorded (by the scheduler). Live
TV in Myth doesn't know anything about using (scheduled) recordings in
progress.

Karl