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g8ecj at gilks

Jun 14, 2007, 3:49 AM

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Watching currently recording program

Just a quick check with others to see if its just me before I open a
ticket...

This has puzzled me for a while but I think I can now reproduce it at will.

I only have 1 tuner so if its recording (a scheduled recording) then of
course when I select LiveTV the frontend plays the currently recording
show.

If the schedule calls for the recording to go beyond the program guide end
time (so the tuner is still busy recording) I find that entering LiveTV in
that couple of minutes between the scheduled end time and the actual
(extended) end time just gives a couple of seconds of black screen and
then I'm back to the menu. The Watch Recording screen still shows that the
recording is active but the LiveTV logic seems to disagree.

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g8ecj at gilks

Jun 15, 2007, 11:21 PM

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Re: Watching currently recording program [In reply to]

> Just a quick check with others to see if its just me before I open a
> ticket...
>
> This has puzzled me for a while but I think I can now reproduce it at
> will.
>
> I only have 1 tuner so if its recording (a scheduled recording) then of
> course when I select LiveTV the frontend plays the currently recording
> show.
>
> If the schedule calls for the recording to go beyond the program guide end
> time (so the tuner is still busy recording) I find that entering LiveTV in
> that couple of minutes between the scheduled end time and the actual
> (extended) end time just gives a couple of seconds of black screen and
> then I'm back to the menu. The Watch Recording screen still shows that the
> recording is active but the LiveTV logic seems to disagree.
>

I take it I'm the only one who sees this problem then...

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nigel at ind

Jun 15, 2007, 11:36 PM

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Re: Watching currently recording program [In reply to]

>> I only have 1 tuner so if its recording (a scheduled recording)
>> then of
>> course when I select LiveTV the frontend plays the currently
>> recording
>> show.
> I take it I'm the only one who sees this problem then...

Yes. On our machines, when recording, LiveTV
will say "All available inputs are being used"

I suspect incorrect tuner/card setup.
MythTV probably thinks you have 2 cards.

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mythtv at colin

Jun 16, 2007, 1:31 AM

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Re: Watching currently recording program [In reply to]

Nigel Pearson wrote:
>>> I only have 1 tuner so if its recording (a scheduled recording)
>>> then of
>>> course when I select LiveTV the frontend plays the currently
>>> recording
>>> show.
>> I take it I'm the only one who sees this problem then...
>
> Yes. On our machines, when recording, LiveTV
> will say "All available inputs are being used"
>
>
> I suspect incorrect tuner/card setup.
> MythTV probably thinks you have 2 cards.

Mine used to do that too, but the other day (after updating my svn for
the first time in a while) I noticed that if I entered live tv, it
started playing the program I recorded from the begining. Not sure if
this was because the last channel I was watching on live tv also
happened to be the channel I was recording or if this was the new
functionality.

However I cannot confirm Robin's problem relating to the overlap "zone"
as I've not tried that/been unlucky enough to be hit by that.

Col

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g8ecj at gilks

Jun 16, 2007, 1:15 PM

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Re: Watching currently recording program [In reply to]

> Nigel Pearson wrote:
>>>> I only have 1 tuner so if its recording (a scheduled recording)
>>>> then of
>>>> course when I select LiveTV the frontend plays the currently
>>>> recording
>>>> show.
>>> I take it I'm the only one who sees this problem then...
>>
>> Yes. On our machines, when recording, LiveTV
>> will say "All available inputs are being used"
>>
>>
>> I suspect incorrect tuner/card setup.
>> MythTV probably thinks you have 2 cards.
>
> Mine used to do that too, but the other day (after updating my svn for
> the first time in a while) I noticed that if I entered live tv, it
> started playing the program I recorded from the begining. Not sure if
> this was because the last channel I was watching on live tv also
> happened to be the channel I was recording or if this was the new
> functionality.
>
> However I cannot confirm Robin's problem relating to the overlap "zone"
> as I've not tried that/been unlucky enough to be hit by that.

The behavior is correct in that it starts viewing the show thats being
recorded (from the start) provided I hit WatchTV during the scheduled time
of the program. If I hit WatchTV in those couple of minutes of extended
recording time then I get the black screen and back to the menu.

I assume its some part of the rule that determines that WatchTV (i.e. an
attempt to enter LiveTV) going to the currently recording program is
tempered by the scheduled run time of the program rather than the actual
recording state (just a guess).

By the way, I'm running r13654 SVN (was HEAD but the ffmpeg updates have
totally broken DVD viewing for me!).

If there is extra info I can supply then it would be worth opening a
ticket maybe?

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