On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:44:21 +0000, Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 04:52 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:31:37 +0000, Chris Martin > > > Two ideas that I had on this subject: > > > > > > idea 1 > > > Would it be technically possible to have an option to enable the PVR > > > functionality only once the pause button is pressed (i.e. only create > > > a buffer on pause)? You'd lose the ability to rewind through stuff > > > you'd just been watching , but it might work better for some people. > > > > > > > I'm not sure how well that would work, but the first thing that comes > > to mind is that if you don't create the buffer until the user presses > > the pause button then you absolutely can't pause on the same frame > > they were watching when the button was pressed (since it's already > > been displayed to the monitor and not written to disk). At best you > > could pause at the next frame, which is probably acceptable to most > > people, but this would really depend on the overhead required to open > > the new buffer file and start writing video to that file. > > Would it be possible to still have the buffer, but just not fill it (as > much) before starting to play, i.e. only buffer a couple of frames so > the live stream is only 2-3 frames behind real-time rather than 3s > (75-90 frames depending on region?) -- until the user pauses or rewinds > etc... > > (just a brain dump, I don't use live TV much anymore either)... > > Ian.
Like many others, I *never* watch live tv any more. Thus, it wouldn't bother me if the pvr functionality were to be removed from the live-tv function, since this seems to be what some die-hard channel surfers want. Alternatively, I could imagine having a new "surf live tv" function that is like "live tv" but doesn't have the pvr functionality. In this mode, perhaps hitting the record button would throw you out of the surf mode and start recording from the current point on the current channel. Anyway, this does strike me as very low priority. On the other hand, it would be a change/feature that would have minimal impact on most mythtv users while at the sam time possibly improving the experience for others... Peter
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