<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>One of the general things you will find about mythtv devs is that they don't care much for livetv "thats not how its designed to be used, record what you want to watch and watch it when you have the time, its a new paradigm, change your life forever blah blah blah."<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>It's not that the devs don't care about it, it's just that they don't use it. So they don't see the issues that some people seem to have and don't fix them. If the issues were consistent I'm sure that they'd get attention, but them seem to only affect certain setups and don't seem to be that easy to diagnose.<br>
<br>Ultimately the nature of open source is this: if you want it fixed you either have to fix it yourself or find someone who already cares about it and can fix it. You'll struggle to convince anyone that a feature they don't use is important enough to them to put much effort in.<br>
<br>The other point I'd make is that if you don't care about the "new paradigm", if Live TV is your main thing, then you're probably better off with a MySky box or another good PVR. Live TV is simply not one of MythTVs strengths. If you must have MythTV then it'll annoy you less if you make a conscious effort to adopt the paradigm and forget about LiveTV and to convince the other users in your household to do the same. There are good advantages to recording, even if you watch while it's recording: commercial skipping and time stretch are the obvious biggies. It took a couple of months to convince my wife to stop wanting to watch stuff when it was on, but now we almost never use Live TV and we don't miss it at all.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>