[mythtvnz] Channel changing time

[Tim Wiel]

This also affects me - however adding to the frustration is wife watches
The Simpsons at 5pm as LiveTV before I arrive home from work - when I
try watching it later on in the night - because it is LiveTV no
commflagging has been done - so for some reason I can't fast forward
faster than 3x speed.

I have noticed this wierd issue time and time again. Basically anything
that is scheduled and records will fast forward at max speed when
watched again (provided the machine has commflagged it), any LiveTV
recordings or schedulted recordings (that haven't yet been commflaged)
can't fast forward faster than 3x speed.

What really wierd is say wife watches simpsons at 5pm - i get home at
5.10pm and rewind to start of show - when the first ad break comes along
I can fast forward at full speed through the ad break. It seems the
above problems only relate to actually recorded files - liveTV that is
still been recorded (ie the current program) will fast forward and
rewind at full speed.

Any suggestions on how to fix this (ie how to I set LiveTV recordings to
be commflagged along with scheduled recordings)?


On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 08:57 +1300, David Lowe wrote:

> I'm struggling with driving the 'household habit' changes that you need to
> make with a PVR. What I mean is that the way some people (typically of the
> opposite gender, sorry) watch TV is to channel surf. Some (the one I'm
> married to and my adult daughter) even seem to manage to watch at least two
> programmes at once which I hate. I guess it's a guy thing. Fundamentally,
> this is not a good way to operate a pvr. I've tried to explain that the best
> way to use the media centre is to decide what you want to watch in advance
> and time lapse it, but they just don't seem to get it and complain about the
> 2 second channel change delays when they try to surf. 
> 
> So we are getting to the point where I have banned them from using the
> frontend for Live TV - it's just too much aggro to deal with and causes the
> WAF to plummet. I might even take it off the menu.
> 
> I guess the way we watch TV will change in time, but it is a harder change
> process than I expected it would be. 
> 
> They do however love it when a recorded programme skips the ads. Now if I
> could get the ad-zapping happening while a programme is recording that would
> be sensational.
> 
> - David
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.rout at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 2:38 p.m.
> To: toby.mills at np.co.nz; MythTV in NZ
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Channel changing time
> 
> I often "trail" a programme. Often reasonable stuff starts at 8.30,
> but we are often getting the kid to bed, making coffee, finishing the
> dishes etc. I set it to record and sit down at 9.00 ish, and then
> watch the recording. You can flick through the ads and generally you
> "catch up" to live TV, depending on the number of interruptions.
> 
> On Dec 5, 2007 2:26 PM, Toby Mills <toby at np.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >  Yes, concur on this one.
> >  I can't remember the last time anyone in our family used Live TV. Its a
> > swear word and something the ill informed masses have to do :)
> >  If you want to watch something, record it (and watch something else while
> > its recording), then you can cut all those pesky ads.
> >
> >  Cheers
> >  Toby
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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