[mythtvnz] VLC and VDPAU

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, March 29, 2010 6:30 pm, Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:
> Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> It is unusual to actually use LiveTV to really watch a program.  Most
>> people seem to just record the program, then watch it while it is
>> still recording if necessary.  That is completely reliable in my
>> experience.  I have not had any problems with LiveTV in Mythbuntu
>> 9.10, but I only use it to peek at things rather than running it for
>> an hour or more.
>
> I've been meaning to pipe in on this long running theme for a little
> while now.  Not trying to hijack this thread or anything but live TV is
> useful in some circumstances.  For instance TVNZ6/Kidzone is a great
> channel to put on for the kids to watch (keeps them occupied) but you
> don't really want to schedule recordings and fill up disk space with it..
>  If anyone else uses live TV do you notice that when the shows
> transition there is a hiccup which I assume is caused by the change to
> the recorded file?
>

I record quite a lot of TVNZ6 Kidzone. I just set the schedule to only
keep 5 or 10 episodes of the program.

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