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Windows => Television => Topic started by: imeric on February 09, 2016, 10:05:08 pm

Title: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: imeric on February 09, 2016, 10:05:08 pm: 1. I'm currently watching a channel (not being recorded)
2 Then from the theater guide view I click on a subscribed recording for the daily evening news(which is about 45/60 minutes done)
3. I get a time shifting prompt to ask if I want to keep it or not...Thinking it was for the show in 1. I choose do not keep time-shifting
Guess what? It wasn't for the previous show but for the subscribed recording..~~I lost the beginning of my recording!~~
This has been happening quite often recently and will need to get fixed.

When selecting a currently recording show we should never get a time-shifting prompt no matter where we start it from, whether it'd be from the recent recordings in theater view, the guide theater views OR the standard view

Thx

EDIT: MC Just crashed and when it reopened I found the second part of the recording..
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: RoderickGI on February 10, 2016, 12:23:37 am: Don't you record TV in TS format?
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: Yaobing on February 10, 2016, 07:07:15 am: How many tuners do you have? Was the recording scheduled to record on the same device?
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: imeric on February 10, 2016, 08:12:22 am: I have 4 ATSC cards + the colossus.

The previous show I was watching and not recording was on the colossus. The news was on one of the ATSC card and I was also recording something on another ATSC card from 10 to 11 pm.
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: Yaobing on February 10, 2016, 03:59:02 pm: MC will not ask you whether you want to save time-shifting, when you start to watch something, be it a currently recording channel, or a non-recording channel. It asks the question only when you stop watching a show, and if your setting is "ask".
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: imeric on February 10, 2016, 06:12:08 pm: OK. But even if my setting is "ask", it should not ask me for a show that is being recorded (subscription or else) and that is what is happening.
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: Yaobing on February 10, 2016, 06:22:07 pm: Quote from: imeric on February 10, 2016, 06:12:08 pm
OK. But even if my setting is "ask", it should not ask me for a show that is being recorded (subscription or else) and that is what is happening.

This is debatable. I see your reasoning. But when a show is being recorded while you are watching the channel, the time-shifting butter may contain more than the show being recorded. It may contain the show before that one. And thus it may still be worth saving. I suppose I can make the program a little smarter so it can determine whether the time-shifting buffer contains more than the program being recorded. If so it can still ask.
Title: Re: Confusing time-shifting prompts for subscribed recordings
Post by: imeric on February 10, 2016, 07:58:12 pm: Totally makes sense I agree...
So...without changing anything, maybe have an extra liner in the prompt to let the users know it may also be a current or subscribed recording...
Thanks Yaobing. As always, I appreciate the feedback thank you.