[krustyreturns]

I may be confusing what the PVR client is responsible for versus the back-end, but here goes:

1. In the situation where WMC steals the tuner from a live TV viewing, can the WMC backend start up the channel on a different tuner and keep the live viewing going? Or auto-switch to the live recording?

2. I want to be able to hit pause during live TV, go watch a youtube video or maybe a movie, and then go back to live TV and continue where I left off. Could this be handled by the backend keeping the channel tuned and recording until the PVR client re-attaches to it?

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If you are watching a live tv stream but the service needs to start a scheduled recording, the service should choose a different tuner if one is available. The only exception to this is if you are watching the same channel that the scheduled recording is about to start on - then (annoyingly) wmc will choose to take the tuner you are watching. This is what you are talking about right?

For this case, I like the auto-switch to the recording idea, let me think about it.

2) You can pause the live-tv stream for as long as you want and then go back to it, but obviously if you watch something else in xbmc the live-tv stream is stopped - I guess that is what you are talking about. Its an interesting idea. The downside is disk space, the remux could be paused, but the wtv file that is storing the tuner output would keep going. There could maybe be a tuner pref to stop the tuner after some settable amount of time if it not resumed.

It would weird to go back to a 'live-tv' stream and really be watching from a couple of hours ago - but I suppose then you could hit the stop button an restart it. So you kind of want the 'pause' button to put the live-tv stream into a kind of hibernation. That's an interesting idea too.

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an option to transcode on the fly both live tv and recorded tv ts streams to a format with lower resolution for lower powered devices. ideally a per client setting, but i'd happily take a server setting too. i know dvblink uses ffmpeg to achieve this and stream start up delay isn't significantly impacted

this would complete wmc pvr for me. thanks

Unless a video expert comes on board, I would need to use an existing public domain transcoder. To work it would need to take a wtv file - while it is recording - and convert it. I know that ffmpeg cannot do this, I actually don't think there is one out there that can but would be happy to be proven wrong if anyone knows of one.