Pausing Live TV

[helboy]

Hmmm, I am getting to grips with this feature, but...

How is this supposed to work? When I hit "pause" the screen goes blank, the recording starts, and I see the TV in real time. Is this working as intended? I would have thought that the tv would have kept the screen paused, whilst recording happens in the background.

Thoughts?


helboy

[ricklous]

this is normal behavour - at least on my system.

pressing 'pause' doesnt initiate a 'pause', it starts timeshift mode, and carries on playing at the same time as recording in background. Once in timeshift mode you can then press 'pause' again to actually pause.

[helboy]

Thanks. Guess that makes sense, although I would personally prefer the TV to "Pause" when the pause button is pushed....

It would certainly make things more "wife friendly"

Cheers

[sub]

If you disable live preview mode, then it'll always be in timeshift mode, and will behave more like you suggest. This will mean slower channel changing though.

[helboy]

Thanks Sub!

I'll give that a go and evaluate. But won't that meant that I'll run out of space on my HDD eventually?

Cheers

[sub]

But won't that meant that I'll run out of space on my HDD eventually?

No, it'll automatically delete files as it goes.