liveTV/scheduled recording conflict

[huckw]

I was watching live TV on channel 4 last night and a scheduled recording was set to occur on channel 9.  At the specified time my live TV froze, turned wacky colors and seemed to play two frames of video over and over.  This was a bit annoying BUT the recording on channel 9 had stolen the tuner and so its no suprise...I'm glad the recording did not fail so while this was a bit strange, the outcome was exactly what I wanted (I was doing this as a test so was anticipating something unusual happening).

Is this the designed behavior?  For me it was no big deal, but if my wife encounters this she'll probably throw up her hands and say its broken.  Is it possible to have a nice message come up explaining what is happening and giving the user the option to cancel the recording and continue watching live TV or switching over to the recording channel (maybe 1 minute before the recording is supposed to go...you have 60 seconds to make a decision otherwise it boots you out to the main menu and the recording begins)?

Another question...once I returned to the menu, went to recordings and selected the currently recording show the OSD was different than I expected.  I got a blue bar at the bottom of my screen that showed a total length of just a few minutes and the blue bar quickly filled up the whole 3 minute space and stayed that way to the end of the show.  What does that mean?  I guess I was expecting OSD just like when I'm watching liveTV and hit the blue button...the graph at the top of the screen showing some red (part of the show that has not been recorded), green (the part that has been recorded/watched), black (the part of the show remaining) and a white arrow showing where in there I am.

Some clarification on the different OSDs I see would be helpful...thanks!!  Sorry if this was supposed to belong somewhere else (wishlist?).

[bryan]

Sub,

I think this may be the same problem I am having also. I sent you the logs a couple of days ago. In my case it even happens with two tuners. Even when one tuner is idle when the recording is scheduled to start.

[huckw]

I'll preface this by saying what an awesome piece of software GBPVR is...the latest release really is a fine piece of work...Nice job sub!!

Tonight I tried a similar experiment but was watching live tv on the SAME channel as an upcoming scheduled recording.  Same freezing and jumping as before.  Still not a big woop bcause it recorded my show which is the outcome I would like.  But might be nice to just go on without a glitch (maybe a pop up message saying its recording).

Some strangeness (maybe by design?) occured when I started watching a show that had been recording for about 30 minutes.  When I tried to skip 30 seconds (pressing the skip button) it was skipping in 5 - 10 minute increments.  I tried to go backwards by hitting replay and it kept advancing in VERY large steps...I was soon caught up to live TV.  I had to stop and start watching from the begining again.  I use FF instead and it was skipping by between 3 to 7 minutes each press and RWD did the same.  I ended up just watching all the commercials so was unable to catch up to live TV.  What am I doing wrong?  The amount it jumps forward seems to grow the further into the show you get!