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<blockquote data-quote="Mugsy" data-source="post: 750987" data-attributes="member: 112940"><p>(I was in the middle of typing a detailed reply when my computer crashed, grumble.)</p><p></p><p>I've been searching for a program to do exactly that for (literally) years, with no luck.</p><p></p><p>My best experience so far...</p><p></p><p>In my XP days, I used a shareware app called "WatchHDTV". It could open to Live TV on schedule as well as record on schedule, but it did not timeshift until you turned it on... OR if you told the Scheduler to launch in Timeshift mode, it started with the video paused. It also lacked an EPG and auto-scanner for channels (you had to add channels by hand). In Win7, I can still watch Live TV using "WatchHDTV", but the scheduler does not work with Win7, nor can it record or timeshift.</p><p></p><p>Also from my XP days, Hauppauge's WinTV (only works with their tuners) works with Win7, but its scheduler can only silent record on schedule. I can get around this by using the Windows Task Scheduler to call the program with the channel passed as a parameter, but once the program is already open, calling it again this way doesn't change the channel. WinTV also lacks an EPG.</p><p></p><p>Windows Media Center is quite nice, with its built-in EPG, but it too can only silent-record on schedule. And there is no "built-in" way to open to a specific channel. I currently get around this by using the Windows Task Scheduler to open Live TV:</p><p></p><p>[code]%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe "/mcesuperbar://tv?live=true"[/code]</p><p></p><p>...at the same time it is recording, so WMC automatically opens to the channel it is currently recording. It will even change channels when a new recording is scheduled. The biggest drawback of this is you would have to Record <em>every</em> program you wish to watch on schedule, which would fill your HDD quite fast. I actually considered using a ramdisk for this, but I would need a 20GB ramdisk to record just three hours of HD video (and I don't want <em>every</em> recording to go to ramdisk.)</p><p></p><p>(I actually wrote a tiny startup app using VB2010 to delete any recording more than X days old to prevent my HDD from filling up with recorded video.)</p><p></p><p>My search continues for DVR software that will open Live TV to a specific channel on schedule, as well as allow me to rewind and start recording from the point I press the record button. (The only program I ever found that allowed me to do all this was the original and extremely buggy ATI Wonder TV software, which only works with ATI cards and was discontinued back in 2004.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mugsy, post: 750987, member: 112940"] (I was in the middle of typing a detailed reply when my computer crashed, grumble.) I've been searching for a program to do exactly that for (literally) years, with no luck. My best experience so far... In my XP days, I used a shareware app called "WatchHDTV". It could open to Live TV on schedule as well as record on schedule, but it did not timeshift until you turned it on... OR if you told the Scheduler to launch in Timeshift mode, it started with the video paused. It also lacked an EPG and auto-scanner for channels (you had to add channels by hand). In Win7, I can still watch Live TV using "WatchHDTV", but the scheduler does not work with Win7, nor can it record or timeshift. Also from my XP days, Hauppauge's WinTV (only works with their tuners) works with Win7, but its scheduler can only silent record on schedule. I can get around this by using the Windows Task Scheduler to call the program with the channel passed as a parameter, but once the program is already open, calling it again this way doesn't change the channel. WinTV also lacks an EPG. Windows Media Center is quite nice, with its built-in EPG, but it too can only silent-record on schedule. And there is no "built-in" way to open to a specific channel. I currently get around this by using the Windows Task Scheduler to open Live TV: [code]%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe "/mcesuperbar://tv?live=true"[/code] ...at the same time it is recording, so WMC automatically opens to the channel it is currently recording. It will even change channels when a new recording is scheduled. The biggest drawback of this is you would have to Record [I]every[/I] program you wish to watch on schedule, which would fill your HDD quite fast. I actually considered using a ramdisk for this, but I would need a 20GB ramdisk to record just three hours of HD video (and I don't want [I]every[/I] recording to go to ramdisk.) (I actually wrote a tiny startup app using VB2010 to delete any recording more than X days old to prevent my HDD from filling up with recorded video.) My search continues for DVR software that will open Live TV to a specific channel on schedule, as well as allow me to rewind and start recording from the point I press the record button. (The only program I ever found that allowed me to do all this was the original and extremely buggy ATI Wonder TV software, which only works with ATI cards and was discontinued back in 2004.) [/QUOTE]
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