[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10774: Maximum of 5 simultaneous recordings per tuner is too low

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#10774: Maximum of 5 simultaneous recordings per tuner is too low
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 Reporter:  Richard Lloyd <rkl@…>         |          Owner:  danielk
     Type:  Bug Report - General          |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  major                         |      Milestone:  unknown
Component:  MythTV - Mythtv-setup         |        Version:  0.25
 Severity:  medium                        |     Resolution:  Won't Fix
 Keywords:  simultaneous recording tuner  |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by rkl@…):

 I must respectfully disagree that it is "easy enough to work around",
 especially on platforms like Ubuntu, where the Myth TV backend binary
 packages are in the standard repos and I suspect a large percentage of
 those users wouldn't have a clue how to download, edit, rebuild and
 reinstall from source. I only knew it was a source hack because the same
 issue was on the mailing lists 11 months ago, otherwise I would have had
 to spend quite a while just finding the line to change.

 SSDs are no longer "living on the edge" - with recent HDD price rises and
 SSD price falls (now 0.50GBP per GB!), more and more users are getting
 SSDs. As for a tuner that can handle more than the MythTV backend default
 of 2 channels per tuner per multiplex/transponder, it applies to a lot of
 the tuners currently on the market, so yet again that is not "living on
 the edge" either.

 As I stated in my feature request, I don't want the default changed from
 2, but I do want the maximum raised to 12, with ideally both the help text
 stating that you shouldn't increase above 5 unless you have a fast CPU/SSD
 and warning confirmation box before you can accept a value above 5 too
 (though that last feature might not be possible).

 I'm particularly enamoured with your final sentence - "for best results",
 I should buy 3 quad tuner cards at a cost of 500 GBP to be able to record
 24 channels, when one card can do it with 50% capacity to spare. Please
 re-open this bug, because all of your concerns have been addressed both by
 my original bug report and this response to your somewhat unsatisfactory
 reply.

 I guess with this intransigence for no good reason, I'm off to rebuild
 mythtv-setup with a value of 12 as the maximum instead of 5, but to be
 honest, this sort of brush-off makes me wonder if MythTV just isn't
 suitable for *any* simultaneous recordings if you claim you should never
 go above 5 per tuner (which with today's hardware specs is handled easily
 by a cheap SSD and a middling CPU).

 I thought MythTV backend (not the frontend - that's dismal compared to
 XBMC) might do a better job than the popular tvheadend, but now I learn
 that the authors have imposed artificially low limits on simultaneous
 recordings simply because some users might set them too high for their
 hardware (why not test the CPU and disk speed and set a simul limit based
 on that? Oh, that's too obvious I guess!) is not the way to get *any*
 power users of the Myth TV backend to adopt your software. And that may
 well include me.

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