[mythtv] Help needed to track down a scheduling problem

[Roger James]

On 03/04/2010 05:07, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 11:26 AM, Roger James wrote:
>> I am currently bogged down trying to resolve a scheduling problem. 
>> Any help would be gratefully received.
>>
>> My backend has two DVB-T cards and one DVB-S card. The DVB-S card is 
>> one one video source and the two DVB-T cards are on another. Multirec 
>> is enabled and each card appears to mythtv as 3 "pseudo cards". Many 
>> of the channels appear on both video sources and have been set up 
>> with matching callsigns. Here is an example from the channel table.
>>
>> "chanid","channum","freqid","sourceid","callsign","name","icon","finetune","videofilters","xmltvid","recpriority","contrast","brightness","colour","hue","tvformat","visible","outputfilters","useonairguide","mplexid","serviceid","tmoffset","atsc_major_chan","atsc_minor_chan","last_record","default_authority","commmethod" 
>>
>> 15260,"10","",5,"ITV3","ITV3","/home/mythtv/.mythtv//channels/itv3.jpg",0,"","itv3.itv.co.uk",0,32768,32768,32768,32768,"Default",1,"",1,271,10260,0,0,0,"2010-04-01 
>> 21:00:02","www.itv.com",-1
>> 1010,"10","",1,"ITV3","ITV3","/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/itv3.jpg",,"","itv3.itv.co.uk",0,32768,32768,32768,32768,"Default",1,"",1,9,16048,0,0,0,"2010-03-31 
>> 22:00:04","www.itv.com",-1
>>
>> All the cardinputs have the same priority (0).
>>
>> My problem is that every now and again I get a "conflict" which I 
>> think should not be occuring. Using the above channel as an example, 
>> if I schedule something ("Lewis") on the ITV3 channel it will almost 
>> always end up using a channel on the single DVB-S card (sourceid 5). 
>> I believe this is because of the order of things in various tables 
>> and the fact that all the cardinputs have the same priority. Here are 
>> the relevant parts of the record and recordmatch tables,
>
> Please ask on the mythtv-users list.  Your --printsched output shows 
> input 5 being used at:
>
> Bad Day at Black Rock            15 Film4   02 15:00-16:40   1 5 5 F 5 
> -1/    0
>
> and I'd guess that the "problem" is just the corner cases that 
> sometimes happen.  See 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/227560#227560 .
>
> Mike
>
Thanks Mike,

I suppose it is more of a user problem. I just always tend ot start off 
by looking at the code! I will repost over there. However if you have 
any more pointers for me on interpreting the diagnostic output I would 
be very grateful.

Roger