[mythtv] mythtv commit: r24475 - in trunk/mythtv/programs by gigem

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:25 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 01:13:42PM -0700, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>> With this change, I can make the setting "Never" and remove the hard
>
> I think you mean "Always" as in always avoid back-to-back programs.

Yeah -- I actually meant "2" but mistranslated... :)

>> Ant-1 Community: English as a Second Language   11.1  08:00 PM   30 mins
>> Ant-3 FlashForward: The Negotiation             7.1   08:00 PM   1 hr
>> Ant-2 The Vampire Diaries: Founder's Day        44.1  08:00 PM   1 hr
>> Ant-4 Parks and Recreation: The Master Plan     11.1  08:30 PM   30 mins
>> Ant-1 Fringe: Over There, Part 1                2.1   09:00 PM   1 hr
>> Ant-4 The Office: The Chump                     11.1  09:00 PM   30 mins
>> Ant-2 30 Rock: Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land  11.1  09:30 PM   30 mins
>> Ant-3 The Mentalist: Red Letter                 5.1   10:00 PM   1 hr
>>
>> Notice that the 8:30 and 9:00 recordings on channel 11.1 are both
>> mapped to the same tuner.  Those two programs really need padding
>> because the end of one usually runs immediately into the beginning of
>> the next.  When I would resolve the hard-padding conflicts, I would
>> usually remove the padding from Fringe and Vampire Diaries and keep
>> the padding for these two.
>>
>> Is there a way to modify the recording rule priorities or something
>> that would help influence the scheduler toward my preference?
>
> Give the programs the you want grouped together (i.e. different
> virtual tuners on same card) the same, relatively high priority.  For
> example, give Community/Parks/Office/30 Rock all a priority of 10 and
> everything else a priority less than 10.  That should result in
> Community on 1, Parks on 2, Office on 1, 30 Rock on 2 and everything
> else left on 3 or 4.

Nice, it works, even though these are identical physical tuners rather
than virtual tuners.  Thanks for the explanation!

Jim