[mythtv] Testers Wanted for New, ON-Deman Input Feature

[Mike Bibbings]

On 08/01/18 16:51, David Engel wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 08:37:38PM +0000, John P Poet wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 9:39 AM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The "Schedule as Group" feature added last year greatly improved the
>>> scheduling performance of multirec configurations.  Unfortunately, it
>>> required the number of simultaneous recordings to be set high enough
>>> to handle every recording load.  If it was set too low, recordings
>>> would be missed.  I now have a change ready to address that
>>> limitation.
>>>
>>> Instead of missing recordings, MythTV will now automatically add
>>> multirec inputs to handle the load.  However, this change adds new
>>> locking creates the possibility of new deadlocks, especially when the
>>> added inputs are on slave backends.  Consequently, I'd like for this
>>> change to get some wider testing before it goes into master.
>>>
>>> If you're interested and able to help out on the testing, please
>>> checkout the devel/scheduler branch and give it a try.  Please post
>>> any feedback you have here.  If all goes well, I'll commit to master
>>> in a week or two.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>> Hi David.  Sorry I didn't get back with you sooner.  I will take a look at
>> this, and give it a try.
> Do I have any other takers on this?
>
> David

Yes, I will be testing this over the next week or so.  I have UK Freesat 
and Freeview with both PCIe and network tuners.


Mike