[mythtv-users] Why I have to resolve recording conflicts?

[Joe Votour]

Watching one TV channel and recording another isn't
quite perfect, and that is something that I am looking
into this weekend.  For example, if you're watching
LiveTV, and a scheduled recording comes up, you're
asked whether you want to switch channels and record,
record and go to the main menu, or not record the
show.  This happens even if you have two tuner cards
(like me).  Becuase this annoys me greatly, I'm
looking into it this weekend, and I'm hoping to have a
patch.

It is possible to record more than one channel at a
time, I've done it quite a few times, but again, I
have two tuner cards.  The general rule is that for
every simultaneous recording you wish to do (LiveTV
counts as a recording), you must have a tuner card.

Acording to the MythTV documentation (and my own
experience), if you're using software cards (i.e.
bttv-based), it takes 1GHz to record, and about 500MHz
to play back the recorded stream.  Thus, on my machine
which has two bttv cards, I can't record one show and
watch another simultaneously (frame drops), but I can
record two shows at once.  If I swapped out one of my
bttv cards for a PVR-250, then I could record two
shows and watch something pre-recorded all at once (I
have an Athlon XP 2400).

So, the idea behind the conflict resolution is that
you can select certain recordings over others, which
is important especially if you have only one tuner
card.  If you want to make sure that you always record
a particular show, you can set that show to record
above all else.

-- Joe

--- Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer at gmx.li> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am confused about the screenshot "Browse and
> resolve recording conflicts." 
> in
> http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures
> is a screenshot 
> Why do I need this?
> It is not possible to watch one TV-Channel an record
> another? And if this is 
> possible, why it is not possible
> to record more than one channel at a time?
> There are hardware restrictions (I/O-bandwith of
> disks, cpu-consumption,..) or 
> restrictions by the tv-card?
> 
> Thanks for information
> 
> -- 
> Don't panic
> 
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