[mythtv-users] Consecutive programs, dual tuners

[Kevin Kuphal]

PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

>>>>>"Ashley Bostock" <abostock at gmail.com> 12/24/2004 3:23:33 PM >>>
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>>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:56:43 +0000, Martin Ebourne
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><lists at ebourne.me.uk> wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 07:34 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>>>It seems what you are proposing is a change to the scheduler to
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>>>>global padding into consideration when more than one card is
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>present
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>>>>and, barring other scheduling conflicts, use multiple tuners to
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>capture
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>>>>the padding whenever possible.
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>>>I dare say he was.
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>>>And a jolly fine idea too, IMO.
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>>>Cheers,
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>>>Martin.
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>>If the 2 cards are there and the second is not in use at the time
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>then 
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>>why not?
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>>Makes sence to me.
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>So, let's say I'm going to buy a second PVR-250.  What should I do to
>ensure that 
>the scheduling conflicts between two shows gets accounted for and both
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>cards are used?  Do I need to buffer every show I record by a minute 
>or so?  I'm not second-guessing any logic, I'm just trying to determine
>when 
>I put a second card in that it will actually acomplish what I am 
>intending for it to accomplish - record two shows that are on
>consecutively, 
>whether on the same channel or two different channels?  It sounds like
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MythTV will schedule both shows as desired, ignoring global 
pre/post-buffering and respecting per-recording pre/post-buffering.  
That is, if you have 2 consecutive shows back to back, it is likely they 
will be recorded on the same card assuming they have no per-recording 
pre/post-buffering.  If you add per-recording pre/post-puffering, they 
will be recorded on different tuners as tuners are available because the 
per-recording buffers are absolute and non-optional.

Kevin