[mythtv-users] Why does scheduled recording steal my PVR card that's in use?

[Blues Guy]

--- malcolm-mythtv <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I have a 250 and a 350, mythtv0.14 and IVTV 0.1.9.
> 
> I'm watching channel 6 tonight (on the 350) and the
> second PVR card (250) is 
> doing nothing.  Suddenly it's time to record a
> program on channel 45.  
> Instead of grabbing the free PVR-250 that's doing
> nothing it just suddenly 
> changes the channel on the card I'm watching.  
<snip>
> Why didn't it just grab the free card for recording?
<snip>

This is one of my only real complaints with Myth, and
one of the few things that keeps my box from getting
high marks on the WAF.  It's smart enough to know when
I begin watching TV that a recording is in progress,
and to use the other tuner, but somehow when I'm
watching TV, it doesn't know that the other tuner is
sitting there idle?  I think in a previous message I
speculated that it had something to do with the
modularity of the frontend / backend design causing
this problem, but who knows.. besides Isaac.

If tuner state were stored in the database, this
shouldn't be a problem!

> I always only had one PVR card prior to myth0.14 so
> I don't know if this is a 
> new issue or the same thing that's always been
> there.

This happened in .13 as well...

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