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

Ethan McDonald emcdonald at ionstorm.com
Tue Feb 3 15:35:48 EST 2004


I agree it should be able to check which source is being used for LiveTV, I
figure that has to registered some where and use the other source to record.

-----Original Message-----
From: fsquires [mailto:fsquires at fastmail.fm]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:05 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Why does scheduled recording steal my PVR
card that's in use?


I think you're right, but what he seems to want is, if you're watching 
live TV and the other card is free, for mythtv to dynamically record to 
the unused card.  I'd prefer if it prompted you perhaps 30 sec. before 
the scheduled recording, such as:

There is a recording scheduled for this tuner at 10:30 AM (or in 30 
sec. counting down).
-Allow recording to use this tuner.
-Switch to next available tuner.
-Cancel Recording.

The default would be Allow recording, this way if you're away and left 
livetv running it would still use the default tuner.
Fred

On Feb 3, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Ethan McDonald wrote:

> I'm not in front of my mythtv right now but can't you specify which 
> input to
> record on under advanced recording options.
> Forgive me if I'm wrong... :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malcolm-mythtv [mailto:mythtv at lds.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:21 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Why does scheduled recording steal my PVR
> card that's in use?
>
>
> On Monday 02 February 2004 09:05 pm, Blues Guy wrote:
>> 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!
>
> When I click on "system status" in mythweb it shows you exactly what 
> each
> tuner card is doing (recording, watching TV) and it even tells you 
> which
> channel and show etc.  So mythtv already knows what's going with each 
> of the
>
> capture cards.  I guess all that needs to happen now is a scheduled
> recording
> needs to grab the free card.
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
>
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