[mythtv-users] Not using both tuners to full effect?

Neil Milne neil.milne at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 17:05:25 EST 2005


I have my myth box set up to overrun recordings by 4 minutes, which is
usually long enough to catch any normal overruns in the scheduling.
However, if I have two shows set to record, even on different
channels, and those shows are contiguous in time then the 4 minute
overrun is ignored and the tuner recording show one stops exactly at
the scheduled end time and then immediately switches to record show
two, leaving the second tuner unused.

The 2 minutes I set to record before the beginning of the schedule
also seems to be ignored when this happens.

Is this normal behaviour? I'd prefer the overrun time to be honoured
even if it means the box uses both tuners to record for the overlap
time.

I know both tuners can be used to record as I have had two shows at
the same time but different channels recorded ok.

My backend log at the end of show 1 looks like:

2005-01-12 22:00:00.003 switching to overrecord for 240 more seconds
2005-01-12 22:00:02.139 Finished recording Distant Shores on channel: 3
2005-01-12 22:00:02.211 scheduler: Finished recording
2005-01-12 22:00:02.255 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2005-01-12 22:00:02.261 Closing DVB recorder
2005-01-12 22:00:02.262 DVB#0 Expiring DVB quality data older than 14 day(s)
2005-01-12 22:00:02.410 Started recording "Desperate Housewives" on
channel: 4 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2005-01-12 22:00:02.415 DVB#0 Trying to tune to channel 4.


A normal 'single' recording would look like:
2005-01-11 22:00:00.002 switching to overrecord for 240 more seconds
2005-01-11 22:02:56.974 DVB#0 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity
Error. PID = 600
2005-01-11 22:02:56.975 DVB#0 PID 600 contcounter 4 cc 5
2005-01-11 22:04:00.013 Finished recording Child of Our Time on channel: 1
2005-01-11 22:04:00.093 scheduler: Finished recording
2005-01-11 22:04:00.164 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2005-01-11 22:04:00.177 Closing DVB recorder

Any ideas? Is there some obvious setting somewhere I'm missing to change this?

-- 
Neil Milne


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