[mythtv-users] scheduling not using all three tuners?

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Mon Apr 10 15:42:58 UTC 2006


>Steven Adeff wrote:
>> I want a "pre-roll" when possible. some shows I do have set to start
>> recording 1min early, for ones that I MUST have this pre-roll. Others
>> I want to be done, "when the possibility exists".
>>
>> So is there a way to do ^that^?
>>   
>Set a per-recording pre-roll for those recordings that require it.  This 
>is a *hard* pre-roll and will bump other programs as needed to record it.
>
>Then set a global pre-roll.  This is a *soft* pre-roll and will be 
>recorded whenever possible.

Well, no. Myth doesn't really do it "whenever possible", because of the
way its scheduler works. That's what this whole thread was about. I got
an off-list email from someone who submitted a patch for it, which is
scheduled to go into the .20 release.





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