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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 20:37:34 UTC 2006


On 4/10/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 16:00, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> > Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> says:
> > > Ok, I'm clearly not understanding some of your definitions for
> > > things(even after reading the soft buffer thread it seems).
> >
> > Believe me, Steve, you're not the only one. I mentally tuned out the
> > last one (the one referenced this time around) because people kept
> > arguing about "pre-roll" and "post-roll," phrases which as far as I
> > can tell are *nowhere mentioned in the mythfrontend settings*. I'm
> > paying a little more attention now, but I'll bet you and I aren't the
> > only ones confused (and, as I think Marco noted, it doesn't help that
> > the in-application settings description for what I *think* are
> > "pre-roll" and "post-roll" are, as we've [I believe] learned,
> > *completely misleading*).
>
> 'Time to record before start of show (in seconds)':
> This global setting allows the recorder to start before the scheduled start
> time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is ignored when two shows have
> been scheduled without enough time in between.
>
> 'Time to record past end of show (in seconds)':
> This global setting allows the recorder to record beyond the scheduled end
> time. It does not affect the scheduler. It is ignored when two shows have
> been scheduled without enough time in between.
>
> are both completely accurate descriptions of what the settings do.  'It does
> not affect the scheduler' says it all.  After the scheduler is done, those
> values are added on to the start and end times, if possible.

then why did it not use my third tuner to obtain the 30 seconds time
to record before start of show?

--
Steve


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