[mythtv-users] scheduling not using all three tuners?
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Wed Apr 12 17:14:36 UTC 2006
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:50:29 +1000
> From: schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au (Peter Schachte)
> No, what I mean is that there's no reason that the signal coming in
> from a tuner can't be recorded into *two* files at once. This should
> allow you to happily record two programs in a row on the same tuner
> and still respect the end late setting for the first program and the
> start early setting for the second, as long as both programs are on
> the same channel. So this is another improvement, also independent of
> the others:
> > 4) Allow myth to record program data into two (or more) files at
> > once. When the start early time of one program arrives while
> > another is already recording on the same channel and tuner,
> > open the recording file for the second and start writing every
> > byte from the tuner into both files. When the end late time
> > of the first program arrives, close the first file and
> > continue writing only to the second file. Then modify the
> > scheduler to know that multiple programs at the same time on
> > the same channel and tuner are not in conflict.
> I believe there's already a TRAC number for exactly this idea.
I suspect it'd be closed as "feature request without a patch", but
if you have a pointer into Trac... (I can't find such an entry.)
However, this was one of the first things I added to the Wishlist on
the wiki when the new wiki got created around the time of .19's release.
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