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

f-myth-users at media.mit.edu f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
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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