[mythtv-users] Scheduling with 2 tuner cards.

[Michael T. Dean]

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

>    >>I found a kludgey way around it by forcing my recording to run 15 minutes over which rescheduled the
>    >>second show onto the other card.
>
>    This "kludgey" way is the way you're supposed to do this.  If you need 
>    to over-record for a rule, set the over-record on /that/ rule and the 
>    scheduler will honor it.  If you need it on all rules, set it on all rules.
>
>Is there a fast way to do this?
>  
>
Not using the GUI.  You could quickly do it using the database (but be 
careful and make a backup and all the other required disclaimers).

>    >> Maybe this and part 1 above could be added to the scheduling
>    >>algorithm in the next version.
>
>    Search the archives.  This has been discussed to death.  Some devs 
>    (Chris Pinkham/Bruce Markey?) even went to the trouble of writing code 
>    to allow "hard" pre-/post-roll values, but the limited feedback they 
>    received combined with the extra problems it created seemed to be enough 
>    to cause them to table the issue.
>
>Can you provide a more-specific pointer?  I'm having a hard time
>finding this particular discussion in the archives; presumably I'm
>not using whatever terminology was being used.
>  
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/152491#152491

Please read *all* the posts in the thread to make sure you understand 
what's happening.

Oh, and apologies to David Engel for my mis-assigning credit in my 
previous post.

>    It seems we're more likely to get a "default recording settings" that 
>    would provide a "template" to use when creating a new rule (i.e. allows 
>    you to set the default to include start early/end late values other than 0).
>
>That would certainly be nice.  In particular, I'd like to say, by
>default, "pad -every- recording by 2 minutes with a pre- and
>post-roll."  I don't see any way of doing this; it seems that
>I have to specify it for every program I pluck out of the program
>guide, or for every recording rule I make.  It'd be nice if it
>could inherit some default values.  (If there's some easy way
>to do this, then I've missed it; can anyone enlighten me?)
>  
>
Right.  As I said, "we're more likely to get" (implying future tense) 
and "would provide" (subjunctive tense, indicating it is not fact, but 
possible).  My *guess* is that when/if we get this it will be from David 
Engel (creater of the playback groups) or some user who decides to help 
David out. :)

Mike