[mythtv-users] is mythtv smart enough to do this(overlap/back-to-back) with recordings?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 29 15:21:28 UTC 2006


On 07/29/06 03:56, Steve Hodge wrote:

>On 7/29/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>So, once someone installs a second capture card, we're not talking about
>>a single tuner writing all of both recordings, anymore.  If the system
>>includes one hardware encoder and one software encoder or one encoder
>>(hardware or software) and one digital tuner (or, worse, one of all
>>three), how can data from two different types of encoders get written to
>>the same file?
>>    
>>
>Who is suggesting it should be? If two adjacent programs are being
>recorded on two different tuners then everything's fine. What's your
>point exactly?
>

Your example: 2 programs, 1 channel, 2 timeslots, 1 capture card.

My example: 3 programs, 2 channels, 2 timeslots, 2 capture cards (extend 
as desired).  
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/215475#215475

You're only considering the simplest case.  What about all the other cases?

Mike


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