[mythtv-users] Getting the most use out of all tuners

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 10:43:02 UTC 2007


On 2/18/07, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to at least some of the devs you are not supposed to use Pre/Post
> Roll this way. IIRC it's intended for hardware that takes a few seconds to
> initialize. So the scheduler ignores those settings for back to back
> recordings on the same tuner (no re-initialisation required).
>
> You could look into using the "soft-padding" patch that's been developed
> because Australian broadcasters are so lousy at sticking to their own
> schedules. That patch allows the scheduler to ignore the Start Early/End
> Late in the case of conflicts that can't be resolved by shifting recordings
> to different tuners.
>
> I'd like to see Myth have the ability to record to two files so a single
> tuner could handle consecutive shows and still maintain the Start Early/End
> Late settings for each recording.
>

Thanks Steve.  I am an Aussie too, hence the problems I have.  I too
would love to see a mod with the ability to record two consecutive
shows with one tuner.  I have a feeling it is up to us Aussies to
develop it since we are most affected by the issues.

Cheers,
Whytey


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