[mythtv-users] Multirec Feature

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Greg Ahpee wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>> On 12/02/2008 00:14, Greg Ahpee wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes - I recreated the tuners and now have 4 'tuners' on each dvb-t  
>>> card.
>>>
>>
>> when you schedule back-to-back recordings does it use different  
>> physical
>> tuners for each (rather than just separate virtual tuners of the same
>> physical tuuner)?
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>
>>
>>
> If I schedule back-to-back recordings on different channels it assigns
> different physical tuners for each - no problem there as that's what I
> want. For back-to-back recordings on the same channel it assigns the
> same virtual (and hence physical) tuner. Again I don't see a problem
> with that I just expected the same stream to be written to both
> recording files during the overlap period but this is not happening.

I think it's because you're using soft-padding on your recordings. If  
you use hard padding, it should cause a conflict and assign the second  
recording to another virtual tuner on the same physical tuner and  
you'll get the overlap in both recordings.