[mythtv-users] LiveTV question
Jon
jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 05:41:04 UTC 2008
> Sorry. Myth won't allow this. Myth, a Digital Video /Recorder/
> considers recordings to be more important than LiveTV, so it will use
> any available capture card when time comes to record a show /you asked
> it to record/.
Yep. This is EXACTLY what I want it to do... just wondered if there
was some flag somewhere to set a card to be livetv only, for my
girlfriend's sake mostly.
> So, Dan's approach is the closest thing to what you want. Or, you can
> teach your family members when they get a "all tuners busy" popup when
> trying to enter LiveTV how to go into Watch Recordings and delete (and
> allow re-record) one of the currently recording shows (which, I'm sure
> they think are far less important than whatever garba^H^H^H^H^His on
> other channels--the channels that are showing shows that your
> recording
> rules say are lower priority than any of the shows that Myth was
> trying
> to record).
Yeap.
> However, as with a significant number of issues users have, the
> problem
> you're trying to solve (not having an available capture card) can be
> solved by simply getting an appropriate number of capture cards.
I've got 2 HD cards. I should get a couple more, but would need to
set up a reasonable array first.
Thanks.
~Jon
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