[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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