[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[Michael T. Dean]

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On 07/01/2009 04:38 PM, Philip Nourse wrote:
> From: Michael T. Dean
>> On 07/01/2009 04:07 PM, stuart wrote:
>>> What does your myth setup say when about to make a recording?  I have 
>>> 2 tuners on a SBE box.  While watching Live TV, the front end 
>>> announced it was going to start recording and gave 3 options: (I think 
>>> they were) 1) Forget the recording, I want to watch Live TV, 2) Record 
>>> the scheduled show later, I want to watch Live TV -and- 3) I will 
>>> watch the scheduled show while it is being recorded.
>>>
>>> Well, the obvious question is: "Why doesn't myth TV box use the other 
>>> tuner to record the schedule show?" And, yes, I did check - the other 
>>> tuner is doing *nothing* right now while the 1 show and only the 1 
>>> show is being recorded.
>> Because Myth is meant to record TV, and LiveTV is for people who haven't 
>> figured out how to use a DVR.  :)
>>
>> If you want to ensure that Myth always chooses the 
>> least-likely-to-be-used-for-recordings capture card for LiveTV, enable 
>> the setting:
>>
>> Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows
>> f enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to have 
>> scheduled recordings rather than the best card available.
>>
>>
>> in frontend settings under TV Settings|General, IIRC.
> If MythTV was just a DVR, I wouldn't use it.  In my opinion, MythTV is
> intended to be a Media Center PC, amalgamating several different inputs and
> TV watching options into one convenient unit.  Most of us have at least one
> channel surfer in the family, and they are OK too.
>
> As for the recording issue:  MythTV records based on a priority system.  If
> you are watching Live TV on one tuner, and MyhtTV determines that tuner has
> the highest priority for recording the show, that is the one it will use.
> The priority system is based on how you set up the scheduling for the
> recording, and what priority you have given to the tuner. As far as I know,
> if you tell it to record later, and the other tuner you are talking about
> has an equal, or higher priority to any of the later recording options, it
> will record on the other tuner in the original time.  So "Record the
> scheduled show later" really means "don't record the scheduled show now on
> this tuner". You will want to try this out though to be sure as since I am a
> more of a DVR user rather than a channel surfer, I have never experimented
> with this scenario.  I have a total of 5 simultaneous tuners, and I have not
> seen this message in about a year.

It doesn't work the way you said.  It works the way I said.  You've 
likely enabled the setting I mentioned.

Mike