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

[Yeechang Lee]

Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> says:
> LiveTV isn't implicitly bad, there are many channels where recordings
> make no sense other than watching it live: sport and news channel
> being the 2 most obvious categories.

As Mike Dean advises, record them too. Otherwise, one is missing out
on the ability to skip commercials (or skip to commercials, when
dealing with the Super Bowl).

I have a rule that records _The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer_ every
day. It only keeps the newest recording, priority is set to -1 so it
won't interfere with other rules, and the scheduler will pick
whichever airing (3pm or 6pm) least interferes with other rules,
anyway.

> The concept of "best recorder" is also a bit flawed I believe in
> what I believe is the most common mythtv setup: people with a dual
> tuner card, all tuners have the same priority ...

I think Mike misinterpreted your above statement. I agree that it
would be nice to be able to tell the scheduler that multiple tuners
are identical in recording quality and thus completely fungible (such
as in my case, where all programs--whether cable or over-the-air--are
written directly to disk in pure MPEG-2 streams directly from the
providers).

> The "record later" is also a very US thing I believe.

Commskip is also a (mostly) US-only thing, but that doesn't make us
Americans any less grateful for its existence.

US broadcast-network programs are rarely rerun within any given
two-weeks period that ScheduleDirect's feed covers. Cable is
different; any given movie or first-run cable TV series will be aired
many times during that same period.

-- 
Frontend/backend:	P4 3.0GHz, 1.5TB software RAID 5 array
Backend:		Quad-core Xeon 1.6GHz, 6.6TB sw RAID 6
Video inputs:		Four high-definition over FireWire/OTA
Accessories:		47" 1080p LCD, 5.1 digital, and MX-600