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

[Justin Smith]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:16:05, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> With, "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows," Myth 
> /always/ chooses the least-preferred input that's available when you 
> start LiveTV. So, if at the point that you enter LiveTV no other inputs 
> are in use (by either other users' LiveTV sessions or scheduled 
> recordings), you will get the least-preferred input. If you have 5 
> inputs connected, that means you won't get "kicked" from LiveTV until 
> the 5th concurrent scheduled recording begins.
> 
> Without, "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows," Myth 
> will attempt to choose the most-preferred (assumed to be the 
> highest-quality) available input that's local to the frontend in use for 
> LiveTV. If there are no available inputs locally, it will choose to use 
> the most-preferred input available on some other system's backend. In 
> the simplest configurations, this means that /both/ LiveTV /and/ 
> recordings try to use the best input, so /every/ recording that starts 
> when you're watching LiveTV would get you kicked from LiveTV.
> 
>> 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 ...

Yes indeed. At least here in Australia where all the Myth people I know just
record FTA digital channels, all tuner cards are essentially equal as far.

I've never understood why MythTV schedules the input card along with the
show to be recorded. Why not just schedule the recording ahead of time, and
then pick the best available input "live", i.e. when the recording is about
to start?

If no input is available to record How We Built Apollo 11 because the better
half just tuned into Biggest Loser live, then perhaps a pop-up can give the
user the option of which to persevere with.

It should still be possible to predict scheduling clashes, based on the
assumption that no-one is watching live TV.

[Sorry for getting in rather late on this thread, but this issue is rather a
pet-hate for me about otherwise-fantastic MythTV]


Cheers,
Justin.