[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Indulis Bernsteins]

>> We still need to fix it so users never, ever, see IDs. 

> No! Please don't do this! Not all my tuners are equivalent, or on the 
same source, but some channels are available on several tuners. 
> When a recording goes bad it is absolutely necessary that I be able to 
associate the recording to the appropriate tuner/input to be able to debug 
the problem.

I also vote for being able to easily see the info about which tuner was 
used for a recording, and which physical adapter/USB thingy the tuner is 
associated with.  I've  had to struggle getting a Pinnacle USB stick 
working, when only one tuner seems to work (more tests running 2 this 
weekend). Info about which tuner+adapter was used would have made my life 
a lot easier.

And the jiggery-pokery in/out of mythtv-setup to get tuner devices in the 
right order says to me that the tuner scheduling and interaction between 
LiveTV and Recordings has not been updated to fully take account of 
virtual tuners.  Most non-sysadmin types just want to put tuners in, set a 
number of virtual tuners, and be done with it.  The LiveTV and Recordings 
tuner allocation need to allocate in order as per the "manual setup" 
process themselves, without the need for forcing device ordering.  The 
manual tuner add process is an OK workaround but is definitely confusing 
for most people (who would justifiably ask why the computer can't just do 
it itself).

The virtual tuner stuff is new, so of course it is going to take a while 
for Mythtv internal logic to catch up with it. 

By the way, what is there is already fantastic, and unmatched in any 
commercial PVR- AFAIK there is no commercial PVR that can record 8 
programs using 2 tuners!

So thanks Mythtv devs for what you've done already, and can you please put 
the allocation order changes into a roadmap?
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