[mythtv-users] Live TV channel restrictions

[Ian Oliver]

In article <4B7CAF18.20004 at thirdcontact.com>, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Also, if you're using multirec, see 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/369358#369358 (read the 
> whole thing, and note that the last solution specified--the one that was 
> untried at the time--is the best, but if you don't read the whole 
> message, you won't have all the info you need to make it work).

I did read this after posting, but found it discouragingly complex and it also 
only looked like a partial solution. However, I guess I need to give it a try. 
The bit about "basically tells Myth LiveTV is more important to you than 
recordings" concerns me: Live TV isn't more important to us than recordings. 
But with four tuners, each with four virtual tuners, the Live TV should nearly 
always be able to fine a tuner on the right mux (or free to be tuned to it) 
and a spare virtual tuner. If it can't then I'm happy to not get Live TV on 
that channel, but in practice, it should never happen.

> Also, note that what MythTV is doing is by design.  There are valid 
> reasons for it to behave the way it does rather than using a separate tuner.

Even though it means that we can't easily watch what we want on Live TV even 
when there are spare tuners and virtual tuners?

Anyway, thanks all for the replies, I'll try the various work-arounds and 
explore their limitations.

Regards

Ian