[mythtv-users] Back to back recording issues, and musical sound cards.

[Jim Beckett]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 03:06 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>   
>> Someone will probably chime in here who has a better memory than I do
>> but basically the first show probably wants to record and extra 5
>> minutes and the second one wants to start 1 min early so they
>> conflict.  I think there is a setting to tell myth to go ahead and
>> ignore these guard bands for back to back same channel recordings.
>>  Not sure you said same channel.  Anyway, I can't remember.  As
>> an alternative, you can set the guard bands to zero. I believe there
>> are two guard bands so don't let one being 0 confuse you.  There is a
>> standard default one and an override one.  But, I could be completely
>> wrong...
>>     
>
> I think the setting you're thinking of is:
>
> Avoid back to back recordings from different channels
> If set, the scheduler will avoid assigning shows from different channels
> to the same card if their end time and start time match. This will be
> allowed when necessary in order to resolve conflicts.
>
> There's no setting to tell Myth to ignore the start early and end late
> specified in a recording rule--as that's something the rule tells the
> scheduler is mandatory.  The only thing you can do when that causes a
> conflict is to create a recording override.
>
> Mike
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Allen, Michael,

Thanks for the clarification there. I don't think that I have "Avoid 
back to back recordings from different channels" set (I can't seem to 
locate it). Just to clarify, the back-to-back recording instances that 
failed were both for the same channel, and I did not have any program 
start/end time overrides set for either show.

I can't seem to reproduce the issue at the moment, I think that I'll 
just have to wait, and see if it fails again.

If I do run into this issue again, what settings for the various logs 
would be most useful?

I was thinking mythbackend --setverbose 
general,record,channel,schedule,xmltv  might be good. Would there be a 
better way to diagnose the problem if it does come up again?

Thanks for your insight.




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