[mythtv-users] locked into a multirec during LiveTV when a recording starts

[Matt S.]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Dave Richardson <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
> I have enabled multirec on my HDHRs.  Because I have scheduled more
> recordings, I find that I am having more conflicts between watching LiveTV
> and getting pinched into the multi-rec group when I attempt to change
> channels in LiveTV.
>
> Remedy is either to exit back to menu until the new recording begins so that
> I am assigned another tuner when I return to LiveTV, or I must change inputs
> (same thing).
>
> My guess is that there's a smart thing to do involving setup of recording
> groups or some other group so that I don't keep colliding with the
> multiplexes used under multirec.  Is it something like "assign the last two
> tuners from a dual HDHR to recording group 'HDOTA' and be sure to use that
> group when defining the recording schedules"?????
>


It's a known "issue" (I guess short of a bug?) - but something that
has a fairly low priority to be addressed by the devs.  Basically, my
suggestion to you is to simply not use virtual tuners and therefore
you don't get stuck into a multiplex - which is what I've done.  I
know that advice isn't great, as you lose the benefits of multi-rec
when it comes to recordings, but I have enough physical tuners it's
generally not an issue for me.  It's a frustrating user experience in
it's current incarnation, but Live TV has been a second class citizen
in the MythTV world for a long time and the benefits of multi-rec are
definitely cool when it comes to scheduling - so it's been this way
for a few years now, and I wouldn't expect this to be resolved any
time soon.  I'm sure some day both multirec and Live TV will live
peacefully together.  :)

See:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/458151#458151
and
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7164
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4989

Thanks!
Matt