[mythtv-users] scheduler settling with conflicts where they are resolvable

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Fri Sep 9 20:57:57 UTC 2011


On 11-09-09 03:23 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> Sounds like what Kevin was talking about--where mythfilldatabase runs, 
> and listings change, which moves around recordings and such so that 
> things are placed differently.

But that doesn't answer to the issue of settling with a schedule which
conflicts when there are also idle tuners.

> What tuners are what?

19-23 are a single digital tuner with multirec.  24 and 25 are two
PVR-x50 tuners.

> In the "not working" --printsched you posted, I 
> see the cards 19, 22, 23, 24, 25 in use for various recordings.

On Sept. 22, at 21:00 there are no recordings "in progress" (i.e. all
recordings prior to 21:00 end prior to 21:00) so all tuners are available.

> Cards 
> 24 and 25 have channels like 32, 40, 44, etc.;

Yes, those are the analog PVR-x50 tuners.

> whereas, 19, 22,  and 23 
> have ones like 109-63 and 84-77 and 66-112.

Right.  The digital multirecs of a single tuner.

> Therefore, I assumed that 
> 24 and 25 are analog cards.

Correct assumption.

> I'm also assuming that 19 and 22 are 2 
> physically different tuners

No, virtual/multirec tuners on the same physical digital tuner.

> --because when it's recording The Office on 
> 19 and Grey's Anatomy on 22 (both on 109-xx channels),

Right.  Which it can do on a single digital tuner.

> it can't record 
> Person of Interest or Whitney (which both air on 84-xx channels).

Right.  Person of Interest was a conflict and Whitney was being recorded
earlier.  That Person of Interest conflict is a good example of
something that could and should have been scheduled on one of the analog
tuners.

> If that's correct, I'm also assuming that since you have a card 19 and 
> cards 22, 23, and 24--with no 20 or 21--

There is indeed a 20 and 21 on the digital tuner.  At least that's what
mythweb's status page tells me.

> and that 19 and 22 were assumed 
> to be different physical tuners, that 23 and 24 are both virtual tuners 
> on the same physical card as 22.

No, not at all.  See above.

> So, once it assigned The Office to card 19 and Grey's Anatomy to 22 
> (first 2 shows in priority order), and Grey's Anatomy had locked the 
> physical tuner on 22 to a mux, it had painted itself into a corner.

But there's no corner.  Analog tuners 24 and 25 were still available to
be schedule on.

> If 19 is multirec capable, you really need to check the multirec 
> configuration--as it seems to be broken.

What should I check specifically, given that the scheduler and recorder
can schedule and record from the multirec card the other 95% of the time.

> Basically, my recommendation is the capture card portion of 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 (and 
> then being very careful to re-configure things the way you want/the way 
> that maximizes the use of multirec).

That's what I followed when I reconfigured my tuners just recently.

b.

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