[mythtv-users] Number of virtual tuners

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/28/2012 11:10 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 12-04-28 10:37 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Max of 5 was chosen as "the biggest that makes sense for nearly all
>> users".  The max prevents users who think, "more must be better," from
>> breaking their systems due to ignorance.
> Indeed.  The other way I see this frequently handled is to display an
> explanation of the danger of going beyond a value and asking for a
> confirmation.  Is that not reasonable here?
>
>> Those who want higher are
>> welcome to change the code--and fix any problems that occur as a result.
> But what problems?  Somebody said earlier that it was merely a
> diminishing returns problem due to a non-linear complexity growth in
> scheduling with that many virtual tuners.  To me, that simply means that
> the scheduler takes longer to get it's result or requires more resources
> to do it in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> What other "problems" are you referring to?  Is there additional
> constraints (beyond simply scheduling complexity) that nobody has talked
> about yet?

Untested/unsupported configurations mean you're on your own.  If I could 
tell you what problems, I'd just fix them.

Mike