[mythtv-users] Encoder 2 and 4 never seem to be used

[Simon Hobson]

Brian Phillips wrote:

>I belive I may have fixed it.  I like to start recording 2 minutes early on
>all my shows because some networks start the show earlier than they say they
>will.  I had hacked it by putting the hard 2 minutes at the beginning of all
>my recording schedules (about 5 of them).  While I was messing in
>mythtv-setup, I decided to enable the option and "do it the right way" by
>adding the global buffer there and removing the 2 minutes from each of the
>recording schedules.

I hard pad all my recordings, and I still get multiple recordings 
from 1 mux on one tuner. I assume you set the soft-pad option so when 
the system is doing back-back recordings it's not padding at all.

You still have something wrong. You can hard pad and still use multirec.

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