[mythtv-users] Tuner Error

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:23:47 -0500, you wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:08 AM, E James <e_james at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>> I recently realised that 8 tuners was sometimes not quite enough, so I
>> attempted to increase the virtual tuners to 5 per physical tuner.
>
>Wow.  You seriously have cases where you need to record 5 different
>recordings on the same frequency?
>
>That's definitely a non-typical recording pattern.
>
>Eric

Not really.  Remember that there are often overlaps between
recordings, so recording two programs back to back can require an
extra virtual tuner during the overlap periods.  Hence recording two
programs and also the two following programs can require four virtual
tuners during the overlap period.