[mythtv-users] Took the plunge into DVB-S2, now having problems with HD and SD copies of programmes both being recorded.

[Nick Morrott]

On 7 June 2015 at 18:07, Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've taken the plunge and swapped my DVB-T tuners for DVB-S/S2, and in
> general everything has gone well.
>
> However, I notice in my "Upcoming Recordings" it shows my wife's soaps being
> recorded twice and the same time, on SD and HD. I found some comments about
> changing the channel priorities, and I did this, prioritizing the HD
> channel, but this made no difference. I then found the option "HDTV Recordig
> Priority", so I set this also, this does have a affect, but it just causes
> the SD copy to be scheduled on the +1 SD channel after the HD one has
> recorded, it doesnt stop it from recording on SD which is what I want.
>
> I'm aware I could simply delete the SD channel, but that would mean when the
> tuners/multiplexers are "full", I lose the ability to share a multiplex with
> another channel if the SD channel is available and the HD isn't, so I'd
> rather avoid that.
>
> Does anyone have a useful suggestion?

If your programme listings provide useful data for duplicate detection
to work properly, you should only ever get one showing of each episode
with an 'Any channel' rule and approrpriate duplicate detection
settings.

In my experience the behaviour you are seeing suggests your listings
data is not providing detailed enough data for the programme in
question (episode numbering/subtitle/description) or detection it
isn't enabled (or using the best combo of subtitle and description) in
the rule to identify duplicates.

What listings are you using? Can you check to see if the listings data
for an episode of the programme in question provides an episode number
and useful description? You might find using the 'Subtitle then
description' dupe detection works well if the listings provide
accurate and unique descriptions of each episode.

Cheers,
Nick

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