[mythtv-users] pre/post roll not working even though multiple free tuners and multi-rec even with just two back to back

[David Engel]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 10:10:58AM -0800, Mitch Capper wrote:
> Running into a problem that even though there are an abundance of tuners w/
> multi rec for the same source at the same priority have pre/post roll
> settings ignored if there back to back recordings.
> 
> Running v30-Pre-439-gb3fe5d4257-dirty looked through the more recent
> commits but it doesn't seem there has been anything related to scheduling
> of this in the last month.
> 
> I have a hdhomerun quad with each input set as having 2 extra virtual
> tuners for multi-rec resulting in 12 tuners.  Looking at the capture card
> table they all have equal recpriority(1),quicktune(2),livetvorder(1), and
> reclimit(3),  The primary for each of the four has a schedule order of 2,
> the virtuals are 0  and all attached to the same video source.   I have a

Do you have Schedule as Group enabled?  It looks like you do.  In that
case, programs will always look like they are going to record on the
first virtual input.  They won't be assigned to a specific, virtual
input until right before they start recording.

David

> RecordPreRoll at 30 seconds and RecordOverTime at 161.   It only records
> are 4 primary channels, and even when there are just two back to back
> recordings it can ignore the pre/post rolls.
> 
> I was under the impression with multi-rec it was meant to specifically
> handle situations like this (much less the fact there excess tuners
> available).
> 
> I updated the displayname to rename each virtual tuner to a diff display
> name to try and verify it isn't using them.
> 
> I started mythbackend with -v schedule then scheduled something to record
> right after something else on the same channel.  It picked the same tuner
> to use even though none of the other 11 were in use.   The log does not
> really show much about tuner selection.
> 
> If anyone has more direction great, otherwise I can start digging into the
> code.
> 
> ~mitch

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David Engel
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