On 2/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerry</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hpcjerry.com">mythtv@hpcjerry.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've got 6 tuners.<br>I've set RecordOverTime and RecordPreRoll to 120 seconds each.<br><br>But, when I've got two shows that are back to back, the scheduler likes<br>to use the same tuner for both of them - even when I've got 5 other idle
<br>tuners. Thus my RecordOverTime / RecordPreRoll settings are ignored. I<br>do not want to explicitly force the extra 2 minutes before and after<br>each show because sometimes I have enough shows scheduled where that<br>
would cause me to run out of tuners.</blockquote><div><br>According to at least some of the devs you are not supposed to use Pre/Post Roll this way. IIRC it's intended for hardware that takes a few seconds to initialize. So the scheduler ignores those settings for back to back recordings on the same tuner (no re-initialisation required).
<br><br>You could look into using the "soft-padding" patch that's been developed because Australian broadcasters are so lousy at sticking to their own schedules. That patch allows the scheduler to ignore the Start Early/End Late in the case of conflicts that can't be resolved by shifting recordings to different tuners.
<br></div></div><br>I'd like to see Myth have the ability to record to two files so a single tuner could handle consecutive shows and still maintain the Start Early/End Late settings for each recording.<br><br>Cheers,
<br>Steve<br><br>