<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/12/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> If I schedule back-to-back recordings on different channels it assigns<br>> different physical tuners for each - no problem there as that's what I<br>
> want. For back-to-back recordings on the same channel it assigns the<br>> same virtual (and hence physical) tuner. Again I don't see a problem<br>> with that I just expected the same stream to be written to both<br>
> recording files during the overlap period but this is not happening.<br><br>I think it's because you're using soft-padding on your recordings. If<br>you use hard padding, it should cause a conflict and assign the second<br>
recording to another virtual tuner on the same physical tuner and<br>you'll get the overlap in both recordings</blockquote>
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<div>Soft-padding using the same virtual tuner for the overlap would be better since on some of my DVB channels I need a CAM and only one virtual tuner at a time can use the CAM even if they are on the same multiplex. Last night I recorded (for my wife!) Grand Designs and Grand Designs (Trade Secrets) which were back to back on the same channel. They are on a channel (More 4) that requires a CAM so they needed to be on the same virtual tuner. Grand Designs ran a minute over - and since it was a back-to-back it got cut off. Wasn't a big problem since the end was at the beginning of the next recording, but my wife likes to save Grand Designs! Hard padding would have tried to use another virtual tuner and not recorded the following programme since it also needs the CAM.</div>
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<div>Hope doesn't write patches, and unfortunately neither can I. I guess Hope and I have a lot in common.</div></div>