<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:42 PM, jonny Linux <<a href="mailto:jonnylinux@gmail.com">jonnylinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br><br>I have two DVB-T cards, and I'm using multirec. I have the "Time to record before start" and "...after end" set to 120 and 300 seconds respectively.<br>
<br>Is there any way to make MythTV automatically switch virtual tuners? I have 5 tuners on each card, but if I have two back-to-back recordings on the same channel, they will both be scheduled to be recorded on Tuner 1, and I will still get the risk of missing the end of the first program or the start of the second program.<br>
<br>If I manually set the first program to stop recording 5 minutes late, and the second program to start recording 2 minutes early, the first will be recorded on Tuner 1 and the second on Tuner 2 (same card, same channel being recorded using multirec). Is there any way of making the tuners alternate automatically?<br>
<br>The only way I can think of doing this is to make the "Time to record before start" a hard constraint rather than a soft constraint. I thought I read something about this either on this list or in the SVN tickets. Can anybody tell me if there's a way of doing what I'm describing?</blockquote>
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<div>If you set the before/after time on the recording rules themselves rather than the global option, you will get the bump/conflict you are expecting. The recording rules are "hard" padding in that they will bump other programs while the global padding is "soft" and it can be dropped.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>