<div>HI Ian,</div><div><br></div>On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Ian Oliver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@foxhill.co.uk">lists@foxhill.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
In article <<a href="mailto:71798b431002231447s37173807laa3b8cf7724ed773@mail.gmail.com">71798b431002231447s37173807laa3b8cf7724ed773@mail.gmail.com</a>>,<br>
<div class="im">Andrew Herron wrote:<br>
> I totally agree with your perspective on this issue.<br>
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</div>Thanks, that's good to know! But can I repeat that I'm not the one who needs<br>
to be happy: the target audience is my wife and daughter. They want to turn on<br>
the TV, select a channel, and it just to happen. They (grudgingly) accept that<br>
there are at times good reasons why things aren't possible, but I sold mythtv<br>
to them as a "just add tuners until it works" solution.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Our target audience is your wife & daughter too...or to be precise their equivalents in other families ;-)</div><div>
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<div class="im"><br>
> We are working on a patch to MythTV 0.21 that does exactly what you are<br>
> describing for LiveTV & for scheduler recordings too - ie MythTV<br>
> automagically manages multirec tuners so that it always makes sure that if a<br>
> multirec tuner is already tuned to a channel from a given MUX that<br>
> subsequent requests from either LiveTV viewing or the scheduler for other<br>
> channels on that MUX are allocated to a Multirec tuner derived from that<br>
> same physical tuner...if no physical tuner is delivering channels from the<br>
> MUX required then a new Multirec tuner will be allocated on an unused<br>
> physical tuner.<br>
<br>
</div>That sounds perfect.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> This means that there is never a situation where you can<br>
> have two physical tuners tuned to the same MUX.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm guessing that one exception to this is when recordings+live exceed the<br>
number of virtual tuners on that mux?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No in fact we see no point in allocating another physical tuner to an already tuned MUX. We're testing how multirec tuners scale beyond 10 instances (see Mikes earlier comments about possible performance bottlenecks in multirec) - so far we're getting very positive performance stats on this though.</div>
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<div class="im"><br>
> All of this is automatically<br>
> handled for the user and no manual tuner selection is required. Alongside<br>
> the above we have removed the limitation of only 5 multirec tuners per<br>
> physical tuner.<br>
<br>
</div>It's now sounding even better! I've currently set 4 virtual tuners per DVB-T<br>
USB stick, but this is really because I just don't understand the<br>
software/system limitations yet.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> We have the LiveTV part of the above working well now and are just starting<br>
> working on integrating and testing the recordings scheduler so that it uses<br>
> the same logic now.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm hoping that recordings are prioritised over Live TV and will boot it off<br>
the tuner if required?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The existing setup options will allow you to customise this to your preference.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> As soon as we have the scheduler working we will release<br>
> a patch for MythTV 0.21 and then we hope to test and then commit a 0.22<br>
> version subsequently.<br>
<br>
</div>Excellent, many thanks. Mythtv is close to perfect as a PVR and getting Live<br>
TV to the same level will be the icing on the cake. I'm looking forwards to<br>
retiring all the gubbins in our stair cupboard, and my a/v and remote<br>
distribution systems, and having mythtv as the "one true solution"<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Ian<br><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Head of Software & Technology<br>Convergent Home Technologies Ltd<br><a href="http://www.dianemo.co.uk">www.dianemo.co.uk</a><br><a href="http://www.cascade-media.co.uk">www.cascade-media.co.uk</a><br>
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