<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Douglas Peale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Douglas_Peale@comcast.net">Douglas_Peale@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 06/22/2010 01:30 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Douglas Peale<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <<a href="mailto:Douglas_Peale@comcast.net">Douglas_Peale@comcast.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Douglas_Peale@comcast.net">Douglas_Peale@comcast.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 06/22/2010 01:17 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
> > On 06/22/2010 04:11 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:<br>
> >> On 06/22/2010 12:52 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:<br>
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> >>> I've set a rule to record the World Cup games with priority at<br>
> 99, yet<br>
> >>> there are things Myth is scheduling to record instead with much lower<br>
> >>> priority. Yes, the games are being replayed and Myth scheduled the<br>
> >>> replayed games, but how do I tell myth to record these games first,<br>
> >>> even if something else won't record?<br>
> >>><br>
> >> I've seen other things that make believe the priority scheme is<br>
> >> broken. I've given all of my SD stations for which I have HD<br>
> >> equivalents a priority of -10. And yet I see the SD stations scheduled<br>
> >> for recording when the same show is available in HD on 3<br>
> >> tuners with no conflicts.<br>
> >> I finally went and disabled all SD channels for which I had HD<br>
> >> equivalents.<br>
> >><br>
> >> At the moment, MythTV is scheduled to record two copies of the same<br>
> >> show on the same channel at the same time on different<br>
> >> tuners (one on cable, one OTA). The channel numbers are the same and<br>
> >> the channel names are the same.<br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
> > All I'm willing to say at this point (because I don't have time for the<br>
> > usual argument with 100 users) is that priority is not /when/ to record<br>
> > nor /where/ to record. Priority is simply /what/ to record. MythTV is<br>
> > recording what you want (within the constraints you've applied***), so,<br>
> > there's nothing broken.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Mike<br>
> ><br>
> > ***One very important constraint being:<br>
> > Reschedule higher priorities<br>
> > Move higher priority programs to other cards and showings when<br>
> resolving<br>
> > conflicts. This can be used to record lower priority programs that<br>
> would<br>
> > otherwise not be recorded, but risks missing a higher priority program<br>
> > if the schedule changes.<br>
> ><br>
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> Channel priority determines what to record, not what channel to<br>
> choose? That does not make much sense.<br>
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> Except that there are not "priority classes" in Myth (AFAIK), just a<br>
> single priority value. Adding to this value via channel or recording<br>
> rule just increase the value and does not alter behavior.<br>
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</div>Please explain the intent of tuner priority and channel priority then because I have it completely misunderstood.<br>
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I was under the impression that if you increased the the priority of a channel over another, that, everything else being equal,<br>
Myth would choose the channel with the higher priority to record a show if the same show happens to be on two or more channels.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Instead of increasing the priority your best bet is to tell the rule to "Record this showing." This will make sure that recording gets recorded.<br><br>If you have "Reschedule Higher Priorities" enabled this will allow the Scheduler to move a high priority show to later just so a lower priority show can be recorded.<br>
<br><h3>Reschedule Higher Priorities</h3><br>Reschedule Higher PrioritiesSetup->TV Settings->Recording Priorities->General has a
checkbox for
"Reschedule Higher Priorities" which tells the scheduler to try to be a
little smarter in certain situations. If this is checked, the scheduler
will
look for situations where a show cannot record because all inputs for
the
channel are used for higher priority shows. It will check to see if any
of
the other shows could be recorded at another time so that the
conflicting
show can be recorded in its place.<br>