<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 4:56 AM Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:56 AM Ross Boylan <<a href="mailto:rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org" target="_blank">rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>From that page it looks as if the tuning timeout is the relevant parameter for recordings. Assuming this is the channel_timeout column in the database, I have the default value of 3 seconds.</div><div>But the failure occurs only a fraction of second (~ 0.005 s = 15:58:00.145173 -15:58:00.140392) after the initial attempt. So it doesn't seem even the values already set are being respected. Even if the other timeout parameter of 1s is what matters, it's clearly well below that. Although the 2nd try is 1s after the first.</div><div><br></div><div>Ross<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:29 PM Doug Lytle <<a href="mailto:support@drdos.info" target="_blank">support@drdos.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Less commonly, the recordings just fail.</div>
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_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>Any dual tuner, in Mythtv set up like yours can record four programs only if they come from only two muxes, so a third recording from a third mux will always fail.</div></div></div><br></blockquote><div>I don't understand how the remark about muxes (multiplexers?) relates to any of the previous stuff. I do understand that I can exceed 2 simultaneous recordings only if I record off multiple subchannels (I don't know the technical term, but I mentioned 9.1 and 9.2 in my original post). Are you saying that instead of 4 records in capturecard there should be 2?</div><div>I don't think any of the failures I listed involved attempting to record > 2 programs.</div><div>And I don't see how that relates to increasing the timeout, or the fact that my failures seem to happen faster than even the shortest timeout.</div><div>Ross<br></div></div></div>