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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">May be a bit of
confusion – mine and yours – so will retry to explain.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">4.1 is
Primary WHBF-DT Resolution = 1080i</p>
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duplicate CBS-SD Resolution = 480i (per Wikipedia page)</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">(26.1 = KGCW)</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">If I select a show
for all-shows recording it will usually display 4.1 is to be
recorded
and 26.4 not to be recorded because an earlier showing. (By 100<sup>th</sup>
of a second as the list is compiled?!) If duplicate options are
turned off then would record both stations but also any repeats
later
in the week.</p>
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">MythTV does allow Barry to record the same programme from two
different channels - but only by adding an override rule on both
channels. The problem is having to manually add those overrides. What
is wanted is a way to get both copies of the same programme recorded
by just setting a normal recording rule somehow and leaving
mythbackend to do it automatically after that forever, rather than
having to visit all the scheduled recordings on the channel and add
overrides for each programme each day on both of the simulcast
channels.</pre></blockquote><end quote></pre>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">I think that is
stated correctly: I can do automatic recordings on 4.1, it will
not
record repeats. I then use the Manual Record menu option to record
the same show on 26.4. (I fairly certain it records repeat
showings.)</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">Of course the
problem is ‘prime time’ (U.S: shown in evening) the shows tend to
get moved around, both day of week and time, this the resistance
to a
generalized Manual Recording rule for each show.</p>
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">But I accept that the recordedid would be different because the channels (callsigns?) were different, and if the channel ids were different there would be no collision in the file names.</pre>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">Well that’s what I
thought would happen: I’ve got “WHBF-DT” and “CBS-DT” (4.1
and 26.4, respectively): two different stations – or at least to
us
humans!</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">OK, did a test on
non-simulcast stations:</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">20.2 KWKB-TV (all
20.x are “KWKB-TV” – don’t receive so didn’t bother to fix
at BE config.)</p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">If I select a show
to record on 20.2 (‘record all showings’ without anything
modified) then the Programme Guide (the page coloured blocks shows
listings) will indicate it is recording on 20.2 and 4.4. But when
I
go to Upcoming Recordings then only 20.2 is listed – 4.4 isn’t
listed at all, not even as ‘Earlier Recording’.</p>
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">I suspect the only way to do what you want is to set up another, independant, back end. On that you'd have one source containing only the channels of interest. Don't forget to remove those channels from your other backend! Done that way you can turn off the duplicate tests and record whatever you want.</pre></blockquote><end quote></pre>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in">What about this
option: set one of the tuners to record 4.1 only – allow
multiplexing (right term?) so can record the following show
separately (6:59-7:31 – Show A, then 7:29- 8:00 – Show B – need
the early start time because the shows on that network are 20
seconds
early). ...Hmm: says “prefer input <whichever>” rather
than ‘only’. </p>
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