[mythtv] Something still isn't right when recording shows

[Tj]

Glad 0.17 has been delayed, something don't feel quite right with CVS at 
the moment.

Problem #1:
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I have two DVB-T cards (VisionPlus) on a combined frontend/backend machine.

I'm in Australia and the times aren't very accurate, so I setup myth to 
start record shows 4 minutes early and 10 minutes late. Lets say I 
schedule two recordings (program A & program B) on different channels, 
with end_time of program A == start_time of program B.

Previously, MythTv will use card#1 to record program A, and then card#2 
to record program B. Today's CVS version of MythTV (08 Feb 05, 20:00 
Western Australian Time, basically the time of this email if your not in 
WA) will use card#1 to record program A, and then use card#1 again to 
record program B at end_time of program A (it didn't record past 10 
minutes). Doing this will render recording of program A useless as I 
don't know what's the ending.

Hopefully I grab the right sections in the log, mythbackend -v record shows:
... Getting next free recorder after :  -1
... Checking card 1, Best card so far -1
... Card 2 is local.

If this is by design, wouldn't the old method of using all two tuners be 
better? I'm not sure exactly when this starts happening, probably in the 
last 3-4 days?  Is this a software fault or just a configuration error? 
Previously I didn't have to set anything and mythtv would always grab 
card#2 to record the second program.

Problem #2:
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Sometimes recordings are 0 bytes (starts happening probably around 2 
days ago).


Problem #3:
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Seems that if I schedule programs as described in problem #1, around 10 
minutes into recoding the program B, mythbackend will crash.

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ATM, I am compiling mythtv in debug mode and trying to recreate problem 
#3 to get a backtrace. If any of this problems ring a bell and anybody 
know what's wrong, do let me know.

thanx.