[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3326: Implement multiple recordings per transport

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Wed Jan 16 12:51:09 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:02:19 Oliver Brown wrote:
> > Not directly. I guess if you have seperate video sources for the
> > encrypted and unencrypted channels you could connect the video
> > source with the encrypted channels to only one of the virtual
> > recorders. This requires direct modifications of the database and
> > if you mythtv-setup afterwards it will probably destroy the setup.
> >
> > If anyone is interested I could test and describe the setup.
>
> That'd be great - although there is still a chance my CAM can decrypt
> multiple streams anyway (I haven't had chance to test it since I'm
> using the MythBuntu weekly trunk builds).

I will think about it. There might be an easier way which requires some 
code changes.

> Another question, would it be possible to record the same channel
> twice at the same time (back to back shows on the same channel with
> preroll/postroll) if they're encrypted? I'm guessing if it is then
> the multiple video soruces methods would break that...

Yes, that wouldn't be possible with the multiple video source solution 
since only one recorder would be available for encrypted channels.

Janne


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