[mythtv] Help needed to track down a scheduling problem

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Apr 3 04:07:12 UTC 2010


On 04/02/2010 11:26 AM, Roger James wrote:
> I am currently bogged down trying to resolve a scheduling problem. Any 
> help would be gratefully received.
>
> My backend has two DVB-T cards and one DVB-S card. The DVB-S card is 
> one one video source and the two DVB-T cards are on another. Multirec 
> is enabled and each card appears to mythtv as 3 "pseudo cards". Many 
> of the channels appear on both video sources and have been set up with 
> matching callsigns. Here is an example from the channel table.
>
> "chanid","channum","freqid","sourceid","callsign","name","icon","finetune","videofilters","xmltvid","recpriority","contrast","brightness","colour","hue","tvformat","visible","outputfilters","useonairguide","mplexid","serviceid","tmoffset","atsc_major_chan","atsc_minor_chan","last_record","default_authority","commmethod" 
>
> 15260,"10","",5,"ITV3","ITV3","/home/mythtv/.mythtv//channels/itv3.jpg",0,"","itv3.itv.co.uk",0,32768,32768,32768,32768,"Default",1,"",1,271,10260,0,0,0,"2010-04-01 
> 21:00:02","www.itv.com",-1
> 1010,"10","",1,"ITV3","ITV3","/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/itv3.jpg",,"","itv3.itv.co.uk",0,32768,32768,32768,32768,"Default",1,"",1,9,16048,0,0,0,"2010-03-31 
> 22:00:04","www.itv.com",-1
>
> All the cardinputs have the same priority (0).
>
> My problem is that every now and again I get a "conflict" which I 
> think should not be occuring. Using the above channel as an example, 
> if I schedule something ("Lewis") on the ITV3 channel it will almost 
> always end up using a channel on the single DVB-S card (sourceid 5). I 
> believe this is because of the order of things in various tables and 
> the fact that all the cardinputs have the same priority. Here are the 
> relevant parts of the record and recordmatch tables,

Please ask on the mythtv-users list.  Your --printsched output shows 
input 5 being used at:

Bad Day at Black Rock            15 Film4   02 15:00-16:40   1 5 5 F 5 
-1/    0

and I'd guess that the "problem" is just the corner cases that sometimes 
happen.  See 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/227560#227560 .

Mike



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