[mythtv] *buntu trusty ppa: loss of multirec

David Engel david at istwok.net
Wed Jan 27 20:21:49 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:03:34PM +0000, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> On 27/01/16 14:59, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 27/01/16 14:50, John Pilkington wrote:
> >> On 27/01/16 14:14, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > 
> >>>
> >>> Time for the silly questions. did you go into the recording options and
> >>> set multirec to > 1 ??
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Stuart
> >>
> >> Yes.  2 default, I use 5, but now no effect.
> >>
> >> mysql> select cardid, parentid, videodevice, schedorder, livetvorder
> >> from capturecard ;
> >> +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> >>
> >>
> >> | cardid | parentid | videodevice                 | schedorder |
> >> livetvorder |
> >> +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> >>
> >>
> >> |      1 |        0 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          1 |    5 |
> >> |      2 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 |    0 |
> >> +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> >>
> >>
> >> 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> John
> > 
> > That was as I had left it.  Just rentered setup and set max recordings
> > to 5.
> > 
> > mysql> select cardid, parentid, videodevice, schedorder, livetvorder
> > from capturecard ;
> > +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> > 
> > | cardid | parentid | videodevice                 | schedorder |
> > livetvorder |
> > +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> > 
> > |      1 |        0 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          1 |    5 |
> > |      2 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 |    0 |
> > |      3 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 |    0 |
> > |      4 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 |    0 |
> > |      5 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 |    0 |
> > +--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
> > 
> > 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> > 
> 
> Yeah, i think if you don't hit "finish" to exit the page, and instead
> "cancel" out, it remains as 1, giving the behaviour you were seeing.

The card/input support in mythtv-setup is full of holes that can
result in non-working configuration if things aren't completed
normally.  All card types are affected, but DVB is the most.

Davod
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David Engel
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