[mythtv-users] LiveTV and Recording

[Tim Tait]

Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Ryan Rawson wrote:
>
>> I have a sweet MythTV setup now, but I only have one PVR card.  Much 
>> to my unhappy surprise earlier tonight it appears that mythtv will 
>> pre-empt recordings in favour of live TV.  With 2 tuners and encoders 
>> this would be no biggie, but it caused me to miss a recording (luckly 
>> Sealab is replayed again at 3am).
>
>
> Perhaps that is the key.
>
>> Is there a way to cause liveTV viewers to be pre-empted by a 
>> recording if there are no free recording devices?  Maybe have it 
>> being a setting, or make live TV viewing recpriority 0.
>
>
> My guess is that you had set the recording as, "Always record this 
> program on channel X" or "Always record this program on any channel" 
> or "Record one showing of this program at any time."   If you chose 
> any of these, it's quite possible (and, note that this is a guess) 
> that when it came time to record, the scheduler noticed that LiveTV 
> was in use, saw that the episode was repeated at a time when you had 
> nothing else scheduled, so it chose to defer recording to the later 
> episode.  If this is true, you should see messages to that effect in 
> your backend log file (assuming you're logging backend output).
>
> If you don't see anything in the logs and don't hear from someone more 
> knowledgeable (i.e. David Engel, Bruce Markey, or just about anyone 
> besides me ;), it wouldn't be too difficult to test this theory.  For 
> example, if  you specify "Record only this showing" or "Record this 
> program in this timeslot every day/week" and have LiveTV running when 
> it starts, you should get a reminder/question/boot out of LiveTV.


I've seen my box pop up a prompt over live TV letting me know it wants 
to record, but this was for a program that only appeared once in the 
schedule. So it must have been it knew it could catch it later.

Tim