[mythtv-users] New features in CVS 0.15

[Bruce Markey]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I just upgraded to atrpms CVS (mythtv-0.15-70cvs.rhfc1.at) and
> everything seems to be working great so far (knock wood :)
> including the new datadirect TV lists working, very nice!

Good to hear.

> I do have one usage question.  I was told before that 0.15 handled my
> situation better, where I have a digital cable box (channels 2-999) in
> one capture card, and an analog signal from a splitter in the other
> capture card (channels 2-99).  Both inputs are from the same provider,
> just different channel ranges.  However, I can't seem to figure out how
> to handle this better than I was doing with 0.14 (two different video
> sources).  How is 0.15 better?  Can I use the same video source for both
> and limit the channels on the one card somehow?  TIA!!!

Video source means something roughly equivalent to set of channels
and listing. So, yes, you do need to create two linups at zap2it
and set up two video sources and associate your inputs with which
video source (set of listings) they receive.

What's better in 0.15 is that it now knows when more than one input
and channel are really the same broadcaster and can choose to record
a show from either one.

Say for example you have HBO on digital channel 240 and HBO on analog
channel 70. Of course the signal is better on 240 so you can either
give 240 a channel priority of "1" or you can give the whole digital
cable box input an input preference of "1" to tell the scheduler that
the digital channels are a better choice.

If you schedule a live boxing match, the scheduler will try to record
it on 240. However, if there was something with a higher priority that
needed the digital input, the scheduler now knows that it can record
this HBO show on 70 instead if it has to.

With 0.14 or earlier a Channel record would only record on that
specific channel/input. If you had the same channel on two inputs
the EPG would show the listings twice. If you chose a show to record
on one of the two listings, it would only record from that input and
you couldn't see which was which.

Therefore the trick up through 0.14 was to have 2-99 on the analog
and just 100-999 for the digital. Now you can have 1-999 on digital
and the scheduler is free to choose which input is best for shows on
channels 2-99 to do the best job of resolving conflicts.

--  bjm