[mythtv-users] Confused About HDHomeRun
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Tue Oct 2 00:21:14 UTC 2007
On 10/1/2007 3:25 PM William Munson said the following:
> Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>> On 10/1/2007 1:34 PM David George said the following:
>>
>>
>>> On 10/01/2007 03:49 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a MythTV box running .20.2 on Gentoo. It has one PVR-250 and one
>>>> pcHDTV 3000 card. I have two lineups on SchedulesDirect, one for
>>>> DirecTV and one for the antenna. The DirecTV lineup is the video source
>>>> attached to the S-Video input on the PVR-250 and the antenna lineup is
>>>> the video source for the pcHDTV .
>>>>
>>>> Now I have added a HDHomeRun to my network. I added the HDHR as two
>>>> separate capture cards in mythtv-setup and they show up as additional
>>>> tuners in the status page. I used the same antenna lineup for both HDHR
>>>> tuners as I use for the pcHDTV card.
>>>>
>>>> So now I expect to see most conflicts resolved in my upcoming recordings
>>>> as I now have 3 HDTV tuners but this is not the case. MythTV is not
>>>> using any of my HDTV tuners for recording, only the PVR-250. I'm at a
>>>> loss as to what I've missed. Both tuners were working fine before. Do
>>>> I need a separate lineup for each tuner? That doesn't seem right to
>>>> me... Any ideas on what I can check to resolve this? I was hoping to
>>>> resolve some conflicts before prime time tonight. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Try a 'mythbackend --resched' on your backend. Sometimes I am not
>>> patient enough after adding a card for a reschedule to happen, so the
>>> --resched will force it right away. And yes, do this while the backend
>>> is running.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I tried but no joy. Although now that I've scrolled down a bit in
>> Mythweb, I see that the scheduler is using one of my HDHR inputs
>> sometimes but not nearly as often as it could. Here are my current cards:
>>
>> cardid cardtype dbox2_port
>> 8 MPEG 31338
>> 9 HDTV 31338
>> 10 HDHOMERUN 0
>> 11 HDHOMERUN 1
>>
>> Cardid 8 is the PVR-250 and is connected to a DirecTV tuner box via
>> S-Video. Cardid 9 is the pcHDTV 3000 and cardid 10 & 11 are the HDHR.
>> All three of these tuners are connected to an OTA antenna and a
>> corresponding lineup that only includes the digital channels they can
>> receive. All card priorities are set at 0. I have a +2 priority set
>> for HD programming. Thus in this configuration, I expect that HD
>> content will record first on the pcHDTV card, then on HDHR port 0, and
>> finally on HDHR port 1. Non HD content would first attempt to use the
>> PVR-250 and then follow the previous priority. And for completeness,
>> all DirecTV channels will record only on the PVR-250 (obviously).
>>
>> But what I am seeing is that in most cases, all content is attempting to
>> use cardid 8. If it is busy, then mythtv marks the show as a conflict.
>> For example coming up at 1700 PDT this evening, my local news is
>> broadcast both on analog channel 3 and on digital 3_1 in HD. At the
>> same time, Judge Judy is shown on local analog channel 31 and although
>> not in HD, it is also broadcast on digital channel 31_1. This scenario
>> happens every weekday evening.
>>
>> Normally, because the news is flagged as an HD broadcast, myth records
>> it with pcHDTV card and records Judge Judy with the PVR-250. This is
>> exactly the behavior I expect. However tonight myth has scheduled Judge
>> Judy to use the PVR-250 and shows the news as a conflict.
>>
>> Yet tomorrow at noon, there is an episode of Cops that is not flagged as
>> HD yet it's scheduled to record using cardid 10. Nothing else is to be
>> recorded at that time so this makes no sense to me. It should record
>> using cardid 8 or if a conflict, cardid 9. I think my computer has a
>> mind of its own. :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
> To use your hd cards whenever possible you should set the card priority
> of the hdhr to higher than your pvr-250. This will cause the logic to
> record anything available in both sd and hd as hd and will make your
> hdhr be the primary recorders and the 250 as the backup. You can still
> have your per-program priorities too. That is how I determine which one
> in a conflict should be recorded. I set Cops to -2 so that it loses to
> anything else.
>
Agreed. However I don't want to use my HD cards whenever possible as
the resulting file size is about 7 GB per hour. My PVR-250 only uses
about 2.2 GB per hour and the quality is sufficient for me. Thus I want
to use the HD tuners only if the show is actually broadcast in HD.
Configuring the PVR-250 card first, leaving the tuner inputs equal, and
giving a higher priority to shows with the HD flag set creates this
behavior.
Thanks,
Drew
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