[mythtv-users] Recording problem

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 5:28 PM, John Finlay wrote:

> The other day I set mythtv up to record a program but the recording
> failed immediately because of a problem opening/accessing the tuner (a
> HDHR). I would have expected mythtv to then try using one of the  
> unused
> tuners in the system to record the program. This did not happen so
> either mythtv doesn't have this capability or I need to change a  
> setting
> some where to enable this kind of robust error handling. I'm using
> mythbuntu with 0.21. Can someone tell me which of the scenarios is
> applicable?

Correct. It does not try to record again on another tuner if a  
recording fails. It has never been implemented. I'd be more interested  
in getting my HDHR to function correctly rather than implementing code  
to take up another tuner if it does.

-Brad