[mythtv-users] Multi-tuner recording question.

[Tim Scholl]

On Jan 21, 2008 11:15 AM, Ty Unes <riverty at kc.rr.com> wrote:

> Tim Scholl wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2008 10:33 AM, Ty Unes <riverty at kc.rr.com
> > <mailto:riverty at kc.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I have 2 PVR-150 tuners connected to TW cable and 1 ATI HD Wonder
> >     tuner
> >     connected to HD antenna in my mythtv frontend / backend box. A few
> >     nights ago, I selected to record 2 x 1-hour shows back-to-back on
> the
> >     same channel. One starts from 7:00pm - 8:00pm, then the next from
> >     8:00pm
> >     - 9:00pm. again on the same channel. At about 7:55pm., while
> >     watching a
> >     TV show on the second PVR-150 tuner, a transparent-black screen
> >     came up
> >     asking if I wanted to continue watching what I was watching -or- if
> I
> >     wanted to record the other show. It seemed to suggest that I could
> not
> >     use the 2nd. PVR-150 card if I wanted to record the second 8:00pm
> >     show.
> >
> >     Now I would think that the machine would simply use the same PVR-150
> >     card to record both shows and keep my 2nd. PVR-150 card free for me
> to
> >     watch something else. So what gives? The final outcome seems that
> the
> >     machine DID use the same PVR-150 card to record both shows however,
> I
> >     did back out of the frontend to check things on the machine since
> this
> >     behavior did not compute for me. I thought maybe something was
> wrong.
> >     Everything checked out fine. So why the message? Is there a setting
> I
> >     should check into to resolve this?
> >
> >
> > You might want to check and see it you have your recording time set to
> > start
> > 5 minutes before the actual start time.
> >
> >
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> OK - this makes sense. So, if I have my default recording settings set
> to start a recording 5 minutes before and 3 minutes after, the software
> is not smart enough to figure out that on the same channel, this
> shouldn't matter, and that this is the reason it wanted to hog the
> second PVR-150 card. Sound right? And if so, could I just fix this in
> the future by setting the start time to "0" minutes before and "0"
> minutes after?
>

Just a thought but is might be worth a try.

Tim
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