[mythtv-users] LiveTV conflicts with scheduled recording - despite unused tuners on the same box!

[Philip Nourse]

> <fixed top-posting and quoting/indenting>
> 
> On 07/01/2009 04:38 PM, Philip Nourse wrote:
>> From: Michael T. Dean
>>> On 07/01/2009 04:07 PM, stuart wrote:
>>>> What does your myth setup say when about to make a recording?  I have 
>>>> 2 tuners on a SBE box.  While watching Live TV, the front end 
>>>> announced it was going to start recording and gave 3 options: (I think

>>>> they were) 1) Forget the recording, I want to watch Live TV, 2) Record

>>>> the scheduled show later, I want to watch Live TV -and- 3) I will 
>>>> watch the scheduled show while it is being recorded.
>>>>
>>>> Well, the obvious question is: "Why doesn't myth TV box use the other 
>>>> tuner to record the schedule show?" And, yes, I did check - the other 
>>>> tuner is doing *nothing* right now while the 1 show and only the 1 
>>>> show is being recorded.
>>> Because Myth is meant to record TV, and LiveTV is for people who
haven't
>>>
>>> figured out how to use a DVR.  :)
>>>
>>> If you want to ensure that Myth always chooses the 
>>> least-likely-to-be-used-for-recordings capture card for LiveTV, enable 
>>> the setting:
>>>
>>> Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows
>>> f enabled, live TV will choose a tuner card that is less likely to have

>>> scheduled recordings rather than the best card available.
>>>
>>>
>>> in frontend settings under TV Settings|General, IIRC.
>> If MythTV was just a DVR, I wouldn't use it.  In my opinion, MythTV is
>> intended to be a Media Center PC, amalgamating several different inputs
>> and
>> TV watching options into one convenient unit.  Most of us have at least
>> one
>> channel surfer in the family, and they are OK too.
>>
>> As for the recording issue:  MythTV records based on a priority system. 
>> If
>> you are watching Live TV on one tuner, and MyhtTV determines that tuner
>> has
>> the highest priority for recording the show, that is the one it will
use.
>> The priority system is based on how you set up the scheduling for the
>> recording, and what priority you have given to the tuner. As far as I
>> know,
>> if you tell it to record later, and the other tuner you are talking
about
>> has an equal, or higher priority to any of the later recording options,
>> it
>> will record on the other tuner in the original time.  So "Record the
>> scheduled show later" really means "don't record the scheduled show now
>> on
>> this tuner". You will want to try this out though to be sure as since I
>> am a
>> more of a DVR user rather than a channel surfer, I have never
>> experimented
>> with this scenario.  I have a total of 5 simultaneous tuners, and I have
>> not
>> seen this message in about a year.

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:27:55 -0400, "Michael T. Dean"
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 
> It doesn't work the way you said.  It works the way I said.  You've 
> likely enabled the setting I mentioned.
> 
> Mike
> _______________________________________________


Actually, what you said doesn't contradict what I said.  I am going to test
out my thoughts about just telling it to record later and report back.