[mythtv-users] All tuners are equal, but some tuners are more equal than others

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 05 July 2009 1:59:03 am Yeechang Lee wrote:
> [Starting a new thread]
>
> Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> says:
> > > I agree that it would be nice to be able to tell the scheduler
> > > that multiple tuners are identical in recording quality and thus
> > > completely fungible (such as in my case, where all
> > > programs--whether cable or over-the-air--are written directly to
> > > disk in pure MPEG-2 streams directly from the providers).
> >
> > In the case described (a couple of identical inputs), the LiveTV
> > user should just enable, "Avoid conflicts..." and Myth will
> > generally do the right thing.
>
> This isn't a comprehensive solution beyond Live TV, though. Since the
> scheduler always thinks the lowest-numbered tuner is the highest
> quality, it always wants to use it even if another tuner is
> equivalent. This causes the scheduler to be dumber than it should be.

I think your scenarios are flawed, or at least, I can't reproduce any such 
behavior.

I just set up a recording schedule with:
  2 Equal priority (ie, 0) SD tuners.  All other default priorities set to 0, 
'reschedule higher priority shows' disabled.  ie, Everything's pretty much 
default.

  Ocean's Twelve, starting at 10 am this Sunday on AMC.
  The Break-Up, starting at 10 am this Sunday on USA - repeats at 7pm Sunday 
and next Friday at 9pm.

(picked movies on common stations, with one movie repeating and the other 
not).

Both movies were told to record as 'find one', via mythweb.  All defaults 
otherwise for each recording schedule.

Both movies were scheduled by the backend to record at 10am on sunday - ie, 
the first available showing, and definitely doing the proper thing.

Isaac