[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun & multirec

[James Orr]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:10 AM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:42 PM, James D. Goddard <
> pubear at u.washington.edu>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/13/09 2:11 PM, "Richard Shaw" <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> I got my 0.22 installation done on Wednesday (not exactly painless,
> but
> >> >> it
> >> >> all worked out in the end).  I suddenly remembered I'm supposed to
> have
> >> >> multi-rec on my HDHR now!
> >> >>
> >> >> So, I went into mythtv-setup and found the option for number of
> >> >> recordings
> >> >> and I set that to 2 for both tuners to see what would happen.
> >> >>
> >> >> I checked my upcoming recordings schedule and I don't see any
> changes.
> >> >>
> >> >> So my first question is ... is there something else I need to do?
> >> >>
> >> >> And my second question is ... how can I see what channels are on the
> >> >> same
> >> >> thingy and eligible for simultaneous recording?
> >> >
> >> > For Multirec to work it needs to be on the same frequency but
> >> > different subchannels. In my case, the local PBS station is 10 and
> >> > they broadcast HD on 10.1 and SD on 10.2. Find something like this and
> >> > try and record whatever is on both channels. It should only tie up one
> >> > tuner instead of both.
> >> >
> >> > Richard
> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >> AFAIK, and if you are willing to look at the MySQL channels table, you
> can
> >> check the "mplexid" field.  I believe that any channels that have the
> same
> >> multiplexid should be able to be recorded on a single tuner.  This
> field,
> >> and the entire channels table is visible using mythweb, if you go to the
> >> channel editor portion of the settings.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > My HDHR is handled by a slave backend and I had restarted that but not
> the
> > master.  After I restarted the master 4 new tuners popped up and it's now
> > going to record Heroes, House and How I Met Your Mother all at the same
> time
> > tonight!
> >
> > I was a little bit worried about that as those channels are 8.1, 17.1 and
> > 3.1 respectively and that didn't seem to match up with what Richard said
> but
> > when I checked the database I can see that 8.1 and 3.1 are on the same
> > multiplex so all is (or should be) well.
> >
> > Thanks for adding this feature!
>
> Hmm... Are you recording from a Cable provider instead of OTA HD?
>

Yes.
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