[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 17:54:25 UTC 2010


On 19 April 2010 18:51, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 April 2010 17:52, mugginz <feed.mugginz at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>> I would have thought that the behaviour you described above is exactly as
>>> expected. You have three tuners, you went and started three recordings.
>>> This meant that each tuner grabbed and locked the mux that contained the
>>> channel it was recording. I can't see any way you can then access a
>>> channel that's not on one of the three muxes currently being used. That's
>>> exactly the way that multirec is supposed to work.
>>>
>>> Don't forget, your 'virtual tuner' which is the extra tuner you configured
>>> is just a happenstance extra benefit of the fact that each tuned mux
>>> contains a number of channels.  Once a mux is selected by the hardware,
>>> that's the limit of availability for that physical tuner.
>>
>> No, that's not what I'm getting at.  The three tuners are all tied up and was
>> able to switch between the muxes momentarily.
>>
>> Tuner 1 - Channel 7 - Various other channels available from this mux
>> Tuner 2 - Channel 9 - ditto
>> Tuner 3 - Channel 10 - ditto
>>
>>
>> I should be able to switch between any channel from the muxes sitting on each
>> of the tuners.  So, any channel available from the muxes that transmit
>> channels 7, 9 and 10.
>>
>> After loading up each of the tuners with recordings I was able to make one
>> correct switch.  When selecting channel 2 (which isn't available from either
>> of the three muxes sitting on the tuners) it correctly selected the closest
>> channel that was available.  But then I couldn't select a channel from one of
>> the other muxes without manually selecting another input first.  It decided to
>> lock itself to just the mux that channel 7 was transmitting on.
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>
> I agree in an ideal world; but we never watch livetv after a period of
> aclimatising to a proper DVR... even the news and sports are recorded.
> admittedly we do have 2.5TB total to play around with...
>

I should have also said, visitors impression of MythTV is a little
compromised because of this behaviour and I think it has put off a
couple of mates, one who writes code for (a very well known)
commercial digital tv encoders and muxers, from installing MythTV.


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