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

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Apr 20 21:37:27 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:26:10PM +0100, Richard Morton wrote:
> > The flaw in this is that if you have multiple sources for the same channel, when a recording screws up, it is difficult to identify the source
> > that screwed up since that is not saved with the recording. This makes it difficult to track down intermittent reception problems. For this reason,
> > I have given each channel a unique name. This lets me identify the source of the recording when there is a problem, but also causes duplicate listings
> > in the EPG.
> 
> In my view that should be a new feature; to state the tuner number
> used for each recording in the recording table or in the log. The lack

    Tracking the tuner that made a particular recording and making this
information visible in the frontend would be of considerable use when 
tracking recording issues in multi-tuner setups. There are hacks to work 
around this but they are all crude at best.

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