[mythtv-users] Live TV channel restrictions

[Ian Oliver]

In article <71798b431002240133q52f2c1a1i1afba59fbf62bd25 at mail.gmail.com>, 
Andrew Herron wrote:
> Our target audience is your wife & daughter too...or to be precise their
> equivalents in other families ;-)

Excellent. It sounds like you have got a good handle on both the use case and 
the users.

> > I'm guessing that one exception to this is when recordings+live exceed the
> > number of virtual tuners on that mux?
> 
> No in fact we see no point in allocating another physical tuner to an
> already tuned MUX. We're testing how multirec tuners scale beyond 10
> instances (see Mikes earlier comments about possible performance bottlenecks
> in multirec) - so far we're getting very positive performance stats on this
> though.

I hope my poor Nova T USB sticks can handle this!

> > I'm hoping that recordings are prioritised over Live TV and will boot it
> > off
> > the tuner if required?
> >
> 
> The existing setup options will allow you to customise this to your
> preference.

Splendid. I really hope this all goes as planned.

Ian