[mythtv-users] Recording Priority = 99 not a trump all?

[Douglas Peale]

On 06/23/2010 11:37 AM, Chris Porter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Douglas Peale
> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net <mailto:Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Please explain the intent of tuner priority and channel priority
>     then because I have it completely misunderstood.
> 
>     I was under the impression that if you increased the the priority of
>     a channel over another, that, everything else being equal,
>     Myth would choose the channel with the higher priority to record a
>     show if the same show happens to be on two or more channels.
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> Instead of increasing the priority your best bet is to tell the rule to
> "Record this showing." This will make sure that recording gets recorded.
> 
> If you have "Reschedule Higher Priorities" enabled this will allow the
> Scheduler to move a high priority show to later just so a lower priority
> show can be recorded.
> 
> 
>       Reschedule Higher Priorities
> 
> 
> Reschedule Higher PrioritiesSetup->TV Settings->Recording
> Priorities->General has a checkbox for "Reschedule Higher Priorities"
> which tells the scheduler to try to be a little smarter in certain
> situations. If this is checked, the scheduler will look for situations
> where a show cannot record because all inputs for the channel are used
> for higher priority shows. It will check to see if any of the other
> shows could be recorded at another time so that the conflicting show can
> be recorded in its place.
> 
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This does not answer my question.

if I select "Record this showing", I might as well be using an old dumb VCR.

The problem has never been conflicts. I have 5 tuners in my system. The lower priority channels it has chosen have been on the
same tuner as a higher priority HD channel. At the time, multi-rec was not enabled. The event was scheduled as "record at any
time on any channel" I would assume that it should pick the higher priority channel when it has a choice of two channels on the
same tuner, but this is not what happens.

I will ask again:

What is the intent of tuner priority, and channel priority?