[mythtv-users] US Broadcasting bastards

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/02/2010 09:53 AM, Mike Holden wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> On 02/25/2010 11:50 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:44 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
>>>        
>>>> When setting the recording, whether for one showing, weekly, all, or
>>>> whatever; just go to the "scheduling options" and you can choose to
>>>> change the start or end, early or late for either.
>>>>          
>>> The question becomes what does the scheduler to in the face of this when
>>> two programs are to be recorded back-to-back on the same tuner and both
>>> are asking for 5 minute pre and post-rolls?
>>>
>>> If they are on the same channel, I have often mused that Myth could
>>> handle that by writing that 5 minutes of what will be post-roll on the
>>> first show and pre-roll on the second show (i.e. it's the same 5 minutes
>>> in time for both) to both files.
>>>        
>> And MythTV will do exactly this for digital channels on the same
>> multiplex (including the same channel) on a digital capture card with
>> multirec enabled.
>>      
> It still takes 2 virtual tuners to do it though, so conceptually it's using 2
> inputs; they just happen to both come from the same physical hardware. If you don't
> have a spare multirec tuner, you still can't do it.
>    

Which means *you* are in control of how many virtual tuners can be used 
at a time--allowing you to prevent your system from crushing under the 
pressure of too many LiveTV sessions writing exact copies of the same 
program to the disk.

Mike