[mythtv-users] Video Sources, scheduling and recordings history

[Andre]

I'm considering deleting all my video sources and re-creating from scratch, thanks (I suspect) to a bunch of channel moves (and my attempts to manage them without too much hassle) I'm seeing some odd scheduler choices.

So a few questions that I can't find answered anywhere: (running 0.22-fixes on Ubuntu 9.10 in the UK, DVBT,S&S2)

Is there a priority with video sources, like there is with capture cards? If so this _might_ explain my odd (to me) scheduling choices. Every two or three days a programme is scheduled on a DVBS or S2 card when there is a DVBT card clearly available, in some cases this causes a reschedule (or conflict) of a programme that can only be received by the DVBS or S2 card!

If I delete all my video sources and re-create them (probably in a different order) will I lose correlation of channel information in my recordings and recording rules? I lost this once around the .20 .21 transition and I don't want to do it again, I'm hoping that like with capture cards I can remove and re-create sources without major problems.

I'm trying to decide the best prioritisation of channels that appears in DVBT using EIT, DVBS using EIT and DVBS2 using xmltv. My DVBS2 only channels only have xmltv listings but other channels have better EIT than XMLTV or no XMLTV at all. Capture wise I prioritise DVBT first, then DVBS, then DVBS2 to ensure best usage of capture cards.


Most important question is can I kill and recreate my sources without messing up correlation of channels in recording rules, in existing recordings and in recording history?

Andre