[mythtv-users] Weird logic

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/29/2012 05:45 PM, Pieter De Wit wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 04/29/2012 10:54 AM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
>>> Running 0.25 fixes.
>>> I have a dual analog tuner.
>>> Live TV was in one of them, there was an upcoming recording, I assumed
>>> it will be using second tuner but no. The menu popped up on liveTV, I
>>> did not respond, when I came back to TV it was showing the running
>>> recording instead. I hit Esc because I wanted to watch it later ... and
>>> that canceled the recording.
>>> Why can't it use free tuners for recording?
>>
>> Because it always uses the best tuner available (meaning uses tuners 
>> based on recording order you specified)--figuring that a recording 
>> you're keeping is more important than Live TV that will automatically 
>> delete.
>
> Right - so as a work around you should have something like this:
>
> Tuner 1 - LiveTV priority 1
>           Recording priority 2
>
> Tuner 2 - LiveTV priority 2
>           Recording priority 1
>
> ?

Right, though note that "recording order" and "Live TV order" are 
/order/, not priority.

According to MythTV's priority system, high priority wins.  When it 
comes to "recording order" and "Live TV order", 1 goes first, 2 goes 
second, ...

So, with the above, you'd use Tuner 2 for recordings before Tuner 1 and 
you'd start Live TV on Tuner 1.

Mike