[mythtv-users] Why is scheduler picking later recording slot?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/15/2012 10:19 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>> I have Myth 0.25 running great.  I have scheduled "the Voice" to record any
>> time, any channel, new episodes only.
>>
>> Strangly, Myth (again) decided not to record the show tonight at 8pm-10pm,
>> but instead record next Sunday.  I confirmed both are the same episode
>> number (311), and that are no conflicts tonight (nothing else is recording
>> for 3 hours prior, but a program is scheduled to record at 10pm).  The 10pm
>> program is NOT set to start recording early.
>>
>> So why would Myth not record my 8-10pm show tonight?  Does this mean a
>> showing ENDING at 10pm conflicts with a show STARTING at 10pm?
> I had a similar thing happen with TWD this last week. I'm assuming it
> was because the season premier wasn't marked as HD, but didn't look
> much further into it. As a note, I don't have that schedule with the
> High Definition flag set, so I'm assuming MythTV is looking for the
> better quality recording (although I'm completely guessing at this
> point.

MythTV would only choose a later showing due to conflicts or if your 
recording priorities said to do so--i.e. if you've increased the 
priority of HDTV or messed with channel priorities.  (So MythTV doesn't 
prefer HDTV broadcasts over SDTV unless you've set an HDTV priority.)

Mike