[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/09/2014 10:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/09/2014 12:12 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:15:48 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I have a schedule rule to record the news daily:
>>> Schedule Options
>>> Record Any Time Any Channel
>>> Filters
>>> This Channel
>>> Duplicate Check
>>> None
>>> (Todays news looks like yesterday’s new: Subtitle etc)
>>> If the station transmits on multiple muxes (and it usually does,
>>> but not *allways*) I get two recordings.
>>> Same thing happens if I’ve recorded an episode from some series.
>>> As part of my trying to solve the issue I have set 1 tuner per card
>>> and I can see 2 cards being used to do the recording.
>>> What could I do to enforce a single recording?
>>> What can I do to see debug info on how the scheduler has chosen it’s 
>>> actions?
>>> I’m getting zero byte recordings. If I look at the channel on
>>> LiveTV it ranges from good to bad (where bad is pixellated and
>>> squawky). If I scan there are multiple repeats of the channels. I
>>> suspect I may have choosen a *bad set* and I should rescan and try
>>> again. The logs are not very enlightning (from memory something
>>> like) “Recording failed”. Any thoughts or opinions welcome.
>> Set it to record daily. I picks every day the one with the highest
>> priority and it than only records the second on failure. Unless
>> of cause you want to record more than one every day.
>
> James, you should really specify your listings source.  This is 
> definitely good advice if your listings source treats news broadcasts 
> as they're treated in North America--as generic episodes (meaning 
> duplicate detection doesn't work on them).  If you're really in Samoa 
> (guessing based on e-mail address)
oops, meant to say that I'd have no idea how the listings source treats 
news.

>
> See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching for help figuring 
> out how MythTV determines what to consider as duplicate episodes.

Mike