[mythtv-users] scheduler confusion

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/05/2014 07:52 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> I was mis-interpreting priority as "get a tuner", rather
>> than "get the most desirable tuner".   Can I make bumping
>> one 7mate program to a second tuner bump all of them to
>> that tuner?  These programs are not head to tail, but
>> when they are that would allow "soft" pre and post recording
>> to be made.
> If by this you mean essentially get the scheduler to prioritise the grouping of recordings to a tuner where the tuner is already tuned to the matching multiplex then no. There has been a bit of debate in this list previously with a number of proposals provided but each had its pro's and con's.


Multirec already preferentially assigns recordings to tuners that have 
already been locked to a specific mux.  The only way this isn't true is 
if you're using an old version of MythTV (prior to the existence of 
schedule and Live TV order) and you've purposefully broken the scheduler 
to prioritize Live TV over recordings and did so in the wrong way (i.e. 
you've done something wrong like "alternating tuners" -- see 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/489306#489306 ).

There is no soft padding available, but if you use "hard" padding (i.e. 
actually include the padding in the recording rule so the scheduler can 
account for it), it will take advantage of this fact and you can get 
your overlap for "free".

Mike