[mythtv-users] Setup without/without multirec and capturecard ids?

[John Pilkington]

On 18/12/16 18:13, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2016 12:03 PM, "Tom Dexter" <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
> <mailto:digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Hika van den Hoven
>     <hikavdh at gmail.com <mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hoi Tom,
>     >
>     > Sunday, December 18, 2016, 5:17:12 PM, you wrote:
>     >
>     >> I used to have three HD-5500 cards in my backend machine. One of
>     those
>     >> died and I just added an HDHomeRun (really great BTW).
>     >
>     >> My original setup pre-dated multirec, which I don't really have any
>     >> use for. I decided to re-enter all my capture cards with the HDHR
>     >> tuners first. The fact that it created two entries for each card
>     threw
>     >> me at first, because again, my original setup pre-dated that so I
>     >> never had more than one entry per card. I decided to delete all the
>     >> capture cards again, and re-enter them with the max recordings set to
>     >> 1.
>     >
>     >> While that did in fact give me just one entry per physical tuner, it
>     >> still numbered the ids as 1, 3, 5, and 7, and they showed up as such
>     >> in many places in the UI. Is this expected behaviour? Is it somehow
>     >> creating 1 and 2 behind the scenes and then deleting 2? I did all
>     this
>     >> in one session by the way...that is I didn't go in and change the max
>     >> from 2 to 1.
>     >
>     >> Ultimately I decided to enter them all with a max of 2, though I may
>     >> never use it. Again, with the max recordings set to 1 during the
>     >> initial entry of all cards, is there some reason it doesn't id
>     them as
>     >> 1, 2, 3, 4?
>     >
>     >> Thanks!
>     >> Tom
>     >> _______________________________________________
>     >
>     > It is normal as on creation the second virtual tuner is created, which
>     > when you set it to 1 is next deleted. As this is an auto-increment a
>     > once used id is never reused until you clear all tuners.
>     >
>     >
>     > Tot mails,
>     >   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>     <mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com>
>     >
>
>     I see. I would have thought that while creating a new card and
>     expressly going into the recording options and setting the max to 1 it
>     wouldn't be creating anything at all until I set that. So it's
>     creating two records before I even go into the recording options, then
>     deleting one? That's a little unfortunate. It wouldn't be so bad if so
>     much in the UI didn't show those as encoder 1, encoder 3 etc.
>
>     Thanks for the reply.
>     Tom
>     ___________________________
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> Multirec comes in handy when you record back to back programs with
> preroll and postroll of x min, one card does the job of two. Also OTA
> recording where several programs are in one mux.

Yes.  I'm in the UK and have 3 physical SD-only tuners which I have set 
to multirec values of 7, 5 and 5. The third tuner isn't often used. 
Usually if many recordings are in progress some of them will be of radio 
and others will be pre/post roll.  I try to avoid intensive use of the 
system for much else at these times, and faulty recordings are very rare.

But setting it up to get card numbers that I could readily understand 
was awkward, because in Master the multirec values aren't settable 
within the 'capture card' section but have moved later in the menus, 
IIRC to 'connections'.  So eventually I went through the process one 
tuner at a time.

John P