[mythtv-users] pre/post roll not working even though multiple free tuners and multi-rec even with just two back to back

[Mitch Capper]

Hi David, thanks! I do not have the new schedule as a group box checked
would doing so help?


~mitch

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 1:01 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 10:10:58AM -0800, Mitch Capper wrote:
> > Running into a problem that even though there are an abundance of tuners
> w/
> > multi rec for the same source at the same priority have pre/post roll
> > settings ignored if there back to back recordings.
> >
> > Running v30-Pre-439-gb3fe5d4257-dirty looked through the more recent
> > commits but it doesn't seem there has been anything related to scheduling
> > of this in the last month.
> >
> > I have a hdhomerun quad with each input set as having 2 extra virtual
> > tuners for multi-rec resulting in 12 tuners.  Looking at the capture card
> > table they all have equal recpriority(1),quicktune(2),livetvorder(1),
> and
> > reclimit(3),  The primary for each of the four has a schedule order of 2,
> > the virtuals are 0  and all attached to the same video source.   I have a
>
> Do you have Schedule as Group enabled?  It looks like you do.  In that
> case, programs will always look like they are going to record on the
> first virtual input.  They won't be assigned to a specific, virtual
> input until right before they start recording.
>
> David
>
> > RecordPreRoll at 30 seconds and RecordOverTime at 161.   It only records
> > are 4 primary channels, and even when there are just two back to back
> > recordings it can ignore the pre/post rolls.
> >
> > I was under the impression with multi-rec it was meant to specifically
> > handle situations like this (much less the fact there excess tuners
> > available).
> >
> > I updated the displayname to rename each virtual tuner to a diff display
> > name to try and verify it isn't using them.
> >
> > I started mythbackend with -v schedule then scheduled something to record
> > right after something else on the same channel.  It picked the same tuner
> > to use even though none of the other 11 were in use.   The log does not
> > really show much about tuner selection.
> >
> > If anyone has more direction great, otherwise I can start digging into
> the
> > code.
> >
> > ~mitch
>
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