[mythtv-users] Newbie questions.

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat Apr 12 20:21:11 EDT 2003


On Saturday 12 April 2003 07:12 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:03, Joel Feenstra wrote:
> >>listings are grabbed with xmltv (which can also be automated). Then you
> >>just need to go in few days or so and make sure there are no conflicts
> >>in recordings that are comming up.
> >
> > If there is a conflict that hasn't been manually resolved, what is
> > MythTV's default behaviour?
>
> The lowest chanid number are assigned to the available
> tuners in order. So if you have two tuners and a conflict
> for 1003, 1005, and 1008, cardinput 1 gets 1003 and cardinput
> 2 get 1005. The exception is if you resolved a conflict and
> marked it to "remember". An earlier start time also wins so
> that if 1008 started earlier, 1 = 1008 and 2 = 1003 even though
> the conflict list shows 1008 and 1005 in red before 1008's
> start time. If 1005 is the show you decide to not record
> you couldn't resolve it and would need to remove it through
> the EPG.

It's slightly more complicated than that.

Higher priority recordings are selected over lower (ie, the order on the 
screen that lets you select the recording type is the priority -- a single 
one-time recording is the highest priority and an any-time & any-channel 
recording is the lowest priority).  Then, if the two conflicting shows are 
the same type, it'll choose the one that starts first.  If they both start at 
the same time, it'll choose the longer show.  _Then_, finally, If they're 
both the same length, it'll choose the lower channel id over the higher.  Of 
course, the manual conflict resolution overrides all that.

Isaac


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