[mythtv-users] Unable to Record Several Simultaneous Programmes

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 14:17:38 UTC 2005


On 6/4/05, Steve Higton <hpq8bfr.mailing.lists at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have recently installed mythtv 0.18.1 on an SUSE 9.3 machine that has three
> nebula electronics digitv cards installed.  The three DVB cards work and I've
> successfully bee able to get a channel list using dvbscan on all three of them
> simultaneously.
> 
> However, I can't seem to be able to record more than one programme at a time.
> I
> can start recording one program without any problems.  Any attempts to record
> further programmes results in a conflict, it's as if the scheduler doesn't
> know
> that the other two cards exist.  I've checked the channels DB table and there
> are three rows for each channel, each with a different sourceid.  I can even
> watch one channel whilst a programme is being recorded.
> 
> Can anyone suggest either a solution or some more investigation/tests that I
> should perform?

Check the capturecards and cardinput tables also to check the cards
are correctly entered there (they would seem to be if you can watch
TV). Have you made any changes to card and/or channel priorities?

Nick


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