[mythtv-users] scheduling not using all three tuners?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 16:02:46 UTC 2006


On 4/10/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Marco Nelissen wrote:
> >> Steven Adeff wrote:
> >>
> >>> I want a "pre-roll" when possible. some shows I do have set to start
> >>> recording 1min early, for ones that I MUST have this pre-roll. Others
> >>> I want to be done, "when the possibility exists".
> >>>
> >>> So is there a way to do ^that^?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Set a per-recording pre-roll for those recordings that require it.  This
> >> is a *hard* pre-roll and will bump other programs as needed to record it.
> >>
> >> Then set a global pre-roll.  This is a *soft* pre-roll and will be
> >> recorded whenever possible.
> >>
> >
> > Well, no. Myth doesn't really do it "whenever possible", because of the
> > way its scheduler works. That's what this whole thread was about. I got
> > an off-list email from someone who submitted a patch for it, which is
> > scheduled to go into the .20 release.
> >
> >
> Whenever possible does not mean "move other shows to other tuners to get
> it".  It is not designed for that and will not move shows to lower
> priority and possible worse quality tuners to accomplish it.

ok, but all three of my HD tuners are set at the same priority, so I
don't care which of those tuners it uses, but I do care about starting
that ~30seconds early)

I need to see where that per-show hard pre-roll is, though I'd much
rather have that as an option by default for any recording on any of
my HD tuners, as they take about 10seconds to tune, lock and begin
sending data, and many shows start right at the hour/half change or
sometimes even before.

--
Steve


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