[mythtv-users] channel line up priorities; what are others doing

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Tue Oct 24 10:00:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:27 pm, jeff wrote:
> Was curious what others were doing if they are in a similar situation.
>
> I just got my HDHomerun hooked up so i have 2 HD tuners and one pvr
> 350.  What I want to do is just schedule shows to record not caring
> about the channel name (i.e. NBC vs NBC-DT) or if they are in HD or not
> such that if I have 3 shows recording at the same time if any of them
> are in HD the shows that will benefit from the new tuners will
> automatically be put onto the HD tuners.  And if none of the shows are
> in HD then they would all be recorded on the best tuner available (ie HD
> anyways).

The easiest and best way to do this is to change your card order in 
mythtv-setup with the best cards first.

> The last catch in my question is if I'm recording lets say Friends (and
> pretend there are HD versions of it).  I don't want every show of
> friends on every channel.  Only the ones on NBC.

You can select 'Record at any time on this channel' when scheduling a 
recording.

> To do this I THINK I need to do a channel record for the show AND have
> the channel names be the same between the tuners ( i.e. NBC on both
> regardless that one is channel 12 and one is 812 so myth will treat them
> as the same channel) AND raise the priority on the HD tuners in
> mythtv-setup AND in the recording profiles increase the (new) option for
> HDTV Recording priority.

Channel number or call signs must be the identical to be treated the same.

Paul
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