[mythtv-users] Time to record before start with back-to-back recordings and multirec?

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 20:32:24 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:42 PM, jonny Linux <jonnylinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two DVB-T cards, and I'm using multirec. I have the "Time to record
> before start" and "...after end" set to 120 and 300 seconds respectively.
>
> Is there any way to make MythTV automatically switch virtual tuners? I
> have 5 tuners on each card, but if I have two back-to-back recordings on the
> same channel, they will both be scheduled to be recorded on Tuner 1, and I
> will still get the risk of missing the end of the first program or the start
> of the second program.
>
> If I manually set the first program to stop recording 5 minutes late, and
> the second program to start recording 2 minutes early, the first will be
> recorded on Tuner 1 and the second on Tuner 2 (same card, same channel being
> recorded using multirec). Is there any way of making the tuners alternate
> automatically?
>
> The only way I can think of doing this is to make the "Time to record
> before start" a hard constraint rather than a soft constraint. I thought I
> read something about this either on this list or in the SVN tickets. Can
> anybody tell me if there's a way of doing what I'm describing?


If you set the before/after time on the recording rules themselves rather
than the global option, you will get the bump/conflict you are expecting.
The recording rules are "hard" padding in that they will bump other programs
while the global padding is "soft" and it can be dropped.

Kevin
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