[mythtv-users] how "should" the scheduler work..

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Steve Heistand <steve at heistand.org> wrote:

> so today I doing my weekly scan of the movie channels picking things I want
> mythtv to record for me.
> I normally select the "record at anytime on channel..." option and let it
> figure things out for itself.
> However today it wanted to record a movie at the same time as some other
> regularly schedule programs.
> The movie however was being shown many times and even in one case it was
> shown just earlier that same
> day with no other conflicts but yet the scheduler didnt see that option.
>
> so I guess how hard does it really try to shuffle recordings around to
> avoid conflicts is my question?


It depends greatly on the priorities you have set for the various shows and
the rules used.  You can do "mythbackend --printsched" from the commandline
to get a printable schedule that may help see what is going on

Kevin
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