[mythtv-users] How to record everything all the time ?

[Albert Graham]

On 07/20/2009 03:36 PM, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
>    
>> On 07/19/2009 06:29 PM, Janne Grunau wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 04:00:22AM +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I would also (secondary) like to record everything on every channel
>>>> everyday - I mainly want to do this to harden my system, for example,
>>>> for DVB-T (UK) I have a tuner dedicated to each of the six Muxes, with a
>>>> separate tuner for Live TV.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> It will probably overload the scheduler, the "all movie" rule might
>>> already be too much. The scheduler is not optimized for this "simple"
>>> situation.
>>>
>>> You can ease the load by creating a video source per capture card
>>> containing only channels from a single transport. If that's still too
>>> much I fear the scheduler has to be modified to skip the in this case
>>> useless conflict resolution.
>>>
>>>        
>> That is exactly what I have done, so there should never be a conflict.
>>      
>
> You know that, I know that but the scheduler doesn't. Even with 4-5
> channels per card/video source the scheduler has to find the optimal
> distribution of the recordings to the virtual recorders. We know that
> the optimal distrubution is to record all recordings from one channel
> on one virtual card. The scheduler can't take this shortcut.
>
> Janne
> ______
>    
Well, I assume that's why you must set max recordings per tuner, In fact 
I cannot see what choice the scheduler has, given that it will never run 
out of Virtual tuners (in my config), it will simply use the next 
available free virtual tuner - and it will always be free - unless I'm 
missing something!

However, I do think I'll run in to problems in other areas - Watch this 
space.

Albert.

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