[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

[Douglas Peale]

On 11/16/2010 07:54 AM, Eloy Paris wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:11:09AM -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a follow up in case somebody is not watching my findings posted
>>> on another thread -- I've tracked the three problems described above
>>> down to an issue related to handling of simultaneous recordings when
>>> using a HDHomeRun: if one tuner in the HDHomeRun is already in use
>>> and Myth tries to use the other tuner in the HDHomeRun for a second
>>> recording then the first recording will stop. Very nasty problem
>>> although I wonder why it seems like I am the only HDHomeRun user
>>> that has noticed an issue with this.
>>>
>>> There was an upgrade of the HDHomeRun library in 0.24 so that may
>>> have something to do with the issue.
>>>
>>> A workaround that is working for me is to delete from the
>>> configuration one of the two tuners in the HDHomeRun.
>>
>> Can you tune both tuners with the hdhomerun gui program and watch
>> them both with vlc?
> 
> I haven't tried that, but I'll give it a whirl and report back. Good
> suggestion.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eloy Paris.-
> 

I'm using two HDHomeRun boxes (four tuners), and not seeing this issue when a second recording starts on the same tuner, or when
a second recording starts on a different tuner. At most there is a slight glitch in the recording when another recording starts
in the middle of a recording.