[mythtv-users] myth .25 verdict?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Apr 27 02:07:37 UTC 2012


On 04/26/2012 05:21 PM, Dan Armbrust wrote:
>> Your scheduler issue sounds more like an issue with your setup than an
>> inherent flaw in MythTV, I've never seen it do that and I have 6
>> tuners.
> Yea, I went around on the list about this before... it started
> happening sometime between .23 and .24... but I was never able to fix
> it.  Or get a lead on what was causing it, be it myth or config
> related.  But it sure seemed like a bug to me that it wouldn't realize
> it was already recording the exact same show, on the same channel.  I
> even did  a clean install after a HD failure, and it was still
> happening.
>
> Not worth discussing again until I upgrade to current, at this point, however.
>

This is a known issue.  If you have multiple channels on which the exact 
same episode of a show airs at the exact same time, but the channels 
have different callsigns, MythTV will end up recording all of the 
showings from the "different" (according to your configuration--since 
they have different callsigns) channels (that probably aren't different 
in reality).

Generally, this only happens when the channels actually air the exact 
same content all the time--meaning they are the same channel on 
different video sources (or, perhaps, an SDTV and HDTV version of the 
same channel).  If this is the case--if the schedule on both channels is 
identical all the time--change both to have the same callsign or make 
the "unwanted" version (i.e. SDTV version) not visible or delete that 
channel or ...

Use mythtv-setup or MythWeb channel editor to edit the callsigns.

Mike


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