[mythtv-users] Saving Tuning Delay

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:38:43 +0100, you wrote:

>I'm running an up to date backend from mythubuntu.
>
>I have just had my Pinnacle USB 2 HD tuner fail, so have been 
>reconfiguring my backend to avoid attempts to use it to record stuff. 
>This has entailed deleting all the capture cards and recreating them.
>
>My non HD tuner is a Nova-T which ideally should have a retuning delay.  
>I went into mythtv-setup and set it to 250ms for each of the 2 tuners.  
>I then remembered it was a good idea to allow up to 4 recordings per 
>card (I want to get as much as possible recorded on the first card, 
>because experience has shown me the second one drops out sometimes after 
>a couple of weeks and can not be recovered without a server reboot). So 
>returned to the "recording options" screen.
>
>The tuning delay was set at 0.
>
>Looking directly at the database (in myphpadmin) I see in the capture 
>card table there are now 8 entries (from previous 4) - presumably 
>because I have changed the max recording value.  However the field 
>dvb_tuning_delay has a zero in each row
>
>Is this the right place to look for that value?
>Is there a bug in the latest mythbuntu releases which prevent the value 
>being set?
>Is it worth setting the value manually (ie directly into the database)?

I think it is a bug - I had to set the values for my Nova TD-500
directly in the database.  Nothing else I tried worked.