On 01/24/2006 02:14 AM, Reuben Perelman wrote: > I usually have a recording start a minute early to make sure that I get > the beginning of a program. My system has 2 TV tuners. Say show A is > from 8:00 - 8:30, and show B is from 8:30 - 9:00. When setting the > recording to start a minute early, show A will be recorded from > 7:59-8:30, and show B will be recorded from 8:29-9:00. Both show A and B > are on channel 1. From 8:29-8:30 for a minute, mythtv will use both > tuners to record both shows on the same channel. So if I wanted to > record show C on channel 2 at 8:00-8:30, it won't be able to record > because both Show A and B are being recorded from 8:29-8:30 using all of > the TV Tuners, meaning that for that minute there will be nothing to > record Show C in that period. Is there a way that I could set Show A and > B to record from 8:29-8:30 from the same tuner because there on the same > channel and thus exactly the same content, freeing up a TV tuner? No. If you have to have the extra minute and you only have two tuners, you need a third tuner to get shows A, B, and C.
You could use the global pre-/post-roll (which is meant to give your cards time to start up/for STB OSD's to disappear/etc.) to say, "if you aren't already recording something in the previous timeslot, record an extra minute". Assuming you set a 60-second pre-roll and a 60-second post-roll, with: Show A: 8:00-8:30 on channel 1 Show B: 8:30-9:00 on channel 1 Show C: 8:00-8:30 on channel 2 you would get recordings that are something like 7:59-8:30 on channel 1 (show A) 7:59-8:31 on channel 2 (show C) 8:30-9:01 on channel 1 (show B) or 7:59-8:31 on channel 1 (show A) 7:59-8:30 on channel 2 (show C) 8:30-9:01 on channel 1 (show B) depending on priorities (and note that you may still have two tuners recording on channel 1 for a minute). And, if you're not recording show C, you'd get: 7:59-8:30 on channel 1 (show A) 8:30-9:01 on channel 1 (show B) in other words, it won't start up the second tuner just to give you the extra pre-/post-roll. Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
