On 12/29/05, Darryl Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a MythTV V 0.18.1 backend with 2 identical DVico DVB-T Plus cards. > > I notice that card #1 gets to do all the recording apart from when two > programs overlap, and then > the second card is used. > > Is it possible to set MythTV to alternate the recordings between the 2 cards? > I'm concerned that if > the antenna cable comes adrift from the first card, all recordings will fail > until someone notices. > > I dont use the frontend part of MythTV, I have 2 x XBoxes as frontends and > only watch the recorded > programs, not live TV (I have a DVB-T set top box for that), so it could be a > day or so before the > non-recording is noticed. At least if the recordings are alternated between > cards, then I'll only > lose half the recordings. > > I have a 10 minute extra recording delay set as the default. When a program > being recorded directly > follows another recording on the same channel, the same card is used for both > of these recordings. > At the end of the first recording, the file is closed and then a new file is > started for the second > recording. Most of the time, the first show runs overtime and the last few > minutes ends up in the > first part of the next recording. > > This causes a problem when different people are recording the two shows. I > was caught out when my > show was on first, and the wife recorded the show straight after it. She > watched her show soon after > and then deleted it. I watched my show a few days later and found the ending > of my show was in the > recording of the next show.. which had been deleted. So I missed the ending. > > Is it possible to use different cards for the two shows, each starting early > and running over > according to the default values? These 2 recordings were the only ones that > night, so there wasn't > any other recording pending to force this behavior. > > I found a kludgey way around it by forcing my recording to run 15 minutes > over which rescheduled the > second show onto the other card. Maybe this and part 1 above could be added > to the scheduling > algorithm in the next version. > > > Cheers, > Darryl
Darryl, Dunno how to really do what you are asking to do. I've asked before how to tell which tuner even recorded a show (for debug reasons...) and no one seemed to know how to do that either. On my system, under Manager Recordings, Upcoming Recordings, I see the numbers 1 & 2 in the right hand column. It has been my guess that these numbers are telling me which tuner is going to be used. On my system tuner #1 is not used all the time. It seems, from looking right now, that on even days it's used every time and on odd days it varies back and forth between #1 and #2. Strange. - Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
